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Hola! Hola! Kampanyeros!

Como estas?

I hope itong earphones natin ay gumagana.

Hindi ko alam kung dala ko yung tamang earphones natin.

Pasensya na mga kameta.

Talaga kahapon super busy tayo.

Tuloy-tuloy yung mga events natin.

Engagements natin.

Kaya sabi ko at least ngayon.

Abol tayo.

Grabe! Especially because yung time difference natin.

Grabe! Seven hours ba yung time difference natin?

So by the time na patapos yung trabaho natin dito, biglang wala na.

Tapos ng araw niyo dyan.

Kaya sabi ko habalo ko ngayon before it's too late dyan sa Manila.

So thank you very much again of course dun sa mga nag-comments and all.

Very kind comments and all.

Of course our hearts and prayers go to yung ating mga kapatid and folks in Turkey and Syria and other affected areas.

So that was really a tragic and sad news.

At alam niyo naman para sa akin when it comes to the issue of earthquake mga ganoon, tayo po ay natraumatized nung batam-bata pa lang tayo.

Because dun sa earthquake na nangyari sa Baguio.

I think that was also a 7 Richter earthquake.

So what happened also in Turkey, that was a very, very strong earthquake.

And what made it even more tragic, as tragic as it was, was it affected yung isang area na marami mga refugees.

Especially from the war in Syria.

So it affected many, many vulnerable people.

So our prayers and love and hopefully whatever support we can mobilize and put together for all people in need and in difficulties in these times.

For me kasi unang-una dapat talaga we have to recognize our shared humanity.

That's a very important thing.

Solidaridad, yung sense of solidarity, sense of compassion, that's a very, very important thing.

Of course tayo sa Pilipinas, of course we have a ton of problems to deal with.

But that should never prevent us from showing solidarity and support and prayers and goodwill and compassion for people suffering all across the world.

So again, our hearts and prayers go to folks in Turkey, Syria and other affected areas.

And we wish that the government authorities respond in the best way possible.

Now, mga kameta, kaapon, actually ang haba ng conference namin and all, I'll post videos of my presentation there on Spain, Philippines, the Indo-Pacific, etc.

Thank God, mukhang the response was pretty good.

I'm glad that our friends, mga kampanyeros dito sa Spain were very happy with the discussions we had.

Kanina lang, kausapin natin si Ambassador Miguel, who is Ambassador-at-Large of Spanish Foreign Ministry for the Indo-Pacific.

So hopefully we can have more interviews and discussions with him.

I look forward to that.

Pinag-usapan namin niyo, of course, yung kasaysayan ng Pilipinas, España.

So much misunderstanding, so much myths, so much factual errors and so much just pure ignorance that haunts our relationship with España.

Tayo kasi sa Pilipinas, napaka-apektada tayo sa American way of thinking, American culture, American sports, basketball, etc.

So parang yung connections natin to España are not as much appreciated as they should be.

And of course, it goes both ways.

Dito rin sa España, their history in the Philippines is not as much discussed in their curriculum, basic history.

But in fairness naman, when you look at the experience of Filipinos here in Spain, most of them tell you the best of the stories.

Habang sa America and other countries, there are a lot of issues about kalagayan ng mga TNT, the crackdown on illegal immigration, racism.

Let's be honest about it, especially in America, yung anti-Asian hatred and racist attacks that we saw.

Of course, we're not generalizing, but unfortunately, there were some serious situations that happened there over the past few years, especially over pandemic.

Dito sa España, thank God, overall, and God willing, this will continue.

The experience of many ordinary Filipinos here is so much better than not only expected, but also in a lot of other democracies and all.

Alam ko, mga kamay-ta, gusto niyo pag-usapan yung mga bardagulan, yung all-TV, ano nangyayari.

Let's put that aside for a separate discussion.

Of course, that tells you a lot about how difficult is the media industry in the Philippines.

Yung all-TV, hindi sila nasana all.

That's a bardagulan, that's a serious issue that I think we have to talk about separately.

But let me just park that, we'll do it in a separate vlog.

Dapat nakaupo tayo pag-usapan natin yan, mabuti.

So, don't worry, I'm following up dun sa mga nangyayari sa Pilipinas, including all-TV, including mga latest na...

Ay nako, meron na ba tayong Secretary of Health na permanente?

Meron na ba tayong ano? Ano bang latest yan sa cabinet politics sa atin?

Anyway, now going back to this, mga kamay-ta, I just wanted to say that when it comes to Philippines and Spain,

I think there's just so much that is untapped.

There's so many layers to our history, to our language, to our culture that we still haven't rediscovered.

