Talk:Little brown brother

"With utter scorn"

Miller (Author in footnote) said that the military greeted Taft's comments "with utter scorn", his views were not popular, so therfore I erased the word "popular".

Please include

You ought to inclue that the Filipinos disregarded this term because they too were mistreated by the Americans.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 210.1.93.244 (talk • contribs) .

If you can site a foot noted source I welcome this information. All of the books I have read focus on the American view of the conflict, neglecting the Filipino view. Travb 03:15, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

removed statement

[When the United States had its military bases in the Philippines (Clark Air Base located in Olongapo), servicemen called the women working as prostitutes "LBFM" which stands for "Little Brown Fucking Machines."]

This statement was unneccesary as well as uncited, not to mention obscene.

POV

The last comment about Filipinos burying Americans alive is POV. American soldiers had committed well-documented war crimes, and the evidence for Filipino war crimes is much less.Makerowner 00:13, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Revision

I had trouble relating the footnotes in this article to the assertions in the body, and started out to make some improvements in that. By the time I looked up, I had redont the article. I hope I haven't seriously stepped on anyone's toes here. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 07:15, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Requested move 16 September 2016

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The result of the move request was: moved. SSTflyer 13:01, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

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Little Brown Brother → Little brown brother – The name is not a WP:Proper name but more of an informal slang term. WP:Capitalization is completely unnecessary. Shhhhwwww!! (talk) 06:16, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

• In the article's current version, aragraph 1 of the lead describes the phrase as a slang term. Paragraph 2 describes its usage as the title of the book Wolff, Leon (1961). Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century's Turn. Wolff Productions. ISBN 978-1-58288-209-3.. The article is currently wikilinked from the following other articles:
  • Balangiga massacre#See also
  • Jacob H. Smith#Notes (as the book title in a cite of the book)
  • Mitch Brian (in the third para of the lead, as the title of a screenplay about the Philippine-American War by Oliver Stone)
  • Watsonville riots#Farm life (as the slang term, referring to Filipino laborers in California)

Perhaps rather than moving the article, it would be better to rewrite it as an article about the Wolff book and to describe therein the meaning of that title as a U.S. English slang term. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:09, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

• OK with Little brown brother, as the article is primarily about the term, and that would be the normal caps per WP:NCCAPS. Then we could separately discuss whether either the term or the book is notable enough to actually have an article. Dicklyon (talk) 15:37, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

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