Tag: national identity

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

The Self-Defeating Principles Of The Philippines

January 21, 2015 Grimwald 66 Comments

I had written a rather harsh article here in GRP about the immaturity of many Filipinos and Filipino society in general. Indeed, I must agree with a few commenters that the article was rather extreme because it openly criticized the inherent issues of the Philippines. However, while I do admit that the article must have felt like…

Culture, Lifestyle, Society

3 ways a lack of ethical citizenship serves as a serious roadblock to Philippine progress

December 3, 2014December 3, 2014 benign0 13 Comments

The trouble with Filipinos is that they don’t see any meaning in their lives that is bigger than themselves. At best there is, like most warm-blooded mammals with bulges in their heads wider than their brainstems, that instinctive altruism for his own immediate family. But even that one is often brought to question on account…

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Is the Philippines of any value to the rest of the world?

November 27, 2014November 27, 2014 Kate Natividad 61 Comments

Imagine for a moment that the Philippines was suddenly swallowed up by the seas leaving no trace of it, its culture, and its people. Then ask yourself this question: Will the rest of the world miss the Philippines? What a confronting question, right?! It may be true, of course, that the Philippines is a source…

Culture, Lifestyle, Religion, Society

Kudos to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for FINALLY junking Tagalog!

June 18, 2014July 31, 2022 benign0 46 Comments

Long overdue! The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) memo directing the removal of Tagalog (a.k.a. “Filipino”) as a mandatory subject in the Philippines’ General Education Curriculum (GEC) effectively frees millions of Filipinos from wasting time on a dead-end field of learning. On implementation of the directive, the subject will be relegated to Grades 11 and…

Culture, Education

Why Colonial Mentality is a Bogeyman

April 24, 2014September 20, 2015 ChinoF 29 Comments

I once blogged about colonial mentality, stating that seeing it as a problem is a myth. After more thought and encountering further opinions on the subject, I still think it is a myth – a dangerous one. A bogeyman, an imaginary monster in the closet. I’ve seen so many discussions where others fiercely blame it…

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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…

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