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Parents and Ancestry

Fidel Valdez Ramos was born on 18 March 1928 in Lingayen, capital of the northern Luzon province of Pangasinan¹, to a quietly distinguished local family. He began life in a family that understood the home as a nurturing environment for leadership.

Enrolled in public schools as a youth, he also learned early to live outside exclusive precincts. This childhood in an egalitarian setting—modulated by the aspiration to excellence modeled by his parents and other forebears—allowed the young Fidel a formative education in democracy.

The early 20th century version of this form of government was experienced everywhere in the Philippines as Peace Time under the American colonial government.

In the countryside, this period was particularly rife with the possibility of studying to be leaders. Pangasinan is among the largest of the Philippine provinces, and since the 19th century has generated substantial wealth from agriculture and agricultural trade to support the educ