Tag: efficiency

Filipino labor: cheaper and harder-working is no longer the game

June 7, 2011May 1, 2014 benign0 13 Comments

Anyone who has purchased a shirt in a department store in the Philippines has probably observed how each cash register is often manned by anywhere from two to four sales personnel — one to scan the merchandise, another to ring up the purchase on the machine, another to make all sorts of notations on the…

Money Talks

Tagalog vs English? Take the 30-word challenge!

April 1, 2011March 8, 2014 benign0 48 Comments

I’ve always made the assertion that proficiency in the English language is the Filipino’s ticket to success. Being a good English speaker is the key to upward social mobility in Philippine society where a persistent and deeply-ingrained colonial-mentality continues to imprison the Filipino mind. More importantly, the vast majority of information and knowledge critical to…

Culture, Development, Education

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You and the rest of the commenters in this post
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Failippines is collectivist yet it’s still a third world garbage.
Ted Magdalena
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Sorry data, you are propagandized from American feces. We need
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Wrong, collectivism is primitive and obsolete. A person’s personal goals
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That is very American hyper individualistic attitude. It is no
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She’s not required to help Filipinos because she’s a civilian,
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Philippines sucks, so why should we love it. Right now,
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Granting that Joey Uy had citizenship violations and COMELEC is