Philippine Society and Culture

  The Philippines, despite its abundance of natural resources and globally-competitive manpower, still lags behind Asian countries economically.  Back in the 60s where the country used to be called " The Tiger in Southeast Asia" because of its strong economy.  In fact, the country of Vietnam would send scientists to the Philippines to collaborate with the Filipinos in scientific rice research purposes.  But today, it's the other way around. The Philippines is the one importing metric tons of rice from Vietnam and other Asian countries due to the insufficiency of rice production in the Philippines.  Aside from the importation of rice, the country is also planning to import sugar because of the shortage of supply in the country. Lately, sugar warehouses across the country were raided on allegations of sugar hoarding.  Poverty incidence . As of the first semester of 2021 data, there are a total of 26.14 million poor Filipino families, or 23.7 percent of the co...

For the past couple of years, life has been so hard for people across the globe: the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflict in some parts of the world, human-induced and natural disasters, and hunger brought about by the effects of the pandemic has caused us emotional, physical and psychological distress.  Sadly, many people are not emotionally strong enough to face and deal with these challenges in life. In contrast, there are people who are emotionally and psychologically strong enough to deal with life’s unfortunate events, one of them is the Filipinos who are able to withstand and weather through life's challenges.  Undeniably, the Filipinos are a different breed of people on earth. They possess these exemplary virtues that they use as their potent weapons in dealing with unfortunate circumstances in life.  The Filipinos are no strangers to life's difficulties and hardships. They have gone through all forms of difficulties in life and they face these misfortunes head-on. I...

  Aside from his exemplary virtues of patriotism, bravery, kindness, and compassion, Dr. Jose Rizal also possesses qualities that are not known to many people, even to some of his countrymen, particularly the Filipino youth.  These qualities of Dr. Jose Rizal made him attractive to women; in fact, a handful of them had been romantically linked with him as mentioned in his literary pieces like his novels, poems, and essays.  No doubt, the late Philippine hero, Dr. Jose Rizal was truly an exemplar to the Filipinos, particularly to the young generation for his virtues that every Filipino can be proud of.  But there is this quality of him disliked by some Filipinos such as his alleged being a womanizer. It's public knowledge that the country's national hero had been linked to at least nine women according to the country's historians.  The country's historians claim that the country's national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal had a total of nine (9) women romantically involved w...

  The saying 'not all heroes wear capes' is indeed true anyway. And this saying is exemplified among Philippine heroes, particularly in the life of works of the late Philippine hero, Dr. Jose Rizal.  In this article, we'll discuss the values of Dr. Jose Rizal that made him a Philippine hero. Aside from the three values, we'll also discuss the other qualities of Dr. Jose Rizal that are worth -emulating particularly by the Filipino youth.  But how do heroes are made? What are the qualities of a person to be proclaimed a hero? In the Philippines, Filipino heroes have common values that they possess. And the country's national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal had these qualities that made him a hero.  In this blog post, we'll discuss the three (3) distinct virtues of Dr. Jose Rizal that made him the Filipinos' hero.  Dr. Jose Rizal is known across the globe for his values of bravery, martyrdom, and patriotism. But what many people don't know is that there are other valu...