Includes bibliographical references and index. Zialcita, F. N. (2005). Authentic though not exotic: essays on Filipino identity. Quezon City, Philippines: Ateneo de Manila University Press.

Introduction -- An Identity under Question -- Part I: Constructions of Community and Identity -- Toward a Community Broader than the Kin -- When was Paradise Lost? -- Bourgeois yet Revolutionary in 1896-1898 -- Part II: A New Civil Culture Emerges -- The Costs and Benefits of Civil Culture -- More Original than We Think -- We Are All Mestizos -- Part III: Identity in the Global Village -- As yet an Asian Flavor does not Exist -- Southeast Asia is a Collage -- References -- Index

"This collection of essays offers another way to look at the encounter between the Western and the indigenous. It suggests that through a dialectical process, this encounter has generated a broader sense of community that has transcended the kin. Local genius transformed Spanish influences, even as it was itself transformed by the latter, resulting in a new culture. Finally, "Southeast Asia" is a recent construct that should be redefined to reflect the diversity of cultures present in it."