The term "crab mentality" analyzed by a Filipino teacher . . .
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So where is "crab mentality in all these? It is placed on the part of those who just want to pull down anybody because of ill-will. There are people who do this, not only Filipinos. Any person can develop this mentality. We attribute it to Filipinos because we analyze our actuations as a people and sad to say, there are many of us who scratch people who seem to have many while we barely have any or find fault at someone who has it all while you can barely be acknowledged by people you work with.
Let us then find the fault in each of us and use this awareness to correct it. In the case of Pacquiao, he knows he is now a role model and we have few left the young people can identify with. He has been given by God all the blessings which most of us will not experience so he has to be careful and though difficult to do, live up to the mold.In our little ways, we are also called to become role models therefore live moral lives.
At the end of the day, we all fall short of our calling because all of us need to be saved.
There are meetings and THERE ARE MEETINGS. The meeting between Barack Obama, the President of the United States and Hu Jintao, the Prime Minister of China is what is referred in the latter type of meeting. It implies the meeting of two leaders of the two most powerful countries which is in fact vital for other countries. For Obama, it is his first visit to Beijing, China as president. This meeting is held at a time when there is economic recession so the key global issues that they have to discuss include trade, climate change and nuclear proliferation. The followers are left asking, so?
Indeed, countries which are developed are worried for while they claim that they must do something to protect the world for the sake of humanity, others already know they are doing it to protect their interests. Notwithstanding this observation, we are still happy the two leaders meet and from their initiatives, other countries can also engage in collaborative ventures where a multiplier effect can take place.
For us teachers, meetings are vehicles to bring people together to plan, discuss, decide, celebrate, learn together. Let us join the two leaders if only in the spirit of oneness with their desire to take care of this one world, mankind is in-charge of - for the present and future generations.
US-China Meeting: November 2009 in Beijing China: A Beginning for better things ahead.
