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Does your coach yell at you and tell you what you’re doing wrong in practice? Why does he do that? Is it because he hates you and wants nothing to do with you? You think so? Then why are you still on the team, and starting every game? Sometimes the harshest criticisms, those words that hurt the most, are what in the end lead you to achieve your best.
In a very real way, this is what we’re about. We’re not here to put Pinoys down for the heck of it, after all, we are Pinoys too…it is an altogether uncomfortable realization that the land we call home is a dysfunctional mess, but it is hard not to see the painful truth. We love our country, we want the Philippines and all Filipinos to improve, and for this country and society to live up to its potential. But before that can happen, we need to know what’s wrong about us so that we can fix ourselves and point ourselves in the right direction.
So who is the Anti-Pinoy?
In the day-to-day exchange that defines real life for most Pinoys, the daily news, radio and TV broadcasts, our cinema, and in casual conversation, the masa and those who celebrate mediocrity – those who are quick to boast about how ingenious Pinoys are and point to our colorful Jeepneys as examples, or who count the number of look-alike, sound-alike local celebrities or the once-in-a-generation gifted professional athlete as a measure of national greatness – set an UNPATRIOTIC example and lower the bar of public debate.
The more the Anti-Pinoy glorifies these mediocrities and focuses on the vacuous and the trivial, real issues that affect ordinary lives and futures are forgotten or pushed aside. Like the unambitious student who is praised by his parents despite consistently doing poorly in school, the bad habits and low expectations of Pinoy society are reinforced, making it that much harder with every passing day to find the right path. So that’s where we come in, and we bring a message: The path to prosperity, the path to the place the Philippines deserves among the world community, the path of patriotism for all true Pinoys is to first honestly and bravely acknowledge the ills of society and then have the initiative to seek to fix them.
The Filipino’s greatest enemy is himself – the Anti-Pinoy.
The question is, are you?
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About Ben: It takes approximately two tons of ore to produce a single ounce of pure gold. At first glance all one sees is a big pile of dirt, but the gold is in there if one is willing to apply patience, hard work, and a great deal of heat and pressure. The Philippines, in a manner of speaking, is my big pile of dirt. |
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can u do more research comparing the “presidentiables” for 2010 election? id like to see and compare based on facts who deserves my vote .
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Good and timely blog.
I am with you. I am the Uncle Pinoy.
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**** bro!
You’re definitely speaking to the choir.
****en awesomeness.
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BenK Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 12:30 am
Well, Mario, that’s correct in one sense; those of us in the choir can only benefit by constantly thinking and being reminded of the big picture, so that we can make our message even sharper and more effective. But really, the larger goal is to open the millions of closed and under-developed minds out there. That’s not necessarily a matter of convincing people to “see things our way” — hell, we don’t even try to do that to each other — but rather to illustrate, over and over again, “the way we go about seeing things”: analysis, objectivity, critical thought, and discarding emotion. It’s something everybody can do, something everybody needs to do, and the process is much more important than the result.
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you guys have interesting blog here.. ^_^ i must agree with this one “the larger goal is to open the millions of closed and under-developed minds out there.” go go go!!!
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If you really thought you can do a better job than the ones who are actually in the arena, why don’t you put your mouth where your money is and challenge them. Organize a party, put out your own candidate. Are you up to it? I doubt it. For your sake, do something other than sit in front of your PC and yak on this blog.
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BenK Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 3:23 am
You’re missing the point completely. It’s not that we think we can do a better job, it’s that we know the Filipino people and the leaders they already have can, if they’d pull their heads out and start thinking and doing things rationally and in a results-oriented way.
And you would probably be surprised at what some of us do. We’re not the issue, though, so unless it helps us to better do what we do, there’s no reason to toot our own horns.
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allanram Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 3:43 am
And you’re missing the point too. If you think it’s as simple as pulling their heads together and start thinking… IT’S NOT. It’s like Obama thinking that the solution to the Afghanistan war is 30,000 more troops. It’s quite naive to think that solutions to problems are within easy grasp always.
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BenK Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 3:54 am
Congratulations, you are now the front-runner in our Stupidest Argumentative Analogy of the Month Contest, and it’s only Dec. 2. Obama’s policy on the Afghanistan War has nothing at all to do with the sorry state of everyday life in the Philippines, not even a little.
You’ve also exposed yourself by assuming that we believe that THINKING is “simple” or “easy” (words you used). You’re just another true AP looking for someone to hand you the answers. Using your noodle to find solutions is neither simple nor easy, it’s often hard work and takes a long time. Two things which are vital to success in most any endeavor, and which are anathema to the Filipino personality.
BongV Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 7:24 am
allanram:
for starters
- vote for a mayor who gives focus to education.
- vote for a councilor who gives focus to education
- vote for a governor who gives focus to education
- vote for a barangay kagawad who gives focus to education
- vote for a barangay captain who gives focus to education
- vote for a senator who gives focus to education
- vote for a congressman who gives focus to education
and while you are at – it – exercise “bayanihan” so that your entire community will:
- vote for a mayor who gives focus to education.
- vote for a councilor who gives focus to education
- vote for a governor who gives focus to education
- vote for a barangay kagawad who gives focus to education
- vote for a barangay captain who gives focus to education
- vote for a senator who gives focus to education
- vote for a congressman who gives focus to education
replicate that to the 40 million registered Filipino voters – then you could wind up with more school buildings, more teachers, more well-paid teachers, more classrooms, more books, heck you can even have breakfast feeding programs.
obviously, it’s easier to vote on CNN – multiple times. provide an enabling environment for skewed voting, oh by golly, they’ll take like fish takes to a pond.
