Filipinos are
gross.
Alright, not
all but some.
And I have loads of evidences to confirm my
statement.
Clogged-up drainages
and stinky trash cans are already a given and a common sight but I, myself have
experienced petty stinky behaviours that may seem insignificant to some but are
actually foul when one comes to think of it.
Barbaric bloke
My mother and
I were waiting our order of grilled sweet corn when a potential customer
started to touch them using his bare hands because he was choosing what size to
order. IT WAS SO GROSS! URGH. I mean he could have chosen his pick just by
looking at them, or if he couldn’t help it, he could have touched the stem of
the corns and spare their bodies. What a barbaric act!
The vendor, my
mom and I ended up looking at each other and silently cursed the gross,
uncivilized and disgusting man.
(Good thing
our orders were right off the grill and were spared from the gross man’s
hands!)
Candy wrappers, spits etc.
While some may
think that small candy wrappers are nothing but small and will not eventually
clog our drainages, others seem to neglect the idea even though they know that
these ‘insignificant’ wastes add up to our environmental problems.
The issue of
candy wrappers improperly tossed may not be gross enough, but the following
will surely be: discharges of all kinds—spit, urine, booger, saliva, snot and
what have you.
Some men have
become too comfortable with themselves that they do not mind picking their
noses in public, spitting their phlegm’s and turning the country into one big
comfort room.
A matter of discipline
The too lax
and carefree disposition of the Filipinos, I think, roots in the lack of authoritative
discipline. Our local and national government are not stern enough to implement
strict laws and thus discipline the people.
If Filipinos abroad
could show great respect to foreign rules and regulation, why not in their own
country? If they have restrained themselves from spitting bubblegum in
Singapore, have learned to personally clean up their meals in McDonald’s Los Angeles
and have educated themselves to patiently fall in line while waiting for a bus
in Tokyo, why not in the Philippines?
Conceal the deal
The decision
of the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to temporarily conceal the
houses of the city dwellers in time for the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
meeting, which involved foreign delegates, have gained split opinions.
The Filipinos
as hospitable people only wanted to serve and provide quality services to the
visitors, but I think, that to cover up the blemishes of the country is too
much and obviously superficial. We are not fooling anybody but ourselves.
The meeting
ended last Friday and for sure, the impermanent barricades will, in time, be
put down. Those barriers would not be built if there were no flaws to correct
in the first place.
The growth and
development of the Philippines may seem to be an impossible dream, but the cliché
cleanliness is next to godliness, may ring a bell.
