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I have a simple question to ask in light of all the hollowheaded feelings of being “insulted” by the Philippines being labelled “a nation of servants”: What is wrong with being a “servant” anyway? Why feel “insulted” when called a “servant” when one is in fact earning an honest living working as a servant. If [...]
So I was reading Asian Perceptions 2008: The results of a survey on the views which Asia Focussed Business People Hold on the Business Climate in Asia which was shared by @mlq3 on plurk. three graphs showed startling numbers: (click each image to see the bigger picture)
I just read caffeine_sparks‘s Authenticity and Mar Roxas. I think I know now why the Philippines — a country of 90 million — cannot produce even one good president. It’s because: We expect so much from presidents and so very little from ourselves. We expect presidents to be saints but cannot seem to find it [...]
There are several vectors of interesting thought today. Take this plurk from @tonyocruz. He thinks “some folks who detest mass actions are just (vainly) covering up their own inaction.” Then there is one from @rivengodwin who asked, “if the (Fundamental Attribution Error) is a prevailing mindset when talking about the state of Filipinos.” I’ve responded to [...]
For as long as our racial memories allow— our people have been fighting poverty. I’m annoyed. I’m peeved. I’m sick to death with all the negative, hopelessness permeating in the air. I get it that it is so damn hard to see past misery, it breaks your heart seeing a kid kill herself because she [...]
The insight Dean provided to Cocoy‘s query, Clueless over Bangsamoro, is quite straightforward. The whole Mindanao thing is nothing more than a bizarre effort to create renewed debate about an issue that is otherwise quite crystal clear (I would have said “to most” but the fact that this debate has come to light again would [...]
If Chuck (aka “Cvj”, or whatever) has one particular talent it is this: He is very good at encapsulating — in the personal sentiments he routinely expresses all over the blogosphere — the particular aspects of the nature of the Pinoy mind that keeps its gearbox permanently shifted to Reverse. Here is his latest truism: [...]
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