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In my opinion it will be by purchasing large tracts of land for farming and manufacturing. Paying poor wages with lots of danger for Filipinos while exporting the better products. My BIL quit Hanjin to go to work in Qatar as it was safer and paid better wages. He did not want to die or be seriously injured in an on the job accident like so many others that he saw.
Think about Hanjin (Korean for now, Chinese soon?), the dirt mines in Zambales (Chinese building the Scarborough Shoal) and the current situation with rice production and exportation in the RP. Just a few examples but I foresee it coming in much of the same way it has in Africa and other places around the world.
Filipinos aren't sending balikbayan boxes with Jasmine rice back home for no reason. It's a shame and there is no reason for the Phils to sell out to these foreign governments.
Its almost a miracle that the Filipinos are hardly mixed with Spanish. They spent over 500 years as a Spanish colony or province and outside Manila there is hardly anyone that is mixed with Spanish or speaks Spanish. I guess the proximity of the rest of the Spanish Empire had a lot to do with that. In Spanish America almost everybody has a significant Spanish ancestry and almost everybody speaks Spanish as a mother tongue.
It also makes sense most want to be an independent country.
obviously you don't know the art of war. Also, I am not bound nor connected with any president, I work on my own trying to uplift the country in whatever small deed I can whoever the president is. my loyalty is to my country first before the president.
i believe PDutz doesnt even know this ancient chinese proverb:
"DONT RIDE A TIGER IF YOU DONT KNOW HOW TO GET OFF ALIVE"
Its almost a miracle that the Filipinos are hardly mixed with Spanish. They spent over 500 years as a Spanish colony or province and outside Manila there is hardly anyone that is mixed with Spanish or speaks Spanish. I guess the proximity of the rest of the Spanish Empire had a lot to do with that. In Spanish America almost everybody has a significant Spanish ancestry and almost everybody speaks Spanish as a mother tongue.
It also makes sense most want to be an independent country.
how is mixing with the spanish a good thing? Need to stop this white savior inferiority complex. Every former colony suffered under the church and crown like adam smith said. La leyendra negra. It would have been better for the islands of king phillip of spain to stay under the rajahnate of cebu and tondo. That would be true independence. Idealogically, mentally, spiritually, and culturally.
The Philippines isn't that bad off right now. The economy is doing quite well with arguably the best growth in Southeast Asia. Tourism numbers are doing fine, too.
I love to visit frequently myself. <3
ask the local farmer or the standby living in the mountain how they're doing
Or the sales rep they might have a car and they might have a cell phone
But people are not doing as well as you think
Just wait till 100 million mainland Chinese arrive there
Its almost a miracle that the Filipinos are hardly mixed with Spanish. They spent over 500 years as a Spanish colony or province and outside Manila there is hardly anyone that is mixed with Spanish or speaks Spanish. I guess the proximity of the rest of the Spanish Empire had a lot to do with that. In Spanish America almost everybody has a significant Spanish ancestry and almost everybody speaks Spanish as a mother tongue.
It also makes sense most want to be an independent country.
The Spanish language isnt dead in the Philippines because it's a big part of the languages there.
You can probably understand a lot of this Tagalog newscast if you know Spanish (and English helps too)
And Manila isn't where the most Spanish mixture is. It's in the Visayas, in the rural areas. Some Spanish families there still own sugar cane plantations.
Some Spanish-descendants still living in the Philippines...
In my experience, they usually speak English as their first language or a local language like Bisayan or Tagalog. They can usually speak some Spanish too, but not as a first language.
i believe PDutz doesnt even know this ancient chinese proverb:
"DONT RIDE A TIGER IF YOU DONT KNOW HOW TO GET OFF ALIVE"
Why would he ride a tiger? When he can ride a dragon. China isnt a tiger afaik. Wrong proverb mate
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