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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">The vision was not a wish dream. It was stark reality staring me in the face. The 1968 image of the blue orb in space did
not have boundary lines conveniently delineated to keep people and nations apart
from each other.</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Language teachers at US Peace Corps in Muslim Mindanao in
the early 80s claimed that families used to visit cousins in Tawi-tawi and
Sandakan, Balabac and Kota Kinabalu, Sarangani and Sangi, gatherings that recalled
outrigger travels before Sulu's Sabah was a glitter in London's eyes, curtailed
after WWII when the edges of the nation-states of Malaysia, the Philippines and
Indonesia were defined by the exiting colonial masters.</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">The West's decolonizing held to the boundaries of former
colonies, in our case, that of the British, the Spanish and the Dutch, keeping
them intact since economic neo-colonialism simply meant a change of personnel to
keep the business in place. Basic goods were
still produced cheaply for export, and financing came from similar sources save
the new signatories had darker skins.</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Ateneo U in the 70s identified 600 families that owned a
majority of the Philippine's assets favored by Vatican's disposed lands. The same was true of Indon <i>datus</i> and Malay <i>sultans</i> to their own <i>hoi
polloi </i>in keeping the land and of the
same ratio of the <i>mestizos </i>against
the <i>masa </i>in the Philippines. Even today when the Philippines is no longer
the sick man in Asia, and is the second best performing economy next to China
in the books, it maintains the old case of poverty at the same dastardly place,
and equity parity betwixt the <i>mestizos </i>and
the <i>masa </i>remains criminally disparate.</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">In my lifetime, I was exposed to three civilizational
dreams. The first was that of my childhood,
if only because I quickly discarded it.
This was the European Dream of the Holy Roman Empire that saw Pope Alexander
VI in his <i>Inter Cetera </i>declare that
Portugal can go east while Spain can go west the year after Columbus completed
his first sail to the New world. The
British embodied this in the arrogance of "the sun never sets on the
British Empire". Aryan superiority was
already in place before the German Nazi's holocaust.</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">My second, the American Dream began with Thomas Jefferson's crafted
declaration of independence <i>(We hold
these truths to be self-evident, that all men (sic) are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Right, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness)</i> that led to its rule of
the world from the benevolence of "the light on the hill" exceptionalism
and manifest destiny, kept the global financial system tied to Wall Street, and
the oil spigots maintained from fields dominated by US-led military,
technology, and personnel. </font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">America was the Protestants' Promise land, and it enslaved West
Africans, distrusted Catholics (from Ireland to Italy), codified immigration
against Orientals of which the Chinese Exclusion Act and the pictures in
NYTimes of brown little brothers newly evolved from the evolutionary tree, were
examples. JFK broke the back of the
Catholic stigma with his election (as Obama did for "people of color")
and jarred wide-open the human side of the slit-eye enigma when he opened the
floodgates of immigration. Alas, he was
summarily assassinated.</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Today, the American Dream emanates from Obama's counterfeit progressiveness
(says Afro-Am Cornell West of Union Seminary, NYC) in his checkered presidency trailed
by Hillary's hope for hers, while the boys of Jihad slit the throats of
wide-eyed journalists and captives they corral into their mountain lairs.</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">In the 80s, Deng Xiaoping revived the China Dream, a third
on my list. In its current incarnation
talked about rather than written in text, Xi Jinping proposes three items: 1) 1.4 billion people involved, beyond 80
million members of the CCP; 2) playing field leveled at the urban-rural divide
(making <i>houkou</i> registration reform an
urgent task) so it does not determine status; and 3) a win-win perspective in
global trade that goes beyond short-term gains to long-term benefits for all
concerned.</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Reality stares us in the face. Why maintain sovereignty lines that are
leftovers from another era? The Kurds,
Shiites, and Sunnis are three political entities that could very well administer
their own affairs so why should we insist on boundaries that the Germans,
Brits, French, and Dutch, delineated, which even strongman Saddam Hussein could
not keep intact? Ah, the oil. </font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Oh, well, my own Earth Dream proceeds from and broadens China's. My earthrise citizenship involves 7-billion people
on behalf of 8.7 million earth species, and counting. It removes the artificial classes of eco-political
groups that determines membership to the first, second, third, and other
worlds. My value scale is leveled on creatures,
not nations. Finally, it requires a
win-win situation rather than the lose-lose competition on economic growth. The earth, dude, and the health of every
creature in it: my glocal mission.</font></div>
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<div><i>yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today. participate. In all, celebrate!</i></div>
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From: Jayvee Vallejera <<a href="mailto:jayvee_vallejera@saipantribune.com">jayvee_vallejera@saipantribune.com</a>><br>
To: Jaime R Vergara <<a href="mailto:pinoypanda2031@aol.com">pinoypanda2031@aol.com</a>><br>
Sent: Wed, Sep 10, 2014 12:33 pm<br>
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