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The Shocking History Behind Philippine Floods

Why does the Philippines keep drowning despite billions spent on flood control? 🌊 Historian Kirby Araullo explores the history of corruption, lost indigenous wisdom, and the trillion peso corruption scandal. Related Videos: 🌞 Precolonial & Early Philippine History https://bit.ly/EarlyPhilippines 🌏 Modern History of Southeast Asia Playlist: https://bit.ly/ModernSEA 🔥 ‘Discovery’ & Conquest of the Philippines: https://bit.ly/DiscoveringPH 🎥 Join my channel! — https://youtube.com/kirbyaraullo/join 🔔 Subscribe — http://goo.gl/yDgQmK 🍿 Be my Patron —   / kirbynoodle   📚 Books, merch, etc. — https://www.kirbyaraullo.com/books 🔍 Featured Topics: 00:00 Billions Stolen? Flood Corruption in the Philippines 00:29 Why the Philippines Keeps Flooding 00:55 The Flood-Proof Ifugao and the Muyong System 02:07 Precolonial Architecture: How Ancestors Survived Floods 03:52 Kapampangan Flood Myths and Apung Galura 05:13 Spanish Colonizers Ignored Local Flood Warnings 06:48 Lost Indigenous Flood System in Pampanga & Manila Bay 09:12 Colonial Urban Planning Disaster in Manila 10:35 When Flood Wisdom Was Made Illegal 11:57 The Corruption Blueprint: From Encomienda to Haciendas 14:03 American-Era Flood Control Failures 15:44 Post-Independence Choices: Modern Engineering vs. Tradition 17:43 The ₱380 Billion Flood Control Scandal 19:43 Apung Galura’s Warning: Corruption Meets Climate Change 21:20 The Path Forward: Indigenous Wisdom + Accountability 📺 About This Video: The Philippines faces devastating floods year after year, but why do these disasters keep happening despite billions of pesos spent on flood control projects? In this in-depth documentary, historian Kirby Araullo explores the forgotten history of floods, corruption, and indigenous wisdom in the Philippines. From the Ifugao’s flood-proof Muyong forest system to the Kapampangan belief in Apung Galura, from Spanish colonial arrogance that ignored local knowledge to American-era land policies that destroyed natural flood defenses, this story shows how the Philippines went from mastering water to being drowned by it. This video examines: 💡 How ancient Filipinos built flood-resilient communities 💡 Why colonial powers dismantled indigenous water systems 💡 How corruption has turned flood projects into profit schemes 💡 The shocking ₱380 billion scandal in modern flood control programs 💡 What history can teach us about surviving future disasters If you’ve ever asked: 📌 “Why does Metro Manila flood every year?” 📌 “Where did all the flood control money go?” 📌 “Did our ancestors handle floods better than us?” 👉 This video has the answers. ☀️ About Kirby: Kirby Araullo is a distinguished Filipino American historian, culture bearer, and content creator based in California. He is a direct descendant of the indigenous Paramount Kings of Luzon—Lakandúlâ of Tondo and Rája Matandá of Maynílâ—as well as the anti-colonial Katipuneros and World War II Guerilyeras who fought for Philippine liberation. His rich heritage also includes Kapampángan, Tagálog, Indigenous Áytá, Pangasinan, and Spanish-Basque-Portuguese-Irish Mestizo roots. Kirby co-founded the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies at the University of California, Davis, where he has authored works on Asian American, Philippine, and Southeast Asian histories. With education from UC Davis and Harvard University, Kirby teaches Filipino history and culture through indigenous scripts like Kulitan and Baybayin. His popular YouTube channel features educational content on historical narratives and cultural insights, attracting a global audience eager to explore Filipino and Southeast Asian histories, and the stories of revolutionaries and freedom fighters from the Philippines.