The Filipinos of Yesteryears

From the Introduction: THE FILIPINOS OF YESTERYEARS provides the reader the chance to rediscover his national identity which has slowly trickled downward into obscurity due perhaps to the negligence or ignorance of the generations past. Or possibly because for a time we were without any freedom, and we have, therefore, lost track of our identity as a people.

Let us not allow ourselves as Filipinos to be lost amidst this confusing search, for all is not really lost. The need is just for us to rediscover ourselves and hold firmly to our identity as a nation and a people.

YESTERYEARS and its role toward this end of “rediscovery” of the identity of the Filipino. In this book one shall find a re-statement of a culture and a people not lost but gradually relegated to the background with the introduction of the “modern” and “civilized” ways of the modem world.

THE FILIPINOS OF YESTERYEARS is one Filipiniana book that shall earn for its author praise and commendation not only for its informational value but more for the role it will play in helping the Filipino find his true self.