Globalization or Global America?

Like I've said this is my blog and I can write anything I want ....... about anything or everything.

But in fairness........ I'm a little bit pissed. I don't get this trend of Globalization thingie... is it Globalization or Global America?

This little rant of non-sense came from my talk with my new boss Jefz, and we talking why do people say the Philippines is poor and why is our economy affected by the US. HUH?!?!?!?!

Whenever I check into any trends...... must look into America, research into business... America this America that.

Ok they're probably the so called "Only Super Power" right now but why the hell would my country's economy be dependent on them? Heck why would we depend at America? I just hate the fact that there are so many brainwashed pinoys now that would rather be "stateside" than be home-grown true blue pinoys.

Let me just breathe out some of my non-sense :D

1. If the Philippines gets attacked by any other country.... I dont think America can save us or defend us instantly. In an old "coup d'etat" ahmmmm attempt in the Philippines. Our army was paralyzed by rebels who used old planes.... hahahahahhah. If Korea suddenly bombs us for being a US Ally....... I dont think America can prevent us from glowing.

2. Most of our consumer goods, BASIC necessity comes from somewhere else. Its sad to think my country used to be an agricultural giant in the 50's 60's 70's, but now... heck the International Rice Research Institute is here and yet we have a rice shortage here everynow and then and we even import rice. In fact the Philippines has been accused of affecting the increase of rice prices in the global market. Still i dont think thai imported rice is more expensive from rice imported from the US. Most of our basic needs dont come from the US. What do we need from them??? OFCOURSE - HOLLYWOOD!!!

3. Business with the US. hmmmm debateable; all I know is when Obama said something about bringing "contact-centers" back home and blah blah, we lower employment-salary rates and expectation blah blah.... its better than nothing - :) well the thing is"Amid economic pressure and low operational expenditure from global markets, the country’s contact center business will remain robust until the end of the year, according to a study commissioned by the Contact Center Association of the Philippines (CCAP)." ( from CCAP ) and that "The Call Center Association of the Philippines (CCAP) reported that its revenues has reached the $5 billion mark this year, beating last year’s $4.5 billion." (from CCAP ). So I dunno, why are there many brainwashed pinoys.

4. Medicine and other high tech stuff......yeah I guess they're ahead. But why can't our government do anything to do more. It seems to me that our government is keeping our local geniuses dumb or exporting them. What's happening to the legacy of Filipino inventors like Agapito Flores (although this could now be a myth) and the guy who designed the moon buggy thingie... what ? (ok i'm too lazy to research the internet) and to those kids who recently made a very cheap earthquake detection device... or what about the guy and the water based car?!?!?!?!


5. For me History depends on who pays the historian's funding..... other "colonial conquerors" in the Philippines history where deemed as bad... but if I am not mistaken, there was once a Filipino American War ( The Philippine American War ( 1899 - 1914 ) .........hmmmm

Super mega conspiracy theory na toh!!!

6. The US publicized that the Philippines is a terrorist haven..... we cant even afford guns. Who supplied the guns to the so-called terrorists? Who made them? In proportion to population vs rate - how many filipinos have guns (both legal and illegal) in comparison to the US, how many Filipinos die/get injured due to guns vs to those in the US? If the US wants to point fingers at other countries and call them terrorists.... ei... stop selling weapons!

.........I could rant on and on and sound very anti-america, but my point is not to bash the US, I am just citing the fact that "We, the sovereign Filipino people" as written in our Preamble, have power over our NATION, LAND, and PEOPLE. The US does not have power over us.

Silly fact...... what do you think if all Filipinos in the world will suddenly go on strike? How many skilled Filipino workers are out there? How many of them are in the US? What will happen if all Filipinos go on strike, as in world wide strike???

Practically all major cities in the world have a Filipino Nurse, practically every shipping company has a filipino crewman. How many multi-national businesses will be paralyzed without they're "contact centers".

We Filipinos should start looking into our own capabilities and resources.

How can we be global, how can we go into macro-economics when we ignore micro-economics.

The way I see it.... we've lost our own cultural heritage and identity, a lot of pinoys are so global-america now. Thinking that we need the US. We don't have to rely on them. Heck the cellfone perhaps the Philippines newest "tamagochi" craze - how many millions of pesos is thrown away everyday for sending an SMS thats totally worthless???


Why do I have a feeling our government is really trying to make pinoys more dumber. Instead of being able to compete globally.

*BOW*