THEY saw Maria Clara.
And a marketing agency said she’s no longer the woman Jose Rizal embodied in his opus “Noli Me Tangere.”
Owing to those whose bood drenched the road to freedom, today’s women now have a choice: go to school or not; vote or boycott; bear children or not; and, run for office or against officials.
“Maria Clara used to simply accept her fate. Today, the Filipina’s actions are driven by her own motivations. She takes charge of her life and she feels proud to be herself, a study by the local operations of Wunderman Thompson LLC said in a recent study published on “The Modern Filipina.”
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