If one has proper historical analysis, and exercises fair judgement, one will realize that the Pampangans have a rich history because members of the Pampangan locality worked and served in the Guardia Civil, maintaining law and order during the day of Hispanica.
In the late 18th century when Britain invaded Manila and ruled the Philippines for 2 years, the Spaniards moved to the provinces to mount and strategize an offensive against the British Occupationary force. Most of the Spanish Offensive was composed of Spaniards as well as men of Pampanga and men in the Visayas (The Visayas has always been the main contributing region to provide military men in the Guardia Civil).
As a unison and as a group the Filipino forces and the Spaniards were able to defeat the British and expel them from Manila, thereby preserving the political territory of the Philippines from being swallowed into the British Empire.
This example of Filipino Brotherhood in arms would later be a source of inspiration by the papers of Marcelo Del Pilar as well as Jose Rizal in exemplifying and forwarding the cause of revolutionary discourse and self governance. The Philippines and the Filipino are a rich tapestry of customs, history, cultures, dialects, all interwoven through the thousands of years, the colonial milkings. Instead of pointing out the flaws and pointing fingers at certain regions of the Philippines---the proper action is to adress the situation as a whole. Doing so..is an act of being a "Crab" and a total manifestation of being ignorant. One should change that demeanor.
Secondly, there are many instances of 'Traitors' in different regions of the Philippines.
Let me give you an example; it could be even considered that Rajah Humabon was a traitor to Filipino Indigenous independence for his giving into Magellan and accepting friendship with the Colonial Imperialist. One could even declare that Rajah Sikatuna was a traitor for having a blood compact with Legazpi, instead of killing Legazpi, Sikatuna shared his blood with him and accepted strategic cooperation and DIRECTLY led to the eventual conquest and colonization of the entire archipelago by the Spaniards for another 400 years.
What about the Filipino Bolanon macabee that worked for the Americans in the Filipino-American War that led to the American trapping of a Bolanon-planned ambush on an American patrol group? This lead to deaths of many Bol-anon Revolutionistas. So that lone Bolanon macabee who worked for the Americans to sell out his people was an example of a 'TRAIDOR'. But does the action of that lone Bolanon macabee traitor speak for all Bol-anons? Does that warrant unfair bias and judgement that Bol-anons are sell outs and would backstab their own? Of course not! The actions of the few do not represent the majority. And he was not a Pampangan was he? No, no way. So analyze. Analyze.
So you see, these examples of hambugero, traidor etc, are humanistic traits that gets even the best of us.
There are no regional limitations or predisposition of which. All humans are capable of exuding that characteristic if they let themselves do so without any regard to other's feelings.
To even generalize and dictate that Pampangans are all like that is in my honest opinion, very ignorant of that individual. We are all, in the end, Filipinos.
Mabuhay ang
Pilipinas at Galing ang
Pilipino!-Lorenzo.
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