DEDMA - dead malice by any other game. Hold back justified emotion with dignified cool. Dedma: Polite defiant pride, I have overcome, you will not break my spirit, triumphant contained anger, you can Rizal me but you can’t defeat me, with all your power - even then I will not crack, my mind is my muscle, I will bow down as a sign that I have not, iron will will see me through. And yet Dedma has another aspect - equivalent to the Dharma of the Hindus, Fas of the Romans and the emerging new dedma of the Filipino.