How Streaming Video Can Help Preserve What Braincells We Have Left
A little bit over a year ago I ranted about the local channel TV5 acquiring the NFL rights and making a mockery of it. They deprived the local audience of …
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What do basketball, karaoke, and democracy, all have in common in the Philippines?
Basketball, karaoke, and democracy, are favorite pastimes in the Philippines. All three are things Filipinos like to associate with being Filipino. We like to think of ourselves – and are …
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The unresolved issues with the Marcoses are strong indictments of Filipino cultural dysfunction
It is tempting to think of the unresolved issues with the Marcos family – their alleged ill-gotten wealth, the lack of compensation for all those who supposedly suffered during the …
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Human Rights advocacy is the latest fashion statement in Imperial Manila
Whose side are Filipino “activists” on nowadays? From all the chest-thumping and fist-waving we are seeing all over social media and mainstream media nowadays, it would seem that the Philippines’ …
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A message to Filipinos who plan to celebrate the EDSA People Power ‘revolution’ anniversary
I find them funny, these articles, blogs, and Facebook posts that together mount a futile effort to trumpet the dubious “achievements” of Yellow-branded “democracy” over the last 30 years. Authors …
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Will the Pinoy Way ever work?
The Pinoy Way is that set of behaviors, mannerisms, and cultural idiosyncrasies which have become a staple and hallmark of Filipino culture and society as we see it manifest today. …
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No blood, no foul. If you die, sorry ka na lang; ganoon talaga sa Pilipinas
“Eh buhay ka pa naman, diba?” (But you did not die, right?) – reportedly said by President BS Aquino to the recently deceased Tacloban business man Kenneth Uy. “Hindi naman …
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Why potentially beneficial foreign ideas and influence have not worked in the Philippines
While writing “The hollowness and hypocrisy with which Filipinos regard foreign entities” (henceforth known as Hollowness) almost two months ago, it seems I had completely overlooked one striking manner in …
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