Thanks for posting this, Kiasen, and to Azi for explaining in simple terms to that dumbass da Rude-boy the malaise at the heart of the Philipino identity.
As BArth Suretzky put it, the poor want to be Americans, the rich want to be Spanish. So there is a populist culture and an aristocratic culture in the Philippines. My wife, whom you might all know here on this board, is from a rich political family in the Phils, and definitely they are proud of their Spanish blood and heritage. On the other hand, the average Philipino wants above all to escape to the States. He eats burgers and fries, and wears jeans and a baseball hat as his national dress.
Who to blame? the Americans for a start: when they could have built up the democratic foundations of the country, they sold it out to commercial interests and corrupt lackeys like Dole and Marcos.
Unfortunately, this lack of national identity combined with the hypocrisy that comes of a Catholic upbringing produces a shifty and disreputable character. Back-stabbing, gossiping, snide and vain, the Philipinos are not the Latinos of the east as they seem to imagine themselves, but the least trustworthy of all the Asians.
Call me prejudiced if you like, but that comes from a decade of bad experiences: Now I am definitely allergic to Philipinos.
Thanks for posting this, Kiasen, and to Azi for explaining in simple terms to that dumbass da Rude-boy the malaise at the heart of the Philipino identity.
As BArth Suretzky put it, the poor want to be Americans, the rich want to be Spanish. So there is a populist culture and an aristocratic culture in the Philippines. My wife, whom you might all know here on this board, is from a rich political family in the Phils, and definitely they are proud of their Spanish blood and heritage. On the other hand, the average Philipino wants above all to escape to the States. He eats burgers and fries, and wears jeans and a baseball hat as his national dress.
Who to blame? the Americans for a start: when they could have built up the democratic foundations of the country, they sold it out to commercial interests and corrupt lackeys like Dole and Marcos.
Unfortunately, this lack of national identity combined with the hypocrisy that comes of a Catholic upbringing produces a shifty and disreputable character. Back-stabbing, gossiping, snide and vain, the Philipinos are not the Latinos of the east as they seem to imagine themselves, but the least trustworthy of all the Asians.
Call me prejudiced if you like, but that comes from a decade of bad experiences: Now I am definitely allergic to Philipinos.