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Colonial Mentality August 2, 2008

Ramon Tulfo makes a good point today about leadership.

But I find use of the term “colonial mentality” as mere name calling and not very useful. Certainly, Rudi Giuliani doesn’t know jack about leadership in the Philippine context, but I don’t know that he claims to.

In any event, colonial mentality, if at all, it’s a disease of the elite, not of the masa.

Go talk to just about any taxi driver or almost anyone living in the province. But head over to a coffee shop or hotel lobby in Makati or to a Forbes Park soiree and you’ll get another, more toxic view.

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  1. Homesteading December 29th, 2008 at 11:04 pm | Permalink

    Colonial Mentality is a disease. That is always thinking that the grass is greener on the other side. It hinders progress

  2. Isis August 8th, 2009 at 3:43 pm | Permalink

    Well said, I have to agree! Nice post sir, keep it up, hope to hear and read some more from your blog.

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    Colonial Mentality is a mental disease that very few people infected in the world . I hope it will be cured very soon. Thanks

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    it's like a disease that's being passed on to other people, the cure is just the mirror and look how ugly it can affect our personality

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    But I find use of the term “colonial mentality” as mere name calling and not very useful. Certainly, Rudi Giuliani doesn’t know jack about leadership in the Philippine context, but I don’t know that he claims to.

    I agree with this. Colonial mentality has long been dead in the context of the Philippine society.

    In any event, colonial mentality, if at all, it’s a disease of the elite, not of the masa.

    And if it existed in the past the same way that it continues to exist until now, it it only in the circle of the elite.

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