Uh, so whatchu guys think of the Philippines?
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I hope this kind of topic isn't frowned upon here.
I'm just curious about how my country is viewed around the world. We're not that big or important a country, but I'm sure you've heard of it. If you have any weird preconceptions you'd like to confirm about mainland Filipinos, I (or someone as knowledgeable) will try to clear things up.
Oh, funny thing, most foreigners I've come across who asked about Tagalog lessons almost always want to learn the swear words, so:
"Putang Ina mo" - equivalent to "You son of a bitch", but this term is probably the most extreme of swear words here. Shortened to "'tang ina mo".
"Gago" - no direct translation, but a term you call someone akin to "asshole" or "fucker".
Discuss.
I'm just curious about how my country is viewed around the world. We're not that big or important a country, but I'm sure you've heard of it. If you have any weird preconceptions you'd like to confirm about mainland Filipinos, I (or someone as knowledgeable) will try to clear things up.
Oh, funny thing, most foreigners I've come across who asked about Tagalog lessons almost always want to learn the swear words, so:
"Putang Ina mo" - equivalent to "You son of a bitch", but this term is probably the most extreme of swear words here. Shortened to "'tang ina mo".
"Gago" - no direct translation, but a term you call someone akin to "asshole" or "fucker".
Discuss.
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- I often forget how to spell it. How many p's? How many l's?
Other than that, I have no feelings about the Philippines.
uh.... that's all I got
I copied his spelling
As did I. I've already forgotten how to spell it. It's one of those places that I'll just never remember how to correctly spell, unless I can copy it from a nearby source.
Oh, were your Filipino neighbors nice? Weird, eccentric? Did they grow up there, or did they migrate?
And some girl I know over the internet acted like she was a bloke and was in a gang at one point in time. She even e-dated a friend. But that sort of behaviour isn't specific for Filipinos, I am sure.
Quite nice, we helped them deal with snow and they had us over for a whole roast pig.
delicious.
In fact any potluck in our town was likley to have some Filippino food on the table.
Though they also gave us a rather garish religious painting as a thank you for some favor or other.
edit: migrate
now that I think about it, my street was the bloody UN
Koreans, Philippinos, Irish, Swiss, Italians, all first or second generation
it was cool
Of course it probably sucked if you actually lived there I'd imagine.
Friendster was the first huge hit here; everyone was walking about it. I missed the Myspace boat, though.
We still have pRO here, populated by 90% bots and 9% idiots asking for free healz and monies.
Roast pig (lechon) is a delicacy here, and fried chicken is a highly favored dish.
The average Philippino can be said as religious, yeah. Some can be as bad as fundies in the US, too. Atheism is still somewhat frowned upon here, but not persecuted.
EDIT:
If you hated him, yeah it sucked. He wasn't a totally bad guy, though, but the friends he had around him had their hands deep into the national coffers.
He won by a landslide here because he was well known among the people.... as an action star. The next guy who took up his banner, Fernando Poe Jr., was also an action star (these parts, probably the most iconic), and he ran against current president Arroyo. It was close, but Arroyo apparently won. FPJ (and a lot of people) believed he was cheated.
- A country that was subsequently occupied by the Spanish, the Americans, the Japanese, and then the Americans again.
- A country with lots and lots of islands and hardly less ethnic groups and languages.
- A country that has been nominally democratic for some time, but whose political leadership still doesn't get its act together.
- One of the leading exporters of cheap labor to the Arabic oil states because the economy is doing very poorly indeed.
The political maneuvers that went around here is basically: if you don't agree with the head of the party, leave and make a new one. Pander to the public by getting famous stars in your campaigns.
I am wondering if we'd be any better if we just had two parties to deal with.
Piracy is kinda a current issue in modern day, due to all the little islands, several thousand, and not a great ecconomy.
Is "takin our joooobbs!" cause they do a fair bit of outsourcing.
F'ed over by the world bank, so they got a lot of debt, which helps to keep them in thier place and inhibit growth and modernisation to a degree.
Some ongoing problems with a islamic speratists movement.
Rather well know for young male servents(historicly on western sailing vessles) and prostitutes, who's asses are exelent for sniffing coke off.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
Crafty people. Small hands. Smell like cabbage.
Past that I'm empty.
...oh yes! Your capital is Manila. Aerobiz Supersonic tourists like to go to Cebu a lot. You have another city, Quezon City, which serves no immediately obvious purpose.
Crazy, whacked out and gothic. And I wanted bone her so bad. I wanted to be more than friends with her. But it didn't happen.
Make a long story short, I made her pay me back my money I loaned her on the third week from the last day of my freshman year.
After that, I lost contact with her.
Last I heard, she dropped out during my Junior year and is/was pregnant last time my friend saw anything of her.
Also, the terrorist group that is plaguing the Philipines is Jemaah Islamiyah. I think. About a two years ago, Some soldiers tried to commit a coup, failed.
The US military is training the Philippines army to fight that organization and maybe Moro Island Liberation Front. (Although, I don't know if those two are related. Probably not.) (I watch the news, can't you tell
That's about it.
Ever
Sorry
Her grandfather was friends with the former dictator of the Philippines.
I lived in one of those spring resort vacation towns high in the mountains. Somewhat rural, but had enough technological advancement to live a modern existence if you were relatively wealthy. Plus we had a University of the Philippines campus, so despite the country as a whole being extremely religious at least my little corner was a bit more liberal. I went to Catholic school, went to church regularly, and I still ended up non-religious.
I've been to Manila a few times and I hated it. Noisy, polluted, rude, and apathetic. Next to the skyscrapers and high-rise buildings were massive amounts of homeless and disabled people living in boxes. They were just laying there not moving and I couldn't tell which ones were dead or alive.
Although I live in Florida, there's still a very large asian and Filipino population. Most of them are 2nd or 3rd generation and are obsessed with racing, and "AZN pride" as if the whole continent of asia had even remotely similar cultures or even tolerated each other to a sane degree.
Japanese
Chinese
Korean
Vietnamese & Filipino
Vietnamese and Filipino kids has a lot of rivalries trying to establish which as the "better" nationality. It was all silly, but for some reason I found it a little fascinating.
edit: a lot of i's in "Filipino".
In college, I had a Filipino roommate who continues to be my best friend. So I learned a lot about his country from him.
I recall him saying that there's like 3-5 spoken languages there.
The lack of diversity is really apparent in our food selection and quality.
The only thing I really have thought much about in relation to the Filipino (is this a derivative term or anything? I'm sorry if it is, it's just what I'm used to writing instead of whatever an alternative is) culture is their religion.
At least back in New Jersey, every Filipino person I knew was very Christian, and usually to some strange church.
That was probably one of my most poignant moments of high school-- Jenna invited me to a church function, and at the end of it, very bluntly and very smiling asked me if I would join the church.
I said no, and I could tell from the way she frowned so fast and so true that she 'knew' I was going to Hell, and it upset her. We were always a little more distant after I turned her down, but I tried to stay as close as I could because even if it was a strange way of showing she cared-- by choosing me, and me alone for that church function, as her "guest of honor"-- she had shown me she cared very much for me.
I think.
quick hit on her with your anti-religious wiles.
Very poor families from the slums will save up money so that the whole family can go to McDonalds once a month and share a burger, because they think everything from America is cool and somehow improves their status.
Please correct me if I am wrong and my coworkers lied to me
i.e., doggy-style.
Also, it was good comedic effect.
Also, doggy-style.
Actually now that I look at him his face isn't that nice, though he does have a great body.
And that's what excites me the most.
i hate myself
ohh....