Quote Originally Posted by badkuk
there are some notable exceptions though; like a number of taxi drivers who returned money left on their cabs, and the airport janitor who returned a foreign businessman's suitcase


i'd like to point out that other countries/races also have their bad eggs:

-- remember the Rodney King trial/LA riots? lotsa looting took place, to the point where (mostly) Korean owners needed to man sniper positions to keep looters at bay

-- a few days after Victoria and David Beckham were wed, they went on the TV asking their guests to return the silverware used during the reception( i doubt if the couple knows anyone from the Philippines)

-- quite recently, New Orleans stores also suffered looting

-- in China a few years back, authorities were surprised to see a vacant lot where a building was supposed to be(guess where the money went?)

-- i saw footage from a reality TV once wherein a man in Peru was robbed of his food and a few pieces of vegetables by a mob. now, i know going to public markets isn't exactly a pleasant experience, pero so far di pa naman ako nananakawan ng saging.



yes, we do deserve that stigma, pero it's not exclusive to pinoys only

for me it has a lot to do with poverty overriding morality, to the point that people feel justified in their wrongdoing, to the point that stealing almost becomes second nature. i think most people feel betrayed and abandoned, and that's why they feel no guilt, 'coz hey, "why should i listen to you? hindi ikaw ang nagpapakain sa akin!"
extreme cases lang yun sa taxi... sa atin kasi news yun... sa ibang bansa there is nothing new about it... ibabalik talaga yun...

un sa china... it only happened to them once... sa atin... hay naku! countless times... it wont even make the news na kasi nothing new and sensational about it anymore...

it has nothing to do with poverty... well just a little bit... parang prostitution yan... asa tao yan wala sa lugar yan... maybe corruption has penetrated well enough the moral fiber of the ordinary filipino that it already became normal to them...

oh at bakit tayo pinagbibintangan na cheaters? because ang hilig natin magbintang and magsensationalize ng isang bagay na hindi naman tayo sigurado... we love drama and telenovela so much na akala natin ganito rin ang buhay...

in life most of the time appearance is more important than the real thing... we only make one first impression in our life... and whether the saying "first impression lasts" is true or not, why not just make a good one?