Resbak Mentality Keeps the Philippines backward
I wrote before about how the culture of retribution contributes to more violence in the world. It is one of the things keeping our own society backward as well. Not …
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Why *Spectator* Sports is not the Hope of any Society
I know, my colleague Ilda had an article why she believes in sports as a good thing to get into. Sports has exercise and helps develop competitive spirit, desire to …
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Gilas-Aussie brawl proves basketball is a TAMBAY sport in the Philippines
What can I say? Philippine sports mirrors Philippine life. The unclassy behavior of Gilas Pilipinas broadcast to the whole world the other day reflects the way Filipinos regard their national …
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Mediocre Filipino basketball followed by shameful Filipino-style brawl
It comes down to a single Filipino word that encapsulates everything that could be gleaned from the now viral footage of the brawl: pikon. In that melee was exhibited a …
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China militarisation of South China Sea is not a one-administration issue
Filipinos are currently lamenting China’s progressive annexation of their claimed territories in the South China Sea (SCS). But this lamentation is of a confused sort. One of the more controversial …
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International media should move on from Duterte’s rape joke and focus on the hard tasks ahead
Australian morning show Sunrise featured a segment on presumptive Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to discuss his win in the recent presidential elections. The show had an Australian political analyst named …
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Filipinos welcome Australia’s Telstra like Jesus’s second coming!
I switched my entire household’s telecommunication needs to Telstra back in 2007. Today we enjoy about 300 GB of home internet data piped in by cable (not DSL) that is …
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Revisiting Jim Paredes’s “giving up” on the Philippines and moving to Australia in 2006
Following that whole kerfuffle between singer and die-hard Aquinoist Jim Paredes and Manila Times columnist Rigoberto ‘Bobi’ Tiglao over the question of Paredes’s citizenship, people are now curious about what …
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