Thursday 21 February 2013

Commenting on an FB Post


Haters will always be haters, I must say. Filipinos are born haters. They have no single iota of appreciation and acknowledgment for the things that make sense, regardless of who said it and how it was said.

To what this post is conveying...

Yes, there is something terribly wrong with our country. And I don't say this because of the increasing burden on poverty and corruption. There are other poorer, much poorer, countries. There are countries far more corrupt than us, yet this seem to still have that sense of doing it right and sticking together when needed.

It's called Patriotism. And Loyalty to one's country.

The idea, and the advocacy, of loving a country should never be taught, nor should it be forced in us. It should come out naturally, like how you would love your own parents or your favorite pet Bantay.

When you see Americans sing their national anthem, you see them silent and crying while singing. When you watch Japanese videos in Youtube, you laugh because they only know their own language, and it becomes most of the time a laughing stock. When Koreans make movies, as much as they can, they will focus on the melodrama of their country, of the things that make their place unique, without having to use a foreign language or shoot in foreign lands.

What makes other culture better than our culture is that, for some reasons, despite the lure of corruption, they can manage to be loyal to their country.

When our national anthem is played anywhere, I stop and put hand in my chest. When inside the cinema before a last full show, I stand and sing while the national anthem is played, and when someone is doing otherwise, I let them feel the wrath of my disgust; magpaparinig ako sa kanila until they stand up. When I see a Korean on the street, I don't stare at him, because despite being whiter and taller than myself, hindi siya celebrity.

When Americans do their presidential election, I envy them because it does not take that long to arrive at a decision. I heard some news that their election system isn't really straightforward, probably not as straightforward and transparent as ours, yet, they can find time to bow down to the decision when it is already out. That's patriotism in play. Even if the argue or hurt each other in worst ways possible, at the end of the day, they cannot go against their fellow American.

When Koreans visit our country, they find it hard to choose between their own language and English. They only get forced to use English because that's why they are hear, to learn it.

When a Pinoy goes stateside, and comes back home only after a month, himala, di na alam mag-Tagalog.

When I see the red light at 3am, I stop, even when others aren't. And FYI, I only ride a 50cc scooter/moped.

There are things around which we intentionally ignore, kasi akala natin, it's not cool doing all those things. What's creating most of our problems is that the uncool wants to be cool the wrong way and the cool ones force the uncool to be cool the opposite way.

Hindi po sinisisi sa gobyerno ang kadamihan ng problema  natin. If we are mature enough, we will realize that until we get that decency to admit that it's our fault, we're just going to walk around in circles. :(