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malustepes
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[2006-04-04 03:15:40 +0000 UTC]
"Saving the world from Mary Sues"
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# Statistics
Favourites: 1337; Deviations: 5; Watchers: 15
Watching: 21; Pageviews: 6273; Comments Made: 886; Friends: 21
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Hiroyuki Takei, Hiromu Arakawa, Tsutomu Nihei, Marcel Duchamp, Van GoghFavorite movies: Anything with Johnny Depp
Favorite bands / musical artists: i like songs, mostly. Right now MCR has capture me in that area lately.
Favorite writers: J.K. Rowling, Bram Stoker...
Favorite games: The legend of Zelda (all of them), Castlevania LOD and 64, Eternal Darkness, RE 4, Silent hill
Favorite gaming platform: 2D, 3D, it's the same for me.
Tools of the Trade: Pencil, paper, computer and imagination xD
Other Interests: reading, drawing, going out with friends and family
# About me
Current Residence: somewhere in hellFavourite genre of music: Rock
Favourite photographer: Anything contemporary
Favourite style of art: None, maybe contemporary art
Operating System: windows XP
MP3 player of choice: ipod
Favourite cartoon character: Lyserg Yoh Hao (SK) Envy Edward Lust (fma) Shaka Mu Aioria (SS) Eriol (CCS) Satoshi Dark (DNA)
# Comments
Comments: 126
thx for the fav
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dont kanye west me or
ill chris brown you and
drop you like mc hammer
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You're welcome, your dArt made me laugh XD
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You're welcome XD. That's such a lovely painting, and soo sad to! The worst part is that Mexico also forgot his past with Piri! 
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wow D8 so it's mutual! we were also wondering if mexico forgot about philippines too. i was quite surprised to hear that we were actually under new spain before. but even so... it's quite evident in filipino culture. most of our loan words are from mexican spanish... and we even have loan words from native mexican dialects as well. 8D but then it may be possible the distance between the two countries made it easier to forget their history. out of all of spain's colonies philippines is the only one in asia.
and yes it's very sad! thanks again ^^
maybe, but then again there's always boxing XD
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Some part of me wants to blame it all on Jones (and I'm almost certain that Mexico, and latin america for that matter, whouldn't call him by the name of "America" jeje local joke) because of his stupid manifest destiny and his stupid hero antics. Another part of me wants to pin the blame on Mexico's history that has kept him away from reaching out to Piri. So sad, but true. Although I haven't picked up an elementary textbook in years to confirm if this is still true, I still can recall that in my history class in high school this fact was still unknowed to me, and i graduated form HS in 2003 so maybe in these 7 years things have change... I would have to look it up XD.
Boxing with piri, mmmm maybe I would bet my money on piri I don't know why...
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so sorry for the late reply!!!! >:
blame it all on Al? how come? and why wouldn't they call him America? lol though most of the world call him US or states. i see... it's quite true as well. i don't really approve of all the involvement US does in the middle east today. it's like they're controlling everything. but then he does try to help out when he can. part of mex' history??? which part? XD *i'm sooo sorry for asking so many questions! i'm just very curious you see.* lol honestly, i don't think the textbooks would change anytime soon. at least in the philippines. it's been 3 years since i've last seen a local history book there but i'm pretty sure it's still stagnant there.
