Wrong. My firm has rejected a lot of college applicants, because they are defficiently educated, even so-called English majors. Rural areas in the Philippines is like a totally different country so I'm not even comparing it with that. The universities they have in that country are woeful, nothing at all like American universities. College graduates in the Philippines are equal to high school grads in the US- they may know the bare basics, but they have a serious deficiency in logic and ethics. We always have to train them when we hire the ones we dont reject.
Which brings me to the second point. A lot of people in the Philippines dont have any ethics. They will break the law whenever it suits them as long as they get away with it. This is no doubt the reason why they voted in a thug as president. I have several servants in my house and they all voted Duterte. When I asked them why, they claimed he was going to clean up the wanton corruption, but all he did was just have the cops execute people without trial. Mostly the poor too- seems the people in that country are willing to put their own laws aside for a so-called easy solution to their problems, even if its the wrong way of doing things.
Now I can see that you are not nearly so knowledgeable about the Philippines as you seem to believe. Yes, there are a lot of substandard universities there - and one can say the same of the US - or haven't you heard of the for-profit universities that gave substandard educations for tens of thousands of dollars? Their best don't compare to our best Ivy League universities, but their best (such as UP, UST, Ateneo, etc.) do compare well alongside our good state universities.
Worst of all is your statement, "
A lot of people in the Philippines dont have any ethics. They will break the law whenever it suits them as long as they get away with it." "Broad-brush" accusations such as those are considered a logical fallacy for good reason. You made two grand, sweeping claims...and both are flatly wrong. Yes, their ethics are different - but their ethics revolve more around family and religion than "American-style" business - nepotism is usually seen as normal and accepted there (and in much of Asia), whereas it would be seen as silly to put people in jail for swapping insider information before moves in the stock market. Their ethics are certainly
different from American business ethics - that doesn't make their ethics non-existent as you claim.
And if your second sentence was accurate, then the homicide rate would be MUCH higher in Manila. Instead, it's safer to walk the streets there than it is in many inner cities here in America. Yes, like any other major city, there's places in Manila where one has to be very careful (e.g. Tondo), but the reality of the crime is this: it's much more likely that you'll see low-level crime there - but you also don't see anything like the gang-bangers here stateside. Yes, they have a serious drug problem and their prisons are terrible, but if you had actually taken the time to LEARN the culture, to learn its whys and wherefores, then you would have seen in what ways the people there can be more trustworthy than they are here. A great example is the children - if someone sees two six year-old girls walking by themselves to school, no one worries - as long as they stay out of traffic, they'll almost certainly be safe. But here in America? Not so much. That in and of itself should tell you that no, they don't "break the law whenever it suits them". What you should have said is that while there's more low-level crime (theft, drugs) than what most Americans experience, their culture is about a violent as it is in Louisiana or Mississippi (and their culture is in many ways so similar to our Deep South)...and significantly LESS violent than in our inner cities.
Your sweeping statements make it obvious that while you've spent a lot of time there, you learned the culture...but you apparently never learned the WHYs of the culture, or took the time to see what is BETTER about their culture than our own. All cultures have good points and bad points, including our own. The Filipino culture has its own good points and bad points, as is the case with all cultures. But since you never learned the WHYs of their culture, you didn't learn to respect it, much less to not just reject the bad points, but also to accept the good points and implement them in your own life.