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Vallejo, CA • October 2026. AncestryDNA Is $34 Through October 20: Why I'm Asking My Relatives and Friends to Join Me. ancestrydna sale 2026, ancestry dna $34, filipino dna test, filipino ancestry dna results, jose rizal chinese ancestry, out of taiwan filipino dna, filipino genealogy, family history, 10/7. GENEALOGY • OCTOBER 2026 AncestryDNA Is $34 Through October 20: Why I'm Asking My Relatives and Friends to Join Me The kit is $34, plus shipping, until October 20. My cousin Melvin, Nica, and Chesca are already linked with me on Ancestry. Jian's kit is next. Here is why your family should be there too. PinoyBuilt hero image for the October 2026 AncestryDNA sale. My cousin Melvin Perseveranda, Tito Maning's eldest, got his AncestryDNA results earlier this year, after I got mine. So did Nica and Chesca. We are all linked on Ancestry now. That leaves Jian. I bought him a kit, and he hasn't taken it or sent it in yet. ...

Philippines • June 2026. Maharlika, Pacific Islander, or Asian? The Decolonization of Filipino Identity. maharlika meaning, filipino pacific islander, filipino identity, ferdinand marcos maharlika, mount pinatubo anniversary, austronesian filipino, decolonization philippines. IDENTITY • PHILIPPINES • JUNE 2026 Maharlika, Pacific Islander, or Asian? The Decolonization of Filipino Identity Thirty-five years ago today, Mount Pinatubo reshaped the islands. Today, two debates — Asian or Pacific Islander, Philippines or Maharlika — are reshaping the global Filipino identity. The truth is harder, and more beautiful, than either side admits. Thirty-five years ago today, on June 15, 1991, Mount Pinatubo released the second-largest volcanic eruption of the twentieth century. The blast injected so much sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere that it cooled the global climate by roughly half a degree Celsius for two years. It...

Diaspora • May 2024. The Boat We All Came In: What a New Animated Series Gets Right About Being Filipino. filipino identity, barangay, balangay etymology, bayanihan, austronesian seafaring, the filipino story, decolonization, learn filipino. Filipino Identity • May 2024 The Boat We All Came In: What a New Animated Series Gets Right About Being Filipino A new six-part animated series traces Filipino identity past flip-flops and adobo, back to the balangay boats that gave the barangay its name — and lands on an idea PinoyBuilt has been building on for years: we're all in the same boat. Still frame concept from "What It Truly Means to Be Filipino," Episode 1 of The Filipino Story's animated series, published May 2, 2024. I was nine years old when I left Marikina, and for most of my life since, people have tried to hand me a definition of "Filipino" that never quite fit — a flag, a food, an accent, a province. Non...