Category: Culture

The Control-Freak “Disente” have skewed the Concept of Freedom

Posted on By ChinoF 5 Comments on The Control-Freak “Disente” have skewed the Concept of Freedom

The recent brouhaha over Faceook hiring and implementing “fact-checkers” and also blocking mechanisms against suspected “fake news” has many people in an uproar. Such people believe that the basis of this “fact-checking” is not real fact-checking, but partisan views and whether certain ideas agree with or offend them. It would be subjective, not objective. Because…

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Culture, Politics

Filipino Unity – Is there such a thing?

Posted on By zaxx 9 Comments on Filipino Unity – Is there such a thing?

When was the last time Filipinos were united? Some will say it was as the Yellow horde back in the EDSA I People Power Revolution days that Filipinos truly got together to depose an “evil malevolent dictator”. But they weren’t, since those warm bodies that flooded EDSA’s lanes represented just a fraction of the total population…

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Culture, Society

Filipinos cannot aspire to be a people of INTEGRITY as long as Lourdes Sereno sits as “chief justice”

Posted on By benign0 4 Comments on Filipinos cannot aspire to be a people of INTEGRITY as long as Lourdes Sereno sits as “chief justice”

Filipinos like to talk big around the lofty word “integrity”, but do they really know what it means to be a person of integrity? Apparently not — because to be a true person of integrity involves consistency from the ground up. Take this circus surrounding the plight of Supreme Court “chief justice” Lourdes Sereno. One…

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Culture, Government

Yellowtards exhibit crab mentality when they vilify Brillante Mendoza and his TV series “Amo”

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The Philippine Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) have gone way beyond feeding Western media with slanderous and downright misleading information about the Philippines. The Yellowtards are now resorting to lobbying — even bullying — a media organisation into withdrawing content they summarily deem “undesirable” in this most recent instance of their…

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Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media

Lost in Subject-Verb Agreement: Should Filipinos go back to Grammar School?

Posted on By zaxx 19 Comments on Lost in Subject-Verb Agreement: Should Filipinos go back to Grammar School?

One of the most rudimentary rules of grammar is matching the right verb with its subject. But it seems to be so convoluted and complex due to the sheer number of choices one has to consider: TWO… either singular or plural. Filipinos simply find having to weigh between those two choices as too confusing that…

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Culture, Education

Filipinos continue to prefer mestizas over ‘kayumanggis’ because they are lazy thinkers

Posted on By benign0 9 Comments on Filipinos continue to prefer mestizas over ‘kayumanggis’ because they are lazy thinkers

It’s no secret that having fair skin in the Philippines translates to upward social mobility. If we consider for a moment that the skin colours that dominate Philippine entertainment may be good indicators of the sorts of folks Filipinos look up to and even worship, it is fair to conclude that this remains true today….

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Culture, Society

The Underpinnings of Filipino Anti-Intellectualism

Posted on By ChinoF 9 Comments on The Underpinnings of Filipino Anti-Intellectualism

Discussions about the Philippines’ problems and condition often lead to the topic of anti-intellectualism, as what our webmaster Benign0 recently wrote about. It is considered one of the factors why the Philippines remains a bottom-feeder among societies. Many try to explain it as a result lack of education or poverty. Sure, poverty may be one…

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Culture, Society

Local Journalism’s Adversarial Role is Overrated

Posted on By ChinoF 12 Comments on Local Journalism’s Adversarial Role is Overrated

After writing about journalists not being special, sometimes sacrificing truth and opposing for opposing’s sake, further reading revealed to me that some journalists act as they do because they believe journalists should be adversarial. Because of the belief that journalists are “defenders of democracy,” which in turn is partly because of the recommendations of the…

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Culture, Media