Comments on: Metro de Madrid Filipinas Ad

By: benj

benj — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:40:50 +0000

Funny, yet still offensive. Bah.

By: Airah

Airah — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:52:47 +0000

Interesting. Isn’t colonization a mindgame as much as it is an outdated imperialist strategy? Being colonized as a people is one thing and being colonized in the mind is another, but of course they go hand in hand. See, even if the military bases had gone, the mindset often remains.

So on the tagline: If we weren’t colonized at all, perhaps we would be better off now?

Finally, just want to share something. To quote a Maori leader who was made to attend a conference on “postcolonial discourses”: “Postcolonial? Why, have they left?”

By: sparks

sparks — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:07:15 +0000

We were colonized by the US too. How come we’re not rich?

Well, we were acquired the same time as Cuba. But they won a nationalist revolution. They’re not doing too badly. One of the best health care systems for a poor country.

Let’s see…most of Latin America would be American ‘neocolonies’ and most of it is still dirt poor.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:40:31 +0000

Bwahaha! Ang kulit! I wonder how the Ifugao Rice Terraces got shipped to Mindanao?

We were colonized by the US too. How come we’re not rich? Hehe!

By: dodongflores

dodongflores — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:21:39 +0000

I agree with sparks…

By: david.edward

david.edward — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:41:27 +0000

potek ang kulit! hay..

By: beejing

beejing — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:35:06 +0000

Right. I agree sparks. “If we were colonised by any other coloniser than the Spaniards…we would be rich!” - This tagline would be great!

By: sparks

sparks — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:40:32 +0000

Yeah, a friend forwarded me a link on facebook. I thought it hilarious as well. But yeah, in terms of postcolonial relations…it is quite…outdated. I think our local advertising agencies should make a commercial in the same vein….something like, “If we were colonised by any other coloniser than the Spaniards…we would be rich!”