Category: Culture

Leadership, Filipino style: “You mean there actually is opposition?”

June 6, 2013 FallenAngel 11 Comments

What I think is recommended reading for aspiring leaders is leadership guru John Maxwell’s 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. It is a set of guiding principles for leaders, tested and refined through Mr. Maxwell’s own experience. Included among the laws is the Law of Empowerment: Only secure leaders give power to others. In other words,…

Culture

Is Philippine Standard Time truly the solution to Filipino Time?

June 5, 2013 FallenAngel 9 Comments

Is it supposed to be surprising that apart from a few reports on both GMA, ABS-CBN, and the Philippine Daily Inquirer, there isn’t much discussion going around about the newly signed Republic Act (RA) 10535? RA 10535 is described as, “an act to set the Philippine Standard Time (PST) in all official sources throughout the…

Culture, Lifestyle, Society

Cebu Pacific flight 5J-971 aftermath – business as usual in Mediocrestan?

June 4, 2013June 4, 2013 FallenAngel 6 Comments

The latest buzz making the rounds among the chattering classes is the mishap involving Cebu Pacific flight 5J-971, how it overshot the runway, and the appalling reaction and handling of the situation by Cebu Pacific crew. In fact, it has even gone so far that Ateneo De Davao University (ADDU) president Joel Tabora has called…

Culture, Society

What Filipinos will likely fail to learn from Cebu Pacific Flight 5J-971 to Davao

June 4, 2013June 4, 2013 benign0 19 Comments

Following a mishap involving Cebu Pacific Flight 5J-971 overshooting the runway while landing at Davao City airport last Sunday, passengeres were reportedly critical of the way pilots and cabin crew responded to the emergency in the crucial minutes following the mishap. According to passengers, the pilots and crew were unhelpful in the face of “fright…

Culture, Society

The Filipino Sense of Shame: Misguided and Misplaced

June 3, 2013 ChinoF 63 Comments

What I have noticed about ordinary Filipinos is that they seem heavily motivated to avoid shame in their actions. Filipinos seem more afraid of embarrassment than failure. If they are afraid of failure, such as failure of their movement or ideas becoming popular and accepted, it is because they fear the embarrassment they assume it…

Culture

Philippine Sales Attendants: A Lack of Training and Trying

June 2, 2013October 6, 2014 expatinthephilippines 80 Comments

I should say at the start that I am an American living in the Philippines for eight years now and coming here on and off for 30 years. While I love the Philippines in so many ways, I also detest this Country with issues mostly having to do with many of its cultural traits (thanks…

Culture

Does Get Real Philippines vilify Filipinos and their culture?

May 30, 2013July 30, 2018 benign0 20 Comments

This has remained the single most consistent question directed at the owners and contributors to GetRealPhilippines.com and its network of affiliated sites (which we shall, for the sake of efficiency, henceforth in this article simply refer to as “GRP”). This has always been a topic embraced by GRP and we will, for the umpteenth time…

Civics, Culture, Development, Society

Is it a fact that Filipino souls ‘lead to the gates of heaven’ because Paulo Coelho says so?

May 26, 2013 benign0 26 Comments

Manila residents, reeling from a recent panning of their beloved city by bestselling The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown in his latest book Inferno, have found solace in the words of another bestselling author Paulo Coelho. Coelho came to the defense of Filipinos’ capital city tweeted… Dear filipinos, your souls lead to the gates…

Culture, Lifestyle, Society