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title: Ikaw ay Pilipino / Mahal Kong Anak (You Are a Filipino / My Dear Son) (Tagalog poster distributed in the Philippines)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/you-are-a-filipino-my-dear-son-tagalog-1951/
description: A two-panel Tagalog sheet. At left a hatted man in an embroidered shirt points at the viewer under 'You are a Filipino'.
section: Collection
---

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[![Ikaw ay Pilipino / Mahal Kong Anak (You Are a Filipino / My Dear Son), 1951 US poster: A two-panel Tagalog sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/you-are-a-filipino-my-dear-son-tagalog-1951.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/you-are-a-filipino-my-dear-son-tagalog-1951.jpg)

# Ikaw ay Pilipino / Mahal Kong Anak (You Are a Filipino / My Dear Son) (Tagalog poster distributed in the Philippines)

A two-panel Tagalog sheet. At left a hatted man in an embroidered shirt points at the viewer under 'You are a Filipino', telling him to clear his conscience before casting his vote because his country's fate is in his hands. At right a distraught woman pleads under 'My dear son' that his pen not become a dagger killing her honour and freedom. The tell is glittering-generalities: honour, freedom and the nation attached to one act, voting, with no testable claim.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (Tagalog) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
IKAW AY PILIPINO

BAGO MO IGAWAD
ANG IYONG MAHALAGANG
HALAL AY PAGLIWANAGIN MO ANG
IYONG BUDHI, PAGKA'T NASA MGA KAMAY MO
ANG KAPALARAN NG IYONG BAYAN.

MAHAL KONG ANAK

HUWAG NAWANG
MAGING BALARAW
ANG IYONG PANULAT
UPANG PATAYIN ANG AKING
KAPURIHAN AT KALAYAAN.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
You are a Filipino

Before you cast your precious vote, enlighten your conscience, because the fate of your country is in your hands.

My dear son

May your pen not become a dagger to kill my purity and freedom.
```

[← Almanake sang Mangunguma: Rice Stem Borer (Hiligaynon poster distributed in the Philippines)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rice-stem-borer-hiligaynon-1951/) [Say!... Who's running this war, anyway? →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-whos-running-this-war-anyway-1951/)

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