Strong Filipino's

The word “resilience” has been thrown around to describe how the Filipinos are able to pick themselves up in the face of disaster. Calamities abound in the country, with the ongoing pandemic, natural disasters, and extreme inequality to name just a few, as the incapacitated suffer at the hands of an overwhelmed government.

Our people have repeatedly been touted as resilient, ever-happy, and even bulletproof. Even in the poorest typhoon-hit areas, it only takes a day or two for people to start rebuilding their homes from scrap pieces of wood. We don't wait for help. We help ourselves. I'm proud that we're happy people. I'm proud that we are self-sufficient. But i don't like that we're immune to disasters. I am bothered that we're used to the worst conditions. I am disturbed that the reason we help ourselves is that we know nobody is coming to help us.

I'm not glad that the only option in terrible situations is  to laugh it off, as if pretending it's a joke would make it less real. Eventually, we're the only ones laughing. That must mean the joke's on us. We rush part discomfort and onto acceptance as quickly as possible. We want to turn the negative into a positive all at once without much thought. This is an admirable trait to have, to be culturally independent and self-reliant, to focus on positive, productive actions. Pinoys do not dwell. We simply move on.

But i guess that's okay. To our leader and to the outside world, we're a resilient people and we'll take it all with a smile. Give us more rain, more storms, more corruption, and more massacres. We are a nation of martyr wives and forgiving mothers. Faced with severe corruption on a daily basis, we merely turn the other cheek, lick our woods and forget. We stay and hope for a better day, waiting for public officials to do their jobs the way we wait for shameless husbands to come home and suddenly love us.

Source: 

   -  https://www.scmp.com/yp/report/latest-reports/article/3123941/opinion-resilience-natural-characteristic-philippines-or

   - https://www.rappler.com/voices/ispeak/73433-problem-filipino-resilience/

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