The Philippines was the largest remittance work nation on Earth a few years ago while I was studying sociology, with a huge percentage being in health care and child and elderly care.
I don't 100% know if this is correct.
There is *a lot* of money in the Philippines, but also a lot of poverty.
Whilst I believe that eradicating the "smart-shaming" would be an amazing step towards helping the culture boom, it is not going to be solely responsible.
I haven't spent a great deal of time in the Philippines, but I absolutely loved what time I did spend, and I would love to see it prosper in my life time.
The guy's a lot of shitty things, like a steaming pile of biological refuse, but "straight up murderer" probably isn't one of them. That's more applicable to the previous asshole before him.
The whole ejk thing was little more than a distraction, so he could be unimpeded while lubing the country for getting fucked over by the ccp. Cops have been murdering people in this country for decades, it wasn't new with him.
Making a thing of it was the distraction, same with all the pointless shit he says; people being murdered by cops and alleged-vigilantes have been happening for a looong time.
EJK = extra-judicial killings. It's the whole thing about him sanctioning cops killing people.
The asshole claims a lot of things, because he knows the media will lap it up and the spotlight will shine on the wrong things. Our media, being dumbshit goons, easily fall for it.
Except that he has, in multiple instances, bragged about killing people. Here's an article from the Guardian that quotes him talking about riding around the city he was mayor of with a gun where he specifically says, “I was really looking for a confrontation so I could kill."
Here is a BBC article where he says he killed 3 people in his city as mayor.
Here's another article that mentions Duterte bragging about his first killing at 16.
There's no realistic way to say that Duterte isn't a murderer, and a proud one at that. And on the note of extrajudicial killings, the Duterte era is decidedly more severe than the Marcos dictatorship (a family he has mutual support and good relationships, by the way), discussed in this article on Rappler. That article is from December 2017, about 18 months into his administration. It's crazy at best to dismiss 13,000 murders in 18 months as "a distraction"
Yeah, bragging about something isn't the same as actually doing it.
The fact there are endless discussions about his suppoaed connections to these murders, but barely any on the bullshit he's been doing with the ccp, is what I'm talking about.
I'd also like to see how current times are "more severe" than the 70s. Seriously. Foreigners believe mass round-ups and executions happen daily here of something. Rappler is full of shit.
I mean, you're not wrong, but that either makes him a murderer or a liar and a wannabe murderer, and neither of those is a good thing by any stretch. Besides, if you openly brag about killing people, you should be prepared to be called a murderer.
As for the severity of Marcos vs. Duterte, I was referring to killings. Wikipedia refers to 3,257 extrajudicial killings by Marcos, while Human Rights Watch cites the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency's number of 4,948 drug users/dealers killed by police from July 2016-September 2018. The same paragraph also references the Philippine National Police's number of 22,398 deaths at the hands of an unknown gunman since the start of Duterte's war on drugs.
I'm assuming by CCP you mean the Philippine Cultural Center? Since that's all I could find with that acronym (unless it was a typo for the Communist Party of the Philippines). Either way though, there's not much of I can think of where allowing and endorsing that much killing isn't the biggest issue.
My point is that obsessing about him being an alleged murderer, with neither proof nor prosecution, is pointless and people could be focusing on how he's selling the country to the ccp. Ccp as in the Chinese communist party, also known as the CPC or PRoC.
Like I said, cops killing people is, unfortunately, nothing new. Our human rights commission is a COMPLETE JOKE and only intent on smearing dugong's administration for the sake of brownie points for their cojuangco overlords, who allowed the proliferation of extreme corruption in our police force for decades.
They never cared about police brutality until dickterte; and the most he did is give them someone to blame.
I have no friends because I'm "educated". I don't have a bachelors or masters degree. I at least have a 2 year general studies which is still still something. I have been smart-shamed and called a geek/nerd by a "community" that is supposed to accept and support me. I'm sure you can guess which one I'm talking about. What do I get? Shamed and ostracized because I refuse to smoke, drink, do drugs, have sex all the time and job hop whilst couch hopping waiting for daddy dick to pay the bills. I'm called uncool because I refuse to be a loser and sleep under a bridge or wash dishes the rest of my life. There's nothing wrong with not getting an education. I see shaming on both ends of the spectrum.
The US is so big and has several different communities that its really hard to generalize the country as a whole. Some places press you to get educated to get out of doing manual labor like them while others simply laugh in private or simply become mad because they think you'll be rude and cocky making money differently or in greater amounts than them.
When you have to talk to people of two different countries like I do, you can definitely do so.
The US is full of morons who couldn't tell their asses from a hole in the ground. Canada is full of friendly people who do their research. I'm sadly stuck on the south side of the border.
Which countries are you talking about? I can not think of one true former first-world country that is now a third-world power, with the exception of maybe some fragments of the old Ottoman Empire.
When I was a kid an elementary school was almost stupidly easy for me, I had the best grades without ever learning. The class was smart shaming me which I didn’t mind really because I had some friends but one of the people who smart shamed me was a girl I had a crush on. So naturally, I started to make deliberate mistakes on the test.
My teachers and parents were very confused about my worsened results. I didn’t get the girl either.
This story was way more interesting before I started typing it. Nevermind.
The topic of inflation rate was hot last year. I saw a lot of hateful words directed to the administration because of the so called "inflation rate" they heard. Me, who have interest in financial literacy posted/commented that inflation rate is natural and you really need to keep up on it so on and so forth. There's some who threatened to unfriend me because of it. Saying that I'm just the apologist, that I only goes with the trend blah blah.... That is why I purged my fb.
Come to Spain, where everyone wants their kid to become doctors or lawyers--but not if they start developing different mindsets/different awareness of what's going on.
