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>Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is advocating to change the nation’s name one day to “Maharlika” to move away from the country’s colonial links.
>Duterte, who often shuns the Philippines’ Spanish colonial roots, said it might better to have the Philippines change its name to something that is better suited for its “Malay” identity.
>“It’s named Philippines because it was discovered by Magellan using the money from King Philip [II of Spain]. That’s why when the stupid explorer came, he named it the Philippines. Actually, [former President Fernando] Marcos was right. During the time of Marcos, he wanted it changed to Maharlika – The Republic of Maharlika because Maharlika is a Malay word and it means serenity.”, Duterte said
Duterte Wants to Rename the Philippines in Break From Colonial Past
That's cool. I like when nations change their names.
retarded politician suggesting retarded things, who would've guessed
To change names there has to be a referendum and a law passed
he should call it Malayland in filipino
So people from Maharlika will then be called 'Maharlikens' or something? Filipinos rolls of the tongue slightly better t.bh
Swaziland and Burma sound better.
for me it's Lolippines
Neat I guess.
Probably Maharlikas, since Maharlika was a social class from an ancient filipino caste system
>maharlikans are the most powerful race in the world
Doesn't have the same ring.
This is stupid. It is as if renamed ourselves to "Knightland".
it sounds like a chink pronouncing Murika
t. "land of fields"
Maharlika is a caste system of free people.
They're ordinary people who weren't slaves, and were well off during the pre Spanish times. Most often they were warriors.
You pronounce it as Mah-har-lee-ka
>Mah-har-lee-ka
Muhreeka
>the serene republic of Maharlika
the sack of Singapore when?
>renames country to Maharlika
>meanwhile pinoys still live like Saguiguilid in their own country
More like *land ruled by tribe named 'people of fields' *.
Still not after a social class.
Duterte's a kind of leader you will never have faggot and I know that makes you angry
Philippines and Malaysia should be part of Indonesia
>Swaziland is gone.
Whoa.
Ancient Maharlikans weren't Tagalog, they were Greeks. Please rename it North Maharlika.
>Shithole countries change its name every given period of time
Philippines changing its name makes sense
I don't want to be part of Malaysia, fuck those fuckers
I want to be merged with Indonesia, our brothers
says the biggest cancer in world history
everything spain touches turns into shit, and massacres
even if they allahu akbar'd you and told you to convert or die?
don't change it. The colonial past while terrible is still your heritage. Even we use the name Indonesia instead of something retarded like Nusantara, even though the name Indonesia was coined by some anglo and it literally means "Island India"
Then why did you change your name from Al-Andalus to Espana?
They are a country of mixed religions so it won't happen
But Mal*ysia is a fake first world cunt, the fake Malay nation when we all know its Indonesia who is the true Malay identity.
based austronesian brother
Stay mad shithole retard
bit surprised how your rabies infested village has internet but ok
Do you difference the concepts of "changing name" and "one cultural and political entity conquering another"?
Spain has literally brought 0 things to the world except suffering and shithole status
Yep you are mad
Better infested with rabies that can be cured, rather than nigger rapists
Ir sounds like "maricas" faggots in Spanish
Tell me, arab. Explain it to me, al-andalusian!
Enjoy it
Better than the Philippenis in their entire history lmao
Just look at fucking Manila m8, now think why so many filipinos are in Spain
Sorry the only impact I made was my dick in your mom's ass last night
Still, that's positive other than what Spa*niards have done in centuries
I'm not here to give lectures on basic concepts to retards
Read a book
>everything spain touches turns into shit
you're a good example of that
Holy shit, the c*ck filipino is enraged lmao
First cucked by the spaniards, then americans, japanese and now chinese...Your entire history is about getting cucked lol
Exactly.
The political system of this cunt, the elites, the fucking haciendas, the feudalism, the system where the rich are in power and the poor are poorer, all directly stems from Spanish influence
Why not? You've probably got a lot of time on your hands, seeing as Spain's unemployment rates are so high.
Filipinas isnt a shithole because of spain, its a shithole because of itself
Stop victimizimg yourself lol
The name sucks, but hey go for it!
Flips are Malay?
