My Biggest Disappointment with my Country

Hi Bing, I love the Philippines! Like you, it is also my ultimate goal to travel all over the country. I've been to some places like Bagui City (where we celebrate our 9th Wedding Anniversary last year with our twin daughters), Tagaytay, Davao (I love Davao! Once I got there, I don't want to go back to Manila), Bicol, et al. My sisters always plan to go to Hong Kong, Singapore, et. al. and advise me to bring my kids whenever I have time but I often refuse. I tell her that if we're going to have family week, it's gonna be within the country and not outside the country. This year, we are planning to celebrate our 10th year with the kids in Puerto Galera! And we are all so excited!!! Okay...I'm being carried over already. Going back to your discussion, these are few things I hate about our country: 1. Men peeing everywhere!!! 2. Lack of security in the malls. We are not that preventive about possible bomb explosions, theft and other threats. 3. Some (this is from my general observation) treat foreigners as if these were gods! While I'm the next in line and will receive treatment completely the opposite from the same customer service rep (or bagger, or waiter, or cashier). I mean...we should treat all people equally, not just being kinder or more polite to foreigners. 4. Corrupt Government - pointing fingers to everyone except to them about the problems in the country. 5. Government not exploring the wealth of our country, like the BIO DIESEL, our own manpower, et. al. We need to be discovered by other rich countries before we can be recognized locally.

I have heard before about Phillipines being a great tourist place and also have seen its pictures on internet. I agree there are some places in many countries i would like to visit but due to the lack of good transport or even no transport for many days or weeks stops you from thinking to go to that place. This often is due to high mountains, hills that come on the way and its hard to develop raods, bridges there. In my country, too there are some of the worlds best tourist places that i have never seen just becasue there isn't frequent transport or very little frequency of transport to that place

wow,, all i thought was that you're gonna mention the buwaya's in our government.. Well,, like you, i always wanted to explore the beauty of country,. It is really different when you get to travel around your country first. It is less costly than going abroad..

[b]my biggest disappointment with my country is those greedy politician who are just sinister enough for their fellow countrymen. they are rich already with position and fame to hold onto and yes majority of the politicians here in the country are indeed rich, MILLIONAIRE to be exact. just think of the election budget they are putting on for running in office. they are greedy...sacrificing necessary funds that are allocated for those who are in needs. to get to the point..."CORRUPTION" is what disappoint me the most here in our country and nothing else. DAMN THEM![/b]

I'm also proud of our country because it has beautiful tourist spots. but the problem with our country is our government officials. i hope one of these days, they'll realize that the money they are taking from us and keeping for themselves can really help feed the Deprived, marginalized or poor people of the Philippines. The money can help in the construction of school and commercial buildings, which can provide a lot of job for our fellow Filipinos.

Although I have great disappointment in my city,but I am proud of my country.My country is China, we have a fast development in these several years,this year,there was a earthquake in the Sichuan province,everyone did their best to help others.In this moment ,all of us can feel the love of our country. In terms of mine,no matter what kind of your attitude towards your country, please don't forget your root.

Were I am with you on this one. I also am proud to have these beautiful spots in our country but sadly enough I am not able to afford to be in these places because of the cost of getting there is really targetted towards foreigners that could afford them. That is why sometimes i amy say I am a stranger in my own place since I could not even get to the places that many foreigners could easily get to.

i am disappointed about the philippines entrainment industry, the government, those great vacation spots that have ultra high expensive resorts that common filipinos cannot go to,the media

I do not know your situation as far as your family or money and so forth. I our country there are cheap ways to travel. So really there is no reason not to visit places in my country. But my biggest disappointment about my country is it's inability to take into consideration the culture, the way of life in countries that we go into. You would think that with my country being so diversified that we would be better able to relate to other cultures around the world. But it appears that my country seems to be insensitive to the sovereignty of others. Case in point, when females were stationed in Saudi Arabia there was a big thing about how some woman solider refusing to go into town wearing a burka. What they failed to realize was that they were in a different country and that they should respect there ways and culture and not impose there own on that country. There was a great opportunity to better our relationship with these countries but we failed And continue to fail!

I am very proud of my country Philippines, for me this is the only country I can proudly call "home". I have no plan to work abroad because I don't want to be discriminated by bully foreigners and I don't want to endure the humiliation and mockery of foreigners who treated Filipinos as if we are slaved. After all, the way of living here is not really worst as some people claimed. I think the condition of living in other countries are much worst compared to us because they are the one most affected by the recession. I also plan to travel around the country, I already gone to Cebu, Baguio City and Manila. I am living now in Davao and I came from Surigao, hopefully I can see other beautiful spots of our land.

Ha!Ha!Ha! We got the same issue here. Not only the tourists spots, I also love to see the unexplored destinations. I am already plotting places to visit because I am planning to tour around the country someday. I will start from my mom and dad's place of Mountain Province up to southernmost part of Tawi-tawi.

our country is indeed in crisis,, the government should go on witrh this problem to take path the real solution But for me the very solution lies in its constituents,,,we

Try saving some money specifically for travel. Then you can organize your friends to a group travel. It would be cheaper and more fun!

Well everybody had a problem with the US. the economy is bad and there are no jobs im mad cause i can hardly support my family. Im having to get help from the state and it upsets me. My wife tries to support my decisions on matters but its just hard. I cant wait for the economy to get better. I believe that things will get better tho.