Category: Culture

What Aldub got right (and wrong) about courtship, love and romance

October 11, 2015October 11, 2015 Ilda 25 Comments

You probably have been living under a rock if you haven’t heard of Philippine television’s current most popular characters from the noontime show Eat Bulaga, Alden Richards and Yaya Dub (Maine Mendoza in real life), better known by the portmanteau ‘Aldub’. It’s very hard to ignore the buzz surrounding the celebrity “couple” Aldub particularly since…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Filipino Misconceptions of Sacrifice

October 10, 2015October 10, 2015 ChinoF 31 Comments

It’s timely that Benign0 had come out with an article that discusses the twisting of the concept of sacrifice by Filipino culture. Indeed, it is twisted when one says they have made a “sacrifice,” when it is actually anything but that. I remember a commenter named Palebluedot once said: “I still blame the Catholic Church…

Culture

What Filipinos need to be told about life away from the Philippines

October 9, 2015October 9, 2015 benign0 40 Comments

There’s nothing more pathetic than a voluntary immigrant constantly pining about her emotional attachment to her homeland. Yeah, I’m talking about you Shakira Sison and the emotional diarrhoea that is your Rappler article, What they don’t tell you when you leave the Philippines. If you are going to spend an entire lifetime suffering from acute…

Culture, Lifestyle, Society

Daang Matuwid: A Legacy Of Perversion

October 8, 2015 Grimwald 16 Comments

To be honest, I planned on simply chilling out for this week. After my rampage in the previous few weeks, I considered taking a short break from all the troubles of the country and the rest of the world and just spend some quality time with myself, my family and my friends. Heck, I even…

Culture, Government, Media, Politics, Religion, Society, The South

The growing void in the Filipino psyche where substance could have thrived

October 7, 2015 Add 38 Comments

“The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.” — The History of Freedom in Antiquity, 1877 THE TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY Alexis de Tocqueville coined the term: “tyranny of the majority”, and Lord Acton,…

Civics, Culture, Development, Education, Government, Politics, Society

Necropolitics: How Filipinos suffer from a bad case of Jesus Issues

October 6, 2015 benign0 36 Comments

When will Filipinos stop being such pussies about their future? At the moment, they are in the midst of a frenzy to nominate people who are all about the past and offer nothing to the future. As if it weren’t enough that Filipinos find some sort of perverse comfort in dwelling in the past, they…

Culture, Politics, Religion

An Uncommon Filipino Man

October 6, 2015October 6, 2015 P. Farol 15 Comments

If we want the country to change, we have to change how we think and in doing so, change how we are living out our lives. While I was searching for some inspiration for a much longer article, I came across a video of Les Brown and at the ten minute mark, I heard the most…

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Culture

Should Filipinos Go Back to Pursuing Excellence in English?

October 3, 2015 zaxx 276 Comments

Through the years, I have witnessed the steady decline of Filipinos in about almost everything they used to be good at, and one area is in their command of the English language. While neighboring countries like Korea and Japan have only recently realized the great value of this de-facto language of choice in today’s highly…

Culture, Development, Education

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