Regeneration helps preserve Aeta culture

mabuti pa mga aetas mga nauna pa sa bangsamoro..tahimik lang at walang militanteng grupo. ito ang mga tunay na pilipino na namumuhay ng tahimik at hindi nakikilaam sa pulitika.

Hindi niyo ba alam na ang mga aetas at negritos ang mga unang settlers ng bansa bago pa ito sinakop ng mga Malay race at Kastila. kaya ni isa sa atin ay dapat wag magmalaki kung sinu ang unang nag occupy sa islang ito ke muslim o krisyano. kaya itong si Mr. I Condemn ay dapat tumiklop ng pnanalita at umuwi na sya sa Indonesia na pinag mulan ng lahing Malay.

Commendable article, well written.The Phillipines is rich in culture.I wonder though if our government has program(s) for our Aeta brethren.

Just say pyroclastic or lahar. By saying pyroclastic lahar materials, is redundant. Pyroclastic means rock fragment of volcanic (eruption) origin. Lahar is slurry of pyroclatic materials.

stupid multinational companies, stupid mining companies, stupid people who will do everything to make money...Oh I forgot, stupid land grabbers....

let us spare the Aetas from the modern world,let them live what they are, but let us not forget to help them survive...we must do something for them just like what this institution the Holy Spirit Aeta Mission are doing..good job San Sebastian College..magpadami kayo ng lahi..

I'm a foreigner living in the Philippines, and have always taken a keen interest in Aeta issues after I was first introduced to it in 2005. Suffice to say I firmly believe the Aetas constitute the biggest shame of the Philippines. Not unlike the Natives in Australia and North America. The people have largely been relegated to non-human status (that's precisely what slave owners did in the USA and Europe in order to be able to carry on with their dehumanizing of people different from them). I'm not one for advocating that the government take care of every problem, but successive Philippine governments have completely neglected these people, leaving it to the church (in reservations like Villa Maria in Porac, Pampanga) to take care of their needs.

The fact the airwaves are shamelessly bombarded with skin whitening products has also ingrained it into ordinary Filipinos that these Aetas and other blacks are somehow less than human, with anything white glorified to death. That in the year 2012, Philippine TV can be making caricatures of black people with that useless show called Niga negrita or something like that, only cheapens the image of Filipinos to the world, who see the country as a playground for horny white men, who cannot get even a prostitute in their own countries, but become instant gods in the Philippines. Only when Pinoys travel to places like North America do they get the exposure to others, and some, only when their children come home with a black boyfriend or girlfriend.

Sadly, the powers that be have no interest in preserving their heritage, and have chosen to whitewash the Aetas out of existence. Reading about the injustices the people have suffered in this country is enough to make grown men cry.

Let's hope the Aeta leaders will be able to make it for themselves, even though their starting point is kilometers behind the rest of society.

HETO PROPER NEWS! HINDI YUNG PURO SHOWBIZ LANG!

The Philippines (like any other nation) is rich in culture and tradition which dates back before the coming of the Spaniards.

The problem is, the culture and tradition a lot of people see in the country is mostly of Spanish, Chinese and American influence. The harsh judgments a lot of people throw at Filipinos and the country have these three influences as the foundation not knowing that there is more than that. The blind assumptions are always straightforward and most rarely relate it to the culture and tradition molded by years of occupation and modernization whilst influence of the early settlers are ignored altogether.

Think of it this way. The early Filipinos according to history were strong, clever, hard-working, mighty, courageous and dignified but most Filipinos today are labelled as lazy, corrupt, betraying, dumb, foolish and shameless. These traits didn't exist and wasn't in general until the early Filipinos were colonized and trade became much more than just for survival. That is what a lot of people have missed. People have kept on pointing fingers at Filipinos yet they have never understood the history of the culture and tradition.

Bold assumptions have always been the problem. It is downright ignoring History altogether. Sad that it is more common today than it was years ago and to think that civilization has matured.

The best way to help them is to leave their natural habitat alone.

let the Aetas live the way the want to..let us spare them to live in modern way and stressful life , much better if we will help them to keep their culture alive.may the God bless those people showing much concern to our (neglected) brothers and sisters.

It's a good thing that we (or some us) still continue to appreciate our fellow Filipinos that were most of the time marginalized and even taken advantage of in our "modern" society. Great job, San Sebastian College!

Yes, this is a reality in life, its better to preserve them so that we can relate us always that even the mountainous peoples live life as a simple living in life. These are one of our references being a Pilipino. The aeta community determined to our history, These are lovely people living in indegenous dwell and they were happy even though they don't have a formal dine and formal kitchen. These are truly people living on the universe. I hope that this kind of living it should be the huge "MIRROR" of our politician in our country that not just only corruption being discussed. Do what you gonna do of this group they're need to your attention. Don't put the money in one pocket, please help them, feed them, give them a school so that they will know what is the real life of this generation, and they will know also what's going on in the near future of their children.

SO SAD KPOP IS KILLING THEM SLOWLY

I wonder if the Holy Spirit Aeta Mission of the College of the Holy Spirit truly wants to "preserve" the Aeta culture (including their "pagan" beliefs) or are they concerned also in converting the natives into their own religion (if they haven't done already)...?

This is the ever good news I read from Yahoo.. Pnoy wake up & help them...

They should also consider other indegenous people like the mangyans and the badjaos. They also share the same fate like the Aetas.

Preserve the Aetas NOT their way of life. With a fast changing world, they need to adapt in odrer to become productive and survive.

alam nyo ba mga kaka silang aetas ang tunay na pilipino sila ang ancestors natin the rest they are just fakes like me sa dinamaidami nahalo na lahi pati pangalan nag ka mix mix na. atleats umaamin ako. e kayo

hay buti nmn napagtuunan nla ng pansin ang mga taong pnagmulan ntin..sna ma2lungan p ntn cla..