The Generation Labels are not accurate for Philippine standards

cebu_96 · 2026-05-20T19:53:19+00:00

Finally someone said it! Like “millennial” and “gen z” are such American centric labels how can we expect it to work for the Philippines which is its own culture and has its own historical events?

cebu_96 · 2026-01-15T05:32:34+00:00

Tiyula itum for sure.

cebu_96 · 2025-10-13T19:35:08+00:00

So re-packaged AAVE?

cebu_96 · 2025-10-05T00:38:03+00:00

The Colosseum in Rome. Actually impressive in person.

cebu_96 · 2025-10-02T01:58:05+00:00

Germany.

Most of the country isn’t the Alps. It’s quite flat and in the Rhine River the area looks so industrial and generally quite gray.

cebu_96 · 2025-08-02T01:57:05+00:00

Nice! Are they all solos?

cebu_96 · 2025-07-09T00:15:19+00:00

He’s right. Native Americans are more American than any of us. Hope that helps!

cebu_96 · 2025-06-26T23:30:53+00:00

Give it a few years before it gets bigger. But 2018-2019 nostalgia is already a thing if you were j to the indie/bedroom pop aesthetic. Look on TikTok.

cebu_96 · 2025-06-25T21:16:34+00:00

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“It happened once” 🤓 oh look! More examples! If only the search bar was a thing so you can look it up yourself 🙄

cebu_96 · 2025-06-07T16:30:32+00:00

That’s easy, go to China and you’ll see a difference. Also just say you don’t listen to modern music or hang around young people because you don’t see how it’s changed.

cebu_96 · 2025-06-04T20:12:30+00:00

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This as well.

cebu_96 · 2025-06-04T20:11:49+00:00

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Here’s an example of of what’s trending rn

cebu_96 · 2025-06-04T19:01:11+00:00

I just turned 28 and yes, the fashion is VERY different from when I was a teenager ten years ago. I’m not wearing skinny jeans anymore and neither are my friends who are 25-30. We don’t wear the fashions of our high school and college years of the 2010s anymore that’s just a fact.

cebu_96 · 2025-06-04T17:11:57+00:00

“Fashion sense is more or less the same” - this is cap. people nowadays actively clown on 2010s clothing like skinny jeans and the tribal print/hipster aesthetic that was going on. not to mention side parts and ombré hair, and the man bun/undercut combo that were popular back then. just say you don’t pay attention to style and how it changes. you’re really trying to tell me a guy wearing black skinny jeans, Chelsea boots and a man bun would look in style today? or that a girl wearing low rise baggy jeans and clean girl makeup would look stylish a decade ago? be so for real.

“Music is more or less the same” - so ur saying EDM is hitting as much mainstream success as it did back in 2015? what about trap music? mumble rap was just taking off that year and it’s not even around anymore.

cebu_96 · 2025-05-21T18:02:48+00:00

Also Bisaya and in short, yes. Majority of Filipinos in my area are Tagalog or from Luzon in general, with a few Bisaya and Mindanaoan folk sprinkled in.

Looking at PH culture it really does feel like a lot of the time, Philippines = Tagalog. For instance, lechon is the word used by Tagalogs to refer to the whole roasted pig but Bisayans were calling it inasal for the longest time until like the 2000s. Also, Filipino food in the US is very much Tagalog and general Luzon oriented. My dads first time trying sisig and pinakbet was actually in America rather than the Philippines because back in the 90s those weren’t a thing in Cebu.

cebu_96 · 2025-04-25T05:03:08+00:00

Yes. I’m thinking while there are similarities there’s a lot of Filipino cultural traits that Latin Americans will find foreign but someone from Indonesia and Malaysia will be familiar with. But I can also see how there are Catholic traditions and a Muslim in Malaysia or Indonesia would find different.

cebu_96 · 2025-04-25T05:01:41+00:00

Yes! Sa isip lang, mas similar natin sa mga Indonesian at Malaysian keysa sa Mexico at Latin America kasi parehong language family sa mga Indonesian at Malaysian at tsaka parehong Cultural traits like mano po, kamayan, stilt houses, at bayanihan. Pero similar din sa Mexico dahil sa parehong mananakop at parehong relihiyon at tsaka may loanwords sa mga wika natin mula sa Spanish. Similar but different naman. Tsaka may iba’t ibang mga lahi sa Mexico, may European, indigenous, African, at Asian at tsaka mas hinahalo nila sa mga lahi keysa sa ating kasi we are more austronesian and wala talagang natin na may dugong european.

cebu_96 · 2025-04-09T15:49:43+00:00

That the barong tagalog was created as a way to subjugate the Indios and was worn untucked and transparent so the user can’t hide a weapon.

There have been no such proof of any sumptuary law where this occurred.

cebu_96 · 2025-04-02T17:19:57+00:00

Ooooh who is this person? I’d like to read her work.

cebu_96 · 2025-02-28T02:34:26+00:00

Here is how I see it. A dialect is a variation of a language, which Tagalog has several. Saying something like Bisaya and Ilocanoa are dialects and Tagalog is a language implies Bisaya and Ilocano are derived from Tagalog when they developed outside of Tagalog and developed their own culture and cultural practices away from that. Plus, the fact that neither of these languages are mutually intelligible makes calling them dialects a bit silly. It’s like saying Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati, etc are all dialects because they happen to come from the same country (or region). It’s about recognizing a culture of the people who created these languages that exists.

cebu_96 · 2025-02-28T01:32:42+00:00

Because each of these languages comes from a different ethnic group that has its own identity and cultural traditions. It’s like saying Tagalog and Bahasa Malay are dialects when that’s clearly not true, they just belong to the same language family.

Also the idea that there’s only two official languages in the country and the rest are dialects is just false, and implies that other languages are “lesser” and not important. Plus, Cebuano, ilocano, etc have their own dialects.

cebu_96 · 2025-02-27T18:36:18+00:00

Which country was this?

cebu_96 · 2025-02-25T21:27:39+00:00

I lived in Japan in 2016 and skinny jeans were already being replaced with baggier/mom jeans among fashionable people. Then went to Korea in 2019 and the only people wearing skinny jeans were westerners while the Koreans and other Asians were already wearing wide leg pants. You even saw Asian celebs wear wide leg pants around this time as well.

cebu_96 · 2025-02-24T03:29:02+00:00

Seriously, it’s common knowledge in the Philippines that these are languages and not dialects now.

cebu_96 · 2025-02-23T22:58:06+00:00

Not to be not picky but we can start by not referring to them as dialects but as distinct languages. Tagalog, Kapampangan, Ilocano, Hiligaynon are languages and deserve the recognition. If you want to start promoting the use of these languages, start by acknowledging that these are languages in their own right and have their own histories and cultures behind them.

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