i think what you said is good ^^
im touched about what you said ^^

Wow… im very touched by your Essay my friend. how i wish it could all come true.. i myself is a Filipino and i love my country, but i will still admit that i hated the Government before, but after reading this essay you made me realize that i’ve done a terrible mistake. Godbless you my friend! you are a really good person!! i’ll try to do my best for my country..

I like this essay.

We always blame the government or other people whenever we have problems. But it is ourselves that should be blamed. We failed to realize that change starts within. Sometimes, it takes another person’s perspective to understand and appreciate what we have.

wow what a wonderful essay ive ever read for the filipinos. i hope every filipino who can read this message will make a parts to love their country. so for those every one filipino who can read this message pls pass this to all your freinds.
thanks to the author of this essay i promise to my part for the best of my county.

God bless you my freind.

Very inspiring!!! God Bless bro.!!!

im moved by your essay.
i myself doubt my own country and i felt a bit guilty upon reading it. i plan to move to australia for i dont think philippines would ever rise from wherever it is now. but im still hoping that someday the philippines will prosper.

hellow!! this essay was nice !! it was so very inspiring for us filipino.. i’ve been looking for an essay to get some ideas until i found this and read .. it so touchable ) continue blogging an inspiring essay )

DAMN!!!

u made me cried!!

long live who ever you are >.

ahm. why you didn’t continue priesthood? it’s God’s call for you, isn’t it?. hm. In fairness your essay is a good one, very inspiring. Thank you for imparting it to Filipinos. Jesus loves you as I do.

I aprciate wat u have said…

great essay!!! i hope all Filipino could read and understand this…

that was a very good thing to hear from a foreigner about the recent things here in the Philippines,that even if they are not Filipino, they still love the country. i thank you very much for our words m friend. thank you for inspiring other Filipinos to love our own country. God bless you and our family.

this is not true.your knowledge about the Philippines is not yet enough.search more.all you can see is the outside but the inside of it,learn more dude!

good essay ,, hope that people in the Philippines read this and reflect .Also those in the government so that we Filipinos & in government help each other for the love of our country ,,

thank you and Godbless

A REACTION TO A KOREAN STUDENT’S ESSAY INSULTING FILIPINOS FOR BEING LESS NATIONALISTIC

We Filipinos don’t get progressive because we lack nationalism?

Before anyone makes such an insult against a particular race, he should first undertake the necessary research and some observations, like the following:

1. He should first read Philippine history books to know that we Filipinos have always fought for our freedom and our native land – from the times of Lapu-lapu, Raha Soliman, Sultan Kudarat, Dagohoy, Sumuroy, Palaris, and dozens of other local heroes, to Rizal, Bonifacio, Aguinaldo, Mabini, and Jacinto; to the World War II generation, when a million Filipinos perished; and recently to the 1986 People Power Revolution.

2. He should observe that Filipino farmers, fishermen, professionals, employees,industrial workers, service personnel, and others work hard here and abroad to earn a decent living for themselves, for their loved ones, and for their country.

3. He should also observe that we Filipinos help one another in our works and festivities, and during personal agonies, man-made disasters, or natural calamities.

4. He should also look at those Filipinos who volunteer in social service and humanitarian endeavors like the Red Cross and rescue efforts; those who extend financial assistance to poor patients in the hospitals, to students from poor families, and to other needy people; those who plant trees and care for nature, the environment, and animals; and those many other unsung heroes among our countrymen.

Patriotism and nationalism may not always be tangible in our everyday lives, but when the imperative call for it comes, Filipinos respond enthusiastically.

A humbling example of that is the national and local elections of May 10, 2010, in which 38 out of the 50.7 million registered Filipino voters (that was a 75% voters’ turnout) trooped to the polling precincts, and most endured the 2- to 6-hour long wait, the extreme heat and humidity, the hunger, and the exhaustion, just to be able to cast our votes. We did all those sacrifices because we want change – a good government and good leaders. Why do we want all those? Because we care for our country – that’s how simple it is.

The Philippines is also a defender of the democracy of the free world. It is one of those countries that dispatched soldiers to the Korean Peninsula in 1950-53 to defend the South Koreans against the suicidal invasion by the fanatical communist North Koreans. One of those sent soldiers was Fidel V. Ramos, who became our nation’s president in 1992-98.

I am saddened by the fact that after we helped Korea defend its freedom and democracy in the past, here now comes an irresponsible Korean sporadically spitting on our faces by calling us less patriotic, which is a severe insult to all of our painstaking and hard-earned efforts towards a better country.

The problem with some people is that because they are already prosperous, they feel that they already have the right to lecture other citizens about nationalism.

