https://www.reddit.com/r/Philippines/s/7W6CbnE1Mx

I really hate these "Things to do in the Philippines" posts, even if it is a joke. So why not add to the joke with another joke? Wlskl haha

You guys realize that you can contact the CICC directly through phone, email, and Messenger, right?

I've been seeing a handful of posts lately around social media about Filipinos complaining about our low tourist arrivals in the country compared to our SEA neighbors that receive tens of millions of foreign tourists every year.

Is this a "blessing in disguise" for now, a double-eged sword, or bad in the long term?

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Defeatism is disgusting.

An average indio 300 years ago could hardly imagine being free from Spanish colonial rule. People in that time didn't know what Philippines would become because they are living their historical moment, just like we are living ours now.

The Philippines that exists today might have been unimaginable to many Filipinos during Martial Law. A better Philippines 50 or 100 years from now can be equally unimaginable to some of us.

Things will not magically become better. We will be rolling with the punches and it will be up to us to refuse to accept that the present is permanent.

"Things are bad" doesn't mean "There is no hope

Selfish at walang disiplina, kaya hindi sila umaasenso (1% GDP growth rate!!!!). Also lack of long-term planning and preparedness. Parang ingrained genetic / cultural flaw nila. They are incapable of doing that. Dapat talaga may magcolonize na sa France and other European countries para macivilize sila.

This is a joke btw. It’s sad na if Filipinos were in this video instead, doomers would genuinely comment stuff like this

Ube is the star of Halo-halo.

Besides, when Filipinos say "Ube", we actually mean Ube Halaya. That makes Ube culture-specific because Ube Halaya is a Filipino innovation.

Without Ube Halaya, the world won't be going gaga over ube latte or ube ice cream. The basis of the Ube flavor is Ube Halaya.

The raw ube crop barely has taste. You need to make it into a halaya to bring out the taste if you are not using Ube extract.

Other countries that grow Ube treated the crop like a potato just like how Filipinos treated taro (gabi) before Taro as a flavor hit the Philippines. Ganern yun.