as a filipino (by birth) myself, i have to apologize for some of the negative comments you read here... they are still "in denial" stage.
like you, i did a few years of work (US-AID) in manila & many provinces & i'm not particularly happy about what i saw... not because i despise what i saw but because, hope erodes...
the cleanliness & orderliness of a city or town only tells you what kind of people live there... it's all about discipline & i painfully admit that we filipinos do not have much of it. but there's hope... if & when my fellow filipinos jump out of the denial stage & start teaching their children about discipline, instead of making excuses while riding on their emotional souls, then perhaps the next generaton of filipinos will at least some hope for improvement.
as a filipino (by birth) myself, i have to apologize for some of the negative comments you read here... they are still "in denial" stage.
like you, i did a few years of work (US-AID) in manila & many provinces & i'm not particularly happy about what i saw... not because i despise what i saw but because, hope erodes...
the cleanliness & orderliness of a city or town only tells you what kind of people live there... it's all about discipline & i painfully admit that we filipinos do not have much of it. but there's hope... if & when my fellow filipinos jump out of the denial stage & start teaching their children about discipline, instead of making excuses while riding on their emotional souls, then perhaps the next generaton of filipinos will at least some hope for improvement.