haha XD yes yes! manny won yesterday's game! /shot *lol pinoy pride* XD
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Ok, Ok, let's go one at a time XD. First, no worries, in my perception of the flow of time, you are quite quick in responding to comments in comparison with my own pace. Second, well I wasn't really serious about the all US blame thing, but there is some blame there partly because with it's relations with MΓ©xico some years back (obviously when I'm refering to the US I'm refering to US's policies of the 19th century, US was really a bully back then). The local joke (well it's not so local really) comes from the whole Monroe Doctrine with it's "America for the americans" which was nice at the time it was created, but years later some americans started to look at this doctrine differently, changing its original meaning (that which stated that the American continent belong to the inhabitants of the americas and that as such they would reject any european control over the continent) to one that would have satisfied thier own ambitions, that is, the expantion of the United States (lit. America for the "americans"). The manifest destiny was an extention of that corrupted idea in that they believe that it was their obvious fate to expand American democracy to the west. Sometimes it was interpreted as to include all North America (Mex, Can, Central America and the carribean), and that lead to friction with it's neighbors. In Mexico's case, it was one of the main reasons that lead to the Mexican American War in which the US acquired the terretories of Alta California and New MΓ©xico, the boundary of the country with US at the Rio Grande/Bravo and the aceptance of Texas independance (which is in it's own right a whole different topic), in exchange Mexico would recieve 15 million dollars (pocket change really, because later they purchased a small strip of land in 10 million and before the Spanish-American war started, they offered Spain 100 million at first for cuba and then they raised the offer to 150). There was even a "All Mexico" movement in the last stages of the war, but obviously that didn't happened, and also 10 days before the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, Americans found gold in California, this information might have changed the agreements of the treaty, but this information was never shared with the mexican goverment.
Third, yes I believe that Mexico is in part to blame because of the political instability and the lack of unity as people of this country throughout it's history since it's independence from spain. Fourth I agree to that there are people in the US that want to help but as you said, the negative reputation that America's diplomacy has doesn't help either right? And how does this relate to the Philippines? When spain recognized our independence finaly in 1836 (supposedly is in 1821 when this happens but that's not exactly true because they tried to reconquer us a few years later, but failed each time) they opened the trade with piri with us, but this ended with the Spanish-American war and with the Philippine-American war which stopped trade because of the conflict.
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wow... firstly, i should apologize for again responding really late. i'm back in philippines right now and with no proper internet connection i have to fall back on paying to use internet cafes. anyway, this is prolly the most comprehensive reply i've gotten in like ever!
haha US being a bully... i never expected that Mexico was a part of US' quest for imperialism. they do have the tendency to impose their views on other countries... with democracy i mean. guadalupe hidalgo? the treaty and the purchases happened before the spanish-american war? by "all mexico" u mean that US wanted to buy the whole of the country? O.o oh gosh. so much has happened... and the gold.
lack of unity? is that why some i see OCs of mex del norte and del sur?
diplomacy and trade... this i don't understand. yes of course there where some negative aspects. a lot of treachery was involved in the philippine-american war. and conflict obviously affects trade but then no one wanted the for the war to happen. i think. heavens i sound so naive
haha gosh spamming questions again. i tried reading history off wikipedia and it turned my brain to mush. lol thank you so much for answering all of 'em!!! 
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Nah... it's ok. I hope you have a good time in The Philippines. Now for the questions you have...
Yeah, Alfred is a nice character but as with Germany, they don't represent their goverment, so yeah, I mean that he could have been agaist the whole thing but with no other choice but to obey, or he could have been unaware of the whole truth and there for willingly participated in the war with only the propaganda that was present at the time to the population, with was, as you know as all propaganda is, mostly wrong. The name Guadalupe Hidalgo comes from the suburb of Mexico City were it was signed, and yes, it happen like 50 years before the spanish-american war. The "all Mexico" thing well... Whom were they going to pay? I mean, the "all mexico" would have been Spain all over again. Of course that would have meant the extention of american citizenship to all mexicans in the country and abroad, and that didn't go well with the whole "white supremacy" thing. The gold in california... that it's rubbing salt in fresh wounds.
The OC's, well I cannot speak for everyone because sometimes it's a matter of personal taste, some are of the perceived cultural differences between the south and the north, but I mean, every country has differences in that way. North, South, East, West. If that was the case behind the Italy brothers (which was not, they were literaly governed by to countries at the same time) then there would be 4 or 5 or 6 "Americas" in Hetalia. Well that's what i think, because himaruya hasn't clarify this aspect of Hetalia. Everything beyond canon is mere speculation.
