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A new and deeper-affecting REVOLUTION is happening in the Philippines!

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A new and deeper-affecting REVOLUTION is happening in the Philippines!

A revolution of a different sort is at hand in the Philippines and it has the potential to effect the truly profound sort of change that is long overdue. The recent successful clean-up of Boracay and Manila Bay has created a new collective consciousness in the Filipino — one that has eluded an entire people…

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Civics, Culture, Society

Mandatory military training in Ph schools needed to toughen up ‘temperamental’ millennials

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Mandatory military training in Ph schools needed to toughen up ‘temperamental’ millennials

I had an epiphany today. I found out that ROTC (a.k.a. Citizen’s Military Training or CMT or Citizen’s Army Training or CAT) hasn’t been mandatory in Philippine schools since 2001. And so I thought, holy shit, that explains a lot about the quality of Filipino “millennials” today! I realise now that mixed into the cocktail…

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Education, Featured, Society