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Native children.
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Michael L. Tan
LAST Tuesday, I wrote about our prejudices against the "natives," the local popular term used to refer to cultural minorities or indigenous groups. At best, our attitudes are patronizing, seeing them as resistant to change. At worst, we view them as lazy and uncivilized.
Such attitudes are deeply-rooted, the Spanish and American colonizers and eventually, our own government, setting up barriers between "us" and "them." We, the ones who surrendered to the foreign masters, were rewarded and called "civilized" as opposed to these mountain peoples who resisted. "They" were different: pagan, primitive.
We "non-natives" all grow up with rare glimpses into the lives of indigenous Filipinos, except for occasional documentary travelogues, the natives becoming just another part of the scenery and the flora and fauna. Or the occasional newspaper article, referring to the latest epidemic, or famine.
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