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Let’s call the Philippines “Maharlika”
We wish to compliment you for your witty and
informative editorials every Sunday. Last Sunday, October 7, was no
exception, even more hilarious.
Very few people know about, or appreciate,
changes of names of places all over the world. This writer not
excluded. As a matter of fact, Sen. Eddie Ilarde filed a bill
changing Philippines to Maharlika. We were surprised, to say the
least, why our idol filed such a bill. But after being informed that
the Philippines was named after a demented and iniquitous person,
and many other countries reverting back to their true identity, I
had a change of heart. Your editorial even made us appreciate former
Sen. Ilarde more for espousing unpopular (at first) causes.
I wonder if we shall be finally called Maharlika
in this lifetime. Courage to change perhaps is what this country
needs to gain respect from other peoples. We are not just a country
of laborers and maids but “nobly created” as your editorial said
and worthy of the words “noble and royal.”
Atty. Mariano Binante
Bacoor, Cavite
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