[giver_bert]

i don't think we could make a parallel with singapore.. singaporeans have a basic commitment as singaporeans first.. with us, it purports that we filipinos think of ourselves as either of these: a cebuano who is being persecuted by a tagalog, or a tagalog who despises the cebuano because he doesn't speak "soft filipino".. or a waray who hates both a cebuano and a tagalog.. an ilonggo who loathes the others because they don't work as hard as he does,.. or a mindanao guy who thinks his wealth should have been his alone and not to be shared with any other filipino.. a muslim who thinks because of the centuries of persecution, every other Filipino is entitled to pay him back... Â*the list of combination is endless.