August 17, 2022 • By Miguel Syjuco
is reproach, and it too can become a badge of pride. Because it means being authentic, and not pretending to know of or like that which others have stamped with approval. […] If baduy means being out of the Western, foreign mode, then by all means let us stay ourselves, proud to be emphatically, Pinoyly, baduy.
[Bakya] tends to favor something which is one’s own, though it be ersatz, and to reject something entirely alien, though it be the original. Kapitan Kidlat may be just a little brown Captain Marvel and Darna nothing more than a xerox copy of Wonder Woman, but at least they speak a native tongue, they fly over nipa huts and bamboo groves. In this sense, it is not wrong to say that, however fantastic they may be, however remote from reality, Kapitan Kidlat, Darna, and other such bakya figures are closer to the Philippine experience than anything directly obtained from abroad.
My boyfriend really loves the disco He’s at the disco every Saturday And when the kids go out to dance he’s always the first to dance but when he dances his dance is the Mashed Potato.
That’s my boyfriend there I don’t get what he likes he is in, as in in but he’s also out, not in My boyfriend is baduy.
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