Why do we even bother to read the shallow noise created by this coconut, I asked myself one day. He’s not even here and obviously, does not even know what he’s talking about. Yet, we try to accommodate him. Answer—this site is purportedly the one that advocates for the “Wisdom of the Crowd” thing, and even ridiculous ideas are welcome here.
There is a fine line though between rational thought and just plain craziness, says one philosopher. If someone says the sun is at the center of the universe, it might be. Or if someone says the earth is really the center, it could be. However, there would come a point in time when all discussions would slowly melt away and probably morph into something relevant, like elipses and parallelisms or dualisms.
But, if we can’t really get anything relevant about a proposition nor a paradigm, then, what a waste of bytes, right?
In a time when all ideas are welcome and all methods are being analyzed for their relevance, here comes the cocohead, sassying like a primadonna, and telling us that we’re all wrong. That revolts are “ocho-ocho” and Filipinos are “monkeys”. Some guys thought this was cute. Others say it’s a revelation. But, it had happened before, in the time of Rizal. So, what is new about the ideas of this cocohead? Nothing, but a simple, low level clank in a shallow coco husk.
We do critique, not criticism for the mere hits value of it. If we say, revolts are “ocho-ocho”, then we need to write the anti-thesis of that. Otherwise, it just proves that our brains are like biscochos. Or, propose alternatives, like getting cocojam in a jar and asking Mrs. Arroyo if she likes to taste it.
But, no. This guy wants to lull us to sleep by saying that we need to “hear first before we condemn”. Is this guy waiting for Mrs. Arroyo to tell us what she really intends to do before we act? Hala! I thought we’re the brilliant guys who are always online. Is’nt enough that we read all those learned articles from Constitutionalists, law professors, senators and columnists for us to say that Resolution 1109 is illegal and immoral? Or, even if we did’nt, it’s enough to just get a copy of the 1987 Constitution and go to Article 17, on Amendments and Revisions. That is revolting enough.
And who will we ask to say about Resolution 1109? Allies of Gloria? Gloria herself? Speaker Nograles? Who? So, are we saying that we need to see our country burn first, or we must see martial law first before we condemn it? Kagaguhan!
There is a time for debate and a time for action. In our case, it’s a time to act.
This guy does not really know what’s he’s talking about. And he purportedly says that Philippine debate is as vacuous as Ding Gagelonia’s graphic. Maybe he’s referring to the husk?
Popularity: 1% [?]
wut?
No one is saved.
This has fast become a slaughterhouse of personalities – not worldviews.
Even a Ding Gagelonia is not spared the whip. Imagine one has to call him bozo with a vacuous mind.
I don’t know but to my mind, intellectual fiction concocted by yet another one that looks like a bozo may be theoretically sound but I sure doubt if it has any real correspondence with reality.
Concepts such as hollow-mindedness, vacuousness, substance, cultural dysfunctionality, et cetera belong to metaphysics.
Wait, wait, Patricio. are you talking about benign0?
One really does not to imagine what benign0 purportedly , benign0′s stuff in his own words are here on Filipino Voices, like, say, here:
http://filipinovoices.com/filipino-vacuousness-on-facebook
the first line contains:
Some bozo posted the following image on his Facebook profile apparently in protest against House Resolution 1109 …
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And to Primer: Stay focused on the English. Only in the second line did benign0 mention Ding. Blogger-cum-”reporter” Ding Gagelonia re-posted it on FilipinoVoices.com and described it as …
The dude is being kind in using the words “hollow-mindedness, vacuousness, substance, cultural dysfunctionality” – perhaps, we can have words from our daily lives. Words like
* GUNGGONG
* TANGA
* BALIW
* HIBANG
* BOBO
* BULOK
* WALANG SILBI
* WALANG UTAK
* WALANG PAKINABANG
* MGA PABIGAT
* MGA PALAMUNIN
That sound better?
and there’s ITLOG NA BUGOK
That’s life – may taong BUGOK. Deal with it.
