Tomorrow is June 12, the supposed day in history that the Philippines became independent. The question is are we really independent?
Considering the idea of globalization, we can no longer say that any country is truly independent. Even the United States of America, the de facto superpower of today can not say that it can stand on its own. Its policies are dictated by the world economy. One needs only read the news feed to understand how nations shape the politics of other nations.
I think it is more correct to say that the so-called independence day is the day we mark as the day in history when the world recognized our soverignity, that we are a separate nation from the conguerors Spain and USA.
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