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

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

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…

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Culture, Education, Society

Is Philippine Standard Time truly the solution to Filipino Time?

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Is Philippine Standard Time truly the solution to Filipino Time?

Is it supposed to be surprising that apart from a few reports on both GMA, ABS-CBN, and the Philippine Daily Inquirer, there isn’t much discussion going around about the newly signed Republic Act (RA) 10535? RA 10535 is described as, “an act to set the Philippine Standard Time (PST) in all official sources throughout the…

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Culture, Lifestyle, Society

Why Filipino tourists are most likely to get bad reputations abroad

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Why Filipino tourists are most likely to get bad reputations abroad

We often harp on and on about Filipinos and the things they do and do not do in their own country. We also contrast this to Filipinos abroad, and how strikingly meek, compliant, and law-abiding most of them suddenly become when they live or work in foreign lands. Somewhere in between these two groups, is…

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Three fundamental roadblocks to improving Philippine public transport

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Three fundamental roadblocks to improving Philippine public transport

Solving the mass transport problem of large Philippine cities is one of those hard problems. Much of its hardness is accounted for by that inescapable fundamental nature of the poverty that defines the Filipino’s very existence — the Filipino’s habit of entering into commitments that they are inherently incapable of honouring. Such commitments are almost…

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