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8 Reasons Why the Philippines is Still a Global Failure

  • Posted on Sep 30, 2014Dec 12, 2019
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  • Michael Avanceña
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8 Reasons Why the Philippines is Still a Global Failure

The Philippines used to be on the top of the food chain here in our region. We used to have military and economic superiority over our neighbors. At around the 60s to 70s, our socio-economic climate was at par with the world giants. Then we degraded. And degraded. And degraded.

Now, we are here at the helm of the 21st century, with nothing to show for but our perennial traffic, our poverty-stricken communities, and our big-bellied corrupt police officers. Here are 8 qualities Filipinos have that ruin our progress as a nation.

 

8. We love the underdogs

Via roniepatricio.wordpress.com

Oh how we do. We love seeing our beloved actors and favorite basketball teams bludgeoned close to the brink of death by the evil antagonists before rising up from the ashes and winning the fight. We treat them as heroes and we venerate them as our Gods–then we follow their footsteps. Instead of preparing meticulously for each thing that we do, we falsely believe that everything will work out and we will rise from any problem, like our idols.

 

7. We value Family above others

So what’s wrong with this? Family is family and such a good son you are, if you follow your father. Doing favors for the family is the quintessential goal of all members. We should do everything for our family. Even though they embezzled millions or billions of government funds coming from the pockets of ordinary citizens.

 

6. We practice “Bayanihan” more often than we actually should

Via xiaochua.net

Bayanihan is a good Filipino trait, but with great power, comes great responsibility. You can’t be lending a hand to everyone all the time especially if you know that the person doesn’t deserve it. We allow children to beg money from us knowing that these children should be inside classrooms and studying. Rather than prioritizing that, we indulge them.

 

5. We refuse to live within our means

“Oh, Marian just recently had her hair colored. I have to have the same color as her.” “Oh look at the Jake’s shoes, I’ve got to buy those!” There’s nothing wrong with idolizing and copying–people all around the world do this all the time (it’s called Fashion). The problem starts when you sacrifice food and education for things like hair straightening and coloring. For a country with more than half of its population in extreme poverty, fashion and material things should probably take a backseat, right?

 

4. We forgive and forget

Via geocities.ws

We are a nation composed of amnesiacs. How can we forget a certain public official (and public figure, pre-politics) who was convicted of, in layman’s terms, stealing from, not only one, not only two, but a whole freaking nation. He was convicted, arrested,  jailed, and–after serving his time–got pardoned. Then, he ran for the same position again, and came in second. He then ran for mayor and won. To make things worse, he can still win the presidency.

 

3. When given a hand, we take an arm

Via rkibongbayan.org

When we are given the opportunity to protest, we wait outside an auditorium and throw eggs or hit a public official. When we are asked to explain why violence was needed, we cite historical examples of why they deserved it. Then, we rally again. This time, to condone violence. Such hypocrisy, and all because we continuously want more than what was given. Although human nature has the tendency to overreach, that doesn’t mean that we have to push and push until we forget our principles, just so as we can get what we want.

 

2. We repeat our mistakes, deliberately.

Via remate.ph

One word: corruption.

 

1. We like to ride the bandwagon.

Via telegraph.co.uk

This one could be rooted from maleducation or just plain social apathy. Rather than dissecting the issue, we look at what the majority think and follow it. We, Filipinos, are non-confrontational, so rather than going against the public notion, we tend to stay quiet and avoid the limelight. The sad thing about this is, we have the habit of publicly condoning and lambasting individuals who voice out their opinions against the public notion–probably because we find them weird or just plain idiotic.

What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments Section below!

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7 comments
  1. mrericx says:
    Sep 30, 2014 at 10:17 pm

    so this is the reason why Dan Brown, Claire Danes and Aegis Malaysia hate us! Global failure, it’s more FCUK in the Philippines. :(

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  2. Kurt says:
    Sep 30, 2014 at 5:48 pm

    Pinoy’s penchant for voting whoever leads the race, even though the candidate falls miserably short of qualifications…

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    1. mrericx says:
      Sep 30, 2014 at 10:26 pm

      true, unless if:

      1) Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte will be our next president, then he’ll turn our country into Singapore 2.0 but the bad news is he’ll retire on politics after his 3rd & final term as a Davao City mayor in which it’ll end on May 2016.

      2) Sen. Miriam will be our next president then there’ll be no hospital arrests for corrupt officials and speaking of hospital, she have a cancer & high blood already and we’re very concern about her health conditions, and that’s a bad news.

      3) And finally if Ely Pamatong will be our next president then the happy days of China will finally be over but the bad news is he’ll be the Hitler/Genghis Khan 2.0 and the world will have to end.

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  3. 1111 says:
    Sep 30, 2014 at 3:08 pm

    0. We stopped caring. Most of my college graduate friends (and I) are not registered voters. We rant among ourselves about our god forsaken politics, but at the end of the day acknowledged that we couldn’t change much even if we try. We work hard, pay humongous taxes, get them stolen and move on with life. It’s so sad.

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  4. Becky says:
    Sep 30, 2014 at 2:13 pm

    This is very true. Haay!

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  5. conti says:
    Sep 30, 2014 at 10:50 am

    You forgot: We don’t do our research well before making an article. There was no ‘opportunity to protest’ there are only preselected filtered questions.

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    1. relak po says:
      Sep 30, 2014 at 5:03 pm

      you missed the point LOL. what he was saying is that there is already freedom to protest and to voice out your sentiments ANYWHERE, ANYTIME so its really dumb to say that there was no opportunity to protest. By resorting to violence, you overstep somebody else’s freedom.

      the protesters there weren’t looking for answers anyway, since they’ve already made up their minds. given the chance to participate in a proper forum, they would’ve probably resorted to theatrics than a proper discussion.

      Reply

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