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JoeAmThe Biggest Corruption of Them All
It is good to see the Philippine government working to protect women with the Reproductive Health and Divorce bills. Hopefully the Catholic Church won’t be allowed to pull the Philippines back into the Dark Ages. These are steps toward modernization and away from being a nation out of step with kindness and common sense. It’s … Continue reading
“Man Up, Philippines”
The tourist honchos offer up new slogans now and then to attempt to characterize the wonder and awe of Philippine beaches and other tourist destinations, such as they are, in a few crisp words. I wish to recommend a sparkling new slogan for the whole of the Philippines: “Man up, Philippines” This term derives from … Continue reading
The Incidental Tourist
That’s me. I’ve lost my bus ticket, so I guess I’ll just stick around and see what is happening hereabouts. I see that Moody’s has upped the investment rating of the Philippines. This is a good thing, but it is important to read the Moody’s report deeper than the headline. Moody’s attributes the improvement to … Continue reading
The Transactional Worm
The worm has turned. The cultural pattern followed in the Philippines is generally transactional and reactive. It is not principled. It is not strategic. It is not broad minded or far-reaching. It is not sacrificing. Let’s take a few recent transactional incidents and observe how the Philippines has behaved: The Philippines joins the … Continue reading
Corruption of Public Trust, Part II
Money is a value. Trust is a value. One is hard, defined in a coin or slip of paper. The other is soft, defined in the integrity of behavior. Media and governmental attention to corruption in the Philippines is focused mainly on money. The more prevalent form of corruption, betrayal of public trust, is largely … Continue reading
The Society of Honor by Joe America 