you know what's really sad? poverty is everywhere pero bulag pa rin mga politiko dito. i mean, you see it in the unclean streets, piles of garbage, lack of basic infrastructure & roads riddled w/ potholes & cracks. it's everywhere, right in front of us.
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awa na lang talagaaa, kubra lang talaga sila ng kubra no? tapos polpol pa mga serbisyo.
ano na Pilipinas??
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Petition to force Philippine government officials to live on ₱96/day, make them use public transport, send them and their families to public hospitals when they get sick without VIP treatment, and send their children to public schools.
Talaga lang ha. ₱96/day.
Putangina ninyo po. Disrespectfully.
the impression kasi is your regional identity comes first, even when we're talking about our shared filipino identity. pwede kayong maging proud of your places but also not portaying filipino language as useless baggage. sad to read hostility some are toward fil/tag than eng
wtf is happening?
#BREAKING: System outage hits Japanese credit unions halting ATM, deposit, withdrawal and transfer services.
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Nuance goes both ways. Recognizing Filipino as a shared nat'l medium doesn't homogenize regional identity any more than speaking English does. A country needs a shared language for nat'l admin w/out treating it as a cultural erasure.
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Its not like that prestige wasnt earned tho. Tagalogs LITERALLY created the Philippine identity.
What power imbalance are you talking about exactly? Having your accent be made fun of? Tagalogs literally do that TO THEMSELVES.
Youre not being opressed because of your ethnicity
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I agree that there's nuance to be had but why are we moving the goalpost when this argument came from Bisaya speakers outright saying "don't speak Tagalog when you visit Cebu you either speak to in Bisaya or English"?
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ang daming sinasabi tungkol sa economic growth, investments, at development, pero gusto ko rin malaman kung kailan mararamdaman ng ordinaryong Pilipino yung progress na yan. kasi kung sa reports lang maganda ang numbers pero hirap pa rin ang buhay ng tao, ano bang klaseng progress yan?