By korapnapilipinas on Skatehive
Tribal war, commonly known as head-hunting, was also typical among tribes in northern Luzon. Largely, common causes of attacks and raids were revenge, betrayal of a pact, and unresolved disputes of territorial claims, but not to dominate and to rule. Highly decentralized these communities were, but in permanent warfare they were not. Interdependent relations provided overall mutual protection and benefits and were common among primitive communities. The term Filipinooriginally referred to an individual born in the archipelago by Spanish parents. Currently, many of us regard “Filipino” as our superior identity that is upheld by many subgroups and tribes, being dependent on ethnolinguistic identity and geographical affiliation in the archipelago. This goes for basically everyone except tribes that remain isolated and people in the southern Philippines who aim to secede and to establish a Muslim nation. Our sense of nationalism and identity as “Filipino” was particularly high during the t