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Culture / Development / Lifestyle

Resistance to Jeepney Modernization symbolizes Filipino Primitivism

October 6, 2019October 6, 2019 - by ChinoF - 23 Comments.

Our webmaster Benign0 and other bloggers have all mentioned how the jeepney is a symbol of the Philippines’ backwardness. Recently, efforts to improve it, or replace it with a better …

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Why are Chinese workers WORTH MORE than Filipino workers in the job market?

March 3, 2019 - by benign0 - 12 Comments.

For all the noise about the growing number of Chinese workers flooding the Philippines, very few “activists” have raised this most important question of all. Why do Chinese workers attract …

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Filipinos need to get better at killing in order to prosper

October 23, 2018October 23, 2018 - by benign0 - 36 Comments.

The seeming aversion of Filipinos to large-scale infrastructure projects — the sorts needed to achieve the vast economies of scale needed to compete in the global market likely stems from …

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Duterte possesses that much-needed “MURDERER mentality” to lead the Philippines to GREATNESS

July 30, 2018 - by benign0 - 8 Comments.

To be fair to the Philippine Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards), a strategic vision for the Philippines hinged on building infrastructure is counterintuitive to the average …

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Survival Mentality makes Philippine Society Nasty

August 4, 2016August 6, 2016 - by ChinoF - 47 Comments.

Recent articles, such as that of our webmaster Benign0, have reminded us how the murders we’ve seen lately have long been part of Philippine society. We have warlords, killings and …

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The #Philippines is guilty of the Mahatma Gandhi’s Seven Social Sins!

April 16, 2015April 16, 2015 - by benign0 - 8 Comments.

The Mahatma Gandhi’s Seven Social Sins, sometimes called the Seven Blunders of the World, is a list that he published in his weekly newspaper Young India on October 22, 1925. …

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The Philippines is too big a country for Filipinos to govern on their own

February 26, 2015 - by benign0 - 22 Comments.

It’s no wonder the government fatally screwed up to the tune of 44 dead Special Action Force police officers last January — and even more baffling that Filipinos are actually …

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Life is cheap in the Philippines: recent events prove it

December 9, 2013 - by benign0 - 28 Comments.

The sad economics of human life is plain as day. Close to 6,000 Filipinos died just recently after super-typhoon Yolanda (a.k.a. Haiyan) struck the Philippines’ coconut growing heartland in November …

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