MetroVanIndependent.com
August 2015
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Opinion
Thoughts on Philippine Social Realities
Who da who?
PINOY MIXX
By Rene Orobia Durian
I am writing about social realities
because of President Aquino’s State of
the Nation Address (SONA). I felt that it is
quite appropriate to look in hindsight while
asking ourselves how far the country has
gone.
The definition of societal problems
and economic underdevelopment is
an instructive idea to understand the
symptoms and subordinate influential
factors that give rise to social problems.
Knowing the symptoms may not be
the panacea or the absolute cure to the
problems at hand, but it definitely offers an
important, significant step to trace the root
cause or causes to alleviate the problem.
I was born in the ‘50s. I