One thing I also noticed with our relationship with Spain, the idea of Spain is that, unfortunately, it has been...

I mean, on one hand, of course, No Almitangere and all of those works made a huge impact in terms of our popular perceptions of Spain and its legacy.

And colonial legacies are, by nature, negative. No question about it.

But there were a lot of things that also Spain brought to us, including a history and tradition of appreciation for republican-liberal ideals.

This goes back to Cadiz Constitution, early 19th century.

I mean, if you look at the Philippines, one reason the Philippines has a deep tradition of democratic-republican ideals

compared to almost all of our neighbors in the region, that's a legacy of Europe and Spain.

And, of course, Spain, for a while, was under Napoleonic France.

It was itself exposed to republican ideals, to progressive ideals, and that was transmitted to the Philippines.

That's one thing to keep in mind.

The other thing is that, of course, Spain was also responsible for the establishment of the first modern universities,

Universidad Santo Tomas, Ateneo, among others.

And that was what contributed to the emergence of Ilustrado.

We had Renaissance men who were the forefathers of our nations, well ahead of almost all Asian countries.

That's why Rizal is seen as the hero of the Malayan people.

That's why Rizal was invoked as the hero of Asiatic people when, in the early 20th century, they met in Tokyo.

Students from all over the region came together, from China, from India, from Southeast Asia, they came together.

They celebrated Rizal as their hero and inspiration, and they celebrated the Philippine Ilustrado as their inspiration.

So, the Ilustrado class was a reaction to Spanish colonialism,

but they were also influenced by Spanish education, Spanish culture, and their access to Europe because of their exposure to Spanish culture and civilization.

And let's not also forget that Spain was a relatively backward empire.

We had an interesting discussion earlier about how the 19th century was really the collapse of the Spanish empire,

from the Bolivarian Revolution in the 1840s all the way to the loss of Cuba and the Philippines by the end of the century.

It was a painful, terrible period in Spanish history.

So, in Spain, perhaps, they're not talking as much about the 19th century.

But I think the Philippines, we talk about the 19th century, but through a slanted perspective, through a kind of a limited perspective.

And for me, rediscovering that perspective is very important.

But speaking of that, I think one of our problems in the Philippines is that we treat Spanish like how some countries treat French.

It's like the language of the elite. It's a language of distinction.

It's a language of privilege.

In fact, Spanish is a very cool language.

It's a language, you know, barrio, calle, you know what I'm saying?

It's so funny.

In the Philippines, those people who speak Spanish, a lot of them tend to be people with very elite privilege background or elite privilege pretensions.

And then you come here and you see all sorts of people speaking Spanish with different accents, different intonations.

And you realize it's really an egalitarian, democratic language.

It's a fun, happy, enjoyable language.

It's the kind of language you want to learn.

And we have to work on that, of course, hopefully in the coming years.

It's just so comfortable.

I mean, I have nothing against French.

But, you know, unlike French, you don't go into this very, very complicated pronunciation and all of that.

You know, you don't have to learn the re, re, re, re.

Yeah, Espanol is easy.

I mean, there's a pronunciation and all.

The Ls are usually yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

Of course, in Madrid, especial, a little bit of lift and all of that.

But you get what I'm saying, you know?

So what's interesting is that in the Philippines, like, masyadong posh ang Spain because the elite of the elite in the Philippines have Spanish connections or pretensions or combination of both.

But actually, Spain and Spanish culture is very egalitarian, cosmopolitan, global culture.

The other thing that you also notice with Spain, and of course, there's a Barcelona and Alta usually last year.

But the other thing you also notice with Spain is they're very open and warm people, at least compared to other people.

I mean, you talk to people here, they'll say the incidents of racism.

It's nowhere like what you see in some other Western countries or advanced countries, including advanced countries in Asia.

You know which countries we're talking about, no?

Racisms na mayan diyan.

So it's a very open culture.

And Filipinas are really held in a special regard.

Parang we're like, we're kind of like their favorito people in a certain sense.

Like, these are like lost brothers and sisters.

And now we're finding each other.

Now you see more and more Filipinas coming here.

Now more and more Filipinas learning Spanish.

It could be the beginning of a new era.

I won't say golden era, but it is a bronze or silver era in Philippine-Spanish relations.

After 100 years of estrangement, thanks to that American interaction, we are suddenly moving in a very interesting direction.

I would say that President Duterte, for all of his problematic things, just to put it kindly,

what he did was that he made us reassess our American legacy.

Or America's legacy in the Philippines.

And I think that opened up the space for appreciation of so many other things in the world that is not named America.

So again, I don't appreciate how Taday Digong did it.