Don’t worry, if you are the one referred to as BUGOK – you will be totally oblivious about it.
Ignorance is bliss. :lol:
Cliuelessness is bliss :lol:
Primer the Clown is for CON ASS. He is full of Ass. Making an
Ass out of himself.OUCH, MY ASS.
Thanks Prime. No worry.
In my time long before FV, which just recently turned I, the brickbats which have been thrown at me have been boulders.
Such insults are sandy pebbles mustered by a singular entity trapped in his small cubby hole thought-box and comfortable in an overseas presumably-salaried employment at the beck and call of Caucasian employers while being bigoted toward his own kind.
I can appreciate how one can be blind to the day to day injustices Filipinos here at home suffer, and is unable or unwilling to fully understand the evil that is the Con Ass Con Game.
You and I have our own disagreement/s about BF, but your view is yours and you are entitled to it.
I don’t think so, mister.
Perhaps, you should not put words into anybody’s mouth so nobody also puts words into your mouth.
Call that the real golden rule – and take heed.
No one needs to put words into your mouth.
your mouth is full of IT :lol:
Primer the Clown is just earning his pay from Bayani Fernando and
Gloria Arroyo. Poor Guy, he cannot get a decent job.
is that why he has a “new” post almost everyday, and is all over the place making idiotic comments almost 24/7? can somebody please give this guy a real job – like collecting crap from the pasig river? no politician in his/her right mind should pay him to write anything.
dang, bencard thats means, i just lost my respect to you…. who cares anyway?
Indeed. Now I don’t know if the editor- not-chief of FV feels that it’s overstepping his role if he might care to advise his contributors that a little “tact” might not be too bad. I think Ding Gagelonia, Manuel Buencamino, Abe Margallo and Blackshama have consistently shown for example that they are respectful of the readers of FV, no matter what their comments on their posts are.
Minsan masakit na sa ulo pag nakakabasa ka ng “Filipino vacuousness” all the time. Although I do think Benigno is a pretty intelligent person and writer, nakakapagod na paulit-ulit you read his insulting stuff. What intellectuals often forget is that mind abuse is just as bad as physical abuse, or even worse. How many abusers often say that when you call someone bobo or tonta over and over — “dang, dude/dudette izzzz nothin but the truth”. Yeah, right.
We can suggest to B0 that he use another word instead of “vacuosness” -
Main Entry: vacuity
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Main Entry: vacuity
Part of Speech: noun2
Definition: inanity
Synonyms: blankness, stupidity, vacuousness
Main Entry: blank
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: empty space
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Main Entry: cavity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sunken or decayed area
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Main Entry: emptiness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: void, bareness
Synonyms: blank, blankness, chasm, depletedness, desertedness, desolation, destitution, exhaustion, gap, hollowness, inanition, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, waste
Antonyms: capacity, fill, fullness
Main Entry: gap
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: break, breach
Synonyms: aperture, arroyo, blank, caesura, canyon, chasm, cleft, clove, crack, cranny, crevice, cut, defile, difference, disagreement, discontinuity, disparity, divergence, divide, division, fracture, gorge, gulch, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, inconsistency, interlude, intermission, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, lacuna, lull, notch, opening, orifice, pause, ravine, recess, rent, respite, rest, rift, rupture, separation, slit, slot, space, vacuity, void
Antonyms: closure
Main Entry: hollow
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: empty or dented area
Synonyms: basin, bottom, bowl, cave, cavern, cavity, chamber, channel, cleft, concavity, crater, cup, dale, den, depression, dimple, dip, dish, excavation, groove, gulf, hole, indentation, notch, pit, pocket, sag, scoop, sinkage, sinkhole, socket, trough, vacuity, valley, void
Antonyms: solid
