Fixing our country: Where did we go wrong?

[romeoelectionpaquit]

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fixing our country- may need to fix our constitution.... kay atong constitution karaan na kaau....

[freelancers13]

We may be thinking that the government needs changing or that it should do this or that; we can even go on a rally to ask someone to step down from his / her position. We may also have as the best solution to our country's problems but the fact of the matter is, we cannot change people or the government. We can try to convince them but whether or not they change is up to them. If they want to change then that is up to them. The best thing we can do is spread our ideas and persuade people.

There are so many things that need changing before our country will prosper. But let us look at this objectively. No matter how smart or right we are, there is only one thing we can change which is within our power to change - ourselves.

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy

[chris_bern]

fixing our country- may need to fix our constitution.... kay atong constitution karaan na kaau....

unya kanang balaod ni senator kiko pangilinan o bago man na nga law nakatabang ba? laliman ka ang mga minors basta makasala sa katilingban dili ma record sa NBI or police kay kuno minors ug exempted sila ana..

[elord]

unya kanang balaod ni senator kiko pangilinan o bago man na nga law nakatabang ba? laliman ka ang mga minors basta makasala sa katilingban dili ma record sa NBI or police kay kuno minors ug exempted sila ana..

mao na balaod nga wala dyud gi studiohan unsa effect mao mostly ang crime kay minor ang involve.

[hexo]

the hell with this country.save enough money and then look for opportunities abroad.

this country has been bought and sold a long time ago.

[kapeman]

lisud kaayo oi. gahi og kusgan kai ang mga poiitiko. hahaiz. kung kinsa naay power og resources, mao ra neh asenso. kung kontra nimo politiko lisud kaau. faetz. la chance e fix.

[gareb]

after a number of pages and various opinions ranging from hopeful to hopeless, i have still yet to see someone who has provided a comprehensive explanatory model that consolidates and all observations into something that gives us an idea of where we did go wrong.

a lot of opinions so far have focused on motherhood statements such as 'corruption' or 'cultural and social mindset/attitude'. most would agree that such observations have a grain of truth in them, not a single observation seems to account on the common threads that bind these and other observations.

we know as a fact that there is a significant level of corruption in the bureaucracy, and there is something wrong with the attitudes that we have when it comes to development. but nobody seems to have provided the reason why this happens.

when one tackles a question as open-ended as the title of the thread, one needs to look back in history and take into account, not just a purely economic, or political aspect of our past, but each aspect: economic, political and socio-cultural, and the product of its interactions. we after all are talking about an entire society. if we analyze it in purely economic, or political, or socio-cultural terms, we are bound to haphazardly come up with something that does not correspond to what we see happening around us.

so, the challenge still stands to come up with an comprehensive model that

• incorporates our common observations (economic, political, socio-cultural)
• explains how we got to our current state
• prescribes workable solutions for the future
  

any takers?

[tylerdurden]

-no national identity
-culture of subservience
-past-oriented mentality

[walker]

you ask where you did wrong?

it should be when instead of where.

you went wrong when you let that fool of MANUEL LUIS QUEZON led your country... led on the principle of - "rather see a Philippines run like hell by Filipinos than run like heaven by Americans!"

[raissah]

tsk tsk tsk taaas kaau ako masulti pero wala koy ma type.