True End-Point of the World

Map of the Philippine Islands, 1652:
Catholic Luzon and Visayas in yellow, Muslim Mindanao in green

The Philippines constitutes the only true end-point of the world.

     ~Pierre Cahunu

     Les Philippines et le Pasifique Ibériques (1960)

                    On the other hand Spanish influence brought in Arab practices. Often forgotten is that a major part of Spain was under Arab and Berber influence for eight centuries. Many practices we consider Spanish are thanks to this influence. For instance, the Spanish fondness for flavoring and coloring rice with spices, like saffron, and mixing scraps of food with it, as in paella, has affinities with Near Eastern styles of treating rice. Thus, while the Maranao acquired the habit of coloring their yellow rice from fellow Moslems coming in from a geographically western direction, we got ours from the Spaniards who sailed in from the rising sun, the Americas.

Fernando Nakpil Zialcita

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