Main Entry: negation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: contradiction, denial
Synonyms: antithesis, antonym, blank, cancellation, contrary, converse, counterpart, disavowal, disclaimer, forget it, gainsaying, inverse, negatory, neutralization, no, nonexistence, nothingness, nullification, nullity, opposite, opposition, proscription, refusal, rejection, renunciation, repudiation, reverse, vacuity, veto, void
Antonyms: allowance, approval, permission
Main Entry: vacancy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: opening
Synonyms: abstraction, blankness, desertedness, emptiness, gap, job, lack, opportunity, position, post, room, situation, space, vacuity, vacuousness, vacuum, void, voidness
Antonyms: fill, overflow
Main Entry: vacuum
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: emptiness
Synonyms: exhaustion, free space, gap, nothingness, rarefaction, space, vacuity, void
Antonyms: fullness
Main Entry: void
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: emptiness, want
Synonyms: blank, blankness, cavity, gap, hole, hollow, lack, nihility, nothingness, nullity, opening, space, vacuity, vacuum
Notes: void means empty; devoid means empty, but empty only after something has been taken away
Antonyms: fullness
Main Entry: hole
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: opening in a solid object
Synonyms: aperture, breach, break, burrow, cave, cavern, cavity, chamber, chasm, chink, cistern, cleft, covert, crack, cranny, crater, cut, den, dent, depression, dimple, dip, excavation, eyelet, fissure, foramen, fracture, gap, gash, gorge, hollow, hovel, keyhole, lacuna, lair, leak, mouth, nest, niche, nick, notch, orifice, outlet, passage, peephole, perforation, pit, pocket, pockmark, puncture, rent, retreat, scoop, shaft, shelter, space, split, tear, tunnel, vacuity, vent, void, window
Antonyms: closure, solid
Main Entry: depression
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: concavity, cavity
Synonyms: basin, bowl, crater, dent, dimple, dip, excavation, hole, hollow, impression, indentation, pit, pocket, sag, scoop, sink, sinkage, sinkhole, vacuity, vacuum, valley, void
Antonyms: bulge, convexity, protuberance
Main Entry: emptiness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Total absence of matter.
Synonyms: vacancy, vacuum, void
Main Entry: nothingness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Empty, unfilled space.
Synonyms: barrenness, emptiness, vacancy, vacuum, void
Main Entry: hole
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: A space in an otherwise solid mass.
Synonyms: cavity, hollow, pocket, void
Main Entry: emptiness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Total lack of ideas, meaning, or substance.
Synonyms: barrenness, blankness, hollowness, inanity, vacancy, vacuousness
Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
Copyright © 2003, 1995. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved
The last time I was enamoured of the thesaurus was when I was in highschool. A thesaurus is for amateurs — not saying that you are one.
madonna,
LOL. oh you made my day… thanks. i do miss DJB. did you?
Of course I miss DJB. Hehe.
good for old fogeys with early alzheimers :lol:
I miss cvj. Abe Margallo can’t do it (in fact, Abe Margallo didn’t even say a peep). But cvj has this special way with words — like only people with leprosy in their souls can agree with a limjap or anyone who preaches to remove the right to vote from the Class-D/Class-E crowd.
i like malign0, being a man with a brain inggit ako, him being a bully— yun nga lang walang yagbols.
Pat, you must’ve encountered people just as smug as bengs, even worse. People who won’t listen to you at all and won’t even deign to argue with you.
Keep him because FV is democracy in miniature and we should be better than the current situation in our country.
The House Resolution for CHA CHA , CON ASS is not a joking matter
It is a blatant act to usurp the will of the people. Change the
Constitution. Impose a Dictatorship of Gloria Arroyo and her
conspirators. She is determined to stay in power, because of the
Anti Plunder Law hanging over her head. She even use Media Dogs
working on all Media Outlets. Including the FV Blog Site. She
hired CyberHackers to prevent us from posting our Blogs. If you
feel a CyberHacker is giving you trouble. Just LOG OFF your computer.
