David,
Like you and many others here, I don't subscribe to "unity through uniformity".
However, the dream or vision that he is clinging to is in reality not faded or quixotic like you say. I see no false hope in it. It is not just a pipe dream. It can really happen tomorrow when we're no longer around. Actually, it has reared its ugly head for sometime now. For as seen in what is happening now and for what has been happening for many decades now, our indigenous languages continue to get relegated, away from the forefront and into the dark background right on their own turf. They are being trampled upon and no politician has so far indicated his desire or plan to pass a law that would lift this ongoing martial law on languages.
So, we are actually seeing the dawn of the end of our languages now, and the dawn of "unity through uniformity". It is not a futile work of Tagalistas. Many seem to be joining the bandwagon for such unity. If we are bent on aborting this type of unity which is a plague on our rich and diversified cultures, we have to re-educate the youth and recruit more die-hard members for DILA-UNT. Your book, A Country of Our Own, will greatly help us and change the wrong perspective that people have been miseducated with.
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