“Something has happened to the Filipino character.†It has sunk to a new low—low standards, low morality, low expectations. This view may draw as much censure as the “damaged culture†leveled at us by a foreigner years ago.
For the longest time we have grown up in a mix of the pangulo mentality, celebrity gazing, an uncertain nationalism, a religious culture that values obedience laced with fear, no questions asked, a historical forgive-and-forget people, a collective mind neither educated nor used to intellectual or critical activity. We’ve had all kinds of leaders. Were tired of them; “they’re all the same.â€
Have we become worn-out as a people, a tame hybrid of tanga-takot-tuta (ignorant, afraid, servile)? We have ceased to complain, much less protest, where before we whined. The traffic is worse; the MRT still breaks down; prices are rising; the bureaucracy is as slow as ever. Since December 2015 we have been waiting for our car plate. The EJKs go on, and not a peep. Have we dried up?
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