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To all Lea Salonga bashers: Get Real, the Phlippines did not gain independence in 1898!

Posted on June 15, 2015 By Kate Natividad 72 Comments on To all Lea Salonga bashers: Get Real, the Phlippines did not gain independence in 1898!
To all Lea Salonga bashers: Get Real, the Phlippines did not gain independence in 1898!

So now Lea Salonga is suddenly labelled talangka (crab-like) because of her supposedly anti-Pinoy tweet. The trouble with Filipino international superstar Lea Salonga is that she is tweeting to a bobo audience. She may have millions of followers but that number is more a case of quantity and less of quality. But I don’t really…

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Civics, Culture, Lifestyle, Society

Is ‘love of country’ a concept that is still relevant in the Philippines?

Posted on January 9, 2014January 10, 2014 By benign0 53 Comments on Is ‘love of country’ a concept that is still relevant in the Philippines?
Is ‘love of country’ a concept that is still relevant in the Philippines?

It’s a common mistake to liken the way one feels for or regards a country to the way we feel for or regard an actual person. So when we say we “love” our country, poets will wax lyric about how this “love” is like the love we feel, say, for a parent. In reality, that’s…

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Civics, Government, Society

Loser mentality: Filipinos’ 500-year dependence on foreign investment

Posted on June 13, 2013July 8, 2015 By benign0 10 Comments on Loser mentality: Filipinos’ 500-year dependence on foreign investment
Loser mentality: Filipinos’ 500-year dependence on foreign investment

To understand the fundamental flaw in the idea of the Philippines’ relying on a strategy of counting on “foreign investment” to rescue its people from their own self-created wretchedness, it is important to understand the equally fundamental definition of poverty. Quite simply: Poverty is a habitual entering into commitments one is inherently unable to honour….

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