THE PHILLIPINES
Last week, on the eve of the Philippine Republic's 10th Independence Day (July 4), Defense Under Secretary José Cristol, a former schoolteacher, offered a good-natured code of behavior for Americans toward his country.
To U.S. military advisers: Don't "inspect" our operations, "observe" them.
To economic advisers: Don't "approve'' a project, "concur" in it.
To tourists: Don't call us "Asiatics," because we are "Asians"; don't call us "natives," because we are "Filipinos."
To historians: Don't say Magellan "discovered" us, say he "visited" us. Don't call the Philippine-American war an "insurrection," and don't call the patriots who fought it "bandits."
To Congressmen: Don't "give" aid, "offer"...
