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Glitz and Glamour

Showbiz Kilig: What Intelligent People Don’t Have

January 1, 2015January 5, 2015 - by ChinoF - 167 Comments.

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

December 9, 2014December 9, 2014 - by ChinoF - 16 Comments.

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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Glitz and Glamour

Does the Aquino admin support wrong notions of Pinoy Pride?

January 19, 2014January 19, 2014 - by ChinoF - 73 Comments.

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

November 27, 2013November 27, 2013 - by ChinoF - 21 Comments.

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

November 18, 2013November 18, 2013 - by ChinoF - 71 Comments.

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

July 11, 2013July 11, 2013 - by BenK - 40 Comments.

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

July 2, 2013December 22, 2015 - by ChinoF - 1048 Comments.

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 …

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Are Filipinos really Oppressed?

March 18, 2013July 3, 2013 - by ChinoF - 48 Comments.

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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