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September 3rd, 2010 04:07 PM #41
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September 3rd, 2010 04:18 PM #42
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September 3rd, 2010 04:24 PM #43
I recall when Claire Danes was blacklisted for saying Manila smelled like cockroaches... considering where she filmed her movie... as it isn't far from where we used to live... I'd say her remarks were entirely accurate.
Or maybe she was smelling the rivers?
Yet, instead of taking that as a challenge to improve cleanliness... our politicos took it as an affront to their dignity.
I also loved the Desperate Housewives fiasco... the remark about fake diplomas. Working in a school and dealing with issues like this made me laugh. Recruiters and hospitals used to call us... long distance... all the time to confirm diplomas. A surprising number were, indeed, fake.
So... what do the politicians do? Clean out Recto? Put a stop to diploma mills? Nah... just protest the show for the slur.
Ang pagbalik ng comeback...
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September 3rd, 2010 04:35 PM #44
But what if our culture is the reason we're not successful? Should we change?
http://antipinoy.com/culture-and-destiny/
Culture & Destiny: Why Culture Determines Winners & Losers
Dr. Huntington also narrated in Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress this very fascinating story:
“In the early 1990’s, I happened to come across economic data on Ghana and South Korea in the early 1960s, and I was astonished to see how similar their economies were then. These two countries had roughly comparable levels of per capita GNP; similar divisions of their economy among primary products, manufacturing, and services; and overwhelmingly primary product exports, with South Korea producing a few manufactured goods.
Also, they were receiving comparable levels of economic aid. Thirty years later, South Korea had become an industrial giant with the fourteenth largest economy in the world, multinational corporations, major export of automobiles, electronic equipment, and other sophisticated manufactures, and a per capita income approximating that of Greece. Moreover, it was on its way to the consolidation of democratic institutions. No such change had occurred in Ghana, whose per capita GNP was now about one-fifteenth that of South Korea’s.
How could this extraordinary difference in development be explained? Undoubtedly, many factors played a role, but it seemed to me that culture had to be a large part of the explanation. South Koreans valued thrift, investment, hard work, education, organization, organization, and discipline. Ghanians had different values. In short, cultures count.”
The Philippines and Ghana almost share the same culture — the same irrationality, excessive conviviality or the propensity to feast that suggest that their societies are structured towards pleasure and the suppression of individualism.
Camerounian economist Dr. Daniel Etounga-Manguelle wrote a book entitled Does Africa Need a Cultural Adjustment Program? and set forth the following cultural obstacle to progress in most African countries including Ghana: present-time orientation, lack of concern in making efficient of time, subordination of the individual to the community, excessive conviviality and avoidance of confrontation, little saving and much conspicuous consumption, very short radius of identification and trust, and the subordination and abuse of women. He also highlighted Africa’s excessive conviviality which was very strikingly similar to our culture. Everything, he said, is a pretext for celebration in Africa: birth, baptism, marriage, birthday, promotion, election, a return from a short or long trip, mourning, as well as traditional and religious feasts. Whether one’s salary is considerable or modest, whether one’s granaries are empty or full, the feast must be beautiful and must include the maximum possible number of guests.
Does this not sound very familiar?
In the early 1990's Lee Kuan Yew stated that our country, the Philippines, was going nowhere because of our lack of discipline and excessive conviviality. We Filipinos, he added, possessed an “exuberant democracy” as we always have the propensity to feast incessantly with a bacchanalian attitude. It was in this particular instance that he advised us that instead of Democracy, Filipinos needed Discipline in order to build a successful society. Again, many Filipinos were incensed and infuriated including former president Fidel Valdez Ramos.Last edited by donbuggy; September 3rd, 2010 at 04:38 PM.
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September 3rd, 2010 04:36 PM #45
Yup,- agree with you bro... Those things should have prompted our government officials to improve their lot and their social services. But they never lifted a finger, as what we've seen and heard....
Oh well, the Recto Mill is still churning out those precious oh so precious papers.....
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September 3rd, 2010 04:39 PM #46
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September 3rd, 2010 04:42 PM #47
Why not just ask China to invade the Philippines and annex the entire group of islands as part of the country?
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September 3rd, 2010 04:49 PM #48
donbuggy:
But what if our culture is the reason we're not successful? Should we change?
http://tsikot.yehey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66458
one of my posts in that thread
those "professors" and "experts" have been pointing to land reform for years
it's not land
it's culture, it's work ethic, it's mentality
when your people are highly productive, very work oriented, time-sensitive, may malasakit sa company they work for, may malasakit sa bansa, your country becomes an economic powerhouse, producing a mind-boggling volume of goods
pinoys are too family-oriented, too leisure-oriented
pinoys view work as torture... kung pwede lang i-fast forward ang oras sa trabaho para makauwi na at makasama ang pamilya
ang oras naman sa trabaho hindi maximized
work that could be finished in one day takes days or weeks to finish
add to that the number of days na walang pasok sa loob ng isang taon
hindi time-sensitive ang pinoy... pinoys do not value time. pinoys do not value their own time and other people's time
no wonder the economic output of the Philippines is always less than that of other Asian countries
when you have people who are not work-oriented, not very productive, time-wasting, walang malasakit sa company, walang malasakit sa bansa...
when you have people who are laid back (enjoy, have fun, relax), never serious (kenkoy), geared for consumption, not geared for production, leisure-oriented...
you get a country with lots of malls and supermarkets, lots of restaurants, bars and nightclubs, lots of resorts and spas, lots of end-user consumption businesses, lots of importers, not a lot of factories, not a lot of B2B (business-to-business) businesses
and you also get a country where more than 10% of the population have to work abroad, so they can send money to their families here so their families can do what pinoys do best -- enjoy, have fun, relax, and consumeLast edited by uls; September 3rd, 2010 at 04:58 PM.
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September 3rd, 2010 05:34 PM #50
Hmmm.... Kailangan na ng aircon service niyan innova mo. I have a blackish red innova. Bilad sa...
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