Among the most telling of these encultured counter-productive mindsets of many of our countrymen are the following:
Our penchant for the quick fix:
We tend to go for quick fixes. We cheer when more and more Filipinos find jobs overseas and can send money home to ease our financial troubles. But we have not done anything to set our house in order to create a healthy local climate for investment and job pursuits at home. In contrast, our ASEAN neighbors have managed to advance way ahead of us. They have done their homework and have built the necessary infrastructures to magnetize investments and create jobs. As our neighbors preen their feathers to tackle the world, we go merrily about with our ‘pwede na yan’ (that will do) standard of mediocrity.