Filipino Pride
by Dale Dennis David, Julie Tañada, Edna Co, Lucio Pitlo III, Ones Cuyco, Lloyd Bautista, Rudy Brul
Copyright 2009
Published by CreateSpace Publishing, California

One Thursday evening, over coffee, one of us narrated his story of meeting Pinoys in the US who would avoid being identified as Pinoys. Everyone jumped in with their own stories of Pinoys being reluctant to be identified as Pinoys. Then the question—Why? Are they ashamed to be Pinoy? This led to another question—Do we even have a FILIPINO WORD for PRIDE? One said TAAS NOO, another IPAGMAYABANG, another ASTIG and so the conversation evolved into the closest word we could think of—TAAS NOO and someone added KAHIT KANINO. Wow! TAAS NOO KAHIT KANINO —such a long word for pride! Is this indicative of our lack of pride as Filipinos? And so began our journey to document reasons why we should be proud to be Pinoy. Our journey does not end in this book—let this book begin your journey: your own quest to instill FILIPINO PRIDE! With your purchase, you will support our cause of distributing free copies of this book to public schools all over the Philippines (www.FilipinoMatters.org).

(Excerpt from Publisher's Release)

OOV Bookshelf 2009

DECEMBER 2009 FEATURE Filipino Pride by Dale Dennis David, Julie Tañada, Edna Co, Lucio Pitlo III, Ones Cuyco, Lloyd Bautista, Rudy Brul Ating Kalagayan: The Social and Economic Profile of U.S. Filipinios by Peter Chua The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora by Theodore Gonzalves Nota Bene Eiswein by Eileen R. Tabios Footnotes To Algebra: Uncollected Poems 1995-2009 by Eileen R. Tabios Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults edited by Cecilia Brainard Towards Filipino Self-Determination by E. San Juan, Jr. AUGUST 2009 FEATURE Butete: The Story of a Remarkable Fish / The Song of Tampopo by Asela Hazel Z. Gundaya Give Your English the Winning Edge by Jose Carillo America's Second-Class Veterans by Rick Rocamora and Rene P. Ciria-Cruz Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman The Long Lost Startle Poems by Joel Toledo