I Am a Filipino

• Carlos Peña Romulo, Sr. wrote the selection.
• Romulo served as the Philippines' secretary(minister from 1973 to 1984 & under President Ferdinand Marcos)
• Romulo was awarded 72 honorary degrees and 144 awards and decorations from foreign countries.
• Romulo was a reporter at the age of 16, a newspaper editor by 20, and a publisher at 32.
• Romulo made I Am a Filipino to express his love for the country.
• Romulo described us as a brown-skinned creature, a vision of democracy, a child of East and West, and an inheritor of the glorious past.
• I Am a Filipino was printed in The Philippines Herald on August 16, 1941.
• I Am a Filipino is an essay.