Dan Brown calls Manila 'gates of hell' in novel

[victorevolution]

Another sub human condition that my ex and I saw on TV were people catching CITY rats for food!

Dagang bukid is a delicacy in some provinces but city rats are a different story!

which city? only saw that on a stalone movie where rats were turned into hamburgers

[_Cathy_]

It's a local documentary. I don't remember if it was I-witness or Imbestigador. It's somewhere in the slums of Metro Manila.

[Calistro]

Tinamaan ata si Chairman, pakiramdam niya inde niya ginagawa trabaho nya :D

Pinatunayan lang niya lalo un entry dito sa Filipinos cannot progress if they cannot follow even simple guidelines « Get Real Post

[donbuggy]

^ Good read.

Joe America's comment:

The moral scale is sick so the disciplines to be found under that moral view are also sick. Skirting the law for personal gain is not condemned; people brag about what they get away with. They gain face by cheating and lose face only if caught. The Filipino Ego defines right and wrong not as society’s right and wrong, but as right and wrong in terms of personal power or advantage. The law is society’s definition and it is irrelevant if personal advantage can be gained by ignoring it or circumventing it.

These deficiencies are more than intellectual. They are built within the personalities, within the culture. It is as fruitless to get a Filipino to deflate his Ego as it is to get a Japanese to abandon false politeness and the penchant to hide from hard truths.

[Retz]

Si erap na gatekeeper.

[lowslowbenz]

which city? only saw that on a stalone movie where rats were turned into hamburgers

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