personally, i prefer communism or military junta. filipinos, by nature, are stubborn and hard headed. since spanish time, filipinos have a culture of corruption and self help. by swithching to communism or junta, the philippines can cut the culture of corruption. provided that the people who will govern have the best intention in mind. what do you think?
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I agree to military but you should consider the Filipinos very religious, just look what happend during edsa 1. I say change the government to parliament but no, the other Filipinos are to disagree, the masa like the popular people to be picked leader ex.actors(no offense, thats reality) .factors that lead to the downfall of the people is their poor education, lack of money, corrupt/uneducated(did not finish collage) officials and their laziness. this people live thier lives, they don't work hard and still they have this complains that they are poor and that wow some people have time to enjoy thier wealth. I hate the masses that complain and do nothing and that is their very poor culture.
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The religion?  The catho-lice are everywhere.  But there is one good thing about a single religion dominating a country: they tend not to be as fearful about competing religions or atheism when their cult is so dominant.  The only annoying part is when you're in a store and a catho-lice "prayer" starts blasting out at 120 decibels; they stop shopping and stand there with heads down and will give you dirty looks if you keep shopping.  The cult is endemic (or I should say, epidemic) in their society.\n\nThe people?  They're pretty much the same as people in every country I've been to, just people.  One thing I heard that's fairly accurate is some people call them the "Latinos of Asia"; given how so many want to get out and go to the US, it fits.\n\nThe places?  The country looks like time stopped in 1986: construction and new buildings were never finished as soon as the Marcos dictatorship ended and the money stopped coming in.  Anything that looks new in the country was built by foreign investors after 1995.\n\nMy biggest annoyance with them and why I won't go back for another holiday is that they all expect praying enough will solve their problems; I'm _not_ insinuating that they're lazy, but Filipinos don't seem to think that working for a solution will do more than praying for a solution.  ("Hands that help are better than lips that pray," as the saying goes.)\n\n\n.
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I find that the Chinese can be the most reflective nationality...The Japanese are the most careful when it comes to preservation and balance...The Koreans have the best language in the world, bar none...The Vietnamese have a pride and self-respect that is unmatched...The Filipinos have a strength that most others in their position would scarcely uphold... Hard to choose. Nice question. :)
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No system is absolutely perfect, but I would pick a capitalist system over the alternative. \n\nMy fiance' lives in Vietnam and grew up eating rats and garbage because the communist system failed to generate enough resources to feed the population. Instead of a few people going hungry, the whole country was going hungry with exception of the people who were in the communist party or in the government. \n\nCapitalism is just taking shape in Vietnam, which turned the country completely around with the vast majority of the population having work, a decent place to live and not having to eat rats and garbage anymore.
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greetings...\n\nphilippines was ones considered as the third largest english speaking country in the world next to US and the UK.\nbut that is no longer the case... the filipinos were taking for granted the gift of english which they had...\nas what current conditions in the philippines imply, english is of much significance being the universal language...\nwithout the proper practice of english filipinos might might forever plunge into a third world country...\nbut on the other hand, it is the english language that can pull the philippines from the claws of poverty...\n\ni hope i was able to help.......
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I agree. Their approach is more of a secular humanist approach to life. This is why they are more civilized, less greedy, protect human rights and the environment, and are generally more progressive and less profit oriented. They don't believe they are morally superior and don't feel the need to go and spread "democracy" like the US does.\nI am speaking about Western Europe.
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Rule of law from the weakest person to the strongest should be a goal of every country, unfortunately, the Chinese communist party is threatened by the "spiritual" movement Falung Gong, so it's possible these acts are condoned tacitly to "scare "citizens back into the communist fold. Any acts like these, if true, would be signs of desperation. The Chinese government will be on it's best behavior until the Olympics in '08, then I believe there may be great confrontation in China. Their economy is more and more capitalist, the people want and are getting, to a certain degree, a more free and materialistic lifestyle, yet the Communist party still holds sole political power. At some point one will have to give way to the other.
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"Ang taong mapanira, siya ang malaki ang sala. Mas masakit ang sugat, na katha ng dila. Ang dungis ng iba, bago mo batiin, ang dungis mo muna ang iyong pahirin."\n\nA Culture that can offer the wise words as above as the Maharlika, how can the Filipinos be not proud of their own heritage?
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People want democracy to deliver what it cannot hope to deliver...perfect government. I agree with you. If the people support the leader then forget what the US says. The USA has enough corruption problems of their own with a democratic system being bankrolled by corporate America for their own capitalist ends. (Didn't mean to sound like 1960's european communist 'filthy capitalist pigs' type guy it just came out that way!)
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The answer to social problems is not capitalism or communism, it is somewhere in between ... ideally humanism  applied in governmental form. Sadly power and corruption at the top level generally ensures that which ever system is in operation is mis-used to the detriment of the masses and therefore doomed to eventually fail .... bummed out  millions versus bunkered government ... no contest, if you see what I mean.