Let it stand for awhile. Then, LOG IN. Protect your computer with
a WEBSHIELD. She is trying to control all MEDIA.
ALIS DIYAN, Gloria Arroyo and cahoots. We will follow the Constitution, with or without your approval. We will elect a new
President this 2010. Drag you out of Malacanang Palace, kicking
and screaming. If this will be the case.
Reactions from FaceBook:
http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=1067720649&share_id=98689501453&post_id=98689501453&comments=
How the FB campaign is going:
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/293075?m=b5819bfe
What may be unfolding:
http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20090608hed1.html
Well, once this constitutional change neutrino gains momentum, it will hit other neutrons and start a chain reaction. The processes stability and the integrity of the processes serve as the shield that prevents a meltdown.
In the event that the proverbial genie is out of the bottle, or pandora’s box is opened – the 1987 constitution might wind up getting amended, but not on Gloria terms.
Erratum crap:
In the event that the proverbial genie is out of the bottle, or Pandora’s box is opened – the 1987 constitution might wind up getting amended, but not on Gloria’s terms.
If we start to adopt to a kind of cheap peripheral logic, then the end of enlightenment. Sure, he can’t stop from this chronic penchant for ‘ruling – e.g., asking this guy to ‘shut up or put up’ (referring to somebody else, or questionin somebody else’s opinion as though he can supplant it with his.
The problem is, he uses peripheral logic. He does not go down on a point by point analysis to make plain or simple his point of view.
Always at that orgy, this man who calls himself ‘the expert’. Isn’t that too presumptuous even shameful. My God, ‘square’ ang mundo.
When someone says a negative comment of the nature of attacking the poster himself instead of the issue raised by the poster, we deem that to be permissible. We cannot moderate behavior.
But if another person all so conveniently just rides that negative comment with yet another negative comment of his own against that same poster, nothing in substance is really added.
Only gangsters behave that way. I shouldn’t mind provided however, he should raise his point of order beyond the chronic if vicious labelling, swearing, and stereotyping.
Until this kind of ‘viral contagion’ is addressed, there will be more of the same. And it is sickening – this guy should better descend from his Ivory Tower.
Observation on sun’s position at sunrise.
Results from five observation points.
A, Tokyo: The sun rises in the east.
B, Virginia, The sun rises in the east.
C, Dubai, The sun rises in the east.
D, London, The sun rises in the east.
E, Sydney, The sun rises in the east.
These people who made the same observations are GANGSTERS? :lol:
hyden, bencard, bong:
I appeal to all you 3 to stop this ‘vicious cycle’ of tirades, intrigue, and insult.
For a change, let us stick to the knitting – just present your views, ideas, opinions and let the test begin without having to attack the person himself.
There ought to be a different way of driving your view, idea, opinion even more clearly than succumb to ad hominems.
Rest assured, this blogger can do the same.
Dude,
I speak for myself, do not in anyway feel insulted. I am amused and entertained.
Ang problema dyan, pag tinira yung point mo, you feel personally insulted :lol:
Tapus napaka trying hard at napakabaduy pa ng hirit mo. I mean like, rom can call me retarded, so what? it doesn’t bother me a bit, makikipag high five pa ako, dang dawg, am so fraking ‘tarded how about that. so what next?
it’s not a biggie. the conversation goes on.
if you are not a moron, eh di you are not a moron.
Pangalawa, if it’s just whooshing above your head – and nearly everyone else has seen the matter of style (di pa kasali ang substance dyan) – so what?
But that’s not my problem, kasi lahat nakikita, kung anuman yun, ambot sa langaw pilay edad sa uk-ok :lol:
Kung ayaw mo yung reaction eh di wag kang magsulat. The same applies to me.
