During a class recitation, I asked the students this question in my general ethics class: What is the root cause of the inequalities in Philippine society? The best answer came from Juleah Zardilla…
During a class recitation, I asked the students this question in my general ethics class: What is the root cause of the inequalities in Philippine society? The best answer came from Juleah Zardilla, who explained: “The inequalities in our country are a result of a system instituted by our colonizers.
Wataru Kusaka, a Japanese scholar whose work is anchored on moral politics, writes that reducing politics as the conflict between the elite and the masses hides the fact that inequality is rooted not only in unjust systems but also in uneven social structures that reveals a clash of values and the many struggles of a people against latent and obvious forms of oppression and injustice.
Take note that when the Americans introduced their own brand of democracy into the Philippines, they have envisioned an independent Filipino nation that can stand on its own without Uncle Sam. What happened was, instead of improving the socio-political conditions of the ordinary people, the US model of democracy, according to Kusaka, simply “strengthened the power base of the elites in the country.
This feudal arrangement is the basis of what Benedict Anderson termed as cacique democracy. This model will however transform itself from being agriculture-based to being services-sector oriented, although the exploitation of the country’s labor force remains apparent.
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