Disrespect to the Philippine Peso?

hehe... you say that because at australia bills are totally clean and always new right??.. im at australia (sydney) to study and i really notice the same thing with what you have noticed. well... that is maybe because at the Philippines is somehow has different culture (not on being disrespectful) but being resourceful. haha... they make bills like papers if they have to take notes. OR maybe because australian government is rich enough to keep on buying such materials to renew bills. ahihi... hope to be your friend. :) ingat

This is not just happening in the Philippines, i have been to other countries and they too fold and crumple their bills... not all people of a particular country have this desire to treat their money with respect... they see it as an item just to be used for purchasing goods and services... so it is the same in almost all countries in the world...

You have some point in there. I hate them seeing vandalized and then still being used by the vandalizer as money. It somehow makes our money disrespected by its value. Crumpled bills for me is rather more acceptable as the for as long as the bill is not vandalized.

I know, right? I share your sentiments. But I guess that's how Filipinos are.

yes, i do agree...the problem is most people in our country just don't give importance to it...actually, as far as i can remember, in my finance subject and in my law subject, this act is prohibited by law...i can even recall that if there is someone that dares to tip the bangko sentral ng pilipinas that a certain person defaced the money, that informer will be rewarded...but it seems, this law is ignored by everyone...because who would ever think that defacing those money are prohibited act?...no one would, right..because they think that since almost everybody is doing it, they think it is not wrong...and maybe the reward isn't that much (if there really is!) because our country doesn't have much budget...

i see our jeepney and tricycle drivers fold our bills many times to keep them in certain way. i think it shows our ignorance of the value of actual money and its production. it costs us more if we daface or fold many times our bills because the government through the central bank will have to replace those defaced bills with new ones. and this replacement costs some money. as for respect, i don't want to attach respect to money because i think people deserve more respect. as long as i see people not respecting other people, i will not use respect to apply it to money.