Category: Society

In Celebration of the Human Worth: In Defense of the Physically-Handicapped

July 9, 2013July 9, 2013 Jose Mario de Vega 6 Comments

Every 3rd of December, The United Nations observes the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. According to their Enable website: The annual observance of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December was established by the International Year for Disabled Persons (1981). The Day aims to promote a better understanding of disability issues with a…

Civics, Society

Filipinos need to stop whining about their pride…

July 4, 2013July 5, 2013 FallenAngel 26 Comments

Instead, they need to step up and substantiate such pride with actual accomplishments that collectively, they can be proud of. The Pinoy Pridists, as fellow GRP author ChinoF likes to call them, descended en masse upon his article “Why Pinoy Pride will never save the Philippines”. The nature of commentary left there brought to light…

Culture, Society

Fil-Am cling-ons descend upon ‘Fil-Am’ judge Lorna Schofield

June 30, 2013June 30, 2013 benign0 117 Comments

Funny how Filipino-Americans celebrated the “first Filipino American federal judge in U.S. history.” This is a woman who, by all intents and purposes, had grown up an American. As she had emphasized in her reportedly “unambiguous narrative”, Schofield insists that she “was an American Baby.” Schofield conceded being raised an all-American girl. No speaking Tagalog…

Culture, Society

P and F defect: Changing the official name from ‘Pilipinas’ to ‘Filipinas’

June 30, 2013 benign0 22 Comments

I’d think twice about changing the “official name” of the Philippines to “Filipinas”. Try doing an image search on the word “Filipinas” in Google and you will find what the term generally connotes. Not very flattering, to say the least. Certainly the results of that Google image search will not be consistent with the goals…

Culture, Education, Lifestyle, Society

United States Supreme Court rulings pave the way for expanded same-sex partnership rights!

June 27, 2013September 3, 2013 FallenAngel 16 Comments

In the first of two moves widely considered to be landmark decisions towards the advancement of same-sex marriage and civil liberties for gay people, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has just recently ruled against Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) of 1996. This section defines marriage as fundamentally between…

Culture, Government, Lifestyle, Politics, Religion, Society

Bullies, traitors and Philippine President Noynoy Aquino

June 25, 2013June 25, 2013 Ilda 70 Comments

It has been said that all that is needed for evil to flourish is for people of good will to do nothing. Indeed, for every handful of cruel people in the world, it seems there are millions more who would do nothing to stop cruelty from being carried out against vulnerable people. The mentality of…

Society

Did you root for the Miami Heat’s opponent? Hater!

June 25, 2013June 25, 2013 FallenAngel 20 Comments

As GRP colleague ChinoF has pointed out, as long as someone who wins any international competition possesses even a tinge of Filipino blood, despite not even growing up here or honing his/her talents here, then Filipinos will, predictably, latch on to that person’s success and claim it as a victory of the Filipinos as a…

Culture, Politics, Society

The key to true Philippine Independence does not lie in Philippine Media products

June 12, 2013May 7, 2019 benign0 8 Comments

As expected, Philippine Media is breaking out all the colours to mark the day: lots of red white and blue, the yellow sun and three stars, poetry waxed about Jose Rizal and Andres Bonifacio — the works. Fiesta Independence Day! Check it out: this extravaganza of nationalist sentiment candy is emanating from an institution —…

Civics, Culture, Media, Society