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  "textContent": "cassiterite-tenring:\n\n> ritahayworrth:\n>\n>> ritahayworrth:\n>>\n>>> ## happy fourth of july to the philippines ONLY\n>>\n>> link to article\n>\n> hi, filipino here. just want to say that our independence day is **june 12** , not july 4. july 4 is when the united states government decided that they would recognize our freedom, specifically _because_ it is _your_ independence day and they wanted to cement their cultural hegemony over our country. and because of their influence on our country this was recognized _for a time_ as our independence day. we still commemorate it, but i hope you can understand why we don’t want our independence day to be associated so closely with our former colonizer. it wasn’t even a work holiday for us.\n>\n> ## june 12 is the day that we filipinos declared our own independence for ourselves, and that is what we celebrate as independence day",
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