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AETA CHALLENGE: It’s OK to be an Aeta

Igorots are proud to be Igorots. Tagalogs are proud to be Tagalogs and so as Ilocanos, Cebuanos, etc. So why not being an Aeta? Aetas are an indigenous people inhabiting the central and southern Zambales. Let us help the Aetas be proud to be Aetas. They are just the same as ours. They were just introduced to civilisation behind us. They can also become to what we are now!

It has been obvious on some comments on our previous article that so many people have bad connotations about Aetas. Some were even so reserved to write or speak the word Aeta. That’s not different from being a racist!

According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, “Aetas are an indigenous people inhabiting the central and southern Zambales mountains in Zambales, Pampanga, and Bataan provinces of the Philippines.” Aeta are just same people as you! Aetas are humans and are no less than anyone! You should proudly address them as Aetas, with respect and confidence!

If you are afraid or reserved to say the word Aeta, you are RACIST!

It,s only in America and the Western world where racism exist where calling someone “Black or Coloured, or White” is branded as racist.

Igorots are the champions of defeating racism. The word Igorot has long time been a racist and discriminatory word of non-igorots but we defeated it by owning it instead and making it a brand. Other Filipinos can no longer think they are superior than us Igorots. Ironically, we Igorots now sometimes take so much pride and think or act as if we are better tribe than others; and that is not good. Aetas, Igorot, Ilocanos, Tagalogs, and all Filipinos are just the same Filipinos. We all eat rice by our mouth and excrete it by our anus!

Let us help Aetas be proud to be an Aetas! and that’s our Aeta Challenge!

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Aetas of Itogon are the Real Pure Blood Filipinos and so as Igorots, Mangyans, Tausugs, and other Indigenous Tribes of Luzon, Visayas & Mindanao

Aetas of Itogon are the Real Pure Blood Filipinos and so as Igorots, Mangyans, Tausugs, and other Indigenous Tribes of Luzon, Visayas & Mindanao. They are the original inhabitants of the Philippines. The looks of Miss Glenda and Miss Karen Davila are the result of inter-racial mixture of Filipinos and foreigners.

Modern Filipinos found in Central Luzon and Visayas such as in Manila and Cebu are descendants of indigenous tribes that had inter-racial mixture with foreigners who migrated or colonised the country, such as Chinese, Malays, Spanish, Japanese and others. This happened even before the year 1500s when Philippines was first discovered or found by European Sailor Magellan. This means Filipinos in Manila and Cebu came to civilisation many centuries before indigenous Filipinos of the mountains and outskirts of the country were discovered.

Real Pure blood Filipinos like the Igorots of the Mountains of Cordilleras remained pristine and were just introduced to civilisation probably in the late 1800s. The Aetas of Central Luzon were lately discovered or introduced to civilisation probably in mid 1900s. Even if they were almost just recently introduced to civilisation, they are now almost of the same transformation with the other Filipinos in the cities who were earlier brought to civilisation.

If all indigenous tribes were discovered and introduced to civilisation at the same time with those in Manila and Cebu, the looks of Igorots, Aetas, Mangyans, Tausugs and other indigenous people will be the same or far better than the looks of Miss Glenda or Karen Davila.

Nevertheless, races of people, indigenous or mixed-race, have their own beauty. The looks of people should never be used to discriminate one from the other. Each race and culture have their unique beauty and identity.

P.S.: There are no Aetas in Itogon. Title is just a Literary Art. Aetas and Igorots are both indigenous peoples with respective culture, history and beliefs.

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