Its time to change the national language policy

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As i have been saying before, the problem is not Tagalog the language and the people but the POLICY of having a national language (incidentally based on Tagalog) which resulted in sidelining other Filipino languages and distorting the way we look at the ethnic composition of our country.  This unintentionally created first class and second class Filipinos causing unity hard to achieve.

If we don’t have a national language and we just simply communicate in English or whatever major Filipino languages (Ilocano, Tagalog, Cebuano, etc) understandable and convenient to the involved parties, the degree of respect and understanding among the ethnic groups will improve.

In our schools we can emphasize and teach to our students the diversity of our people as we are no longer burdened of promoting an illussion that we Filipinos are “this and that” based mainly on Tagalog culture.