Manila - Awfully Disappointing

http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Metromanila/Pasig/Ortigas-Center/blog-642646.html

Have you already read this piece written by a Brit working for Asian Development Bank in Ortigas awfully bashing the state of our city especially NAIA and Discovery Suites? I don’t know but the British People have a highly bloated sense of racial superiority (take note that they still rule half of the world) that’s why they think they are entitled to their opinion.

But to stick to reality, he hasn’t been out of his shell at NAIA and Discovery Suites. I even don’t think he knows Manila much more than a real curious tourist. That’s why his concept of Manila is lacking (I think he hasn’t even been to Intramuros for once, maybe we could give him a free tour of the Walled City).

In the other side, what he has said about Manila is true: It has fallen from grace, dingy and dirty. A decade ago, Hollywood Actress Claire Danes said Manila smelled of cockroaches, with rats all over and there is no sewerage system and many more. She got a non-persona grata which I think is still stays to this day.

That is the problem with Filipinos: We are escapists. What the two foreign personalities said is true, and instead of attending to it, we dismissed the remarks as racist. When Claire Danes said our city smelled of cockroaches, we should have cleaned our city but no, we continued by our crooked ways.

I think we could not leave this by itself anymore. The problem is right within our noses and is already overwhelming us, not that we are attending to it, but we chose to leave it and get worse by itself. It’s not Manila that is awfully disappointing, but it is the people who don’t even care and give a damn about it.

PS: Maybe he should also try visiting DMIA.

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