Before you answer the poll, this is the question...

US State maybe 51st ? just like what other Filipinos like Ely Pamatong claims???

the US never wanted us to be a state.. only a colony. they had over 40 years of control over us to do that yet they didn't. probably because 82 million Filipino-turned-Americans can actually place as American President a Filipino! anyway, history tells us already that they never wanted us to be part of the Union as a 51st state.

But the Philippines is very strategic post in Asia , That is maybe one reson "why" they have occupied us.

as a colony and not as a state.

Former colony.

But if things was different , we might end -up as a Commonwealth like Puerto Rico!

people like pamatong are very ignorant, our ancestors fought hard for centuries so that ther would a free philippines. i think the philippines today is a shadow of the us, i'm not saying that it is controlled directly by the us, but it is directly influenced by many of it's aspects. economically and militarily. even culturally. so thought the philippines is free, the fact that globalization is real, the philippines is just affected by america and the west.

I think he had some point too!

i think Filipinos need to stop thinking LAZY and work to solve their own problems and get themselves out of their unfortunate circumstances...

America doesnt need to hold your hand. and is not going to hold your hand. Filipinos need to stop being lazy. Americans will not ever be open to filipinos bringing their problems to our people by becoming a state. It will never happen.

I think you do not have to generalized all people!

maybe we need a stronger leader that's all. and maybe we need to get rid of the corrupt politicians and fix the whole government. I remember my dad telling me that during Marcos' time, the PI was doing pretty good compared to now.

^my seniors also told me those things...
marcos did some great jobs during his admin,

I do not think so.................... Marcos keeps on borrwing money that is what keep us afloat !

so 50% of Filipinos are lazy and wish to be a state of the US, watch, Americans still start killing and targeting Filipinos in hate crimes because of those Lazy Filipino! I refuse to be targeted for your laziness

as if there are no lazy americans?

lol so true, a lot of Americans are known for their laziness.

This is a survey only>

ditto.

yeah theres lazy americans, but we aren't asking to be admited to another country because we are too lazy to work to better ourselves!

Americans will never accept Filipinos as a state... you think its easy just that you can become a state and everything will be easy... no you will have americans who will not accept you, you will also lose your land, it is not belonging to you but the united states governement...... they can do whatever they want with it.

hell nah! a sovereign nation for sure!!!


off-topic: hahaha tony! ur cat is soo cute! I mean, look at the pose!!!! Is it a cat model?

you really think so? maybe i should audition him for a spot in a fancy feast commerical.

BTW... TODAY IS THE INDEPENDENCE DAY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.... WHEN THE FOREFATHERS OF THIS COUNTRY FOUGHT THE BRITISH IN THEIR DESIRE TO BE SOVERIGN NATION! IT IS A PROUD DAY FOR AMERICANS EVERYWHERE...

HOW DEEP IS THE PRIDE OF FILIPINOS FOR THEIR INDEPENDENCE DAY.....

Well, Even if a country is Independent .they still rely in some way or another in their mother country for relations and trade.....

relations and trade!!! Not intergration!!

Like Great Britain and Us!

i think this thought of seeing third world people as lazy is an old american/western colonialist look, kinda how they use to call everybody not up to standard, western standard as "backwards". to me their term backwards means yeah we have a culture and we plan to keep it, just because you think letting go of our culture would help us get to teh better pot of gold or the greener side of the grass dont mean we have to, money and prosperity aint the only thing to our less materialistic society, and the fact that these colonialist could enver picture themselves on those peoples shoes, and looked down upon them as if they were poor creetins who need guidance, had made them see us as creatures that are killing themselves and not working for their own good. i mean they always praised themselves when tehy gave us "civilizing" and education. but they never see that their bad interventions like exploitation of the people.

i had this mid age white lady in class and she always talked like she knew everything. i don't mind some of her points were good, but she always insisted on her belief that africans today are killing themselves and that modernization are killing them because they don't know how to handle their own selves. my political science prof came and said that this attitude of her is called "old middle class" a very liberalist point of view. because my prof who work with african countries directly have argued with her that it is not the modernization of the country that is lagging them behind its the fact that there are other components that many non africans don't see because we ahve many things that they don't have and they could very well establish modernization without the negative effect of foreign intervention, they have teh potential to tell the rich boys, it's just that they have not come up with it yet, it's not the fact that they cannot ever roll with the rich boys.

it's easy to say yeah their lazy cuz they don't work for their own good, but have they stepped on the shoes or have seen teh actuality? nope.

right!

of course, there is no such thing as a lazy nationality, only individuals. some people have to learn that.

very well said and explained!

to me it's just to strighten out misunderstand about our country nothing more.

or make people hate each other!

of course mam.

As of now the Philippines is known as a soverign nation!

Yes, Full of problems!

But I heard there were plans to turn the presidential political system of PI to a parliament?

Yup! Even if there were changes to parliamentary form if there is no change of atttitudes of the people and politicians then there will be no change!

America's b!tch!

anyways.. filipinos do not reply to these statements and show that you are more humane and kinder people and will not stoop to this level. hold your head up! we have come a long way and our ancestor has preserved our beautiful languages and cultures as well! and do not go into the khmer forum and write a bad about the khmer! no matter what!

Viet Cuong thinks Phi should not be differentiated up like this.

yes, there are moves to change the type of government to a parliamentary-federal. the philippines as of now is a presidential-unitary government. if they will push through with the former, i'd suggest the RP should be still be Presidential and Federal.
placing us on a Parliamentary system wouldn't change anything except that the Prime Minister gets to control the Legislative and Executive branch of the government.
changing to a federal system, however, can help us since each federal region(not state like the US*), can concentrate their taxes from their own population on the same region unlike today when a Filipino who pays taxes gets to see it being spent on Manila and other urban areas only.

*btw, the united states is a wrong conotation since a 'state' is comprised of a people with sovereignty, a definite territory and has a government. so that means they are separate from one another but since the USA has only one federal government ruling all other elses, it's only a one state. i learned that in polsci.

i'd rather be a colony of Horitaka...

hmm, i am so disgusting myself! or maybbe its the moo goo gai pan im eating.

scrap the parliamentary crap, if you can't work good with what has been working for a century how you going to work with something new, what's the sense. and also parliaments are for countries that are not republics, i think we should keep the same republic that the revolutionaries had started. many filipinos think that total change will solve the problem, it's not change its revision of what you got.

Yeah I agree... no matter what they choose to do the real problem is with the corrupt politicians...

That will be also the problem even if the Philippines try to shift to parliamentary form of government!

but I thought Arroyo is set to change the gov in2 a parliament by 2007?

are you serious, man arroyo is going to extremes, but i think the congress will kick her plot out.

i wouldn't agree with a parliament either. but a federal system should be placed but still maintaining the presidential system too and not parliamentary.

same with me!!! arroyo has her plans.....

I think during Marcos we had a Prime Minister :

Ceasar Virata .

under marcos we had a similar case like germany's weimar republic, the same republic that launched hitler. i guess marcos was our hitler. he was just not really racist and that radical, but he did have teh iron grip.

I think it did not click.........