The REAL Reason Carlos Yulo's Olympic Victory Matters

let me tell you that because we don't always win gold medal this is a big thing when you become a gold medal winner in the philippines from the olympics you instantly become a national hero i can agree to that i've seen it many times even if it's beauty pageants boxing any other sports or like you know somebody makes it in hollywood you are considered a national hero another day welcome back to another video today we are going to discuss one more time why carlos yula's olympic victory is more important than you think i mean it is very important to win gold medal at the olympics for the country but why so today we're going to find out but before we jump into the video please do me a favor if you enjoy these videos if you're new subscribe and also hit the notification bell to get notified when i publish a new video i publish three videos per week so keeping you entertained keeping myself busy and it's fun as well so you know we're all learning something new and can discuss in the comment section as well so yeah your support means a lot and yeah without further ado let's do it hey i'm shao chua historian for story and welcome to ask shao first of all i'd like to say for sharing the videos for engaging with the filipino story in all the platforms and for sending your questions and your comments we read them and we consider them but now we're going to take some questions for us to answer cute load the energy okay as a filipino historian how do you feel about carlos yulo's two gold medal victories in the 2024 paris olympics first of all okay let me tell you that because we don't always win gold medal this is a big thing in fact the president of the philippines gives 10 million for each medalist and because of that all the other companies in the philippines will offer you something like one real estate company gives a condo unit for each medalist or something like that they will offer you something as well so this is really big thing when you become a gold medal winner in the philippines from the olympics you instantly become a national hero you know i can agree to that i've seen it many times even if it's beauty pageants boxing any other sports or like you know somebody makes it in hollywood you are considered a national hero actually i'm not into sports okay and i'm not familiar with a lot of the rules of the games still as a filipino just because they made history it's very important to me but i'd like to point out what historian ian alfonso wrote when he heard about carlos yulos win he said he felt good with carlos yulos win in paris because in the paris olympics our flag was raised our national anthem was heard we are being honored because of our victory there but more than a hundred years ago when the americans and the spaniards were negotiating what would become known as the treaty of paris where america will pay 20 million dollars to the spaniards for the philippines and that means that america will have a legal occupation of the philippines our first diplomats who brought our flag there were not permitted to go inside those negotiations so it was about us but they did not include us this means that the paris victory that we had is actually more meaningful if you watch this channel for quite some time you would have watched a few history related videos with me and having that connection and just kind of like you know being back there in paris and winning and it's just like it's such a statement for the country it's such a proud moment as well especially because philippines is independent and not occupied by the americans by and they're independent they made it and they succeeded they won gold and it's just a huge moment for the country so thank you carlos yulo for getting the philippines recognized in a city that didn't acknowledge the independence of the filipino more than a hundred years ago all right wow okay next question at dan jill underscore pr snl personal is it really a filipino thing if one piece of food is left in a plate for others to grab oh okay i was at dinner with my friend zoe and she left pieces of foods on the plates and we had several plates and you know i was like are you not getting that and she's like nelly you already know and this is a filipino thing but let's hear what he has to say this has something to do with two characteristics of filipinos one is our propensity for here magmukang then it will just be stay here i also would like to link up on there so there you go but i'll tell you i'll tell you i'll tell you i don't think i'm one of them okay if no one wants to eat it but of course in general filipinos i like that okay but not everyone okay that's why you see me no okay at kain.gs is there still a living babaylan that remains rooted in traditional ways there's still what we call indigenous peoples and they still have some of them priests they still have priestesses they still have in their communities but in many ways their spirit lives not just with the real babaylans but with everyday people because what is the spirit of the babaylan according to zio salazar there are three roles of the babaylan in our society number one the babaylan is the conduit of god and man number two the babaylan was a storyteller she's the one who chants the epics and the myths which makes people one people and number three the babaylan is also a doctor oh wow that means i didn't know that the babaylan is actually the uniter of peoples a storyteller she unites the people and remind them with their epic heroes oh my god that sounds pretty much like everybody's auntie like that one auntie or like that one grandma that you know pretty much one past and that they have a future together as one they have a common future and so in many ways the spirit of the babaylan is in every teacher or history professor or storyteller of our culture in this country and so in some ways we can say that the creators of the filipino because they remind us of how despite the fact that we are 180 languages and 180 cultures we actually have a common experience i just did a video about the filipino story it will pop up here i really love the story very touching very you know relatable as well so it's just coincidence that it was just mentioned here didn't know it first as austronesians then as colonized peoples with a common struggle and our common road to nationhood which is fraught by a lot of challenges and divisions but ultimately and if we're reminded by that we feel like we are one people on the same journey we are like that funny look about you thank you very much please continue to like share and subscribe and ask your questions hey leave your questions leave your comments for the filipino story and that was all right all righty wow great channel i think i'm going to give him a subscribe because he seems very knowledgeable very interesting character as well on youtube very pleasant to watch and i think i can learn a lot from him we can learn a lot from him let me know if you knew 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