Lupang Hinirang should be changed so that it celebrates the lives of achievers and not of the dead and merely “heroic”
First of all, we referred to the national anthem as the “Bayang Magiliw” when we were kids. We all knew what we were referring to when we called it that. Being told it is actually “Lupang Hinirang” is nice, but it comes across like being told to refer to a chair as “salumpuwet” rather than…