And why did that Korean single out the Philippines? Of the more than 230 countries in the world, more than half are poorer than ours. Why doesn’t that Korean go to the more than 100 countries poorer than the Philippines and also lecture the peoples there about this thing called patriotism?

For those who want to know the real reasons why the Philippines is a poor country, the following link may help:

http://emanila.com/philippines/2010/01/19/why-is-the-philippines-a-poor-country/

MORE REACTIONS TO A KOREAN STUDENT’S ESSAY INSULTING FILIPINOS FOR BEING LESS NATIONALISTIC

PATRIOTIC DEEDS ARE ALL NOTHING!

For some people, the patriotic deeds of the Filipinos in the past and in the present are all nothing!

The past is past; it doesn’t count anymore. And so the gallantry, sacrifices, blood, and tears of our ancestors, of our heroes and heroines, of the Filipinos who staged in 1896-98 the revolution against Spanish, of the Filipinos who fought in 1899-1906 the American forces, of the more than one million Filipinos who perished in the fight for freedom against the Japanese invaders in 1941-45, and of the Filipinos who braved armored tanks and warplanes during the peaceful 1986 People Power Revolution — all of these are nothing because they are already the past! They don’t prove anything at all that we Filipinos had done patriotic deeds in the past and that we could still do them again.

The majority of Filipino voters who demonstrated the spirit of burning patriotism in the May 10, 2010, national and local elections — they are all nothing!

The majority of Filipinos today who work hard and strive hard, here or abroad, to earn for themselves and for their loved ones, and to become productive and honorable citizens of our country — they are all nothing!

For some people, the patriotic deeds of the Filipinos in the past and in the present are all nothing! They don’t measure up to anything! They don’t count!

For those people, the one that counts is that Korean student’s essay!

Purihin ang langit! Yepeee!

TRAITORS

Those people who obstinately cling to that racist Korean student’s essay belong to the breed of individuals who love believing what foreigners say against Filipinos.

Instead of defending their very own race, the race of their ancestors, parents, and children, they rather clap the insults of the foreigners…. See More

They are no different from those canines who betrayed their own countrymen to the Japanese during World War II.

If the Japanese invade again our country today, those canines will be the first to their point fingers at, and betray, their countrymen to the invaders.

STUPID BELIEFS

The belief that rich nations are rich because their citizens are patriotic and that poor nations are poor because their citizens lack patriotism is no different from such other stupid beliefs as the following:

1. Handsome or good-looking guys cannot commit rape; only the ugly men can.

2. Rich people don’t steal; only the poor do.

3. White people don’t shoplift; only the blacks do.

Most countries and most citizens of the world are poor. If we would follow that stupid belief on patriotism, it would appear that it is only the wealthy people who are and who know how to be patriotic, while the poor citizens don’t know how to love their respective nations.

My Thoughts On Koreans: Do They Really Love Their Country?

According to the data of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, in 2009, South Korea is the 15th largest economy and 9th biggest exporter out of the 182 surveyed countries in the world. It manufactures and exports electronics, computers, cameras, household appliances, cars, construction equipment, ships, and other high-tech and industrial products, amounting to more than US$350 billion a year.

(My own country, the Philippines, is ranked as the world’s 47th largest economy and 55th biggest exporter with more than US$50 billion export revenues each year.)

From being one of the poorest and the most backward up to the 1950’s, South Koreans are now among the world’s wealthiest peoples.

Koreans believe that they have achieved all of those economic successes because of discipline, perseverance, and most of all, patriotism, their passionate love for the native land. They do love their country.

Really?

Dr. Syngman Rhee was elected as the first president of the Republic of Korea when it was established in 1948. He was reelected thrice, but he suffered unpopularity because of corruption, fraud, and terrorism committed by his political party right under his nose.

The people deplored his third reelection in March 1960 because of widespread electoral fraud. They rioted in the cities, sacked the homes of corrupt government officials, and clashed with the police. The uprising forced Rhee a month later to flee the country and settle in Hawaii with his family and with their loot.

Corruption, terrorism, and fraud tarnished the image of the “Father of Korean Independence” and the country’s very first president.

Rhee’s successor, John M. Chang, began a four-year term in July 1960, but was overthrown ten months later by a military rebellion led by General Park Chung-hee. Park claimed that the military had to intervene to save the country from further corruption. He led the country until he got assassinated in 1970.

Chun Doo Hwan staged a coup in 1980 and was the nation’s leader until 1988. In 1996, he was sentenced to death after having been found guilty of mutiny, treason, and corruption. His successor, Roh Tae Woo, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the same offenses. They were soon pardoned by Pres. Kim Young-sam.

