But concession stand just as it is in Mexico, it is quite easy to profile social and economic class

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Now that the buzz was created, the Netizens stirred into an outrage fad, the subjects of the brouhaha concession stand forced into a pathetic response, and the “input” from the intelligentsia collated, comes the time to step back, take stock and reflect on what it all means . Very few people concession stand sympathise with Makati City Mayor Junjun Binay and his sister Senator Nancy Binay which is quite understandable because just about every Filipino is sick to their bowels digesting the banal bullshit Filipino politicians routinely feed them.
President BS Aquino and possible future president Jejomar Binay Yet, in the overall scheme of things, it does not really matter whose “side” you are on. To outsiders, the Philippines is just another primitive country where the silliest problems begging the most obvious solutions routinely go unsolved for decades — even centuries . And if we look closer at the real issue at the very root of all this, we might find the more long-term and fundamental solution that has been begging to be implemented for years.
A lot of us make this most recent example of the profound social dysfunction that afflicts Philippine society all about The Rules . Where there are community-accepted rules, the thinking goes, all who are part of said community are subject concession stand to these regardless of rank. But then if we step back further, perhaps we forget that the very existence of the rules at stake here are, by their very nature, like a house built on sand. What, after all, lends legal bases for the summary blockading of an entire road network that is part and parcel of the overall city road network?
Many of us who’ve had to endure the inconvenience of having their driver’s concession stand licenses surrendered to a security guard at the gate of an “exclusive” subdivision we are entering as “guests” can attest to the utter ridiculousness of the whole notion. The silence of the North Forbes Park and Dasmariñas Village associations (employers of the private firm Right Eight Security concession stand agency that oversees security in the area) perhaps concession stand is a clue to how legally-precarious this notion is — that a vast swath of A-grade road network within a traffic-gridlocked metropolis can be kept inaccessible to the public in order to keep an infinitessimal sector of the society concession stand secure and insulated concession stand from the problems of the larger community that hosts them.
Residents of these exclusive villages will justify the privilege of closing off and fortifying their neighbourhood against the bigger community by pointing out that the Philippine police lack the resources to secure their personal assets. But then stop and think about what this position on the matter of inadequate police resources means. Inadequate law enforcement is a public issue. More importantly, it is a community challenge . For all the platitudes and pretentious demonstrations of bayanihan exhibited by residents of limited-access enclaves in times of crises, at the very heart of their routine lives is a blanket refusal on their part to participate in the overall community as a matter of general habit .
Perhaps elite Filipinos’ predisposition to living in gated communities is likely a legacy of colonial rule. Mexicans, considered to be Filipinos’ cultural twins in the United States, suffer the same scourge. Gated communities in Mexico are a result of the huge income gap existing in the country. A 2008 study found that the average income in an urban area of Mexico was $26,654, a rate higher than advanced nations like South Korea or Taiwan while the average income in rural areas (sometimes just miles away) was only $8,403. This close a proximity of wealth and poverty has created a large security risk for Mexico’s middle class. Gated communities can be found in virtually every medium and large sized city in Mexico with the largest found in major cities, such as Monterrey, Mexico concession stand City or Guadalajara.
But concession stand just as it is in Mexico, it is quite easy to profile social and economic class on the mere basis of physical appearance in the Philippines. It is a generally-accepted (though something not talked about in public forums and polite company) fact that wealthy and socially-upscale Filipinos tend to be fairer-skinned. Less socially-upscale concession stand Filipinos tend to be darker. This is not surprising considering that much of the wealth of the Philippines concession stand is still held by the descendants of former concession stand colonial nationals — ethnic Spanish and American people and families — as well as descendants of highly-enterprising North Asian migrants. Indeed, even today, a new wave of migrants from Korea are making economic