Coloniser

What does it take to decolonise and dewesternise the Philippines? In order to effectively dewesternise the Philippines is to have it open up to more nonwestern influences, not just Japan and South Korea but also other East Asian neighbours. China, Indonesia and Vietnam are my favourites, to be honest, but other nonwestern influences are welcome if the aim is to dewesternise the Philippines, that is to repudiate as much western influence as one possibly can. I think this could be eventually undone in the future as both of the Philippines’ former colonisers, Spain and America, will get their comeuppances though not in ways people expect and anticipate in any way.

If you believe somebody like Celestial at the Master’s Voice, she said that all of Europe will come under Russian influence and occupation. Mostly due to their backsliding that this will really happen to them one way or another, it wouldn’t entirely undo Spanish influence in the Philippines. But with the rise of future Chinese influence in the Philippines, it will be minimised given the country that evangelised to the Philippines has backsliden that if it will be undone, then God will really undo it for what it ended up doing. Similar things can be said of America, but with the added burden of trafficking people into porn, marriage and prostitution.

It’s all the more devastating with America because it is the place where Pentecostalism originated, it is the place with the most Anglophone devotional websites at this point in time. This makes the consequences for its actions all the more devastating because it barely acts accordingly to what God demands, given most of its people don’t do it and likely never will. To make it even worse, it’s home to a substantial porn industry. No sooner or later, the more it reveals itself to be the prophesised Mystery Babylon, the worse its downfall will be. America’s own people will be trafficked into sex, marriage and prostitution as payback for what it did to others, including the Philippines.

This is where God will really undo American influence here in the Philippines, as it’s mostly up to no good and he will undo American influence here to a greater extent than he will with the Spanish influence because the United States is Mystery Babylon. In the foreseeable future in the wake of America’s downfall, the Philippines will become heavily sinicised in a short time. God will undo western influences when he can, knowing what I wish for the Philippines to be in addition to how the western countries that influenced it have backslided so much that if he will undo western influence, he will really do it.

Celestial said that God will raise up the eastern countries as a consequence of the west backsliding from him, that if he will undo western influence it will be mostly undone when this happens. What remains are the good ones, what will be gone will be the bad ones. The problem is that the bad ones make up the majority of western influence, especially when it comes to matters we condone or tolerate in any way that it shouldn’t be. If he will undo American influence because that country traffics people, sins too much and does so badly despite its Christian heritage, it will really be undone here in the Philippines much quicker and deeper than expected.

He will do this to Spanish influence to a lesser extent, mostly due to Spain backsliding a lot in the later years. A heavily sinicised Philippines is something that would happen, not just because I prayed for it but also because China has a growing Christian population and it will be one of the countries he’ll use to punish the west with. American influence will be undone, to the point of being mostly forgotten. Falling into disuse even.

Decolonising the Philippines

I still feel the Philippines is better off decolonised, when I mean by that it’s better off cutting off western and especially American and Spanish influences at that. Maybe not entirely, but enough to not become too westernised. Or so as I feel about it. I think the Philippines is better off allying itself with other eastern countries, since I think the Philippines is too westernised for its own good. I guess at this point, my wish is being granted.

Maybe not in the form that I wanted, but at least the first step towards serious dewesternisation. It could seriously happen in my lifetime, something that would really happen once China becomes a world power for good. As strange as it sounds, the idea of China becoming a world power isn’t far-fetched. It has influenced many African countries, it has influenced East Asian countries before. Seriously influencing the Philippines isn’t much of a stretch in this regard.

I could live to see the day when the Philippines is sinicised, maybe not entirely but a lot moreso than before. At least this would be a good thing for this country in a long time, ever since the Spanish colonised the Philippines. But this would be the baby steps to something great, well at least in my opinion.

Decolonisation

The act of decolonising oneself or distancing oneself from both the coloniser and colonisation/colonialism, so far in fairly recent memory various Asian and African countries have tried decolonising themselves to varying degrees of success. Though it would make more steps to severely limit westernisation, it may not always be extreme but more than what we’re currently doing. Something like minimising the amount of Western loanwords and seeking more influence from non-Western nations are good places to start, though I feel this is more sincere if done by those whose people were colonised.

