No, the United States is totally different from the Philippines.
One, the United States is heterogeneous. Americans are decedents of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa.
Whereas the Philippines is primarily homogeneous. 95% of the people are of Malay ancestry and a minority are of mixed ancestry.
Secondly and most importantly.
The United States never suffered a dictatorship. Nor will it ever. The 2nd amendment, the right to bear arms, is living testament of our right to topple any government that oversteps and counteracts the truths made manifest in the United States Constitution, for which thousands upon thousands of America's sons and daughters were sacrificed in its defense. The American Constitution has never been altered, and shall never be. It has remained unchanged for 2 centuries and is the MODEL constitution that other nations base their constitution on. The Philippine constitution is ever-changing.
Developing nations, specifically, developing democracies strive and aim to be just like the United States.
The Philippines, politically, has a long way to go.
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