>rabies that can be cured
the state of philipino education youtube.com
I'm not even angry, more like you are since I just told you how much of a cancer you and you ilk were.
Everybody universally agrees here that Spain's "colonialism" is a curse to this country. Disgusting culture.
This guy's a bit of a goon.
Is the Phillipines even one ethnic group?
If not then renaming it doesn't change its nature as a fundamentally colonial artifice. Same as Pakistan.
Because you wouldn't understand it.
Try to check it again and answer yourself, it's easy, maybe if you put a lot of effort, you could understand it
I meant vaccinced
that was a typo
And don't forget our most important contribution to Filipino life that has brought so many blessings to Filipinos to the present day:
The Catholic church.
Portugal colonialism was shit too
Good idea. You can join all those other important, prestigious, non-basket case countries that have completely changed their names.
USA satellite countries have been receiving propaganda about "muh evil spaniards" for a long time
No surprises here, WASP myths and difamation as usual
Based
No, no, teach me your moorish sciences!!
friendly thread
Read a book retard, make that effort
Nothing wrong with this unless you are a colon larp (retard)
>The Catholic church
Another disgusting curse.
I would rather be protestant.
>propaganda
History proves them right faggot
Almost every country that spain touched is miraculously a shithole
We almost gout out of it in the 60s thanks to American aid, in fact we were on our way to becoming first world by the 80s until Marcos came along
>馬哈利加
Direct phonetic transliteration into Chinese make it sound like random African country name. Probably either need a more liberal translation with more creativity or simply using the existing name in Chinese
guys can you please stop bullying our brother nation? he's just currently facing an identity crisis. thank you.
t. "coast of hyraxes" or "a rabbit"
That's part of the Spanish colonization failure record.
I've never seen a more based man than Duterte.
He is 100% right on this one
Shame with him pandering to Xi, otherwise he's a good leader in my book
lmfao so does he want to be a US state again? Because we're the only people who ever considered flips malay/asian and not spanish
Almost every country that any european touched turned into a shithole
The primitive lose to the europeans, and the europeans grab their prize
Its just how it always worked
Some primitive island monkeys dont matter to a superior civilization
the Philippines are a loser country with zero history before Europeans stumbled upon them by accident so the cuck name is fitting for them.
>renaming your cunt to Marica
JUST
>Almost every country that any european touched turned into a shithole
In your delusional world
^.^
>Chile
>Uruguay
>Canada
>Australia
>New Zealand
>shithole
>africa
>india
>vietnam
>the entire destabilization of middle east by brits and later by americans
Get educated dumb slanted eyes coconut eating beta island momkey
>renaming yourself as "faggit"
The funny thing is they probably have some remanent word from spanish similar to "marica".
i think it's a great idea, while he's at it work to strengthen national identity and try to make the nation less associated with drugs and sex tourism
every nation should adopt nationalism, that is what's best for the world as a whole
Nice cherrypicked answers fucking unemployed uneducated spanish faggot
Why is he so based bros
That would kill us
he's basically doing what we did in the 1940s and 50s, despicifying the phillipines and giving them a national identity independent of europe. It'd be hilarious if at the end of his presidency he tries selling his country to us for $20 and then tries running for President in 2024.
>entire africa
>cherrypicked
The only way that philippines would have turned okay was if it didnt have any philippinians in them
>Implying the entire Africa was equally bad
They could have become the 51st state, which would have caused us to dump money and police on them until they became modern. It's the same trap Puerto Rico is in, but in that case only because PR's government is so incompetent where they have had three successful statehood referendums not be recognized because of stupid shit.
One literally replied to you dumbass, also Canada and America, and Malaysia, parts of the carrebean, and entire africa? Do you know where Botwana is?
>cuck
Did you know your shit economy has Filipino millionaires buying your vineyards and buildings left and right?
lmao
Thats the problem with it
Duterte is doing this just for fluffy
Maharlika is for the tagalog people
Other ethnicities are already butthurt about it
It's a good name and I do want to change our name eventually but Maharlika is a tagalog word.
People are already mad about ""tagalog supremacy"" and we cant even have a unified local language
And its too much associated with Marcos fake war heroism
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