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There are different ways of looking at it. Found a blog post that hits on this topic and I mostly agree with:

When you always refer to yourself as a guest you aren't getting the full respect that you deserve. You can criticize the local culture so long as you do it respectfully, take their cultural norms into consideration when making that criticism, and make that criticism in the right "forum". But, that doesn't really have much to do with what and how things are discussed here on DI though.

DI was created by "foreigners" mainly to help "foreigners" adapt to living in Dumaguete and the Philippines and to voice their thoughts and opinions on the local culture. While we more than welcome locals to join and add their opinions/advice/questions/etc, they must remember the objective of this forum, who it was created by and who it is meant to cater to. In a way it is them that are guests on this website - and basically anywhere online - and the prominent culture here is internet culture, not Filipino culture. If they cannot handle criticism and have thin skin/sensitive egos then this website - and the vast majority of websites online - is probably not the place for them to be. This forum, just like 99.9% of the internet, does not reside in their country and does not have to abide by their cultural norms or country's laws. We discuss their cultural norms here, sure, but their culture simply does not apply.

 

Seems like a grooming project of these 3 idiots. Luckily they only had the girls for 5 days before getting busted.

"With"? As in they were drinking together? Yeah, they were. These three sound like real scum. Hopefully they were caught before they were able to take advantage of the children (sounds like they caught them just before they were getting ready to). I would normally say to give them the death sentence...but a Filipino jail is much more fitting punishment.

@ChMacQueen See, it isn't just foreigners getting charged with these crimes. I do think the parents should also be charged with a crime as well. It seems their greed allowed them to pimp out their daughters. Parents have a legal and moral obligation to protect their children from scum like this...and they failed miserably at doing so.

 

I would very much be interested to hear Trump's take on Duterte's comments to the ambassdor. I'm betting I would agree with whatever it was he had to say about it.

The US does not need the Philippines. The advancement of long range bombers and nuclear powered ships have made the Philippines completely irrelevant. The shipping lanes can be protected from the bases we currently have in the Pacific and the bases China has built on the Spratley Islands have fixed addresses and pose absolutely no threat to the US (those can easily be dealt with from 1800 miles or more away from the islands). It is the Philippines that needs the US. Duterte can be as "macho" as he likes but that won't do anything to deter the Chinese from claiming every island in the archipelago that they please. Duterte speaks loudly and carries a tiny twig (the twig being the Philippine Navy and Coast Guard). Maybe he is stupid enough to think that sinking a Chinese battleship is as easy as sending his death squads out to kill impoverished 3rd world drug dealers though.

If Duterte wins the election I really think the US should reconsider their defense treaty (along with all foreign aid) with the Philippines.