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MaPhilIndo Happy New Year!

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Okay it's early but : Happy New Year 2013!

All MaPhilIndo in their Royal clothes :

=> Indonesia is wearing Dayak Kenyan and Javanese Sultan clothes :[link] ; [link]

=> Malaysia is wearing Dayak Kenyan and Datuk clothes :[link]

=> Philippines is wearing Pintados and Lakandula clothes :[link]

=> MaPhilIndo Perception of Time :[link]

Not everyone in the world views the concept of time in the same way. In fact, some cultures don’t even make time a part of their lives. Some cultures are wary of time passing by, while others run their lives by the clock.

In MaPhilIndo Time is seen as a gentle river carrying everything along. Little effort is made to "manage" the flow. "Morning," "noon," "afternoon," "evening," divide the day adequately. Indonesians explain to Westerners that they live in "rubber time." Appointments, when made, are vague, provisional indications of intention. Harmonious interaction with other people in a flexible, spontaneous, unstructured context is the norm they seek. Interpersonal skills are valued and highly developed.

This approach to time is reflected in their language. Verbs in Indonesian, Malaysian and Philippines have no tense. A time indicator is used, if necessary, at the beginning of a thought, but the verb remains the same for the past, present, future, and pluperfect subjunctive.

=> "EXOTIC" IS NOT A COMPLIMENT :[link] ;[link]

Exotic, in its most basic form, means to belong from somewhere else, stemming from the Greek exotikos (“from the outside”). Only 30 or so years after its English coinage in the 1590s, it came to mean not literally foreign, but psychologically so: alien, unusual, unfamiliar. It was mostly applied to plants and objects for a couple hundred years.

That usage of exotic was prescient in another way, for somewhere along the line, exotic went from describing a consciously cultivated look to describing something its bearer could hardly strip away: race. Exotic became code for dark-skinned people of various ethnicities: black (Naomi Campbell, Beverly Peele, Sade), Latina (Selena), Asian (Tina Chow, Joan Chen).

It’s not terribly hard to see why exotic is problematic: In the States, white women are still perceived as neutral; dark-skinned women are the Other. For something to be exotic, by definition it must be the Other. So with exotic—which is usually used in an ostensibly positive sense, to describe a woman with striking beauty—we’re also looking sideways at its target, the message bearing the subtext of “You’re not from around here, are you?” Yet while exotic neatly performs its function of divide-and-conquer, it’s also used to express anxiety about race and categorization, particularly when applied to mixed-race women.

And in some ways, of course, that’s impossible: We define exoticness based on our own perspective, and there’s really no other way to do it, because the very definition of exotic relies upon being unusual. But when we use exotic, we’re making assumptions based not only on our own “usual” but on the “usual” of those around us. Most of us understand that we’re all going to read beauty differently from one another, leading us to deploy terms like hot or cute. But with exotic, there’s a shared understanding: If I don’t believe that your baseline of what constitutes the exotic will be the same as mine, using the word makes no sense. To use exotic is to assume dominance. Exotic says as much about the speaker as it does the subject. Actually, it says more.

=> DO NOT CALL TRIBAL PEOPLE "PRIMITIVE" :[link]

Corry’s article argues that governments regularly exploit the false idea that tribal peoples are ‘primitive’ in order to remove them from their land and open it up to outsiders, thereby freeing up access to its natural resources. Often this is done in the name of ‘development’, justified on the grounds that the supposedly primitive tribes are backward and need to ‘catch up’ with the rest of us. This is exactly the same, false argument once used to justify colonialism.

Buerk’s remark was also condemned by West Papua’s leading human rights organisation. Elsham said Buerk was ‘regurgitating racist stereotypes.’

=> Do indigenous peoples benefit from 'development'? :[link]

Hetalia belongs to Himaruya Hidekaz.
Malaysia OC belonged to :iconshikiren96: 's Sarawak OC design.
Philippines OC belonged to :iconchoco-java: Luzon OC design.
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Dec 22, 2012, 10:53:59 PM
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Are they the Nyo MaPhilIndo?