Saturday, April 13, 2024

Philippines: a nation of ripoffs

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Philippines: a nation of ripoffs.

Filipinos love to criticize China for being a copycat of manufactured products, while they themselves seriously lack originality or initiative, or the drive to improve from what they have.

Because of that, one of its effects is that the Filipinos have gained full, godly mastery of plagiarism, from baccalaureate speeches and college thesis down to even political manifestos and tourism slogans.

Just recently, the Department of Tourism changed its slogan from “It's more fun in the Philippines” to “Love the Philippines”.

The first slogan originally came from Switzerland way back in the 1950s, thankfully the Swiss government gave the Philippine government a free pass since it was for them by then a long obsolete slogan.

The second, most recent one is much simpler. Only that, it stole stock images and even stole videos coming from other countries to showcase them as what Philippines has for tourists.

Stolen from a stock image

Stolen from Indonesia

Stolen from a certain Arab country. Laugh out loud.

And now, other countries began to notice.

And yes, the Department of Tourism spent almost a million American dollars to promote that video composed of stolen shots and videos from other countries.

Originality is taboo in the Philippines.

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