I don't appreciate him jumping to the Chinese and the Russians and all of that in the process,

because that's not really an independent foreign policy.

But at least he helped us to deconstruct in a kind of derrida deconstruction way.

Why are we so obsessed about U.S.?

As if U.S. is a gold standard for everything.

Wow, that's so 50, 60 years ago.

That's so 1980s, to put it most generously.

We have to look beyond the United States.

And I think this is where also there's a chance for us to look back as much as we want to look forward.

So look back in terms of appreciating Spanish legacy in the Philippines in the full sense of the word.

Not only what certain friars were doing or what Guardia Civil was doing,

but in so many different ways.

And not only in the ways that Rizal explains Spain to us in his novels,

but in so many other ways that is much more nuanced, much more constructive,

and some would say even benign.

The other thing that I would want to also emphasize, we have to look forward to,

because Spain is not spoken of as a big major power in Europe,

like Germany, Deutschland, or France, or even UK, which is not EU but is part of Europe,

or even Russia for that matter.

Yeah, they're not a major power in that sense.

But Spain is a G20 country.

It has one of the biggest economies in Europe and in the world.

It's a $1.4 trillion economy.

Hopefully tomorrow, we'll also go to some of the growth industries here in Spain,

which is renewable energy.

So the electric, the e-energy, green energy sector is big here in Spain.

They're a world leader in green energy, and they want to build a strong relationship with us.

I think Spain could be a very strong partner for the Philippines

as we try to also transition towards a more renewable, sustainable economy.

So I'm looking forward to more discussions and more observations of the green sector here in Spain

and what are the things that they can contribute to help us in the Philippines.

Of course, some Filipino billionaires with Spanish background, like Razon, Enrique Razon.

You know, in French, Razon.

Razon, okay?

They're also looking at getting into the renewable energy big time, big time,

and I hope to see more of that.

Ayala's and the rest are also getting into that.

Very interesting, very interesting.

There's a lot of potential in this relationship.

Spain also has a relatively significant defense industry.

They produce some relatively good defense military equipment that I think could provide us some options.

Again, you want to go beyond U.S.

You want to go beyond China.

I'm sick and tired of just talking about U.S., China, U.S., China, as if they're the only things in this world.

No.

Yes, they're the two big elephants, but they're also lions, they're bears, they're giraffes, they're zebras,

they're leopards, whatever, cheetahs.

You know, we have to reach all of them, no?

And Spain is maybe not the lion, maybe not an elephant, but they're at least a leopard or cheetah.

There are things that we can get out of our relationship with them.

As I said, it's a $1.4 trillion economy.

It's a relatively advanced industrialist country.

But for me, what makes really Spain special for us in the Philippines, Mga Kameta,

is that Spain is a remarkable – it's a story of remarkable transformation

because only 56 years ago, this country was not too far from where the Philippines was also back in the day.

Like, if we had Arcadillo, they also had Arcadillo, General Franco here.

They had their own version of authoritarian system.

Spain was very stagnant economy.

It was a mostly agricultural society, very poor in Spain compared to many European countries,

especially Nordic and Western European countries back in the 60s and 70s.

So this was a very backward agricultural society just half a century ago.

And now you go to Spain, much cleaner.

I mean, Madrid is far cleaner than Roma.

I love Rome, but, you know, come on.

There are so many beautiful cities here.

It's not just Madrid or Barcelona.

There's Seville.

Oh, my God, there's so many places to go.

You want to learn Spanish, you go to Salamanca.

There's Valencia.

You want to go to Paella, you can go there.

So much – this country can offer just so much.

And then there's Cordoba, so much culture, history.

Of course, Madrid was founded by Arabs and Muslim,

so you see that kind of cosmopolitan background here.

This country just has so much to offer us and so much to offer to the world.

Now, Spain has great relationship with Latin America.

We talk a lot about Argentina.

We talk about Venezuela, Mexicanos, et cetera.

But Philippines is – you know, I think we're just so much –

we always talk about Japan, China, U.S., whatever.

But there's so much also we can do with Spain, I think.

And Spain can also offer us a lot.

And also – so Spain could be both a future and past for us.

Understanding of our past and our roots in many ways,

especially our language, culture, why we're different from a lot of our ASEAN nation partners.

But Spain can also be a future, not like a solution to all problems.

I'm not going to exaggerate it.

But they can offer us a lot on the defense strategic front.

They can offer us a lot in terms of renewable energy front.

In terms of infrastructure development, because under Marcus Jr.,

we're moving from a $100 billion project under Tatay Digong

with some mixed success towards a $320 billion project,

infrastructure build-up project, as Secretary Balisacan announced in Frankfurt.

