Proud to be Pinoy
My decision to move back to the
Since October, I have then revisited many parts of the country, from as far north as
I love this country. Despite gross corruption, our legal system generally works, and if ever confronted with having to employ it, I would feel safer trusting the courts here than in any other place in
The basic problem seems to me, after traveling to other parts of the world, is the disturbing lack of pride of being Filipino. Alarmingly, the situation has already been aggravated. We have cities full of beggars. We have rude drivers — taxis that routinely refuse to take passengers because of traffic. The roads are also cursed with pollution-spewing buses. We have public schools without chairs or books. We have a “conflict” in
I have once read in an article not very long ago that “all Filipinos want to be something else. The poor ones want to be American, and the rich ones all want to be Spaniards. Nobody wants to be Filipino.” Filipinos tend to worship, almost slavishly, everything foreign —the illogical respect given to foreigners simply because they are not Filipinos. The distrust to any locally-made merchandise, the neglect of anything
Right now, a lot of Filipinos are leaving the country in droves because we think there is no future here. But the
There’s a hunger for Filipinos to have an identity. For a source of pride, we are sick and tired of being torn down. I believe that this desire most strongly among the young. We are the first generation to come of age with the burden of World War and Martial Law. If we say we can do anything, we can. In taking pride in our heritage and our home, we take pride in who we are.
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