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| "Bayanihan" by Joselito E. Barcelona |
There is a story in Philippine folklore about a mango tree and a bamboo tree. Not being able to agree as to which was the stronger of the two, they called upon the wind to make the decision.
The wind blew hardest. The mango tree stood fast. It would not yield. It knew it was strong and sturdy. It would not sway. It was too proud. It was too sure of itself. But finally its root gave way, and it tumbled down.
The bamboo tree was wiser. It knew it was not as robust as the mango tree. And so every time the wind blew, it bent its head gracefully. It made loud protestations, but let the wind have its way. When finally the wind got tired of blowing, the bamboo tree still stood in all its beauty and grace.
The Filipino is like the bamboo tree. He knows that he is not strong enough, to withstand the onslaught of superior forces. And so he yields. He bends his head gracefully with many loud protestations.
And he has s
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History of the Philippines
The history of the Philippines dates from the earliest hominin activity in the archipelago at least by 709,000 years ago.[1]Homo luzonensis, a species of archaic humans, was present on the island of Luzon[2][3] at least by 134,000 years ago.[4]
The earliest known anatomically modern human was from Tabon Caves in Palawan dating about 47,000 years.[5]Negrito groups were the first inhabitants to settle in the prehistoric Philippines.[6] These were followed by Austroasiatics, Papuans, and South Asians.[7] By around 3000 BCE, seafaring Austronesians, who form the majority of the current population, migrated southward from Taiwan.[8] By 2000 BCE the archipelago was the crux of a trans-oceanic Philippine jade culture.[9]
Scholars generally believe that these ethnic and social groups eventually developed into various settlements or polities with varying degrees of ec
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15. The University of the Philippines (UP) School of Library and Information Studies
Faderon, Rosalie B., Aguirre, Vyva Victoria M., Buenrostro, Iyra S. and Cabbab, Johann Frederick A.. "15. The University of the Philippines (UP) School of Library and kunskap Studies: Legacies, Challenges and Commitment to the yrke through överlägsen kvalitet eller utmärkt prestation in LIS Education". Educating the Profession: 40 years of the IFLA Section on Education and Training, edited bygd Michael Seadle, Clara M. Chu, Ulrike Stöckel and Breanne Crumpton, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur, 2016, pp. 278-301. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110375398-022
Faderon, R., Aguirre, V., Buenrostro, inom. & Cabbab, J. (2016). 15. The University of the Philippines (UP) School of Library and resultat Studies: Legacies, Challenges and Commitment to the yrke through överlägsen kvalitet eller utmärkt prestation in LIS Education. In M. Seadle, C. Chu, U. Stöckel & B. Crumpton (Ed.), Educating the Profession: 40 years of the IFLA Section on Education and Training