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Originally Posted by hoian
Philippines is actually a nice country if only the govt pay more attention to domestic issues rather than kissing American asses to fight against China over the Spratly islands. Spratly is a never ending political issue and should be solved at the govt levels and not escalate to street violence.
When things get overheated (eg during street protests, China flag burning etc) Chinese-looking guys should stay off the streets. The mobs dont differentiate whether you are S'porean Chinese, Taiwanese, mainland Chinese or whatever.
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if I may be allowed to say it, Filipinos know the difference between Singapore Chinese, Mainland Chinese, or their own local chinese (the Go, Co, Sy, Lu etc)
Kissing America's ass is not the reason for their economy to be in Shambles, the reason started from Marcos, who liberated 10 billion $ atleast (in 1980 estimate - maybe about 30 billion $ in today's currency?) and used the state resources as his private property, and gave away a lot of well performing state assets to his friends and family - and the successors never retrieved them - after all, all those who came after Marcos are from the same pile of Cr*p, though they pretend otherwise
And Marcos put in laws to limit foreigners owning businesses, to protect his friends' interest and all who came after Marcos, only made those laws tighter, to protect the mega rich in Philippines
There are many reasons why Philippines will never grow, in the next 10 to 20 years, and the above reasons are the primary reasons.
And don't get too hoodwinked by the flag burning etc.
There are hundreds and thousands, whose full time job is 'activists' and protesting and all is their way of making a full time, well paying job, and also a seat in the congress as Militant Activists etc, which in return guarantees a fair share of the pork barrel = more money to repeat the previous shows.
No kidding
Protesting is a money making business in PH ! Seriously.
And so profitable is stopping the traffic, destabilising the economy and all the related pain that invokes on the country, but that's a way of life, and money spinner.