corruption
Corruption has a breeding ground in youthful and seemingly innocent undertakings. If you observe your world history, many countries who have been under the Spanish empire suffer from high crime rate and corruption (like our country, Dominican Republic, some South American countries, Cuba)… However, our country has an additional "something", which is not a good "something". The country seems to self-destruct: removing Spanish from our repertoire of languages then struggling to learn it today because it may lead to possible jobs; forgetting Alibata and therefore, throwing away a huge piece of our culture; mimicking foreign lifestyles, behavior and dance; being contented with being second class citizens of this world (nurses instead of doctors because Americans only hire their own doctors; call center agents who adjust to other countries’ time zones while telemarketers in the US who do the same job do it as a day job while hardworking Filipinos get salaries less than 50% as Americans…much less although we may think the pay is high)
Our Education is also very poor. When small children do not have active thinking lifestyles, some part of the brain is disconnected, literally. For example, if the child does not practice his or her language skills, he will have extreme difficulty in learning more complicated language skills later on in life… Check it out yourself in My Brilliant Brain from http://www.ngasia.com/brain
Now, let us go back to corruption which is one of the sad causes of poor education. But before we cast the first stone, let us look at ourselves
You cannot judge other people’s corruption, when:
you are a student leader, and you:
—invite your friends to activities you know they cannot really help, and the org pays for all their snacks
—you demand a lot of miscellaneous allowance stuff
—you make your assignment an excursion, even though you charged the org for your vehicle’s gas
—you dont liquidate your funds properly
—pocket some of the money for personal stuff
***This is so funny because I used to be a student leader (the Prez in fact) and we were constantly criticized by another org who have some members who practically charge all their snacks on the org.Sheesh. What they didnt know and believe is that we spent personal money in order to get the effect we wanted in events. Also, when most orgs (even past student councils), went on planning in beaches and other places, we went planning in the school gym despite the plentiful mosquitoes hehe and of course, the over-all unglamorous atmosphere)
you are an employee, and you
—dont liquidate your committee funds properly
—spend your committee budget paying for personal stuff
—you bring home some office stuff without asking for permission, and claim them as your own later on…that is damn right stealing
—stealing time and possibility of business by hogging the phone for personal stuff..still stealing
—when you are a teacher, and you spend class hours doing business, doing your manicure and just plain not teaching sense
OUR COUNTRY COMPLAINS ABOUT CORRUPTION, BUT DO NOT NOTICE OTHER "LESSER" CORRUPTIONS…like the recent tv ratings problem…gosh…we are so bloody competitive (that we cheat) but not at the right moment (why not be competitive when we start looking down on ourselves as lower than other people? why don’t we have less mestizos and chinitos in showbusiness? Hooray for commercials that support the Filipino look and values)
Until next time…
