chaychay644 wrote:Manilaman wrote:
That's a nice description ChayChay, thanks for that. Sounds like you lived in a nice small town with modern amenities. It would be nice if we heard from a small island Filipina who probably did not have access to college, internet etc. Some of those smaller islands don't have electricity. Please tell about your daily life in your small town.
Life in a small island doesn't make any difference where i live coz most of those places have already access to electricity and communications like cellphones..and if there is no college on that island they actually moved to places like cities where there are state colleges and universities or even private schools..education here is not really that expensive..i have lots of friends who lived in those small islands and they still manage to study until college..
I myself don't belong to rich family, my parents got separated before i was born and so i was raised by my single mom who worked in Manila to support my daily needs..but despite of that, she manage to send me to school until i finished college...from June to December i spent most of my time studying..but during school vacation i spent my time by helping my granny on home chores like cleaning the backyards, washing dishes, preparing meals and after that playing...it was my daily sched until i finished college..
After that of course i got my own work and spent my daily life working..
ChayChay your personal dedication to a better life is commendable but you seem to evidence a classic Filipino denial of reality. Philippines has 0ver 7000 islands, many are small, until recently not even on a map, with maybe a few hundred people, without what western world considers basic infrastructure necessities like electricity, water, sewer, paved roads etc. These small islands rely on fishing, local, fruit limited farmed vegetables with almost no cash / money. School is at best rudimentary grades 1-6 one room all classes together, beyond this level requires attendance at a larger island boarding school which almost never happens. Medical and dental are almost nonexistent.
On a national level compared to any western country and compared to island nation peers such as Japan and Indonesia Philippine eduction system and economy are very substandard. A college education (with minor exceptions) in the Philippines may be considered roughly equivalent to a high school education in developed countries. Many children on small islands never go beyond elementary levels.
Economically, compare Philippines it's island nation peers, Indonesia and Japan, taken from an equal start point of end of World War II. Philippine economy has not progressed leaving it's exploding 90 million people mired in poverty. Since the Philippine economy is so lacking most families are sustained by (a) Overseas Foreign Workers who send money to their family and (b) export young women as wives to relatively more wealthy foreign men . These young Filipino wives function from an economic perspective much like OFWs and are expected to send money to sustain their families in the Philippines. Economically the Philippines is controlled by a few extremely wealthy ruling class oligarch families who, along, with the Roman Catholic Church seem satisfied to rule the Philippines in a modern version of a 1300s feudal system with wealthy nobility and church controlling a serf /peasant class.
An honest non-emotional, non-biased comparison of the social, economic, education, and government systems and conditions of Philippines with island nation peers Indonesia and Japan from an equal staring point, the end of World War II will give an honest evaluation of true condition in the Philippines.
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:56 pm