Category: Culture

Filipinos – is there a link between being emotional and being ‘free’?

November 23, 2012August 8, 2013 FallenAngel 18 Comments

Fellow GRP writer Ilda nailed it quite succinctly: Filipinos are overly emotional. Emotions are known to drive people to do irrational things, and Filipinos are no exception to this rule. Whenever people let their emotions guide their decision-making, they display a lack of ability to think things through logically. On the other hand, Filipinos pride…

Culture, Society

This Thanksgiving Day, let’s be thankful for Uncle Sam’s continued warm military embrace

November 22, 2012November 22, 2012 benign0 15 Comments

To the compelling arguments for the welcoming back of American GIs back to the Philippine Islands, the usual suspects can only hark back to the “bad” old days of boom boom town Olongapo City for a counterargument. Never mind the simple truth that Filipinas flocking to GIs in droves merely highlights the dismal failure of…

Culture, Development, Lifestyle, Politics

Filipinos are too emotional for their own good

November 22, 2012February 6, 2020 Ilda 142 Comments

Another global survey has confirmed what some of us have been suspecting all along: Filipinos are a very emotional people. American pollster company Gallup conducted a survey covering over 140 countries to compare how people feel about their lives and the Philippines came up as the most emotional of the lot. As usual, some Filipinos…

Culture, Society

Kristin Stewart and Robert Pattinson reunited: will it last?

November 20, 2012 Kate Natividad 2 Comments

So what’s everybody’s verdict on the reuniting of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart? Is it even possible to continue having a relationship with someone who cheated on you? Perhaps money talks. Their new movie The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II, the last in the series of ‘Twilight’ vampire movies is a hit. Romance needs…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour

Filipino viral videos: mere modern symptoms of a very old cultural dysfunction

November 19, 2012 benign0 32 Comments

As my colleague Ilda pointed out, Filipinos seem to be averse to speaking out. This may seem to be a counterintuitive assertion to make, given how Filipinos pride themselves with a tradition of flamboyant political activism, tacky spectacle in the way they practice freedom of speech in their mass media, and voluminous undifferentiated chatter in…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Lifestyle, Media

Filipinos who cyber-bullied #Amalayer girl showed worse behaviour than her

November 17, 2012November 17, 2012 Ilda 240 Comments

So I finally saw the â€œAmalayerâ€ video posted on YouTube and I just had to ask myself, what the heck was the big deal? Why did this video go viral? Itâ€™s not even funny and thereâ€™s no way to tell why the girl, Paula Jamie Salvosa went ballistic towards the security guard at the LRT…

Civics, Culture, Education, Lifestyle, Media

How the Philippines’ outsourcing industries can benefit from Paula Jamie Salvosa and Christopher Lao

November 16, 2012 benign0 36 Comments

Following another viral video circus, this time involving Ms Paula Jamie ‘Amalayer’ Salvosa, we find an emerging pattern in the sorts of “scandals” that Filipinos tend to salivate over. A common denominator underlying these is a perverse fascination with the hilarious gaffes Filipinos routinely deliver in their on-going clumsy effort to use the language of…

Culture, Development, Education, Society

Multiply Is Being Subtracted

November 16, 2012November 16, 2012 Gogs No Comments

“Disc Six A dance remix, so I can catch the latest trend and it’ll make you scratch your head and wonder where my taste went. So now my fans are crying sellout, they say that I’ve lost my touch. They say I should just get the hell out before I do too much.” The…

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