Accomplishments are humbling. Personally censuring others is not a compliment of accomplishment. I suppose, we must ignore the immoral cycle . They may be having a “SENIOR moment” or “hormonal moment”. Superiority complex is certainly not real. It’s for people whose world solely evolves around their skin-deep creation. It’s shallow especially if one has contributed nothing. Primer, I’m alongside with you.
leytenian:
at the end of the day, yung ebak mo simbaho rin ng ebak ng taong walang accomplishment.
tatanda ka rin. mamamatay ka rin. there is no escaping it.
so all this so much ado over, nothing, hoy mababaho ang ebak nating lahat :lol:
bong speak for yourself. don’t drag me to your negative world…
why leytenean, is your crap any less stinkier than ours?
and what about the almost 98& in this blog who have problems with your handiwork? you are not so much the target as your inane ideas and writing style (or the lack of it), plus your annoying ways of defending your side. have pity on yourself.
my big problem with benign0 is that instead of being constructive with people he disagrees with, he insists on snide put-downs and insults.
because of this, its also very difficult to have a real conversation with him.
too bad.
its his online persona. but disagree with it fundamentally.
As soon as we have forged a common agreement in this direction, which I pray we will, couldn’t it be best timed to put on schedule the arrival of DJB – as old-returning blogger.
Nick, just a favor, please?
I say this because I know DJB would have wanted to input much of his studiedly thought-out ideas over HR 1109 but that he cannot do so because he finds the environment nay the ‘regime’ – antagonistic if not hostile. If we are that collective as we professed to be, couldn’t a mechanism be now set in place?
Sure, there is such a thing as ‘comment-appropriate’, di ba kaya?
Primer:
This is a forum for discussing ideas. Kung ayaw mo ng contrary ideas, don’t shove it down people’s throats as well – don’t post anything.
I concur. The neglect to keep DJB, the cat,smoke, jcc and cvj were so sad. Has there been any follow up? I don’t taste why the master of FV has not been able to attempt and repair the likeness among its customers and contributors. Am I on the real place? or God sent me here to be spunky and gloomy about my particular kind. :) My goodness people…
that was for Primer.
Don’t care much either way about DJB returning to FilipinoVoice, but bong austero becoming a regular contributor will be quite welcome.
That’s ok, Bong.
I am not recruiting you to my side of the issue. You have my respect even though we differ about your estimation of the DE sector.
They maybe at hand to mouth survival level but I do not equate this with their ability to be ‘mulat’.
The CDE segment covers 60+ percent of our society. I deign to say “buti nga.”
This is a fondly recollection.
Someone said before, was it leytenian, by all means – “magpatayan tayo”?
Figuratively enough, it seems that we can count the casualties, the last of whom, had been stabbed many times in many parts of his body short of a bat being banged about his head for the final – ‘murder’ by indicatively ‘character assasins’.
We are not ‘murderers’, are we? The point is this. It will be unhealthy to think we win victories by counting our casualties. If they have to die, just let them be – you don’t have to kill them, do you?
Or, when was it a crime to blog? I would think that FV is better ‘run’ than any other blog of the same genre in spite and despite its chronic weaknesses. So I still hope and pray that ‘change will come in FV’ and also ‘place us all in the right side of history’ – if I may be allowed to say this.
I think you’re getting a lot of negativity here primer because your photo is the way it is. Don’t underestimate the shallowness of Pinoys. Your ideas and argumentative skills are quite exemplary, if you ask me and you are one of the few people here who are truly competent in the foreign tongue that is English. Son no other reason except that. It’s time to change avatar.
why, what’s wrong with his photo? he can put on an american mask, like joe america, but that will not improve his grammar or his thought processes.
i’m all for peace at FV and i hate argumentum ad hominem. i deal with issues, not personalities, and i don’t usually attack one’s persona except in self-defense, when i’m attacked first.
i agree with bongv. issues will be debated; opinions will be tested, agreed to, criticized, tested, and debunked. the only way to avoid that is to refrain from expressing an opinion. FV is not a one-voice forum, not a “choir of all tenors”. it is diverse, even as philippine society is diverse. it is not a place for the faint-heart, the onion-skinned, the ill-equipped. we don’t come here solely to win an argument. we come here to give what we can, and to learn a few things in the process.
