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Black skin is beautiful too according to Pinoy Big Brother star Bianca Gonzalez

May 6, 2023 benign0 1 Comment

As of yesterday, the 5th of May 2023, the COVID-19 pandemic is officially over — or so repeatedly declares the World Health Organisation. News outlets over the last 24 hours echoed the words of W.H.O. director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who announced “It is with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as a global…

Business, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

What’s the difference between a person who wants to change sex and a person who wants to change skin colour?

April 15, 2019 benign0 4 Comments

Practically all the issues that contribute to the intractable weakness of the Philippine nation are not one-administration outcomes. They all date back in one form or another to inherent qualities of Philippine society that evolved over several centuries. Indeed, it so happens that the circus of the moment — the brouhaha surrounding an ad by…

Culture, Politics, Society

Filipinos Who Changed Citizenship Still Have a Say on their Homeland

May 28, 2016December 11, 2016 ChinoF 39 Comments

The OFW phenomenon has yielded some complicated situations. For example, there are Filipinos who have renounced their citizenship and become citizens of other countries. Yet they share some views and criticisms about their home countries. Other Filipinos brand them as traitors, because they have left their country for a better life and supposedly abandoning their…

Society

Bianca Gonzalez-Intal shines bright against critics of her and her daughter’s skin color!

April 28, 2016 FallenAngel 11 Comments

Whenever I and one particular friend of mine meet, the discussion inevitably drifts to show business, local or foreign. Though I do not follow it obsessively like she does, I guess the silver lining in it is that it rounds out whatever other types of news and developments that I follow. Besides, show business and…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

Growing Filipino cottage industry attracts lonely First World ‘sugardaddies’

January 14, 2016 benign0 19 Comments

In the affluent West, ageing is a lonely affair. Many elderly people in the First World live alone in houses and apartments. In a lot of cases the road ultimately leads to an aged care facility — the final departure lounge from this world, so to speak. Even as better medical technology makes death increasingly…

Culture, Lifestyle

The Filipino Thirst for Foreign Blood

December 24, 2015 zaxx 111 Comments

Like some traumatic childhood memory that couldn’t be shaken off, colonial mentality still remains deeply lodged within the Filipino psyche despite decades of independence from his tall light-skinned masters. There’s no denying it: the Filipino’s awe over anything foreign still lies ingrained within his/her genes. Digging deeper, is there really a valid ground for this…

Culture, Society

Our Obsession With European Beauty

December 22, 2015December 22, 2015 Grimwald 19 Comments

So, it seems a lot of you reacted negatively to my previous article about the Ms. Universe pageant. If that’s the case, good. As I’ve said in a lot of my previous articles, I’m not here to coddle you. As I once said under a different name: “I came that you may know pain and have it in…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Racism in the Philippines

May 13, 2015 Grimwald 34 Comments

For those few keeping up with my Deep series, please don’t worry, I’m working on Chapter 5 as I write this. However, I’m afraid this issue to be discussed can’t wait because of its utmost importance. I’m afraid that, all things considered, this is a topic that needs to be heard by all Filipinos because of how…

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