This blog is dedicated to Chamorro issues, the use and revitalization of the Chamoru language and the decolonization of Guam. This also blog aims to inform people around the world about the history, culture and language and struggles of the Chamorro people, who are the indigenous islanders of Guam, Saipan, Tinian, Luta and Pagan in the Mariana Islands. Pues Haggannaihon ha', ya taitai na'ya, ya Si Yu'us Ma'ase para i finatto-mu.
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Fihu gof hosguan yu’ nu Si Stephen Colbert.
Guahan iyo-ña programman telebishon, ya kontat ki na’chalek i fina’tinas-ña, Guiya la’mon hafa pau na’fanhuyong. Maseha hafa na gof "silly" na hinasso, siña ma na'magåhet gi i show. Gof suette este na klasin taotao, sa' este na inebra i guinife todu.
Desde ha tutuhun i show-ña, meggai na’chalek na bidå-ña. Gi i ma’pos na sakkan, ha kesaonao i botashon Amerikånu pare Presidente. Matakpånge un patten i Space Station para Guiya. Ya gaige un to’lai giya Hungary, ya dipotsi matakpange para Guiya lokkue’.
I mas na’chalek na patten i show-ña, annai mama’mumumu Si Colbert yan un otro sesso “random” na taotao. Mama’mumu Si Colbert yan Si Sean Penn, Si Barry Manilow, Si Kongresa Eleanor Holmes-Norton (ginnen Washington D.C.) yan Si Willy Nelson. Gi este na ti mismo na yinaoyao, Si Colbert ha chanda i otro taotao, ha fa’enimigu gui’, ya sångan meggai båba put Guiya gi i show-ña. Ya pues ma kombida ayu na ti magåhet na kontrariu halom gi i show, para u mumu gi me’nan todu.
Lao para Guahu, i mas na’chalek na ti magåhet na minimu ginnen Si Colbert, annai mama’yaoyaoyao gui’ yan Si Rain. Yanggen tåya’ tiningo’-mu put Si Rain, kakanta gui’ ginnen South Korea. I mas matungo’ na kanta gi hiyong Korea, “Ways to Avoid the Sun.” Umaacha’igi Si Colbert yan Si Rain gi i online poll para i Time Magazine mas matungo’ yan mas gaiinfluence na taotao siha. Gi 2007 manggana’ Si Rain, ya put ayu, muna’lalålu Si Colbert, ya guaha nai na ha kase’ yan chanda Si Rain gi i show-ña. Mama’tinas Si Colbert un “Korean Pop Video” i na’ån-ña “Singing in Korean.” Gi este na video ha sakke’ yan ha adda’ i dandan-ña yan didide’ na bailå-ña ginnen i video “Ways to Avoid the Sun.” Annai Si Rain ha li’e’ este na video, manoppe’ gui’ gi as Colbert “mungga maquit i che’cho’-mu gi ha’åni.”
Makpo’ este na chatyinaoyao, annai umakompete i dos gi un “dance off.” Manggana Si Rain, lao sen mampos na’chalek i bailan Colbert.
Hu egga’ este na mubi siha (ni’ hu pega sanpappa’), kada na mannisisita yu’ chinalek.
A student from my Zoom Chamoru classes recently asked me for some suggestions for some Chamoru sayings or words of wisdom that she could use for a speech she had to give for a friend's wedding. I get this type of request pretty frequently and so over the years I have a number of lists of ways to say "I Love You" in Chamoru. For years that was one of the my most visited pages on this blog, a simple page that had more than a dozen different ways to say "Hu Guaiya Hao" ranging from the poetic and deep, to the silly and sexy. When I looked at many of those lists, I realized that the majority of the ways love was expressed, was indeed written in Chamoru, but not necessarily rooted in Chamoru. What I mean by this, is that alot of the sayings were simply translated from English or variants of ways that love would be expressed in English. For me, I am definitely in support of these sorts of things, I love having our language adapt and take on new forms, especially wh...
George W. Bush, the ultimate flip flopper. He is the master of flip flopping kwan. I was remembering the other day how Bush, his pitbull Cheney and their apostles went hard after Kerry for his "flip flopping." Kerry was a wishy washy guy, always changing his mind, hardly leadership material. Bush in contrast, was supposed to be stiff and stubborn, the leader who, even though the majority of the country wanted the US out of Iraq, wouldn't even bend beneath the democratic pressure of his own electorate. The funny thing though is that more and more, Bush is leaving behind that stubborness and embracing his flip flopping nature, becoming a greatly skilled and masterful artist. He is so great in fact, he makes John Kerry look like some confused, afigao, nedok novice. Bush is a pro, for reals umbee. Unlike Kerry who usually needed at least two statements to flip and flop (with the notable exception of his claim to "have voted for the funding for the Iraq war, before voting...
People often conceive of colonization as being a formal process carried out by militaries or governments. These institutions play essential roles and the political system naturally becomes the primarily target for most movements for decolonization, but as I have stated many times, the process is much more diverse and complicated. Although it is easy to focus on what we consider to be the formal and concrete forms of power, they way that things are forcibly imposed, the world of the abstract, the conceptual and the ideological can have a deeper and more lasting impact. If we see for example in two former epochs of colonization in Guam, the formal ways in which things were imposed on Chamorros did not necessarily have a significant colonizing impact on the identity and consciousness of Chamorros. The imposition of governments on Guam by the Spanish and by the US led to great outward changes on the island, and histories tend to conflate the effect on the outward appearance of the i...
Fihu gof hosguan yu’ nu Si Stephen Colbert.
I mas na’chalek na patten i show-ña, annai mama’mumumu Si Colbert yan un otro sesso “random” na taotao. Mama’mumu Si Colbert yan Si Sean Penn, Si Barry Manilow, Si Kongresa Eleanor Holmes-Norton (ginnen Washington D.C.) yan Si Willy Nelson. Gi este na ti mismo na yinaoyao, Si Colbert ha chanda i otro taotao, ha fa’enimigu gui’, ya sångan meggai båba put Guiya gi i show-ña. Ya pues ma kombida ayu na ti magåhet na kontrariu halom gi i show, para u mumu gi me’nan todu.
Lao para Guahu, i mas na’chalek na ti magåhet na minimu ginnen Si Colbert, annai mama’yaoyaoyao gui’ yan Si Rain. Yanggen tåya’ tiningo’-mu put Si Rain, kakanta gui’ ginnen South Korea. I mas matungo’ na kanta gi hiyong Korea, “Ways to Avoid the Sun.” Umaacha’igi Si Colbert yan Si Rain gi i online poll para i Time Magazine mas matungo’ yan mas gaiinfluence na taotao siha. Gi 2007 manggana’ Si Rain, ya put ayu, muna’lalålu Si Colbert, ya guaha nai na ha kase’ yan chanda Si Rain gi i show-ña. Mama’tinas Si Colbert un “Korean Pop Video” i na’ån-ña “Singing in Korean.” Gi este na video ha sakke’ yan ha adda’ i dandan-ña yan didide’ na bailå-ña ginnen i video “Ways to Avoid the Sun.” Annai Si Rain ha li’e’ este na video, manoppe’ gui’ gi as Colbert “mungga maquit i che’cho’-mu gi ha’åni.”
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