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What Filipinos will likely fail to learn from Cebu Pacific Flight 5J-971 to Davao

June 4, 2013June 4, 2013 benign0 19 Comments

Following a mishap involving Cebu Pacific Flight 5J-971 overshooting the runway while landing at Davao City airport last Sunday, passengeres were reportedly critical of the way pilots and cabin crew responded to the emergency in the crucial minutes following the mishap. According to passengers, the pilots and crew were unhelpful in the face of “fright…

Culture, Society

First Quarter 7.8% annual growth in Ph economy: The Bottom Line

June 3, 2013 benign0 4 Comments

Reports of economic growth in the Philippines as measured by its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reaching an annualised 7.8 percent in the first quarter of the year is sending waves of optimism rippling across Philippine society. One of the centrepieces of the newly-booming economy put up by recent reports on this economic phenomenon such as…

Economy, Money Talks

The Filipino Sense of Shame: Misguided and Misplaced

June 3, 2013 ChinoF 63 Comments

What I have noticed about ordinary Filipinos is that they seem heavily motivated to avoid shame in their actions. Filipinos seem more afraid of embarrassment than failure. If they are afraid of failure, such as failure of their movement or ideas becoming popular and accepted, it is because they fear the embarrassment they assume it…

Culture

Charice Pempengco: Tomboy, lesbian, or both?

June 2, 2013 Kate Natividad 25 Comments

So it turns out former Glee star Charice Pempengco is gay — a lesbian. That didn’t come as much of a surprise considering she had lesbian written all over the “new look” she came out with last April. Then again does sporting the “butch” look necessarily preclude a woman being straight? Here’s the thing though:…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

Philippine Sales Attendants: A Lack of Training and Trying

June 2, 2013October 6, 2014 expatinthephilippines 80 Comments

I should say at the start that I am an American living in the Philippines for eight years now and coming here on and off for 30 years. While I love the Philippines in so many ways, I also detest this Country with issues mostly having to do with many of its cultural traits (thanks…

Culture

Political, economic reform: Best left to the grown-ups

June 1, 2013 BenK 10 Comments

(From The Manila Times, Saturday, June 1. Apparently, the link to this article has been giving some readers a bit of trouble, which is probably attributable to the Times’ website upgrade being only a couple days old. Please bear with us.) While President Aquino and the presumptive new Senate President Franklin Drilon have both expressed…

Charter Change, Government

Does Get Real Philippines vilify Filipinos and their culture?

May 30, 2013July 30, 2018 benign0 20 Comments

This has remained the single most consistent question directed at the owners and contributors to GetRealPhilippines.com and its network of affiliated sites (which we shall, for the sake of efficiency, henceforth in this article simply refer to as “GRP”). This has always been a topic embraced by GRP and we will, for the umpteenth time…

Civics, Culture, Development, Society

Loser mentality: Filipinos’ lazy development strategy of attracting foreign investment

May 28, 2013May 28, 2013 benign0 33 Comments

The title of today’s Inquirer.net editorial Excess money says it all. There is enough money swirling around in the domestic economy to fund significant capital expansion. Big Philippine banks manage a big chunk of these funds. Trouble is, as the Inquirer editor observes, “banks choose to park these funds at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas…

Development, Economy, Lifestyle