Filipino Culture Thread

cakeddout · May 10, 2022

Man I swear some of our peoples are certified dumbasses. It’s unfortunate to know that many are going to suffer from this decision

phnrprman · May 10, 2022

The Philippine elections is a joke. It's all about your popularity or how much money you have. The Filipinos like to relive history all over again. What more can you say when a dictators son becomes president and Robyn Padilla is the # 1 elected senator? Good luck to all my relatives there.

phnrprman · May 10, 2022

bigjny88 said:
Yeah, that is the strategy that always manage to win over the mainstream (POOR) Filipinos. The Marcos regime did this back in the day as well.

They don't care how many innocent ppl die, just as long as "my president" builds me good buildings AND helps my poor *** with money in my pocket (rich ppl also benefitting).

That being said though, it is a positive strategy anyway for any government entity (corrupt or not, meh they're all corrupt somewhat) to improve building infrastructure across the board..........so credit to them for that one.

Building infrastructure is a joke in the Philippines during election season. Come on. Let's break and destroy perfectly good roads and streets and put government official name on the project saying looking I'm improving our city/town but redoing it. Wasting government money that could actually be spent on helping the people. I wonder how much money was given out to buy votes.

jewelknows · May 10, 2022

Haven't been up to date on this but some of my family from the Philippines have been giving me snippets.

Doesn't seem to far from the Trump stuff.

frink85 · May 10, 2022

phnrprman said:
Building infrastructure is a joke in the Philippines during election season. Come on. Let's break and destroy perfectly good roads and streets and put government official name on the project saying looking I'm improving our city/town but redoing it. Wasting government money that could actually be spent on helping the people. I wonder how much money was given out to buy votes.

When I lived there every street with some kind of construction project had a giant tarp with some local politicians name and a giant headshot of them with “this xxxx brought to you by…”

Like even a simple basketball hoop was “brought to you by Jhon Reyes”

wballz · May 10, 2022

frink85 said:
When I lived there every street with some kind of construction project had a giant tarp with some local politicians name and a giant headshot of them with “this xxxx brought to you by…”

Like even a simple basketball hoop was “brought to you by Jhon Reyes”

Provincial politics.

phnrprman · May 10, 2022

Dynasty politics. You have whole families in the government. Father, mother, siblings aunts and uncles all at diffent levels of the government.

jewelknows · May 10, 2022

Anyone have a good doc or summary article of it? It doesnt really pertain to me since I dont live there. But mainly just want to read/hear about it.

frink85 · May 10, 2022

jewelknows said:
Anyone have a good doc or summary article of it? It doesnt really pertain to me since I dont live there. But mainly just want to read/hear about it.

About Marcos’ martial law? Or the elections?

jewelknows · May 10, 2022

frink85 said:
About Marcos’ martial law? Or the elections?

Elections

frink85 · May 10, 2022

jewelknows said:
Elections

This WaPo article from a few days ago covers most of it https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/08/philippines-election-marcos-leni-vote/

Roderick Kingsley · May 11, 2022

jewelknows said:
Anyone have a good doc or summary article of it? It doesnt really pertain to me since I dont live there. But mainly just want to read/hear about it.

jewelknows · May 11, 2022

Thanks everyone!

Sharpshoeter13 · May 15, 2022

Funny *** **** (it’s both in Tagalog and English)

Cliffs: some people are having regrets on voting BBM/Sara because there are plans of extending primary schooling, mandatory military service, banned pageants, etc.

spizike231 · Jun 2, 2022

computersputin · Jul 17, 2022

Pinoy tourist assaulted in New York

The Philippine consulate general in New York yesterday advised the Filipino community to remain vigilant after an 18-year-old Filipino tourist from Cebu was reported to have been violently assaulted near the Philippine Center in Manhattan last Wednesday.

www.philstar.com

18 year old filipino was attacked in New York.
The consulate decided that they need to send a warning out since there's been so many recent racist asian attacks.