A Heritage Of Smallness

The Philippine population increases much faster than our economy. Our country indeed has been as torpid as snail when it comes to the aspect of knowledge. It takes a lot of years, steady decades for us to be able to take a leap towards one and only(a) step of modernization. Other countries like for example our neighbor, Singapore, which has been colonized by other more(prenominal) powerful country had been able to posture up and make them selves more productive. But through push through the years, the Philippines had remained stagnant with their status in the world. Instead o bonny more glob ally competitive, we tend to just ceaselessly sit down and relax and just accept the fact that our development is deteriorating.In Nick Joaquins analyse, A Heritage of Smallness, he emphasized how the Filipino people can be so much convenient with all that is keen, all that is little and all that is just enough. A child who was born from a poor family would about likely be poor for th e rest of his life. It would be a vulgar scenario that they, too, will adopt the way of living of their parents. Instead of finding a way for them to have money, they will be contented and just continue blaming whoever they want to blame.What most astonishes foreigners on the Philippines is that this is a country, perhaps the only one in the world, where people buy and sell one stick of cigarette, half a head of garlic, a dab of pomade, part of the contents of a can or bottle, one single egg, one single banana. This statement without a doubt confirms the Filipino brainiac when it comes to finding a fount of living. Yes, on the brighter side, it may show or represent how the Filipinos are willing to do anything and everything to have money. But what Nick Joaquin believably wants us, Filipinos to do is that we should think of a realistic and achievable way for us to have money. A way wherein we would be able to suffice our every daytime involve and at the same time save money.If for example, a cigarette vendor sells P1.25 per one stick of cigarette. If lets say that he was able to sell 100 sticks for the day. His income for the day would only be P125.00. This is just enough for a man without a family to support. But what if this cigarette vendor has a wife and has 3 children? How will he be able to meet the needs of his family and at the same time save money? Impossible This man would most likely still be a cigarette vendor after ten years.We see, this kind of mentality of being too laidback is the dry land why we are still suffering from slow economic growth for a long time. Even those in our government have been so lax thus, nothing is happening to our economy.It was also mentioned in the essay that the Filipinos day starts at six or seven in the morning and ends up sometimes late. Unlike other countries whose day would start at rough nine or ten in the morning and ends at exactly 5 pm. But despite this difference, they still pile up more gasoline mil eage than we who proceeding all day and all week. This is one of the mind-bugling realities of the Filipino Life. What do we actually do when we are at work? Are we really that productive? Or are we just pretending to work just because of the salary at stake?Next is the Filipinos NINGAS-KUGON mentality. We are used only to the small effort, we are not, as a result, capable of sustained effort and lose momentum fast. The Filipino people are very much importunate to work just for the first couple of months, first couple of weeks or even for just the first couple of days. We lack the willingness to prolong our level of zealousness to work. The reason behind that is we are so impatient. We always want an easy way to everything. Which, I guess is such a lame reason for us to work.We should always develop a vision of the future and continuously strive to attain it. Isnt it that most employees transfer from one firm to the other? There most common reason would be that they are not happ y with their work. But the question is, when are they going to be happy with their work? IF they are already aging and the firms are the ones who throws them out for the business needs younger ones?Our love for our culture and tradition hold us back hence, hindering us from further development. one and only(a) could go on and on with his litany This means that it is the peoples choice whether they want us to grow our not. We often make the past colonization of our country as an explicate that we were greatly influenced by foreign ideas that is why we have difficulty in moving on and reaching for modernization. But since we know this dilemma, why wont we figure out a way to unlock the chains of colonization that has been hampering our maturity as a nation?Filipinos talk too much that they forget that they have a lot of catching up to do. They are too busy boasting about things that would not contribute to any aspect of the society. If we talk less and work more, then I guess that will make a great difference.What is happening in our country is that instead of making extra effort to be able to be globally competitive, we think less and less because we are stopped by the thought of not actually making it. We have hole of natural resources. All we have to do is to think creatively for us to be able to develop something that would catch the attention of the world. We all know that thither are lots of Filipino people who are skillful in so many fields. What we need to do is to not stop at one invention. We should be always challenged. Never stop creating new things. We should make the world know that we can be something and not just a mere source of their raw materials.Lastly, the thing Id like to point out is the fact that the Philippines, despite the relatively large and growing population, always splits like amoeba. Instead of operative hand in hand for our country, we have this crab mentality wherein we always want to pull successful people down. This, I m ay say is such an obvious factor why we are getting smaller and smaller. For example, in politics, we usually split into groups and continuously find a way to let others down. We dont get anything advantageous from that. We just scare away foreign investors who, in reality are the ones who can help us in our present economic endeavor.To pairing this all up, Id like to reiterate two things. First is that we, the Filipinos should strive for the betterment of ourselves as well as of our country and be not just contented with what we have We all should learn to aim high. And secondly, instead of always splitting into groups, we should learn to be cooperative and work hand in hand for the development of our country. Let us avoid making excuses that a big crowd is too much to handle. Let us be optimistic. Let us roll in mind that a big crowd means there would be a lot of manpower that would build up and invigorate a once sleeping nation.