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Does Get Real Philippines vilify Filipinos and their culture?

May 30, 2013July 30, 2018 - by benign0 - 20 Comments.

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, …

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Nick Joaquin’s A Heritage of Smallness

May 10, 2013June 2, 2013 - by benign0 - 23 Comments.

[Any major occasion in the Philippines is always a good time to re-visit this most seminal of Nick Joaquin’s works. It encapsulates the character of the Philippine Nation and remains …

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Analysis of the 2012 State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Benigno Aquino III delivered before Congress July 23

July 23, 2012July 23, 2012 - by benign0 - 29 Comments.

Number of classrooms made available, increased access to public healthcare, performance-based bonus incentives for government employees, mosquito traps to curb the spread of dengue, Sin Tax bills, jobs at BPOs, …

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The moronism in ‘ordering’ bus drivers and conductors to be paid fixed salaries

July 11, 2012July 11, 2012 - by benign0 - 19 Comments.

Why am I not surprised that the move of the Philippines’ Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to implement an order to change remuneration of the country’s public utility bus …

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