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If George Bush has his way, this country will run exactly like China. Government spying on citizens, and consolidation of power in the hands of a few.\n\nEvery communist country there ever was turned out this way. That is why the republicans are fundamentally more communist than are the democrates. If you are looking at the philosophical principles of "equality" in communism, then democrates are more communist than republicans. But if you are looking at the actual reality of communism, which are basically just forms of dictatorships, republicans are more communist. \n\nRepublicans are basically anti-capitalist. This may seem odd as they always play themselves as being pro-capitalist, but they are really pro-feudalism. They are against competition. They see that capitalism without countering principles of socialism to balance it can quickly and easily be turned into a form of feudalism in which those in power maintain their power through financial superiority rather than sheer military might. This was similar under feudal systems, in which the Kings and Queens maintained power by virtue of the fact that they had so much money. They used that money to buy a military for themselves, and to enforce their will upon others. That is essentially the ideal of the republicans as well. \n\nCapitalism, which was born out of the Western Enlightenment and the birth of liberalism, depends on competition to maintain its health. Republicans are fundamentally against competition, and all their policies are aimed at consolidating corporate power into the hands of a few (in otherwords, they are pro-monopolies -- they are also against workers rights and unions). They maintain the illusion that they are pro-capitalist because they focus on the idea that socialism and capitalism are fundamentally polar opposites, so that there are no governmental policies to help gaurantee that healthy competition continues. But being opposed to socialism isn't pro-capitalism, it is pro-feudalism. \n\nLikewise the Chinese did the exact same thing, just in the opposite direction. They claim to be pro-communist, but they are really pro-feudalism (where the power is in the hands of a few, and competition is at a minimum), just like the republicans. They managed this by stressing that socialism and capitalism are mutually opposed. By riding the country of competition, they could make sure the government alone had the final say. In otherwords, just like the republicans they are fundamentally anti-competition. They translated "equality among the people" to mean, "equality among the people EXCEPT the government". Which is basically just a form of fuedalism. People who have ties to the government for one reason or another enjoy riches, the masses lie stuck with no real upward mobility. (Although this is changing to a degree.) So they are exactly like republicans in that they see socialism and capitalism as mutually opposed, and the end result on either end is the same, feudalism. It just takes a capitalist system longer to get there because it takes it longer to consolidate the power into the hands of a minority. But following our present course that will inevitably happen, and we won't be any fundamentally different than communist China if we continue to follow republican strategies, because it will be impossible to compete against those who have all the power. And once this happens, the government will automatically have the green light to spy on, and lock away citizens, as there will be nothing to keep them from doing so. The press will basically be controlled by the powerful few (who will control the corporate and government), along with everything else. We already see the first steps in this direction in the present day.  \n\nThe democrates are pro-capitalist, pro-socialist (though they will not openly admit this due to the social taboo). In other words, they are pro-mixed economies, in the vein of many present day European nations
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People Power 1 happened during the Marcos regime when President Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law and established himself as dictator of the Philippines. The people rose up against him in a peaceful protest where nuns, priests, children, and basically ordinary people stood in front of and blocked the tanks and soldiers who were about to ambush Camp Crame, the headquarters of the rebellion against Marcos.\n\nPeople Power 2, however, was not as noble. Elected President Joseph Estrada was accused of graft and corruption and the people wanted him impeached. His trial, as well as the protest pushing for his impeachment in front of the Edsa Shrine, was televised for almost the whole day everyday. The trial itself seemed to be dubious and the people seemed to be using the effect and influence of the first People Power in the wrong way. But in any case Estrada was impeached, he fled the country, and Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo became president.
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Hello dear!\nWell, people and their societies are dynamic bodies, which means there is always strive for improvement, thus, there will always be crisis in every society, especially large states as the Philippines! Further, countries with lower income and pressed political rights are expected to try harder for changes, which increases political crises. Thus, I foresee that the Philippines will continue having the crises for a long time; what I wish is that Philippinos will enjoy more and have more rights achieving higher living standards.
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First it is freedom.  True freedom, personal, religious, and political is the solution. With out that your country will continue as it is forrever.  No amount of international help (food, money, pats on the back) will help. Those things only keep those in power stay in power.
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It is possible to have a benign dictator - someone who has absolute control and uses it (to some extent) to benefit the people he governs.  But it is hard to argue that the government of Cuba is anything else when opposition groups are illegal and there are no observers or NGO oversight during elections.\n\nCastro has done a lot for his country, particularly in terms of education and medicine, but it is sad to see it come with a loss of civil and human rights.  I think it's misleading to look at his actions as entirely good or bad.
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Why is your question in the immigration section? \nThe Philippines has too many people and a poor economy, but it is always growing with foreign companies coming in. There are many more very poor citizens than wealthy. The government has a bad reputation and many want the president impeached. Muslims are many in Mindanao especially with gorilla and explosive training terrorist camps. There are many Internet cafes where women lure or try to meet foreign men to ask for money, or try to marry to leave there and most do that for a better future for them an their family as well. There are many lady boys \n( transvestites) there doing the same thing. So this shows you the people there do what they can to survive. Many live in huts or shacks with no utilities and outside toilets and overcrowded. In general a very proud people that becomes more westernized every week. Water standards are poor and too few inoculations for disease, thus the outbreak of viruses is common. Chicken pox, yellow fever, bird flu is rampant in some areas now.
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Democratic is a better option if you have people in your country who aren't Islamic.  And, pretty much every country has people who aren't Islamic.  Also, the various sects disagree on certain points of Islam, so basing your laws on a specific religion like that is going to cause a lot of friction between the sects.