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To: Ilaine who wrote (36404)	4/30/1999 6:32:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I have worked with people from the Philippines, they are as intelligent and hard-working as any others I have met. There is nothing wrong with them. As individuals, their values are fine. My point was that many of the institutions and social phenomena that have obstructed them - and residents of many other 3rd world countries - from translating these values and talents into active development were imposed by the outside through superior force, largely by the US. This leaves us with certain obligations toward the victims of these impositions, which are not likely to be acknowledged by Americans who are unaware that these impositions ever took place. Many years ago, after then-VP Bush bestowed a stellar endorsement on Marcos, a Filipino high school student asked me how, if America is a democracy and most Americans are basically decent and well-meaning people, out government can do such unbelievably stuppid things. The only answer I could give was ignorance.