Why Do We Compare Philippines to other countries?

     Why do people talk about RH Bill now? Abortion, same sex marriage, and other issues alike that would mean a great leap from our cocooned-conservative outlook and stance on things common to other more open-minded countries?

     The statement that we are falling miles behind other more influential and more progressive countries in issues and talks such as the above mentioned really lit fire for some people to care about the argument. "If this country and that country talks about this and that, then, why aren't we talking about it, too? Maybe they are more progressive economically speaking, because they can deal with these things arising." And so on.

     But really, why do we compare ourselves to them?

     Filipinos love to be acknowledged, maybe this is an angle to look at. We want to please other nationalities, that's why we wanna stand on the same platforms they are in. Talking about things just because other countries do so is a stupid way of going at it. Talk about these things because it affects us and that we see this as a vehicle for change, development, and progress.

     Now, writing this, I thought of another issue--using the English language as medium of communication in a country different from America and other countries whose native tongue is not English, we view people differently. If you can speak and communicate in fluent English, people view you as someone rich, educated, of authority, and if you dare speak this foreign tongue and failed, you're stupid, that immediate.

     Or you can see it differently: Those Filipinos who are speaking in English could be just people who wants to earn respect and high regard. Can I be counted as one since this whole article is not in my native tongue?

     Oh well, praise for Senator Lito Lapid for sparking change in the senate. The issue about RH Bill is now being held in Filipino.




Xerlynjoy Lanaza
October 5, 2011 10:35am