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| To E.C.: Regarding the "New Manila" issue, well, it's just too good to be true to many! We can't blame our fellow Kapampangans for liking the idea of the tansfer of the capital to our province. It's really quite a thrill, I'm sure, and as a matter of fact, there are moments when I also succumb to the same sentiment. But I'm always having second thoughts whenever I fully realize the would-be adverse effect of such a scenario. Like you, perhaps, I'm torn between two thoughts, one saying "go for it, it's our chance, it's for our glory", and the other one saying, "please, no, it will be a death sentence for me." We, Kapampangans, therefore have to weigh both matters carefully. In my case, I look at the issue this way: There will always be a Pampanga, no matter what. Pampanga is a place that won't ever disappear from the Philippine map and from the face of the earth. Pampanga will still be there even if its people are replaced by Mangyans, Mauritanians, or Martians. Even if the language of the people there is replaced by the country's national language! Even if all the tricycle drivers of the province have become Tagalog-speaking, along with the farmers, the teachers, the doctors, the market vendors, you name it! But our race, our ethnicity, our language in particular, and our cultural identity in general - would they survive? Wouldn't they be in peril? Fragile as they are, especially if people don't give them enough care, I don't think they would last. The principle of the survival of the fittest will work against them. It's going to be a time when its population would lay down the saying, "Keng leun o tigri...." and would capitulate to what could be the trend which is the coming of the Fall of Soto's Language, or simply, the tagalization of the province. So between the two, the glory of my province and the life of my language, despite the fact that I love both of them (my province and my language), I side with the latter. Regards, Ernie Turla |
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