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Originally Posted by Xaanka [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i know a LOT of flips. even like 10 yrs ago when they would talk about politics it'd be like "___ won in ___ province and ____ was shot in a dirty brothel by his political rival who then bragged about it and held his decapitated head up for a newspaper photo-op" casually like it was some no big deal everyday stuff. it's very common for politicians to publicly murder other politicians over there it actually tends to get them more popular support. dueterte is pretty mild for the 'pines tbh the only thing different is we have twitter now so the west's more aware of what's going on. also before him they've generally been a bit "safer" with their choice of presidents or the dutertelike ones just get killed before their election gets too far in but its always just kinda been like this over there.

phillipines has a fucking MAJOR masculinity crisis because nobody works over there and all their money comes from the women coming to the US marrying someone and sending money home. seriously thats the majority of their gdp. historically they've had this huge machismo culture and suddenly these men are basically offered nothing to do but sit around and receive western union checks so there ends up being a lot of crime/gangs, culture around it, prostitution/pimping/trafficking and also just a huge culture centered around literally any outlet or public representation of masculinity. look no further than the manny pacquiao phoenomenon if you wanna see a good example of how this void of masculinity makes what masculinity they have become a magnet for public support. vice did a pretty spot on documentary about this and i am not the kind of person who would ever tell someone to subject themself to watching or reading vice. i think it was called something like "phillipines masculinity crisis"??

almost all the flip people you'll see in western countries come from a couple of the more civilized wealthy areas. it's also usually the more white or more asian looking ethnicity ones coming to the west; there aren't many black filipinos (as they call them, they're usually more hispanic than afro) coming to the states so if you're in the west you really haven't met anyone from their majority population probably.

third world politics are just like that. phillipines is weird because we see it as a decently civilized "maybe not quite third world" place here but a lot of it is rural shitholes tribal politics and gang stuff. its a lot like the better parts of africa if you follow their politics, esp with the public assassination culture. its just weird to us because flips tweet in english and their country's in the pacific.

tbh if you're interested in the idea of hapa futurism/what the world's going to be like when we become Global Brazil learn some of the more common tagalog dialogs and check out flip-twitter its the best case study of hapa-nationalism in human history kinda an interesting place to follow.

havent even finished reading this yet n im already gettin woke