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BOB ONG'S BAKIT BALIGTAD MAGBASA NG LIBRO ANG MGA PILIPINO?
Filipinos have unique ,and often, comic ways of doing things. It is in their nature to be resourceful, nontheless, innovative. But at times, bloopers are innevtiable. It also serves as a tool for survival especially in the hardest of times.
The BOOK
It is written in Filipino street language (part of what they call contemporary genre in Philippine literature) and consists of different (comic) stories, ideas, concepts and poems. Everything from the misbehaviors, fads, systems and culture of some Filipinos from the early past to the present, this book delivers in an informal, casual and entertaining manner. Some lessons are also incorporated into some of the stories as the reader laughs along.
THE AUTHOR
Bob Ong Is really not his real name. No one really knows who he is, where he lives and where the hell he gets all his ideas. A lot of comments and reviews about his book have been written by people from institutions, both praising and criticizing him, nontheless, they can't deny that his book does hold some factual and eye-opening realities of the Filipino culture. The question that his book is trying to imply is: Are Filipinos stupid?
Hhmmm...
I don't believe that Filipinos are stupid. The foreign invaders just influenced the then developing country especially with their rotten ways of life. Filipinos being lazy, for one, is an indolence which they got from the Spaniards during their reign. The Japanese made them turn against their own countrymen during the war. So not everything bad in the Philippine society is innate to the Filipinos.
If he's such a wise man, then why does he hide behind a pseudonym? His ideas are great, but, won't they be more injected into the Filipino minds and consciousness if he stepped forward and backed up all his concepts? If he's in it not only for the money... Making fun of the Filipino handicap would be a public sin...
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