Category: Culture

Filipinos do not know it yet but dynasties may actually be good for the country

November 4, 2012 benign0 57 Comments

It’s been glaringly obvious that the Philippines is a feudal society and has been ruled by dynasties since time immemorial. Dynasties, after all, are essential in a society renowned for its Heritage of Smallness. Nick Joaquin in that seminal essay observed: However far we go back in our history it’s the small we find–the nipa…

Culture, Politics, Society

Filipino pride in the spirit of ‘bayanihan’ invoked in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy

November 2, 2012November 2, 2012 benign0 33 Comments

Filipinos never pass up an opportunity to exhibit their renowned ethnocentrism. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy which devastated much of the eastern seaboard of the United States, there have been many heartening reports of how the level of preparedness and swift action of the US government to mitigate the foreseen effects of the storm…

Culture, Society

Call to action: Sayaw Pinoy, sayaw

October 28, 2012 Kate Natividad 49 Comments

You can easily tell that Filipinos aren’t a very reflective people. Go to any public place — a mall, a department store, a train station — or take a ride in a public utility vehicle like a bus or jeepney and chances are your senses will be assaulted by loud monotonously-throbbing music punctuated by tacky…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media

PNoy’s bum stomach, and feigning illness: ‘Anything Gloria can do, I can do better!’

October 27, 2012August 6, 2013 FallenAngel 94 Comments

A bum stomach. It is indeed unfortunate that President Noynoy Aquino (BS Aquino) fell ill during most recent trip to Australia. It is due to this illness that he had to cut short his attendance to a state banquet hosted by Australian Prime Minister (PM) Julia Gillard. Not that I, or any of BS Aquino’s…

Culture, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics

The Truth Is… The Pinoy Masa Loves Ugly Things and Uncivilized Surroundings

October 26, 2012October 26, 2012 P. Farol 44 Comments

Thinking about how Baguio City was originally planned by Daniel Hudson Burnham and then considering how ugly it looks today has convinced me that although most Filipinos look like they no longer live in the jungle, they still pretty much behave as jungle dwellers. This is pretty much reflected in the way Baguio City or…

Culture

PNoy: ‘I started a joke…’

October 25, 2012August 8, 2013 FallenAngel 84 Comments

I started a joke, which started the whole world crying, but I didn’t see that the joke was on me, oh no. I started to cry, which started the whole world laughing, oh, if I’d only seen that the joke was on me. – “I Started a Joke”, Bee Gees Amidst the gravity of the…

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To all you judgmental Filipinos: prostitutes are people too

October 24, 2012October 24, 2012 Kate Natividad 24 Comments

So what is wrong with prostitution? It is supposedly wrong in the Philippines because the profession has turned its practitioners into some sort of “untouchable” class. Filipinos consider prostitutes to be unclean indecent people who ought to be shunned. As the thinking of the chattering classes goes, prostitution is “dehumanizing” because of this. Thinking lowly…

Culture, Money Talks, Religion, Society

And They Call It Puppy Love

October 22, 2012October 22, 2012 Gogs 37 Comments

“The sun in your Eyes Made some of the lies worth believing” Â Eye In The SkyÂ The Alan Parsons Project. What’s the difference between William Esposo of the Philippine StarÂ writing about Noynoy Aquino and aÂ 13 year old girl at a Justin Beiber concert.Â One is a high pitched…

Culture, Government, Media, Politics

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