How do you know the people behind this blog are not doing something for their fellows? I know of at least one blogger here who gathered enough money for two truckloads of goods that were distributed to flooded areas.
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@Benk: Have you heard of the chaos theory or in plain lingo (so you will understand) unpredictability? The coin doesn’t always fall the way you intended it to be and no matter how hard you think and plan things, they DON’T always go the way you like it. God, how a group of individuals can share the same naivety is beyond me. I was saying that with Obama, with probably the world’s greatest thinkers and strategists around him, and still he’s struggling with the war in Afghanistan— and to bring the argument to his own country, struggling with a solution to the U.S. Health Care Plan. You think Fiilipinos are vastly superior to them so they can easily formulate a way to solve the Philippine’s problems?
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ilda Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:26 am
What is your solution then Mr Allanram if you don’t want people to use their brain?
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allanram Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:35 am
I don’t know the answer, either, ilda but I am sure glorifying Filipinos’ mediocrities and focusing on the vacuous and the trivial isn’t one of them.
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benign0 Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:42 am
You say we are “glorifying” them, I say we are highlighting them.
By highlighting them, they are clearly presented as issues that need to be addressed. Can anyone truly deny that the national “debate” during elections is vacuous? Do we just pretend that this issue does not exist?
The truth hurts, but without PAIN we will not be alerted to problems. In the same way the reason our body feels pain is so that we are aware of an injury or a health degeneration.
ilda Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 5:02 am
Hey allanram,
Please take the time to read this: http://antipinoy.com/between-poverty-and-ignorance/
Let me know what you think. Thanks
BenK Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 5:05 am
What a cop-out. You can’t articulate any sort of alternative approach, how do you know anyone else’s is wrong?
Filo Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:16 am
Why, if that’s the way you see everything, then you should never step out of your room because whatever you do and whatever you think, whatever you plan, chaos is out to get you, right allanram?
That really says nothing about the reliability of other people’s thinking capacity, but it certainly tells us plenty about yours.
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The Philippines is the result of too much action underpinned by too little thinking. The challenge at the moment is upgrading this thinking. We are not a society renowned not for our intellectual products. As a matter of fact, we are valued more for our ability to act (labour-added-value) then on our ability to think (design-added-value).
If “action” is such a be-all-end-all, then why are college-educated people more highly-paid than labourers? That’s because an ability to think is a SKILL that requires years of training. Compare that to being a labourer where no more than an elementary school education is necessary.
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@benigno: I didn’t say “glorifying”. You did. It’s up there in your blog 4th paragraph.
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benign0 Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 5:40 am
When we refer to the “Anti Pinoy” we are referring to people like you, dude.
Goes to show you haven’t comprehended a single word in the above blog.
Tough luck.
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Filo Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:07 am
Allanram you’ve just proven to everyone that even you don’t practise thinking regularly, and this was just simple exercise of reading of one phrase. Tsk tsk tsk.
Case closed, anti-pinoy!
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Allanram is a typical Pinoy who misses the simplest of points.
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Pitiful.
“So that’s where we come in, and we bring a message: The path to prosperity, the path to the place the Philippines deserves among the world community, the path of patriotism for all true Pinoys is to first honestly and bravely acknowledge the ills of society and then have the initiative to seek to fix them.”
And you come in where? I don’t see you anywhere.
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Kanto boy Reply:
December 14th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Acheron,
You’re so ****ing stupid, huh? You can’t see that this site PRESENTS what the ills of society are so that:
1. Pinoys can first honesty and bravely acknowledge said ills of society
2. Pinoys can then have the initiative to seek to fix them.
Acheron, YOU ARE A ****ING ANTI-PINOY!
Why? Because you either don’t have the brains to recognize where this website comes in, or you really are UNWILLING to acknowledge the ills of society that need to be fixed which this website painstakingly points out.
What a stupid ****ing prick you are, Acheron!
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Iya Justimbaste Reply:
December 14th, 2009 at 10:54 am
And Acheron, like the scientific method, the first step in solving a problem is to identify it and that’s what we do.
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can u do more research comparing the “presidentiables” for 2010 election? id like to see and compare based on facts who deserves my vote .
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Can we have a blog about day-after computerized-vote count?
1. Will there be organized chaos?
2. Will there be coup-de-t’at caused by chaos?
3. Will there be a martial law caused by chaos?
4. Will it be forever be tainted as rigged as like we are pestered by “Did Erap resigned?” “Did Erap abscond?” “Did Erap forced out?” until now these questions still haunt us.
5. Will the elected by the computer-count ever sit and serve?
6. Will there be everlasting invistigation to nowhere?
7. Will the Supreme Court get swamped with election decisions?
8. Will the sitting president be able to serve the people instead of parrying questions of the election result?
9. Will we ever be free of scandals, corruptions, vote-rigging?
10Will there ever be a goot analysis from columnistas to inform the people instead of the people searching in blogs for answers?
I know you got plenty of questions out there. Let’s get going on this before some troll columnistas hijack your thread.
Thank you.
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“… once-in-a-generation gifted professional athlete as a measure of national greatness …” CHOSE A WHITE AMERICAN LAWYER AGAINST MAYWEATHER when there are plenty of Fake-Ams UCLA law graduate. Why did Manny Pacquiao chose, assuming he chose instead of roach, a white American lawyer.
Kasi ang Fake-Ams are not up to par pagkatapos hindi sila magpakitilawaan
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