Tag: heritage of smallness

Jeepney “modernisation” (or stopping it) is Filipinos’ top New Year’s resolution

December 30, 2023 benign0 60 Comments

Filipinos are ending the year — and starting a new one (duh!) — debating over a really big issue: jeepneys. What else, right? The jeepney after all is the quintessential Pinoy cultural icon. Why shouldn’t it be? It’s a perverted version of one of America’s greatest engineering achievements. Owing to their world-renowned Reverse Midas Touch…

Culture

Tagalog is a mere dialect

March 12, 2023 benign0 36 Comments

The Tagalog dialect is the pale basis for “Filipino” which is a variant of it Filipinos were led to believe is their “national language”. This is why Manila — which started as a Tagalog settlement that was turned into a colonial outpost by the Spaniards — is referred to as “Imperial Manila”. That’s because non-Tagalogs…

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Culture, Education, Society

The word “charot” reflects Philippine society’s cowardly COP-OUT culture

October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 benign0 4 Comments

Why say something if you don’t intend to mean it? That, in essence, is the dishonest underpinnings of Charot Culture. The word charot in normalspeak is “joke only”. Filipinos who say something tongue-in-cheek, sarcastically, or to convey a sense of irony often have to resort to appending their statement with either one or even both…

Culture, Education

Duterte possesses that much-needed “MURDERER mentality” to lead the Philippines to GREATNESS

July 30, 2018 benign0 8 Comments

To be fair to the Philippine Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards), a strategic vision for the Philippines hinged on building infrastructure is counterintuitive to the average Filipino mind. This is because Filipinos do not have a strong historic tradition of building stuff. Indeed, much of the really large historical civil works…

Development, Society

Anti-Marcos movements highlight a lack of national vision for the Philippines

February 6, 2016 benign0 25 Comments

We hear a lot about clamours to block the candidacy of vice presidential candidate Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr coming from the alleged ‘victims’ of the rule of his father, the late former President Ferdinand E Marcos. The most recent is one reportedly organised by “a coalition of martial law victims” calling their movement the ‘Campaign…

Politics, Society

Do Filipino immigrants really contribute to the greatness of the United States and other countries?

June 9, 2015 benign0 94 Comments

Many Filipino-Americans claim that they are part of the great immigrant movement that contributed mightily to building the great nation that the United States is today. The claim is based on the notion that America is “a country of immigrants” — that its motto was once a call to the world to… Give me your…

Civics, Culture, Development, Lifestyle, Society

Perhaps it is time the Philippines balkanize

June 4, 2015June 4, 2015 FallenAngel 16 Comments

We have long held on to the notion that the Philippines is actually a nation in the modern sense. On the surface, it does seem that way. If one looks hard and deeply enough, however, one can see the Philippines for what it truly is: a patchwork, broken glass, glued together puzzle made up of…

Development, Government, Politics, Society

The #Philippines is guilty of the Mahatma Gandhi’s Seven Social Sins!

April 16, 2015January 6, 2023 benign0 8 Comments

The Mahatma Gandhi’s Seven Social Sins, sometimes called the Seven Blunders of the World, is a list that he published in his weekly newspaper Young India on October 22, 1925. Later he gave this same list to his grandson, Arun Gandhi, written on a piece of paper on their final day together shortly before his…

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