When Filipinos became British subjects

WITH our President ranting against the United States and the United Nations, some of our compatriots are thinking of how to expand our foreign relations and membership in different family-groups of nations. This way it becomes more difficult for President Duterte to isolate our country from our old friends around the world.

One such membership could be in the British Commonwealth. (British English speakers would prefer to use “membership of” instead of “in.”) This thought came to us after remembering that today, October 25, is the anniversary of when we Filipinos can be said to have become British subjects.