Too Afraid To Ask

I'll start out by saying that there are many good and charitable people in the Philippines. Some of the best people I've known live there. But there is a LOT of poverty and that breeds some of the worst things in society. Having spent a few years in western part of Luzon island, there are enough bad people around that it's not hard to imagine a Filipino finding themselves in a situation where they are locally surrounded by very horrible things--murder, trafficking, etc. In the bigger cities, everyone knows that part of town where you don't go after dark.

I don't live there.

But my opinion of the place is that it's wildly diverse. Each of the 7000+ islands has its own history, culture and "dialect" which is really its own damn language.

With political winds today making the choice between Duterte and Marcos, I'm not entirely sure if picking the fascist is necessarily the worse choice either. As an outsider looking in, there's two deeply troubling candidates full of corruption, contempt and horrifying ideologies.

But most Filipinos I know are non-political. Mostly worn out by the corruption and in a state of learned helplessness. I don't think that's necessarily NeoNazi or whatever.

There is also the issue that the Filipino identity is under attack by these cultural islands. Being incredibly pro-Filipino identity isnt necessarily a bad thing. It really depends on how specific they get. Someone can be ultra-nationalist but pro-unity.

I don't think a Western term like NeoNazi could ever truly apply to the Filipinos. The politics over there just really doesn't line up on that axis. I wouldn't be surprised if it existed on one of the specific islands though.

Like seriously: who is the NeoNazi? Marcos or Duterte? Both have their elements that can sorta apply.

My mom and dad literally don't understand each other's native dialect. And they are just a few islands apart (and still on the Catholic islands on the Northern half of the country). How can anyone generalize on a nation like that?

That definitely sounds like the distorted reality of someone suffering from PTSD. But, I'm no authoritative source on Filipino behavior.