. . . I do not have problems sa Pinoys who are now Canadian or USA citizens. To ask them to mind-your-own-business forget Pilipinas (is) over the limit, sa wari ko. Eh these Pinoys katulad ni Abe Margallo . . . Normal na sila ay kibo pa rin ng kibo tungkol sa Pilipnas hindi lang [...]
7,000 OFWs March In Protest Against Discrimination
April 7, 2009 By 12 Comments
The Chip Tsao controvery resulted in a blacklisting of the controversial writer because of his article that had many Filipinos protest against what many feel was discrimination against Filipinos. After Chip Tsao apologized for his article, he also added that he would like to visit The Philippines in the future.
The un-ease and inis of doing business in the Philippines
March 11, 2009 By 13 Comments
Just about everything in the Philippines is propped up by things foreign. Foreign remittances buoy consumption upon which a no-sustainable-results Chinese-imports-hawking retail industry used to thrive. “Foreign direct investment” funds a vast labour-added-value high-import-input manufacturing industry that adds very little (even by Pinoy standards) to the collective intellect of the society. Savings and pensions from [...]
A vast farm for breeding labourers
January 30, 2009 By 75 Comments
Again GabbyD asks the right questions here: the real problem for a society is: given we are different, what brings us together? what makes us a group? whats common among us? and how is this commonality determined? So you see, all roads of Pinoy discussion ultimately lead to these questions. In summary: What does the [...]
Paternity uncertainty and the financial “crisis”
January 29, 2009 By 4 Comments
As if the problem of catching up with the need to employ at least 1.5 million Filipinos being added to the labour force every year was already an insurmountable challenge in itself (given the inherent inability of Pinoys to create employment-generating capital indigenously), there is the other whammy now hitting our fortunes with the disappearance [...]
How much are you worth dead?
January 23, 2009 By 16 Comments
When we are alive, we are all equal in the eyes of the Law. As living and breathing humans, each of us is (in principle) a priceless member of society and all equally entitled to the same human rights, respect, and sanctity enshrined in the set of fundamental principles that underlie most modern democratic societies. [...]
Social Cost of OFWs Deployment: Perceptions Versus Findings on the Impact of Pinoy Workers Migration to the Children Left Behind
December 23, 2008 By 116 Comments
Articles and essays which have no systematic evidence and are purely based on anecdotal cases allege that the migration of parents creates emotional displacements among children left behind. Many of the newspaper writing about the OFW families assert that the children are prone to delinquency and declining moral values. Church authorities, social workers and teachers/counselors [...]
OFW-ism: The ultimate failure of imagination
December 21, 2008 By 9 Comments
The ultimate failure of imagination is the way Philippine society consumes (rather than capitalises on) what is now its greatest resource – its people. Having all but depleted its forests and commoditised its minerals and farm produce, Philippine society is now turning to burning human capital. Like Romblon marble and our forests of decades past [...]
THE IMPACT OF FINANCIAL CRISIS TO OFWS’ GLOBAL DEPLOYMENT
December 19, 2008 By 142 Comments
It is sad to say that people making the projections on the impact of the financial crisis to the deployment of the Filipino overseas workers and their remittances did not bother to do their assignments by checking the past data on Overseas Employment Statistics. They merely speculated and parroted the opinions of other “experts”. While [...]
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