Culture Cancer

Now, now, we have all heard the news about the old deposed dictator of this country and about his fancy new birthday holiday anyway. For those of you who are late to the party, apparently the Congress of the Republic of the Philippines has decided, in their unending brilliance, to make September 11 as Marcos Day in his home province, Ilocos Norte, in an effort to remind them of him being an "inspiration for young leaders to exemplify his leadership and governance", as it is written in the bill. Yes, they want exemplify his $10-billion ill-gotten wealth, his +3,000 kill count, and, especially, exemplify the insanity and historical revisionism still in the minds of his old supporters and the new impressionable young minds who watched and believed in PinoyMonkeyPride videos too much, and still rabidly crowding the comment sections of anti-Duterte Facebook pages, posting memes which show false factoids that they can't even back with any citations. Very exemplifiable. But w...

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Culture Cancer, they place where we're going to explore the social wrongs and sicknesses of that certain country in the Southeast Asia with such fancy nicknames and epithets, such as "Pearl of the Orient Seas", "Lost Eden", "The Largest Catholic Country in Asia", and now, "The Sick Man of Asia". Of course, we're talking about none other than the Republic of the Philippines, and from now on, we shall begin exploring the what really went wrong in here, in a country blessed with great biodiversity, pristine nature, and rich resources, which really means that just because you had a great starting point, doesn't mean you're gonna make it big. Now, some of you there might think that this website is going to really be political. We won't deny that. If we are to explore the faults, flaws, and failures of this country, we need to peek into its politics. And some of you might say it will biased. We wo...