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Diversity, Government, International, Language, Politics

DONALD TRUMP WANTS BILINGUALS, TRILINGUALS AND MULTILINGUALS DEPORTED FROM U.S.

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imageNEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Give Donald Trump your finger and he’ll go after your entire arm.

Encouraged by his continued surge in the polls as a result of his anti-immigrant rants, the leading Republican presidential candidate has gone from attacking Mexicans, Chinese and citizens of U.S. territories to proposing an English-only America.

Trump has said that if foreign nationals want to live in America as legal residents or citizens, they should be speaking only in English.  He made the comment after criticizing fellow presidential candidate Jeb Bush for speaking Spanish on the campaign trail. “Bush should set the example by speaking English only while in America,” he told reporters.

Today,  Trump declared that if elected president, he would ask the Department of Homeland Security to deport all immigrants who are openly and publicly biligual, trilingual or multilingual. “If they speak a second, third or fourth language other than English, well and good, but when in America, they should only speak our official language which is English, ” he said.

Si Donald Trump es elegido presidente , Adobo Chronicles no publicará nada en tagalog o español.

Language, LGBT

‘GAYSPEAK’ TO BE TAUGHT IN PHILIPPINE SCHOOLS?

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MANILA, Philippines  (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – You may have heard words like ‘anech’ (what?), ‘lafang’ (food) ‘jowa’ (husband/wife).  Most likely, you’ve heard it from Filipino gay men engaged in conversation.

It’s called gayspeak, a unique ‘language’ spoken in the Philippines that’s transcended gender and sexual orientation. Filipino straight men and women, like Kris Aquino for example, now often use the gay language interchangeably with their straight talk.

It is a language that’s constantly evolving.  Even ‘gayspeak’ is now referred to by a new name, ‘beki,’ a Filipino colloquial term that means ‘gay.’

The beki language has become so popular that the Philippines’ Department of Education  is considering incorporating the gay language into the school curriculum.

In fact, Education Secretary Armin Luistro on Monday said that the department is mulling the possibility of using ‘beki’ as medium of instruction in schools.

In a recent interview with reporters, Luistro said gay language can be part of the official communication if it is acceptable to the majority.

Well, it is already widely acceptable, Mr. Secretary, so what’s keeping you from implementing it?

In San Francisco, Epee Rafanan, co-founder of a Filipino American gay social organization, Barangay, said  teaching gayspeak in Philippine schools is long overdue.

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Barangay (pronounced Baran-GUY), refers to a Filipino neighborhood political unit, headed by a Barangay captain.  The organization Rafanan founded has a different pronunciation — Barangaaay — to reflect its mission and identity.

 

Government, International, Language, Politics

KRIS AQUINO GETS FAILING GRADE IN FILIPINO LANGUAGE; PRESIDENT AQUINO GETS FAILING GRADE FROM U.N.

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Kris and NoyNoy Aquino

NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles® ) –  Yesterday, we reported that presidential sister and television host Kris Aquino admitted getting a failing grade in Filipino language during her school days in Manila.

Things always seem to come in two’s.

Today, the United Nations gave her brother President NoyNoy Aquino a failing grade in connection with housing relief for thousands of people made homeless by typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) nearly two years ago.

Haiyan, the strongest-ever storm to make landfall in the Philippines, killed more than 6,300 people and displaced 4.1 million in 2013.yolanda

“Many families remain housed in collective ‘bunkhouses’ that do not meet necessary minimum standards for the provision of basic needs and services,” Chaloka Beyani, U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, said in a news conference in Manila. “I was concerned to learn that funding shortfalls and political challenges, including inadequate cooperation between national and local governments, are delaying processes towards achieving durable solutions.”

Official government records obtained by Reuters showed only 2.5 percent of the targeted 21,012 permanent housing in the worst-hit Eastern Visayas region were ready as of June. The National Housing Authority reported only 542 houses were completed.

About 4,900 houses are in different phases of construction. In two towns on Samar island and six towns on Leyte island, not a single house had been built 20 months after the typhoon struck.

Aquino’s failing grade is in sharp contrast to the laundry list of “accomplishments” he touted during his State of the National Address earlier this week.

We wonder who Aquino is going to blame for his failing grade this time around.