Have you ever wondering what things that Ilongos most likely will not going to tell you? Here are among of them:
1. Tagalog Language - If a tagalog or cebuano speaker approach Ilongo asking about direction . Ilongo will politely respond . But he will not tell you how he was little bit bothered on language he would consider as introsive to his ethnic identity. An Ilongo person does not want to speak Tagalog despite its quite well-recieved in most Regions in the Philippines , that is comparable to Spain's Basque people about their treatment to Castillan Language and Great Britain's Cornish people treatment to English Language. They prefer to preserve their own ethnicity with seperate identity.
2. Filipino - Locally, you very rarely hear a person from Iloilo calling himself as Filipino or pinoy in referring about themselves . He would say so in a conventional moment like inside the classrom . Ilongo used " pinoy " when identifying himself when speaking to "fellow pinoy" and in referring his fellow filipino in international community . He will revert using " Ilongo " in calling himself and his fellow Ilongo. Obviously , Filipino is a very recent construct and it is not a distinct ethnic group.
3. Dinagyang - An ilongo will not tell you that black warriors of contesting tribe portrayed in Dinagyang festival is not historic. Ilongo people was always been a fair brown skin as Spanish settlers described them.
4. Negrense - People of iloilo are wondering why anyone else in Negros Occidental identify themselves as Ilongo . Definitely , Ilongo call people living in Negros as Negrense or Negrosanon not Ilongo.
5. Diversion Road - Ilongos are familiar of the High Way called Diversion Road and they prefer to call it that way. It's invasion to their place to call it " Aquino High Way" principally it was built through Marcos Highway Program , political rival of Aquino's . They wish that it should be renamed .
1. Tagalog Language - If a tagalog or cebuano speaker approach Ilongo asking about direction . Ilongo will politely respond . But he will not tell you how he was little bit bothered on language he would consider as introsive to his ethnic identity. An Ilongo person does not want to speak Tagalog despite its quite well-recieved in most Regions in the Philippines , that is comparable to Spain's Basque people about their treatment to Castillan Language and Great Britain's Cornish people treatment to English Language. They prefer to preserve their own ethnicity with seperate identity.
2. Filipino - Locally, you very rarely hear a person from Iloilo calling himself as Filipino or pinoy in referring about themselves . He would say so in a conventional moment like inside the classrom . Ilongo used " pinoy " when identifying himself when speaking to "fellow pinoy" and in referring his fellow filipino in international community . He will revert using " Ilongo " in calling himself and his fellow Ilongo. Obviously , Filipino is a very recent construct and it is not a distinct ethnic group.
3. Dinagyang - An ilongo will not tell you that black warriors of contesting tribe portrayed in Dinagyang festival is not historic. Ilongo people was always been a fair brown skin as Spanish settlers described them.
4. Negrense - People of iloilo are wondering why anyone else in Negros Occidental identify themselves as Ilongo . Definitely , Ilongo call people living in Negros as Negrense or Negrosanon not Ilongo.
5. Diversion Road - Ilongos are familiar of the High Way called Diversion Road and they prefer to call it that way. It's invasion to their place to call it " Aquino High Way" principally it was built through Marcos Highway Program , political rival of Aquino's . They wish that it should be renamed .