Category: Culture

Hospitality and Hospital Industries: Pillars of Philippine Economic Growth

May 31, 2022 zaxx 10 Comments

Entertaining tourists and guests, and making them feel welcome and at-home make up a crucial pillar of the Philippine economy. Our national-pastime-turned-industry of singing, dancing, cracking jokes, and playing basketball provides our valued international and local visitors a good time to sit back and relax over San Miguel light and chicharon bulaklak pulutan while the…

Culture, Development, Economy, Society

What to do now with all those People Power memorial relics and other Yellowtard statues and monuments

May 18, 2022May 18, 2022 benign0 109 Comments

What does one do with all those statues of Ninoy Aquino and Cory Aquino littering the Philippines? What is the plan for all these buildings and spaces appropriated to the commemoration of Yellowtard “heroes” and their “glorious” stories? These are now all but quaint legacies of an era that ended this year — one that…

Culture, Politics, Society

Modern Culture vs. Traditional culture: Why I choose the former

May 18, 2022May 19, 2022 ChinoF 16 Comments

In a previous article, I mentioned a 1990s or early 2000s cable TV advertisement which showed people of different cultures later morphing into people in black modern suits. The narrator was saying that diversity and culture are in danger because of modernization by globalization. I’m still looking for this ad, but I also still disagree…

Culture, Economy

Tie a Yellow Ribbon on the Ball and Chain in the Old Oak Tree

May 10, 2022 Moduli 2 Comments

I’m comin’ home, I’ve done my time Now I’ve got to know what is and isn’t mine…” The people has spoken and punctuated it with rage that drove the final nails to the coffin of the Yellowtards’ political dreams. A seething anger to be exact. It has been the goal of the Yellows-turned-Pink for six…

Culture, History, Politics

Movie Reaction: Silverton Siege

May 8, 2022 ChinoF 2 Comments

I watched Silverton Siege along with my sister’s partner on our dining area TV while they were waiting to get home one night. The movie was an interesting embellished telling of the 1980 incident in Silverton, Pretoria, South Africa, that is credited to have started the movement to have anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela Freed from…

Culture, Film Review, Society

More Misconceptions borne from a narrow Anti-Marcos Mindset

May 4, 2022May 4, 2022 ChinoF 261 Comments

I’ll continue debunking myths that I believe are held under the Anti-Marcos mindset. Such myths led Anti-Marcos people to use a black-and-white approach, that the way to keep Bongbong Marcos from being elected is choosing the perceived polar opposite and desperately pushing this figure’s numbers up to the point of using the George Bush “if…

Culture, Politics

Jillian Robredo’s encounter with an Igorot (reportedly) in Baguio City is a cautionary tale on elitist politics

April 27, 2022April 27, 2022 benign0 48 Comments

The words “let me educate you” may not have explicitly been uttered by “vice presidential” daughter (and confirmed woman) Jillian Robredo. However they may as well have. Robredo can be seen strutting around the Baguio City Market surrounded by an enormous entourage the members of which snapped photos at every opportunity as she stopped and…

Culture, Politics

Myths about Leadership and Personality in the Robredo-Marcos Rivalry

April 10, 2022April 10, 2022 ChinoF 30 Comments

It seems that some anti-Marcos people are so desperate to keep Bongbong Marcos out of Malacanang that they are willing to cling to anything that gives them a ray of hope, even if that ray of hope is based on flawed logic. They claim that Leni Robredo is the cleanest politician around and support her…

Culture, Politics