About the trade, is more of a inconsistency on part of the mexican goverment, so much for the goverment in it self as with it's commercial trade. And the brake of the war didn't help matters either... well, that's what I've read about Philippine-Mexico relations. This is the magic of Hetalia(well in reality I've always been interested in my country's history), it makes you reacquainted with history. I hope this helps, I no expert on the subject but I think I have everything right.
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thank you! ^^
yesyes... i suppose. sometimes goverments do that to that to their own people.indeed propaganda, hitler wouldn't have been able to run germany without that.
all spain??? i thought only us and mexico were involved?
haha i understand! XD tho i am curious, what the cultural difference are?
oh i see, i see. but as of now the relations between the two are quite cordial but not as close as they used too. tho wiki does site mex as an important trade partner of PH.
i've learned so much! XD thank you again for patiently replying all my questions! totally! i have hetalia to thank for making me more interested in my country and yours! c:
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Oh no no, I meant that it would have been like the spanish conquest of the americas al over again in the sense that if the "All Mexico" movement would have succeeded, it would have been the end of it, no negotiations, no treaties, no options, just takeover. Sure! I would have extended the duration, the number of casualties and costs of the war, but it is likely to assume that in the end USA would have won the war and acquired the whole country (altough since we're guessing, we can't know for certain now, can't we?)
Basicly the north is somewhat of a desert in it's literal sence and in it's cultural one in comparison to how rich and diverse the southern part of the country is. Although their (the north, that is) cultural image predates that of the US westerns and Texians (Texas having borowed a lot, a LOT from the mexican states close to it) it cannot compete with the thousands of years of cultural development the ocured in the south. This is in part because in its precolumbian history, that part of the country was inhabited by nomadic tribes while the south saw the establisments of impires and civilizations that range from the olmecs, to the mayas, the aztecs (o mexicas as they called them selfs), the tlaxcaltecs, the teotihucans, to name a few, and in part because afther the Spanish conquest and later on with the Mexican Independence War, this didn't change that much either. It's not until after the Mex-Ame war ended that the north was agressively populated, and with NAFTA is when it's stars its industrialization along the border. The center of the country is were both these aspects come togueter, and where the political, economical and every word that ends in "al" IS. The state from I come from is like the public face of Mexico in the sense that it is the one the world is most familiar with. It's the birthplace of mariachi, of the charro, tequila, the mexican hat dance among other things. Mexico city is like washington, new york and philadelfia put toguether, Veracruz is the east gateway to Mexico and a very inmportant commertial port, and well, you get the point...
The relations between PH and Mex, well, that I don't know much of, but I have a link of a interview to the Ambassador to Mexico from the Philippines from a Mexican newspaper in wich the Ambassador tales the economic history between the two countries [link]
I hope this helps, and it's no problem, I enjoy anwering your questions. And sorry for all the typos and grammar mistakes, it's really late and I'm a bit sleepy..
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omigosh!!!! i am soooo sorry! you had to reply this when u should be sleeping!!!
oh...lol, i get it now. i took it literally! so US is assuming the role of the colonizer. ^^" stupid me.
i've always thought that the closer it was to US the more urbanized it was. i mean but it is now... like u said, after NAFTA. see i learned something new!!!
OMAIII~~~ thank you for the link!!! i'll go read it now!
:'> still, thank you for answering. i hope i can visit mex someday! 
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Glad to help, and don't worry, I'm a owl Hoot hoot!
Mexico city, if you look at a map of MΓ©xico, it would be a little piece of land in the shape of a anatomically correct human heart, yes.. YOU CAN see Mexico city on a Map, preatty big... it's located in the central/south/east part of the country in the valley of Mexico.
Acapulco is located in the south so yeah, geographically speaking, the south is closer to The Philippines, in fact, Acapulco was the port that conected New Spain with The Philippines, all ships departed from there and all the ships from Manila arraived there.
