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Guanzon
Guanzón is a Hispanized Hokkien surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Bobby Guanzon (1948–2016), Filipino radio and television broadcaster and politician *Rowena Guanzon Maria Rowena Amelia Villena Guanzon (, born August 29, 1957), is a Filipina lawyer, public servant, and politician who notably served as Philippine Commission on Elections commissioner from 2015 to 2022 under President Benigno Aquino III and ... (born 1957), Filipino lawyer and politician {{surname Hokkien-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowena Guanzon
Maria Rowena Amelia Villena Guanzon (, born August 29, 1957), is a Filipina lawyer, public servant, and politician who notably served as Philippine Commission on Elections commissioner from 2015 to 2022 under President Benigno Aquino III and President Rodrigo Duterte. She had been an audit commissioner before taking office at the Philippine Commission on Elections in February 2015. Guanzon was mayor of Cadiz in Negros Occidental until 1992, and also served as chief of staff to late Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago, whom she still considers a role model. Early life and education Guanzon was born on August 29, 1957 to the prominent Guanzon family of Negros Occidental, known for its sugarcane plantations or es, haciendas, label=none. Her father is now-retired Regional Trial Court judge Sixto Roxas Guanzon, while her mother, Elvira Causing Villena, is a lawyer and former Cadiz vice-mayor. "Bing" attended Yuba City High School in California as an exchange student 1974-75 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Guanzon
Roberto "Bobby" Samar Guanzon (June 20, 1948 – December 18, 2016) was a Filipino radio and television broadcaster and politician. Career Guanzon started as an anchorman and one of the pioneering members of DZAQ Radyo Patrol of ABS-CBN from 1968 until it was shut down due to martial law declaration. He later became anchor of radio stations DZXL and DZBB ("Tawag Pansin") in the 1980s and in DWWW in the 1990s. It is also had a TV version aired on BBC before the People Power Revolution. Guanzon also ventured into television as an anchor of ''GMA Balita'', the network's first flagship Filipino newscast and ''Kape at Balita'', the first simultaneous radio-TV morning commentary show, both aired on GMA Network. He also anchored '' Teledyaryo'', ''Isyu Ngayon'' and ''Tinig ng Bayan'' on NBN. In the recent years, he became part of DZRM Radyo Magasin as the anchor of "Gabay at Balita". Guanzon was elected as congressman of the 1st district of Caloocan, serving for one term from 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hispanicization
Hispanicization ( es, hispanización) refers to the process by which a place or person becomes influenced by Hispanic culture or a process of cultural and/or linguistic change in which something non-Hispanic becomes Hispanic. Hispanicization is illustrated by spoken Spanish, production and consumption of Hispanic food, Spanish language music, and participation in Hispanic festivals and holidays. In the former Spanish colonies, the term is also used in the narrow linguistic sense of the Spanish language replacing indigenous languages. Spain Within Spain, the term "Hispanization" can refer to the cultural and linguistic absorption of the ethnically Berber Guanches, the indigenous people of the Canary Islands in the century following their subjugation in the 15th century. It is relatively rarely used as a synonym for Castilianization (castellanización) i.e. the historical process whereby speakers of minority Spanish languages such as Catalan, Basque, Galician, Astur-Leonese or Ara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippine Hokkien
Philippine Hokkien is a dialect of the Hokkien language of the Southern Min branch, primarily spoken vernacularly by Chinese Filipinos in the Philippines, where it serves as the local Chinese ''lingua franca'', primarily spoken as an oral language, within the overseas Chinese community in the Philippines and acts as the heritage language of a majority of Chinese Filipinos. The use of Hokkien in the Philippines is influenced by Philippine Spanish, Filipino ( Tagalog) and Philippine English. Terminology The term ''Philippine Hokkien'' is used when differentiating the variety of Hokkien spoken in the Philippines from those spoken in China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and other Southeast Asian countries. Historically, it was also known in Philippine English, Filipino ( Tagalog), and other Philippine languages as ''Fookien'' or ''Fukien'' across the country, derived from the Chinese postal romanization of the Nanjing court dialect Mandarin reading of Fujian province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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