Category: Culture

Filipinos’ misguided sense of patriotism is tearing the nation apart

January 15, 2016January 15, 2016 Ilda 29 Comments

The disqualification cases against Senator Grace Poe’s candidacy for the Presidency in the upcoming election due to her questionable citizenship status has caused quite a stir in Philippine society. It has divided the sentiments of the Filipino people. While she has many supporters, there are people who call her a traitor supposedly because she abandoned…

Civics, Culture, Politics, Society

Growing Filipino cottage industry attracts lonely First World ‘sugardaddies’

January 14, 2016 benign0 19 Comments

In the affluent West, ageing is a lonely affair. Many elderly people in the First World live alone in houses and apartments. In a lot of cases the road ultimately leads to an aged care facility — the final departure lounge from this world, so to speak. Even as better medical technology makes death increasingly…

Culture, Lifestyle

3 Ways Philippine Society Today Is Abusive To Children

January 13, 2016January 13, 2016 Grimwald 36 Comments

From these articles, it can be surmised that majority of Filipino society seems to treat its children quite poorly. Contrary to being “child-friendly”, it seems that our apparent “wholesomeness” is just a front for more disturbing aspects of our society. Of course, I know that there will be those out there who will once again…

Culture, Education, Society

The Philippines is centre of a billion-dollar global sex industry involving children

January 13, 2016December 9, 2021 benign0 17 Comments

A foreign journalist working with Philippine police and an American non-government organisation (NGO) has exposed more of the under-reported underworld of the Philippines’ underage sex industry. A Daily Mail UK report detailed the undercover investigative journalism of Peter Bridge (not his real name), a Belgian national. The investigation focused on illegal brothels and cybersex dens…

Crime, Culture, Media, Society

Will handing out free condoms to Filipinos really solve the Philippines’ population problem?

January 12, 2016 benign0 28 Comments

Why do Filipinos need to be handed out free condoms? Why can’t Pinoy men just buy them like any other red-blooded guy who works for a living? At about five to ten pesos per piece (or 15 up to 45 pesos a pack), condoms cost far less per bang (pun intended) than a baby. Simple…

Culture, Development, Government

The Problem With Pinoy Religiosity

January 10, 2016 Grimwald 20 Comments

To be honest, I was just going to make this a comment to Midway Haven’s latest article about spirituality in the Philippines. However, I decided to make it a full-on article because I have points to share that really need to be addressed to our society. The thing is, while I myself hold religious beliefs…

Culture, Religion, Society

Filipino Spirituality Needs To Evolve

January 10, 2016January 10, 2016 MidwayHaven 19 Comments

When the hundreds of thousands of devotees of the Black Nazarene of Quiapo have long since finished their often dangerous and fatal attempt to touch their icon, one could ask the question: why have the individual spiritual transformations that have taken place in this mass devotion not translated in the collective transformation of Filipino spirituality as…

Culture, Religion

Filipinos Want Snow

January 9, 2016 zaxx 54 Comments

Another Christmas has just passed, and here we go again on another cycle of facing a new year which will later build up in excitement and anticipation on the supposedly colder “ber” months leading towards that long awaited Christmas Eve. To many who have lived in a land where the closest thing to winter is…