Mexico doesn't clasify it's population by "race" rather by other things (economic position, education, etc.), but it's estimated that 60-80 percent of the population is mestizo, either by both parents being mestizo or a Spanish mother/father and a Amerindian father/mother union. But if you're asking skin color wise, it's a bit tricky, since genetics play a big part. For example, both my parents are mestizos, my mother is white (green eyes, light brown hair, short stature) and my dad has medium brown skin (tall, black wavy hair, brown eyes), now my mother's father is white (green eyes,light brown hair) and my grandmother is light brown (black hair and eyes), both are short and had 4 children including my mother. My grandparents were from my dad's side were tall, had 12 children (holy s**t!) and my grandma was white (brown eyes, brown hair) and my granpa had medium/dark brown skin (black hair and brown eyes) and I'm short (I'm 1.64 
I know! Plane ticket prices are scandalous! I thinks the price for a one way Mexico-Japan flight is about 1000 us dllrs. That's a lot for the average guy here
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*relieved*
lol shaped as a heart?! totally beats italy's boot shape. XD
oh i see! o: by new spain u mean the rest of the latin countries in America?
that is sooo cool! but classification by economic position is a bit degrading 
haha! that includes the tour right? it's slightly cheaper if you buy it from singapore, currently living there. maybe it's because we're in asia XD
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Yeah, Mexico city's shape it's cute, and some advertisement companies have use it in their commertials, like one of the wolkswagen, it was a map of Mexico, but instead of roads there were veins, and mexico city whas the heart XD The slogan of the campain I think was "Lighting up your passion" something like that XD
I don't understand what you mean by degrading, maybe I didn't explain my self correctly. Just the other day people from the INEGI (translated would be something like National Institute of Statistics and Geography) came by since it's been 10 years from the last census (they do this every 10 years) and after they asked their questions and left, I notice that precisly that information (the economic one, e.g. How much did you do in the last year?) were absent, they only asked me about my education, my living conditions (how many rooms, did I have a TV, radio, refridegerator, PC, internet, phone, etc), if I had a job, whas I here 5 years ago, etc. It wasn't a long survey, I didn't spend more than 10 min anwersing the questions.
Yeah, I mean, normally people here think that Mexico's not a diverse country in those terms, people here think that either you are mestizo, "indigena" (native people) or white, if you are white, people might think that if you come from the north, german or american anscestry and in the centre and south, spanish or american, people have no clue that there has been a lot of inmigration not only from europe but from asia and south and central america (oceania and africa to, but in the former's case, it's has been very reacent and in the later's case there is really not much information about the subject eventhoug there was a long history of african slavery in new spain before Mexico's independence), but the thing is that normally, these inmigration waves have been very small and not so constant. My height is relative really because, in my mother family i'm kindah tall, but in my dad's family im short soo... yeah. Yeah! my dad's REALLY tall, and intimidating, people often think that he's a bodyguard or something haha. Well eh... 
I think mexico's not that different from philippines in that sense, we still have some remanents from the colonial era that are hard to shake off, like there is still very prevalent the use of "mande" to say "pardon" "excuse me" u know. Mande means literally "command me" "order me", and people don't realise this so there is no sign that this will change in the near future.
The price tag for the plane ticket is from a ONE WAY trip from Mexico city-Tokyo, not a round trip.
If there are any typos, i'm sorry, my sister is rushing me to leave her computer alone.
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Β‘Ay, hola may! ΒΏCΓ³mo estΓ‘s? Yo he estado muy ocupada con la escuela ΒΏY tu? Que linda que me saludas y veo que tengo un Stack de tu arte. Ahora le doy una miradita y te dejo un comentario XD
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Gracias y gracias tambien por el fav jajajaja esque ando en crisis de "no tengo amigos, los que tengo se enojan conmigo sin razon aparente, o les dejo de hablar" y viendo por aqui recorde buenos tiempos y dije "que diablos!" la verdad tu amistad me es muy valiosa y como perderla por las ocupaciones de la vida diaria no me parecio gracias por contestar y si el servicio me da poco tiempo de dibujar pero mΓ‘s que el internado
-May
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No si yo tambien sigo las malas costumbres, a veces llego cansada de la escuela y todo que no me dan ganas de estar hablandole a nadie (ni por el messenger), nomΓ‘s me acuesto a ver tele jeje.
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