Trinity Bustria on Clubhouse

Bio

I am an 🇺🇸n (“American”) of Asian and European descent currently creating English as a Second Language (ESL) pedagogical materials and advocating for hostages —especially my compatriots—held captive in 🇮🇷 (“Iran”).
Essentially stated, I support regime change—short of military intervention—inside the Islamic Republic of Iran and the majority of Iranians’ right to exercise their popularity sovereignty and eventually chose a new republic or constitutional monarchy for themselves.

At some undetermined point in the future, I intend pursue graduate and doctoral studies in Arabic, Aramaic/Syriac, Hebrew, and cognate languages as an aspiring Semiticist (a scholar of the Semitic people’s history, languages, and cultures) to create ESL pedagogical materials for speakers of living Semitic languages.
Furthermore, I eventually hope to create new cross-Semitc language pedagogies. Plus, I also aspire to assist my fellow Filipinos and Filipino-Americans in restoring our historical use of the Arabic-based Jawi alphabet to write our various Austronesian languages and our unique dialect or register of Spanish to utilize alongside our own pre-Hispanic Baybayin scripts—of course.

My worldview is informed by the “Judeo-Christian” (sic) canon of the Holy Bible as a born again ✝️n (“Christian”) identifying with:
a. the Reformation and post-Reformation’s philo-Semitic Hebraist and Christian Restorationist (i.e., earlier Christian Zionism) traditions
b. (what some now term) “Reformed evangelical catholicism” (sic).
Although I cannot help but just “pontificate” my worldview—especially from my mother’s perspective, I graduated in 2019 from the University of the West, a Buddhist affiliated institution. On the day of my commencement ceremony, I gave a rather secular undergraduate valedictorian commencement address on the necessity of applying a secularized version of the Buddhist doctrine of duhkha for a happier and saner life. My mother was proud, yet my address was absolutely informed by my understanding of Qohelet/Ecclesiastes 2:22-23, unbeknownst to her.