Comments on: My Life and Food http://www.agnosticmom.com/2005/10/07/my-life-and-food/ Raising a Healthy Family Without Religion. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:55:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Rodolfo http://www.agnosticmom.com/2005/10/07/my-life-and-food/#comment-18 Rodolfo Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:48:33 +0000 http://www.agnosticmom.com/?p=7#comment-18 I learned to answer that by saying I'm American with a Filipino heritage. Pero marunong pa ako magtagalog. I tend to lean to one culture more depending on where I am though. Like when I travel to the Philippines to visit relatives I feel competely American. But then when I worked in Alaska I felt more Asian. I think it's pretty neat because I get to communicate with people I probably wouldn't have because of the language barrier. I always thought that to speak another language is the freedom to transform yourself into another world. I learned to answer that by saying I’m American with a Filipino heritage. Pero marunong pa ako magtagalog. I tend to lean to one culture more depending on where I am though. Like when I travel to the Philippines to visit relatives I feel competely American. But then when I worked in Alaska I felt more Asian. I think it’s pretty neat because I get to communicate with people I probably wouldn’t have because of the language barrier. I always thought that to speak another language is the freedom to transform yourself into another world.

]]> By: Noell http://www.agnosticmom.com/2005/10/07/my-life-and-food/#comment-13 Noell Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:02:45 +0000 http://www.agnosticmom.com/?p=7#comment-13 Yes, I ate balut a number of times. Sometimes it was pretty good. Other times it was more difficult to swallow! I never ate the bird by itself, though. I took bites of it with the rest of the egg. Are you a Filippino? Marunong ka ba magtagalog? As for the Catholic Church and its grip on the people. . .unbelievable. I tend to think the cycle starts the other way, though. Poorer, less-educated people are more religious. They have more faith. And more superstition. Yes, I ate balut a number of times. Sometimes it was pretty good. Other times it was more difficult to swallow! I never ate the bird by itself, though. I took bites of it with the rest of the egg.

Are you a Filippino? Marunong ka ba magtagalog?

As for the Catholic Church and its grip on the people. . .unbelievable. I tend to think the cycle starts the other way, though. Poorer, less-educated people are more religious. They have more faith. And more superstition.

]]> By: Rodolfo http://www.agnosticmom.com/2005/10/07/my-life-and-food/#comment-6 Rodolfo Mon, 21 Nov 2005 03:49:18 +0000 http://www.agnosticmom.com/?p=7#comment-6 Pretty neat you got to spend some time in the Philippines. Did you ever try balut? My roommate thought he could eat it but he freaked out just watching the initial process of opening the egg. Hilarious! I'm sure you also saw first hand the Catholic Church's vicious grip on the poor Filipinos. Sometimes it seems that the more religious a society gets the deeper it sinks into Thirld World. Ironically getting that Thirld World exposure has definitely grounded me. It fuels my hunger for knowledge. Pretty neat you got to spend some time in the Philippines. Did you ever try balut? My roommate thought he could eat it but he freaked out just watching the initial process of opening the egg. Hilarious!
I’m sure you also saw first hand the Catholic Church’s vicious grip on the poor Filipinos. Sometimes it seems that the more religious a society gets the deeper it sinks into Thirld World. Ironically getting that Thirld World exposure has definitely grounded me. It fuels my hunger for knowledge.

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