I have a desire for the Philippines to be more de-westernised big time, not just with Korean and Japanese influences but also with added Chinese, Indonesian and Vietnamese influences since I don’t like how westernised this country is. But I also think it’s possible there are others in various ex-colonies who feel similarly, I guess the goal of decolonisation is to distance oneself from the coloniser as much as possible and to ally oneself with those who aren’t that colonised. I might be wrong about this one, but even then the desire for decolonisation stems from wanting to distance oneself from the coloniser. Well, as much as they can do about it.

I do think what I do want is incredibly feasible, given the nature of diplomatic relations and the like. Due to diplomatic relations between South Korea and the Philippines, Korean influence has made its way through people’s dishes, televisions and radios. Something similar could happen big time between Vietnam and the Philippines, it might be the beginning but it’s the beginning of something interesting. At least to me, that is. Whatever means needed to decolonise oneself, whether if it’s reclaiming lost traditions and customs or allying oneself with a less westernised country, all of this is feasible to distance oneself from the coloniser.

Natural Neighbours

I personally feel when it comes to neighbouring countries exerting an influence over others, both economically and culturally, I would call them the natural neighbours especially in light of colonisation affecting Africa and Southeast Asia. For the longest time the entire Arabian peninsula was the natural neighbour of Africa, not just because a substantial portion of Africa is Arab-speaking and thus part of the Arabic world but also because it’s just around the corner.

This explains why some folk costumes and cuisines in Africa resemble their Middle Eastern counterparts a lot, not to mention one of the precolonial writing systems in Africa is really Arabic (also known as Ajami). It’s been said that literacy in African countries is underestimated, if because it’s judged by Western standards when it comes to the current writing system being Latin/Western based. It might be far higher than one realises if Arabic/Ajami were included at all, though that involves uncovering what Africa was like before Westernisation since this was used for centuries.

I could go on saying that both India and China, but especially China, are the natural neighbours of the Philippines. China does exert an influence on the Philippines to the present day, though it could exert a much stronger influence in the Philippines if something like Taoism were to be popularised by the current president. So there’s hope for the future, especially for those seeking serious decolonisation and dewesternisation if I may add.

I guess there’s also hope for African countries too, if Israeli and Turkish cultures were to get popularised big time there. The big advantage of having natural neighbours in the role of decolonisation is that one could easily get back what was lost in the years of colonisation, maybe not exactly but enough to rebuild those lost relationships. That’s something I’d like to see since I’m into decolonisation myself, where I think colonised countries like Cameroon and the Philippines benefit far more by associating themselves with say Turkey and China.

It’s not like I hate Westerners a lot, but I feel colonised countries like the Philippines and Cameroon benefit more from rebuilding ties to China and Morocco. If because I’d like to see them be dewesternised, now that’s something that can be done in the near future and hopefully so.

Decolonisation

Trying to undo the coloniser’s

Influence, trying to get back one’s

Traditions after years of assimilation.

Separated from Africa

When it comes to whether or not African Americans (as well as their Caribbean and South American counterparts, anybody in the African diaspora) do cultural appropriation when they take various African customs and garments, the other problem would be that African Americans and their ilk have been rooted out of their ties to various African communities against their will during the Atlantic Slave Trade. Their ties have been obscured over time, even if they continue practising some traditions and customs upon arriving in the Americas.

Getting aspects of various African cultures may one of their attempts at distancing themselves from Westernisation and colonialism, if you wanted me to be honest I do something similar with Chinese and Indian cultures because I despise what the Spaniards did to us Filipinos. African Americans taking something from actual African cultures may be no different, in fact it should be telling that compared to continental black Africans they are Westernised far longer and earlier.

As with anybody else, African Americans and the like have developed their own cultures but when it comes to reclaiming ties to Africa through adopting customs and the like that’s their way of de-Westernising themselves.