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Does Get Real Philippines vilify Filipinos and their culture?

Posted on May 30, 2013July 30, 2018 By benign0 20 Comments on Does Get Real Philippines vilify Filipinos and their culture?
Does Get Real Philippines vilify Filipinos and their culture?

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…

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Civics, Culture, Development, Society

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

Posted on May 28, 2013May 28, 2013 By benign0 33 Comments on Loser mentality: Filipinos’ lazy development strategy of attracting foreign investment
Loser mentality: Filipinos’ lazy development strategy of attracting foreign investment

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…

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Development, Economy, Lifestyle

Is it a fact that Filipino souls ‘lead to the gates of heaven’ because Paulo Coelho says so?

Posted on May 26, 2013 By benign0 26 Comments on Is it a fact that Filipino souls ‘lead to the gates of heaven’ because Paulo Coelho says so?
Is it a fact that Filipino souls ‘lead to the gates of heaven’ because Paulo Coelho says so?

Manila residents, reeling from a recent panning of their beloved city by bestselling The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown in his latest book Inferno, have found solace in the words of another bestselling author Paulo Coelho. Coelho came to the defense of Filipinos’ capital city tweeted… Dear filipinos, your souls lead to the gates…

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Culture, Lifestyle, Society

The Impractical Elitism of an Incorrect Perspective on Reform

Posted on May 25, 2013July 1, 2013 By BenK 74 Comments on The Impractical Elitism of an Incorrect Perspective on Reform
The Impractical Elitism of an Incorrect Perspective on Reform

This article is substantially based on an article I originally wrote in November, 2010 entitled “Applying the Right Fix: Charter Change and the Philippine Condition.” While the essential points made in the original article are still valid today, the Philippines is not exactly the same country it was two-and-a-half years ago, for better or worse;…

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Charter Change, Culture, Politics

Why Dan Brown and his description of Manila in ‘Inferno’ is relevant to Filipinos

Posted on May 24, 2013October 18, 2018 By benign0 126 Comments on Why Dan Brown and his description of Manila in ‘Inferno’ is relevant to Filipinos
Why Dan Brown and his description of Manila in ‘Inferno’ is relevant to Filipinos

Since the conclusion of this year’s Fiesta Election, a palpable void has been left. What now? What is the Next Big Issue to pump our fists in the air for? One realises in hindsight how little substance there was in much of the noise and colour that erupted during the campaign leading up to the…

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Culture, Development, Environment, Lifestyle, Society

Parliament and the Philippines: A match made in hell?

Posted on May 23, 2013 By benign0 9 Comments on Parliament and the Philippines: A match made in hell?
Parliament and the Philippines: A match made in hell?

[The following is a copy of an article written by the late great culture-is-culprit champion Teddy Benigno originally published on the excellent Philippine Broadsheet The Philippine Star on the 9th May 2003.] * * * Parliamentary system not for Philippines: The wherefores by Teodoro C. Benigno Philippine Star 09 May 2003 The raging debate in…

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Culture, Development

President Noynoy Aquino may have a good reason for giving a no-go to charter change!

Posted on May 22, 2013 By benign0 45 Comments on President Noynoy Aquino may have a good reason for giving a no-go to charter change!
President Noynoy Aquino may have a good reason for giving a no-go to charter change!

In a pre-emptive strike on the whole discussion around ‘charter change’ that is likely to come up after the opening of the 16th Congress in July, President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III issued his two cents on the matter of foreign ownership of land in the Philippines. “I don’t think they are necessary detriment to…

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Charter Change, Development, Economy

Pinoy Pride Is Never There Where It Really Counts Elections 2013

Posted on May 22, 2013May 15, 2018 By Gogs 8 Comments on Pinoy Pride Is Never There Where It Really Counts Elections 2013
Pinoy Pride Is Never There Where It Really Counts Elections 2013

May 13 2013. I want you all to forever remember that date whenever you get the temptation to beat your chest like King Kong over whatever superficiality captures your nationalistic imagination until the end of time. One reason why 2013 may be an improvement over 2012 is a year ago the nation was “captivated ”…

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Culture, Development, Government, Politics

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