Category: Culture

Should Proper Parenting, Spending, and Scheduling Be Taught in Philippine Schools?

March 18, 2016 zaxx 62 Comments

It’s amazing how the dysfunctional mindset of Filipinos permeates the entire society, and that it’s not just the monopoly of the poor and uneducated. You will encounter a supposedly professional licensed civil engineer making excuses for being late in his building project because they have a barrio fiesta, or a supposedly U.P. graduate squandering a…

Culture, Education, Society

Ill-mannered UPLB student cops online abuse from balasubas Durterte supporters!

March 15, 2016March 15, 2016 benign0 25 Comments

Again another outrage fad is erupting and this time it centres around a student of the University of the Philippines Los Banos campus (UPLB) confronting presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte with some pointed questions recently. The media drama which climaxed with a spate of online bullying this student copped from furious Duterte supporters and the spectacular…

Culture, Education, Media, Politics, Society, The South

On Exclusivity, Discrimination And The Divisive Nature Of Pinoy Culture

March 11, 2016 Grimwald 22 Comments

“They’re not like you, why do you still hang out with them?” This was a question directed at me by a vendor near the entrance of our school when I was hanging out with the “special needs” students who wanted to talk to me about aliens and UFOs. These “special needs” students were deaf-mutes and, while they could…

Culture, Media, Society

5 Ways The Local Media Is Destroying The Philippines

March 11, 2016 Grimwald 33 Comments

“When will you ever stop attacking the media?” “What did the local media ever do to you?” “Don’t be such a killjoy!” “You’re just jealous and bitter!” “Why can’t you just let people be happy?” I’m pretty sure that a lot of you will be saying these exact same words after you finish reading this…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media

How Filipinos can stop being Martial Law ‘victims’

March 11, 2016 benign0 13 Comments

There is a saying: Success is the best revenge. When someone wrongs you, you could either choose to be a victim or go on to be successful. Not the Philippines. It seems the Philippines chooses to remain a victim of “the Martial Law regime” of the late former President Ferdinand Marcos. Indeed, the theme of…

Culture, Development, Society

Noynoy, Jojo, Bongbong: Presidents with Clown-like Names are Getting Trendy

March 8, 2016 zaxx 17 Comments

For the first time in Philippine history, we have the strong likelihood of having three presidents in a row (Noynoy Aquino, Jojo Binay, and Bongbong Marcos) that bear something similar. They all have repetitive nicknames that sound more like those of clowns than the stuff of legendary statesmen. Many foreign visitors are actually surprised to…

Culture, Politics, Society

The ivory tower that is the Ateneo de Manila University

March 7, 2016 benign0 105 Comments

It’s nothing short of a memetic explosion. Get Real Post articles that dissected and, in the process, eviscerated the ill-conceived conceptual foundation of a statement released by the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) faculty, denouncing Martial Law “historical revisionism” and baldly accusing Philippine senator and vice presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos of “brutality” have strongly-resonated amongst…

Culture, Education, Society

Martial Law Fixation Distracts us from the Real Issues

March 7, 2016March 7, 2016 ChinoF 39 Comments

Recently, Martial Law became the topic because of my alma mater, Ateneo, coming out with a statement claiming that vice-presidentiable Bongbong Marcos is revising history. My question is, what historical revisionism is being done? All Marcos said in effect is, let people decide for themselves what they want to believe. There’s no revisionism in that….

Culture, Politics

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