Until you have met me personally and talked to me, I ‘d appreciate it if you don’t classify me as “used by playthings of grandstanding politicians”…” or words like ” i just happened to think that people like you are a boon to politicians whose interests are threatened, like the senators who are in danger of extinction should a unicameral legislature be adopted.” because that is argumentum ad hominem.
You don’t know me at all.
wrong thread, momblogger, but didn’t you see what i wrote that i did not mean, nor did i, classify you as plaything of grandstanding politicians? why do you think NOT ONE senator is in favor of a “con-ass” voting jointly rather than separately. you may not intend to serve the senators’ all-too-obvious designs but your vociferous objection to h.r. 1109, imho, makes the senators smile in appreciation for your “kind help”. the more there are like you, the happier they are.
i strongly disagree that what i said was “argumentum ad hominem”. check again its definition, please.
if i say gma is a great president in my view, and you say in rebuttal that i am a dishonest shyster who is a paid hack of malacanang, THAT is argumentum ad hominem.
btw, if you don’t like what i think, sue me. of course, i don’t know you at all, ma’am.
Check this out — threat of a libel suit touches MLQ3.
http://www.quezon.ph/2009/06/08/the-long-view-let-them-be-anathema/
Gulliver’s travels being not unlike my own, venturing to faraway places in search of riches, I feel a certain compunction to engage FV bloggers with occasional tales of Gulliver’s and my erring do. I have taken gross liberties with Swift’s tale for the sake of amusement.
Gulliver’s first adventurous abroad was in the small land of Liliput, whereupon he received fame and fortune but was lucky to escape with his eyes, for the wee King was mightily upset that Gulliver extinguished a fire in the palace by urinating on the flames. Gulliver, who gained high position by single-handedly defeating the enemy armada, was impeached on the advice of the King’s wicked minister Oglog, which in Liliputian translates roughly to “the one who sleeps in the Queen’s bed when the King is busy”. His Majesty sentenced Gulliver to a slow death by starvation, along with the loss of his eyes. But our hero managed to escape through kind warning from an honorable whistle-tooting Liliputian named Lodaza. The honorable Lodaza was later sentenced to death for his kind act.
Speaking of death . . .
“[The Liliputians] bury their dead with their heads directly downwards, because they hold an opinion that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise again, in which period the earth (which they conceive to be flat), will turn upside down and by this means they shall, at their resurrection, be found already standing on their feet. The learned among them confess the absurdity of this doctrine, but the practice still continues, in compliance to the vulgar.”
My own observation is that, in the land of the Phil, the people believe in the birthing of hordes of little people, not exactly Liliputians for sure, but quite small at the outset. They do this on the exhortation of their faith, that to create life is to honor God. It is unclear to me what happens when the Great Land, which is simply a few volcanoes sticking up from the deepest oceans, becomes so laden with faithful Phils honoring God that it sinks. But it is not my place to question the wisdom of those connected with other worlds and heavens, though the practice seems to me to continue, in compliance to the vulgar.
Quiz for the Swift: What exactly is a Big Endian?
Joe
An evil Liliputian Queen now reigns in the Philippines. We will all
be buried with heads upside down.
What a country we have…it stinks!
you mean your head will be appended to your neck with the top down?
joe, are you an admitted atheist like someone who just “left” this blog?
btw, as an alien american, i would go easy making uncomplimentary remarks about filipinos, especially in their own land, regardless of motives. remember the chap li tsao (or whatever his name is), terry hatchers, and the guy from SNL? you are one helluva gringo (lol).
Not an athiest, Bencard, but my God believes in humor and reason as finer attributes of man. Along with compassion, good service, kindness . . .
