Category: Culture

Repeat after me: I am the Philippines and I am home to a dysfunctional society

March 26, 2014March 26, 2014 benign0 37 Comments

I realised the whole problem with the prevailing discourse within the social media space I inhabit: there is too much discussion about politics and not enough about the underlying issue with Philippine society that I have long highlighted is the real deal here — Filipino culture. Fact is, the Philippines is beset by a really…

Crime, Culture, Development, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Much of Philippine history was motivated by Filipinos’ kneejerk butthurt reactions

March 24, 2014March 24, 2014 benign0 24 Comments

I’ve come to realise that much of Philippine history was really all about a monumental effort to counter centuries of butthurt. The Philippine “revolution” of 1898 was an epic reaction to 400 years of butthurt in the hands of Spain. The arbitrary re-defining of the 4th of July, 1946 from “Philippine Independence Day” to “Philippine-American…

Culture, Development, Politics, Society

Why some foreigners would rather go hungry than eat Filipino food

March 22, 2014March 23, 2014 Ilda 82 Comments

I love Filipino food!!! I never get tired of eating adobo. The taste is so primal because I just think it satisfies every human being’s craving for protein and salt – those two key ingredients that help keep our bodies from malfunctioning. For me, Adobo is one of those dishes that make you want to…

Culture, Lifestyle

The Talented Mr. Aquino The Week That Was

March 21, 2014March 22, 2014 Gogs 8 Comments

Tom Ripley: I always thought it would be better, to be a fake somebody… than a real nobody. The Talented Mr Ripley is a movie about a con man played by Matt Damon. All throughout the movie we see Damon’s character convincingly deceive almost every person in his path. Which is something that goes…

Culture, Government

You can’t apply dishonorable Filipino civilian standards to military institutions

March 18, 2014November 13, 2014 FallenAngel 39 Comments

Standards of honor in Filipino civilian society are quite simply, bulok. The only opinion I have had – and will ever have – of Mr. Aldrin Cudia’s case with the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) is this: the only thing known for sure is that the Honor Committee found him guilty of violating the Honor Code….

Crime, Culture, Lifestyle

Why cadet Cudia’s case has played out on social media like an EDSA revolution

March 17, 2014March 18, 2014 FallenAngel 48 Comments

I don’t pretend to know much about the nitty-gritty of military life. In fact, the closest I ever came to experiencing it involved being an officer in the Citizen’s Army Training (CAT) program in high school, and being a normal cadet in the Reserved Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program in college. If anyone cares to…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Media, Society

Why The Words “Filipino” and “Porn” Go Together

March 17, 2014October 10, 2017 P. Farol 6 Comments

This post builds on something I said in a post on my personal online journal, “PPP Is Really Pinoy Poverty Porn” and recent news saying that the National Telecommunications Commission will soon be requiring ISPs to implement carrier grade monitoring programs in compliance with RA 9775 or the Philippine Anti-child pornography law. Formally defined, porn or…

Culture, Economy

Hey GI, ten dollah, love ya long time…

March 17, 2014 Kate Natividad 37 Comments

I read with interest benign0’s recent piece Is the sex trade all Filipinos have to offer to visiting US troops?. It was quite an eye-opener for me. I realize now why this country is screwed. We not only have an inept government, we also have idiots leading the “activist” movements that are supposed to be…

Culture, Politics, Religion