I never realized all this pent up energy would be good for something
I wrote the following to close my book review on Edgar Wickberg's "The Chinese in Philippine Life, 1850-1898":
"The problem of identity itself has remained largely unchanged. Today, we are witness to an ethnic community at the cusp of continuous change as a younger generation of Chinese Filipinos or Chinoys - no longer just one or the other - spearheads the community into the more decisively perilous, if they were to take the older generations’ word for it, waters and floodgates of assimilation."
Can you sense the bitterness? :P
Ahhh, the things I realize in the course of research. Of course, I write from a specific bias and interest. *sigh* So much for objectivity and value-neutral Sociology. *bitter laugh* (for once I recognize the relevance of Habermas' discourse on "Knowledge and Human Interests").
Don't worry, it's a work in progress. I will write when I'm heated up, and I will write when I'm boring and neutral... that is, if I can get myself off my lazy arse.
"The problem of identity itself has remained largely unchanged. Today, we are witness to an ethnic community at the cusp of continuous change as a younger generation of Chinese Filipinos or Chinoys - no longer just one or the other - spearheads the community into the more decisively perilous, if they were to take the older generations’ word for it, waters and floodgates of assimilation."
Can you sense the bitterness? :P
Ahhh, the things I realize in the course of research. Of course, I write from a specific bias and interest. *sigh* So much for objectivity and value-neutral Sociology. *bitter laugh* (for once I recognize the relevance of Habermas' discourse on "Knowledge and Human Interests").
Don't worry, it's a work in progress. I will write when I'm heated up, and I will write when I'm boring and neutral... that is, if I can get myself off my lazy arse.