Wilfredo G. Villanueva
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JoeAmThe Innocence of Ignorance
I live in a poor sitio of a hillside barangay on an out-of-the-way island that is wholesome and clean and gorgeous. Most of the men who live here are rice field workers or construction laborers. There are two or three masons and a carpenter of no real skill. The women take care of the kids … Continue reading
Ban Lady Gaga and the Bible!
I tell you, the humiliations that Jesus has to put up with. Its enough to make a sinner weep. I rarely venture into the area of “Glitz and Glitter” because it so seldom motivates my conscience or keyboard. But this is different. From the Associated Press, May 18, 2012: “Members of a group called Biblemode … Continue reading
The Filipina: Virgin, Mother, Whore?
The “virgin-mother-whore” triangle is traditionally seen as representing the impossible demands men place on women as objects of sexual desire. I’ll angle away from this more clinical take on the matter to present my cross-cultural perspective on how women present themselves in the Philippines. If you’d like to read a thoughtful article about the confusion … Continue reading
Pinoy Pride: A Floppy Ball of String?
I will resist the notion of looking up what psychologists say pride represents in favor of just thinking about it. Indeed, let me fall back on the Humpty Dumpty New World Dictionary to concoct a definition of pride. It is a noun, which means it is something of itself. It is not an adjective or … Continue reading
Global Warming of the Whities
America is still run, in the main, by whites, but that is changing. That huge mass of white America is melting, very much like a giant Antarctic iceberg under attack by warm seas. Indeed, white America is eroding most rapidly at the outer edges, where racial tides wash relentlessly inland. The coastal cities of Los … Continue reading
The Society of Honor by Joe America 