An ugly and embarassing CNN report on RP

[FK]

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they should not generalize that all part of the philippines is dangerous. mao ni sayop pareho sab gud nato usahay naa mo ingon dayon ta nga mga puti kay mga racist or prejudice.

but this would serve us a wake-up call...

[randy111979]

well maayo to para ma correct dayon....I know maka embarass kaayo...pero diri wa may mo lihok kung dila pa-ulawan...baga ug nawng na tanan diri

Yes number 1 kabaga ug nawong ang Presidente sa Pinas ug iyang mga alipores.

Hahay! Ni ambit nasad ang Pinoy.

That's the spirit! Blame the president. That's what we are best for whining!

Hey guys! What do you expect from a prison cell in a country that has lots of squatters and poor people? It doesn't have to be shown in CNN to be embarassed.

For filipinos, we should have been embarassed before when ERAP won ... Enrile ... Mother and Son estrada ...

But I agree, if it has to be a CNN report that makes the wake up call, then good. I hope everybody wakes up.

This report should have been reported by our very own media. Media nowadays are busy making money and busy putting the so-called stars in Government.

[BayouPinoy]

Fact: The rest of the world generally has a negative impression of the Philippines and its citizens. It gets worse; from what I see in the U.S., this impression even extends to 2nd, 3rd, nth generation Americans of Filipino descent. It also appears to be the trend elsewhere.

So what are we going to do about it? I don't really know.

However, if we should play the "blame game," I propose that the fingers should point past our current politicians, past our past officials, past the Japanese occupation, past the American colonial years, and squarely during the 400-odd years we were under the Spanish flag. At that time, our colonial masters made "divide and conquer" an art. I think we never had a chance at a national identity when we were being brainwashed into thinking that we needed these foreigners to lead us out of savagery and into a semblance of a civilized society. We were being "trained" into thinking that power and leadership is inherited and the genes run only in a few members of a privileged elite. Without realizing it, those colonizers effectively created social classes, and that one can only move up if one had the right "username and password." Look at other countries that were under the Spanish flag and you will see a list of teetering democracies and corrupt governments, except for a few that are actually making it. So how do we undo 400 years of handiwork? Ambot. I don't have many ideas, but I do know that positive change will not come if we continue to elect politicians (people thinking only of themselves) vs. statesmen/women (people who think of the future generations), if our country continues to be fragmented by rebellion, if corruption in the government continues to become a way of life, if...

[n`gel]

Let's not forget that Philippines is not the only country under centuries of Spanish rule. Mexico was under them for nearly 3 centuries. They're not a rich country yes, but don't share all the same traits we Filipinos have.

It's the vast variety of different civilizations which ruled Mexico long before the Spaniards colonized them, the Mayas, Olmecs, and the Aztecs. More like us, our vast variety of colonizers not just the Spaniards, coz if it were just solely them, why did we turn out too bad from the rest?

The very thing about us is, we didn't evolve much into a better people.

[Zirv]

As Jose Rizal would say the indolence of the Filipino people....

[BayouPinoy]

Let's not forget that Philippines is not the only country under centuries of Spanish rule. Mexico was under them for nearly 3 centuries. They're not a rich country yes, but don't share all the same traits we Filipinos have.

It's the vast variety of different civilizations which ruled Mexico long before the Spaniards colonized them, the Mayas, Olmecs, and the Aztecs. More like us, our vast variety of colonizers not just the Spaniards, coz if it were just solely them, why did we turn out too bad from the rest?

The very thing about us is, we didn't evolve much into a better people.

Exactly ---- the present day residents of Mexico evolved at a much earlier time and became cohesive as a race before the Spaniards came, and fought the Spaniards more or less as a nation. Heck they even fought the U.S.A. as a nation (the Alamo fame). Although Mexico is doing "slightly" better than the Philippines, we cannot discount the country's current burgeoning debt, Mexico is one of the most highly indebted countries in Latin America. Mexico's foreign debt stands at more than $161 billion (RP=$57B in 2004), 181% higher than in the early 1980s, when the country declared a moratorium on payments. The current debt is equivalent to 40.3% of the gross domestic product of 1998, according to a report released in 2000. Its population was 100,349,766 in 2000. Its per capita is $9600 in 2004 (no. 84 vs. the Philippines 5,000 no. 124 in ranking globally). Hundreds of Mexicans cross the border into the United States daily to escape poverty in their country. The "natives" nor descendants of the Aztecs do not currently rule Mexico, but descendants of the Spanish elite. The country is also grappling with a severe lawlessness associated with its role as conduit of illicit drugs going into the U.S.A. Although I agree that Mexico may be an exception to what I said earlier, I would suggest the Chile might be a better example of a former Spanish colony who really did good.

[s.n.m.p.]

well maayo to para ma correct dayon....I know maka embarass kaayo...pero diri wa may mo lihok kung dila pa-ulawan...baga ug nawng na tanan diri

Yes number 1 kabaga ug nawong ang Presidente sa Pinas ug iyang mga alipores.

Hahay! Ni ambit nasad ang Pinoy.

That's the spirit! Blame the president. That's what we are best for whining!

Hey guys! What do you expect from a prison cell in a country that has lots of squatters and poor people? It doesn't have to be shown in CNN to be embarassed.

For filipinos, we should have been embarassed before when ERAP won ... Enrile ... Mother and Son estrada ...

But I agree, if it has to be a CNN report that makes the wake up call, then good. I hope everybody wakes up.

This report should have been reported by our very own media. Media nowadays are busy making money and busy putting the so-called stars in Government.

Mas mauwaw ta nga peke atong Presidente unya ato ra gi konsente.

[randy111979]

well maayo to para ma correct dayon....I know maka embarass kaayo...pero diri wa may mo lihok kung dila pa-ulawan...baga ug nawng na tanan diri

Yes number 1 kabaga ug nawong ang Presidente sa Pinas ug iyang mga alipores.

Hahay! Ni ambit nasad ang Pinoy.

That's the spirit! Blame the president. That's what we are best for whining!

Hey guys! What do you expect from a prison cell in a country that has lots of squatters and poor people? It doesn't have to be shown in CNN to be embarassed.

For filipinos, we should have been embarassed before when ERAP won ... Enrile ... Mother and Son estrada ...

But I agree, if it has to be a CNN report that makes the wake up call, then good. I hope everybody wakes up.

This report should have been reported by our very own media. Media nowadays are busy making money and busy putting the so-called stars in Government.

Mas mauwaw ta nga peke atong Presidente unya ato ra gi konsente.

I don't think that our president has been proven guilty yet. Or mananag-an ra gyud ka. I never saw a teaching in our Roman Catholic Religion about your style of commenting.

Bro, don't plainly read the bible nor memorize it or quote from it. You have to understand it and live it. Mauwaw man sad ko na Katoliko ko.

My last OT on this thread. Pasensiya na mga Mods. I just hate it when people quote from the bible and their singing a different tune. My apologies.

[silent-kill]

hoy s.n.m.p activista kano? hehehe

[FK]

O.T.

For filipinos, we should have been embarassed before when ERAP won ... Enrile ... Mother and Son estrada ...

base on your statement above... you judge people when they are proven to be guilty... right? now are this people mentioned above have been proven guilty?

btw i'm not defending Enrile et al. Just want to clarify things where you base your judgement.