Types of Filipinos

This idea suddenly came into my mind out of nothing while I was sitting inside a v-hire together with other commuters struck in traffic a day ago. I normally commute to home 5:30-6:00 in the afternoon/evening going with masses mostly in rush hour period. The cause of the traffic is very inevitable at this time and although it's unbelievable, yes! it is caused by an old bridge designed quite badly for commuters' use. My school is far from where I'm staying right now, I travel at least one hour everyday just to go to classrooms. Kilometers away from my four walls of learning is a city named from the first hero of the Philippines, Lapu-lapu City is an island city linked to downtown Cebu via two bridges which brings Metro Cebu road traffic to Lapu-lapu City. Fast pace of industrialization had somewhat worsen the traffic problem in the island due mainly because of it's rapid population growth.

I thought of how would we classify Filipinos? Hmnn... most people here tend to classify their fellowmen physically by how someone would look, "Is his/her complexion dark or fair?" that's the normal question one would raise and frankly speaking it's too racist. But, deeply as we're in fast pace of societal change, no one would care on how would someone look but more on what he/she thinks and act accordingly. I think it's the best way of distinguishing good and bad people and with the right core values in them, people are best suited in a Utopian society.

Basically, there are two types of Filipinos... first the one who thinks of himself in high standard. These people mostly make up the highest paid and richest in my society. These high class people eat, dress, speak well very different from what normal people we see on streets do. The other class is the one who thinks of "simple life" doing nothing but literally simple. These simple people do not usually go beyond what they are expected and tend to lagg behind in the society making the undistribution of income worse. The two types do not really live well together, one has very big view in life and the other one tends to be left behind of all the changes happening globally right now. The second class may be educated but can never be so succesful than the higher class. The first class may be poor at some time but can never be as such than the second class, they search, look, and find deeper ways to seek better oppurtunities everywhere.

A new group of people emerged, they are educated and well suited for the society with big differences. Together they make up the middle class between the two different types of people. Most of these people commonly called "Pag-asa nang bayan" is said to be the only loose hope of this striving nation with big differences. Somehow, I realized that what my country needs is people who are more open to changes and is looking deeply forward to those changes for the betterment of everybody. I don't wanna be selfish but I think seeing hopeless people in their lives would really make me feel so frustrated and honestly I always look forward on my self at that times of hardship. I don't think of what my society would be and I don't think of anybody but me and my family. How can someone be fully happy when though he/she achieved what he aimed for yet continue to suffer seeing bad systems existing in his own society. Can this still be helped?

"I hope so, I really do!":(

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