Meetings nila kahapon, yung mga business meeting nila sa Frankfurt, Germany, the other month.

So we're moving towards a massive infrastructure build-up.

And I think Spanish companies – I mean, what's fascinating here in Madrid

is that it's like Middle East or Turkey.

Like there's constant reconstruction, reconstruction, reconstruction, no?

Ayan na, nasa sobrang excited.

Si, si, si, sinyo.

You know what I like about Spanish?

They speak so fast.

And it's funny, kahapon they were complaining that kawawa daw yung translator sa akin.

Of course, I mean, I started with Spanish and, you know, I said like, okay,

you know, en primer lugar, like, first of all, you know,

you know, muchas gracias por la amable invitación, you know, and all of that.

And yeah, and basta, basta.

Basta, ang bilis ko nagsalita daw, eh ang bilis rin nila magsalita.

So nahihirapan akong mag-catch up, medyo umiinit, medyo sumakit ng ulo ko.

I'm trying to absorb as much as I can in Spanish.

I mean, I couldn't understand a significant amount of what was discussed,

so I didn't get the translator and all of that.

Pero yung pala, nahihirapan din sila.

But they speak Spanish.

You say, well, I speak English right now, or even Tagalog.

But it brings excitement and all.

Yeah, I know, kailangan ko ng lip balm.

And by the way, may kunting orange and all dahil sa paeya na,

yung paeya nila, I don't know, anong lagay dyan, safron mo or something.

Ging lang orange-orange na yung kamay ko, yung lips ko,

hindi pa rin natanggal ang kumpleto kahit anong nangyari natin.

But anyway, mga kameta, I need to get back, finish some work.

Thank you so much, guys.

Oh, by the way, andito tayo dito sa parang library nila.

Ayan.

May library dun, tapos restorante dito.

I love this place.

This is fantastic.

And one good thing also in Madrid is that a lot of banks and commercial centers,

they just vacated these beautiful buildings and they become museums, et cetera, centers of art.

So, wow, you know, the heritage preservation here is fantastic.

Lots of reconstruction going on.

It's a very clean capital city.

It's one of the few capital cities in Europe also which was found by non-Europeans, namely Arabs.

It's a fascinating place.

There's just so much that we can rediscover about Spain

and that goes beyond Imperial Grandol, Arrogante,

and all of the things that Rizal's generation talked about.

You, I mean, yes, they dealt with hell, you know, many difficult things back in the day.

But Spain of today is a very different Spain.

A democratic, prosperous, forward-looking Spain.

It's a Spain that wants to learn.

It's a Spain that is humble.

So the same way that UK and US have a special relationship,

espacial, you know, we can also have that with Spain.

But unlike the UK-US one, we want it to be more symmetrical, more mutually respectful and all.

And I can see that the attitude is very different.

The attitude of Spanish is very different.

They're very open.

They're very respectful.

I really could feel it.

I really could feel it.

I mean, you know, we're also arrogant so it's not easy for me to intimidate.

It's very hard to intimidate me.

And, you know, I've dealt with many people from all around the world

and different kinds of arrogant level.

And for me, like, okay, let's go, right?

But here in fairness, as I get to talk more with folks here,

I'm really impressed by the warmth, by the openness and all.

And by the way, thank you so much.

Thank you so much also to the Filipino community here.

I'm here with a friend of ours.

Maybe I have to ask his permission if I'm going to say him.

Anyway, thank you also to our community here in Manila.

There, he already messaged.

There.

My response.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

By the way, okay, I'll just not say it.

Anyway, Manolet, thank you very much to amigo Manolet for helping us to a little bit go around

and get a glimpse of the city and place.

But we hope to discuss things more, especially the Filipino community here.

The sociology of the Filipino community here, the integration process here, the openness here.

There, for those who want to migrate, maybe.

Legal, okay?

Legal migrate.

Maybe this is the country you want to go to.

Or you want to rest.

You're stressed with our politics.

Then you go here.

But don't worry about me.

I mean, God willing, you know, we'll stick around in Manila as much as we can.

All right?

So just support me so I can make it.

Otherwise, I'll just be fashion.

I'll just be a model or I'll just be a showbiz.

All right?

All right.

Thank you, guys.

Thank you very much.

And talk to you soon.

There.

I really used my ID.

So, again, let me, by the way, say.

These people are already saying hi.

I think I'm the only vlogger here.

I don't think there are vloggers.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much.

Very, very much appreciated.

So, yeah, I'll have to get moving because I have to just finish some papers and works.

Thank you very much.

Maraming salamat, God bless, and talk to you soon.