If I censor my negative remarks, do I also censor my positives? And do I just sit back benignly (hah) and watch things go to hell for my son, who must live in that hell? You seem only to read my complaints, not my cheers. Also, I hardly think being for more responsible levels of birth (through education), to better match the number of jobs the economy can create, is hardly negative. I consider it positive, as do others, from what I read here.
Again, Bencard, if you don’t like what I write, just ignore it, but don’t try to make me another “you”. Appreciate the spice a different thinker provides, even an outsider who rankles your thin skin.
Joe
joe, it is not as if your son has no other choice. why insist on living in philippines if “things go to hell” there? at any rate, i don’t think it’s your place to criticize the country and its people,, while “enjoying” its “beauty and hospitality”.
Bencard, true, but are you telling me I am not welcome in your country? You are, where, in Virginia, USA??? Get your mooching ass outta my land!!! (just kidding)
Because the Philippines is half heaven, half hell, I agitate for more heaven, for Filipinos. My life is heaven. I have maids and drivers and gardeners . . . But the kids here have no f*****g dental care for chrissakes, or doctors. Smart kids cannot afford to go to school. And I can do more for PEOPLE, which we all are, here than elsewhere.
So butt out of my life. I don’t need a second conscience badgering my every comment.
with a smile, always
Joe
joe, did i say you are not welcome? i think you are reading too much between the lines (which is so unamerican). i know you said you’re “just kidding” but unless you are a direct descendant of geronimo or any of his people, america is NOT your land.
one thing i learned from living in this part for decades is the admonition to “mind your own business” unless asked or solicited to butt in. americans are a great respecter of individualism, cultural differences, and privacy, among other things. another is “if you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say, it unless specifically asked to”. as a rule, enlightened americans are not judgmental of other nationalities, their defects, mistakes, appearance or personal success.
on the other side of the coin, i can say, as a full-blooded filipino, that filipinos usually don’t like being patronized, especially by a foreigner.
Bencard,
So I guess the only place I can speak freely is Germany, the source of 15/16ths of my blood? Not even the US, because I am not an Indian?
Part of the problem we Americans have is that we are raised to speak our minds. For example, if you were to criticize Obama or US government stupidity about this or that, I would never question your right to do so . . . maybe in part because the US is a global player, and we are always taking shots from other countries for this and that.
Also, the US is changing, ethnically. But not in its principles to equality and freedom, within the law. In Los Angeles, were I am from, I am in the minority as a white guy. But the influx of Asians and Latinos, and to a lesser degree Middle Easterners and Europeans, gives the city a richness that is very difficult to describe and match anywhere else in the world.
I recognize I have trouble with my patronizing tone – arrogant know-it-all American – and I am given some comfort knowing there are other patronizers on FV (Benign0 ahahahahahaha). But I will try to be careful. I am on FV in part to perfect my argumentative style.
I do wonder if Filipinos of “true blood” might question the wisdom of protecting the bloodline a little too much by resisting outsiders. The Philippines needs investments from abroad for the jobs they bring, and with that come the Americans and Chinese and others, and the cross-breeding that is represented in my son. If the country weren’t poor, and so many people suffering, then I would say that, okay being like Japan – protecting the blood line – is okay. But you can’t have high birth rates in a job-scarce economy and expect to find nirvana. AND protect the bloodline . . .
I personally think the Los Angeles model would work for Manila . . . or the whole of the Philippines, and the country would be richer in many ways. But Filipinos have to welcome this, as the US does, accepting one million new immigrants in 2008.
Ah . . . there I go again . . .
Joe
ps, your gringo remark made me laugh, too.
J
HAHAHAHAHAH this people really makes me laugh hahahaha yeah, intelligent people? elite braggers este bloggers and commenters, kaya walang asenso pinas kayo kayo nagsisiraan nagbabatuhan ng mga ebak nagpapagalingan, sigh now i never regret why i didnt pursue my studies after hi-skul and now i never and will never pitty myself anymore why i cant speak and write proper english HAHAHAHAH i enjoy the sight honestly.