On May 19, 2000, South Korea’s Prime Minister Park Tae-joon, one of the country’s prominent industrialists, resigned from office after a court ruled that he had evaded taxes by entrusting real estate to a third person. The court ordered him to pay the government US$1.2 million in taxes (AFP, May 20, 2000).

In April-June 2001, the South Korean government arrested 251 banking agency officials and businessmen for corruption and bribery, which cost the country US$1.5 billion. One of those arrested was a former vice defense minister who accepted bribes in return for business favors (AFP, June 30, 2001).

On November 30, 2001, South Korea’s finance minister apologized to the public after a state-run audit agency reported that, based on a six-month investigation of 87 banks and non-banking financial institutions, there were 182 cases of misuse or embezzlement by the recipients of public money amounting to US$5.64 billion. The agency asked prosecutors to investigate 44 individuals for allegedly embezzling public funds (Reuters, December 1, 2001).

The culture of Korean corruption has already made it into the international arena.

In December 2005, the U.S. Department of Justice ordered the South Korea-based Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world’s largest maker of memory chips for computers and other gadgets, and its U.S. subsidiary, Samsung Semiconductor Ltd., to pay a US$300 million fine to settle accusations that it secretly conspired with industry rivals to fix prices and cheat customers.

The justice department had earlier also ordered Samsung’s rivals, Hynix (another Korea-based company) and Infineon Technologies AG (of Germany), to pay US$185 million and US$160 million, respectively, for the same offenses (AP, December 16, 2005).

My own country also has the vicious problems of graft and corruption. But I have yet to hear a Philippine-based corporation or any other business firms being slapped with a severe punishment amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars by the government of another country.

In May 2009, Roh Moo-hyun, the country’s president in 2003-08, jumped to his death in the mountains of rural Korea. He was the first national leader to undertake suicide because of bribery and corruption charges. The corruption committed must have been so massive and shameful that they only possible way out was self-extermination.

Koreans project to the world that they are prosperous because they do love their country.

They are prosperous, there’s nothing to argue about it. But if they really love their country, why is it that graft and corruption has permeated their culture and society? Why is it that it has always been rampant, be it in the government or private sector?

I am not making any accusations that Koreans don’t love their country. I am not like many Koreans who get intoxicated when they insult the Filipinos by calling us less patriotic.

I am only asking why graft and corruption has always accompanied the vaunted Korean patriotism.

Source:

http://www.facebook.com/search/?post_form_id=cfbb729c829d479f0f584924f5074d40&q=jon+e+royeca&init=quick&ref=search_preload#!/note.php?note_id=117933141576533

Mahal daw ng mga Koreano ang bansa nila. Pero tadtad sa corruption ang lipunan at kultura nila. Mula pa sa kauna-unahan nilang presidente, hanggang sa kasalukuyan.

Pati sa ibang bansa, nagkakalat ang pangungurakot ng mga Koreano. Napaparusahan ang mga korporasyong Koreano sa ibang bansa. Ang mga parusa ay umaabot sa daan-daang milyong dolyar. Nakakahiya.

Tapos, huhusgahan nila tayo tungkol sa ating pagkamakabayan. Unahin muna nila ang mga sarili nila.

They rioted in the cities, sacked the homes of corrupt government officials, and clashed with the police. The uprising forced Rhee a month later to flee the country and settle in Hawaii with his family and with their loot…..

The real truth is the Philippines is still a poor country today because of failure of our leaders to truly industrialize our country and not because of graft and corruption.History shows that the Korean Government has always been tainted with corruption but this did not hinder Koreas economic transformation because their government pursued real industrialization.Here in our country our ruling class are just interested in maintaining the status quo( non-industrial Philippines) which serves their vested interests and not that of the people.

wow, grabe un si Jon E Royeca, i dont think the korean student is insulting the filipinos. and im not againts filipinos. i think what the student is trying to say is to love your country? ikaw ba? mahal mu ba bansa mo? lam mu, labo mu din e.

Yes i agree with the student, we lack patriotism in our country im not saying na eto problema natin but its true we lack patriotism, you know why?kasi bwat pilipino dito gusto manlamang sa kapwa nila pilipino.totoo db?.. and bkit k gnun? nkakahiya ka, kita mu nga taga ibang bansa may pakielam sa ating bansa tas babastusin mu ng gnun?asan ang pagiging pilipino mu kung hindi k hospitable? and that student does not represent the whole korea, tsaka masama b yung sinabi nya? kung c rizal sinabi un, mahalin mu yung bansa mu sasabihan mu kyang mali un?tsaka anung masama dun?

and wat the hell are you saying past is past? d mu ba alam if we wer to look at the past we might learn something that is needed for the future?you know, you should think before saying things.