Showbiz Kilig: What Intelligent People Don’t Have
The recent wedding of celebrities Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes was a topic of the town, especially with how roads were blocked off to “exclusivize” traffic routes for guests, and …
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Why “Simple People” Photo-Ops Reflect a Problem in our Society
The latest “viral” photo of a politician being portrayed as “simple” and doing something “out of the usual” is of widow and congresswoman Leni Robredo of Camarines Sur. The photo …
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Does the Aquino admin support wrong notions of Pinoy Pride?
Back when I first hobnobbed with the current Get Real Philippines bloggers at the now defunct Filipino Voices, I agreed with them against voting B.S. Aquino, since I observed that …
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Why “stop being negative, be more positive” can be counterproductive
Many are complaining that Get Real Philippines is so negative. They want us to come out with more positive articles. They say we are not helping with our negative messages. …
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Comparisons to Hurricane Katrina are Excuses for Incompetence
When Anderson Cooper of CNN reported that help was slow in coming to people in the provinces battered by Haiyan, the government and its supporters immediately went on the defensive. …
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Don’t Tell Me What Kind of Perceptions I Have
It’s no accident that two of the three primary propaganda instruments of the Aquino Administration (ABS-CBN and The Philippine Star) have played up the headline “Perceptions of Corruption Decrease” in …
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Why Pinoy Pride will never save the Philippines
Some Pinoy Pride stuff had been in the radar lately. Local media ran a feature on a recently appointed American judge with Filipino blood (though the woman, thankfully, said she …
Read MoreAre Filipinos really Oppressed?
While ruminating on some other facets of Philippine dysfunction, I observe that Filipinos claim that they are an “oppressed” people. The poor of the country for example say that they …
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