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JoeAmTo Readers: "I double dog dare you!"
A reader had the following comment regarding my April blog about Filipino ego: “From my 3 year experience here in the Philippines, I completely agree with you. I’m surprised you were [not] flooded with hate mail. Because that always happens to me if I speak up about certain issues.” The ego article link is here. … Continue reading
Self-Centric Behavior and Filipino Face
This is not a new topic here. I’m just going to try cutting it a different way to get some clarity on it. I’m going to be rudely blunt because tippy toeing gets us nowhere. TO: Juan dela Cruz, the Juan with a high school degree and a couple of years of college under the … Continue reading
Ben Kritz: The Alien Who Shoots Straight
The blogging community in the Philippines is both diverse and small, rather like Hollywood, where all kinds of movies get made but you keep seeing the same faces showing up on the giant screen. John Travolta, Eddie Murphy and Robin William all showed up in dresses at one time or another. The Filipino blogging community … Continue reading
When Commies Speak in the School Yard . . .
I have a background rich with communism. Strange, given that I am a middle of the road American, raised on a small family farm, educated in a progressive and normal suburb of the healthy American metropolis, Denver Colorado, educated at an agricultural college, Colorado State University, pulling down a decent 3.2 grade average, and dutifully … Continue reading
Fighting over Islands
What are the principles by which claims to the Spratley Islands can be resolved? And how do we sort them out?Possible Standards for Deciding Who Gets What China argues territorial rights by historical precedent. It’s fishermen have long fished these islands and they are within the Communist realm’s 1949 “nine-dash map” of territorial claim. Therefore, … Continue reading
The Society of Honor by Joe America 