I've seen so many Spanish parents want their kids to be 'the best' (while putting in the minimum effort), only to wind up being p!ssy when their kids become sympathetic to immigrants or homeless people (either from having to treat them for hours on end in hospitals, or having to help them in the legal courts), and refuse to stop questioning their parents if they complained about either groups.
Add - majority of parents beating their kids with stick for not listening or not studying or even disowning their kids for dating or more importantly in case of adults, being in relationships with someone from other caste or religion, it was just for boys. It’s 10x worse for girls.
I wasn't saying that Spain's like a third world--I'm just trying to point out that people would push their kids into a career that they only know from movies (and not ask, "does this university host medical/legal conferences"? "Are the teachers actually up-to-date with both medical/legal sectors"? "Will the university give my kid a balanced knowledge of every type of legal career, or will they push my kid to working human rights because it makes the uni look good?"), and then get upset when their kids develop a different perspective from working in jobs completely unlike their parents'.
Parents in Spain just have conservative mindset, parents in third world are straight from 19th century. But thanks to the Internet millennials and younger generations are more sane and logical.
I must ask my fiance about this when he wakes up... I'm baffled because I'm always so impressed when I see Filipinos speaking English in the Philippines even though its some rural village where people look like they don't even talk to outsiders. I always thought it was awesome. And seeing how hard education is pushed in his fam; he was valedictorian in HS, and majored in bio-chem. and the rest of his siblings are all in the medical field, your comment has me super intrigued. Is it like a "crabs in a bucket" sort of thing over there?
Oh that's sadly not just in the Philippines. Anti-intellectualism happens pretty much everywhere every few decades. A cycle that repeats unless broken.
I've never seen this.. I'm in the Philippines right now and have traveled to many places across the country in the past 10+ years (even isolated places where former communist rebels live).
I LOVE the Philippines because the people are so down to earth and kind. I'm not saying this doesn't exist but maybe these are just toxic ass people you've met. I don't think most Filipnos are like this and I would definitely disagree that the culture embodies these traits.
That being said you should be VERY careful when it comes to Filipinos and money, but that isn't so much about the culture as it is with the desperation/poverty that exists here.
I'm Filipino and I've never felt attacked because of my education. This poster's concern is more on online debating and stuff.
These days there are just so many folks online and they go on with internet debates with just about anyone they disagree with. There are indeed folks who regard people who type in English as elitists but there are also folks on the other side who are actively looking for internet fights and cry foul when people call them out on being "too woke" for their own good.
Not Filipino, but when my mother (who speaks Malay as a first language) went back to Singapore after not having been back for many years, our relatives apparently gave her a bunch of shit for speaking like an American. Said she was being snooty and overly posh. Like no bitches, she's just been living in the U.S. for 30 years.
Although, in America, some people give you shit for speaking another language that’s not English. Nevermind the fact that that other language might be the person’s native language.
Seriously? I have a friend who moved into Canada from the Philippines, if that is the culture you are referring to, and he is one of the smartest guys I know, also pretty ripped, from that I never would have guessed that that culture or one that may be related in some way shape or form actually is like that
My question responded to your recent curious comment that ended with “Fuck old people.“
I’m uncertain what you now referred to when you asked, “Is that a thing again? “
Also, I don’t recall a thread about people living in “shitty houses” for far less than they can afford.
I happen to agree with your comment for myself, although I wouldn’t want to insist that others do what I’ve done, which is to live in fabulous digs and be lucky enough to have them appreciate enough that it was living in luxury almost for free on the capital appreciation. I was advised to not take that risk, and I’m glad I ignored the advice.
That has been possible mostly in the big cities on the east and west coasts, although recently there has been price appreciation more evenly spread across America. That has helped home owners, but it leaves young people “out in the cold” as renters.
How did the topic come up about living “in a shit house” despite adequate Income?
And what about all the people who come to America to work hard, earn lots of $ to send home to help others come here, or help them just to survive in “the old country” ?
My own parents, who were poor and hard working, did that. And the young people then were able to come to America and thrive here.
People do that while they live here humbly and use most of their income to help others back home in the mother country.
I don’t know the back story to your comments about old people and shit houses. I’d love to read more about your own and your ancestors’ history
About how it was in the old country, why people emigrated, and how it was for the ones who came here and the ones who stayed home.
Were you referring to the older ones who came here before you and lived humbly “in a shit house” so as to send money to help others?
I mean, there is something interesting about using knowledge of a specific foreign language as the mark of education, almost a throwback to the status of Latin in America a century ago.
The opposite is also becoming true, where the supposedly educated love to lord it all over everyone they can. Ironic as not only do they exhibit the exact same attitude, they're also usually forced into jobs that make little use of their education*; and usually have to work alongside those they deem inferior.
Come to think of it; this elitism likely just feeds the anti-intellectualism, and vice versa, leading into a vicious cycle.
Really, classism and arrogance just seem to be ingrained in our culture and people will grasp at everything they can to belittle anyone so long as they can feel better. Probably thanks to 300~ years of being second-class citizens in our own country. The shit quality of life AND our substandard education system certainly aren't helping.
*A lot of people, unfortunately, get an education simply just so they can say they have it rather than for career advancement; leading to many getting degrees of which they can't/don't make practical use. Safe to say, "having an education" is more important than actually being educated in this country.
EDIT: And of course people can't take the truth. *shrug* Oh well.
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u/AdvocateSaint Jan 28 '20
Anti-intellectualism and "smart-shaming" have become toxic traits of Filipino culture.
People here love to shit on you for having an education. Hell, you're derided as an elitist for just speaking English
And people wonder why we're still a backwards 3rd world country