Saluyot

I read his lines with bitternes and a bit of embarrasment to the people that he is. quite ashamed i guess that eventhough he's far from home,the garbage of his land, as he sees it, comes crashing through his proud half-breed and half-cultured life. Blame it to the Society that introduced us to the West. Like a battered oriental cowboy who will always settle on second-hand economy and Salvation Army progress. I am what I am now a pinoy influenced by western civilization but It wont change who i am. i still eat saluyot, boil okra and sauce it bagoong. im an ilocano from pangasinan a son of the farmlands and i will not be ashame of that even if my mind has been fed with the white mans thinking. i've learn only to be proud of what i am and not of what i want or others want me to be... Yesterday i saw Patricia Evangelista on the tube and heard her winning speech "Blonde and Blue Eyes." Made me proud to be a Filipino. (...Teyken pram a prebyus entry on wan of may dyurnals...)