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MRR2: The challenges facing the global south: perspectives from the Philippines.

Each and every country here in the living world has its own dilemmas to deal

with. May it be a developed, developing or third world country. Not everything in this

world is perfect everything has its own downsides. We all know, that our country, the

Philippines belong in the third world country. What the most challenging part in this is

the question that plays in some of our minds to how a third world country can cope up to

this challenges that the world has in store for us every single day of life? Is it too

pressuring for a third world country to still be dealing with a bigger problem when on the

other hand, that certain country already has a lot to deal with on its own, right? What

more if they are globally inclined already? In this article the Philippines’ perspective to

global challenges is clearly elaborated.

If we have fully read and understood the article, we can see that not every

country that belongs to the third world part cannot deal with the challenges they are

facing globally. The article helped me to open my eyes to significant things that I am not

quite familiar about. It had made me acquire significant learnings. First, foreign affairs or

the international relations illustrates the gap between countries in the global South. The

post-colonial history of the countries in question inevitably leads to diverse experiences

that motivate individuals to solidify their states as early as possible. They are irrevocably

integrated into an economic institution that is predisposed to the powerful states. But not

because they have powerful connection doesn’t mean they always win in every

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 challenges. This can also break and cause distraction to their states. Second, every

country has its differences. The differences to how a nation in the developing and

unsustainable country deal with various forces? What kind of discussions, plans etc. are

taking place that enable one nation to stabilize regional and international increasing

pressure? More pressingly, the different schemes that they have been using to convey

their own concepts, ideologies, and complexities. Lastly, I have also learned how the

global south are “differently different.” Countries have shared different ideology and

concepts but some do not seem to fit in their current and future patterns. This is

because, members of the developing World have different perception, mostly with

respective national power and influence as well as with each other. Moreover, the

perspective and justification of Philippine foreign relations is clearly different from other

countries foreign policy. Good example that we can compare the Philippines foreign

policy is with Singapore. These three are only some of the knowledge that I have

acquire.

Even though that I have fully read and understood the article there are still some

parts of it that’s unclear to me. Unclear in a way that I don’t understand why they are

being like how they are. One of this is how global south countries know their differences

with other countries but still the members are blinded by the power that they have.

Instead of helping out countries with low power they tend to be biased and selfish.

Second, articles such as this has been widely spread for sure, but why can’t our country

be able to distinguish to how our nation would be better? For me this one article could

be a big help already what more of the other published ones? Of course, that would be

more helpful and yet we cannot attain to be part of the developed countries because the

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 members of our country are blinded by power. And lastly, in the article it says that the

conclusion offers “a bird’s-eye view of the nuances of the differences of the global south

and the problems associated with it.” But still a lot of people chose to pretend that they

aren’t able to see these nuances and somehow, they considered it problematic because

people chose not to see those things beyond it. It is very unclear for me because how

could people be blinded by something that is already clear to us? Why do people

always choose to be selfish rather than to help and attain what our country and the

whole world needs? Well, whatever reason they have for sure that is only for their own

good.

As I was reading the article there’s a lot of things on my mind. At first, I wasn’t

able to understand what the article was trying to say however, as I try to comprehend it

line by line, I was able to think of some things. First, why would the members of the

south global countries tend to be biased and selfish? Yes, we may be different from

each other but as what Homi Bhabha’s said, we may not be quite the same but the level

or variance may indeed showcase asymmetry. Meaning we would still have our

similarities “almost the same but not quite.” So why bother being the bad guys? Second,

what benefits does the developing countries get from downgrading the people of third

world countries? Such as the former president of the United State, Donald Trump did to

our people. Like why would you degrade people just because they came from a third

world country? And lastly, I have realized that being part of a third world country doesn’t

mean you cannot develop on your own. We are not born to depend ourselves to others

forever. We are born because each of us has our own purpose in life. The perspectives

that the Philippines has set in order to keep up with the challenges we are facing

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 globally for me are still quite low because we still depend on theories or may it be a

“Western” or “non-Western” historical event. For me, yes, these historical happenings

are important but we must not depend on this always. We must cope up to how our

world is changing not to how our ancestors have done it. All we can do to these theories

is appreciate it, we can still follow some of this saying but as we grow older our living

doesn’t fit anymore in those years so we must keep up our practices that would fit

todays time.

Because of these things that have run through my mind there are certain

questions that I would also like to ask. One is why does this kind of published article not

widely spread? It would be a great help not just to our country but for the people to be

able to know that there are certain types of information that every people should know.

Second, why does the article feel like third world countries such as the Philippines,

should fit in the standard living of those developed country? And lastly, does the

perspective of the Philippines really matter to the global south? Or are they just making

this to be able to seek information and use it against us? Well, whatever it is that this

article has in store for us, it is still quite helpful and students who are able to read and

comprehend this surely have gained knowledge just what I did.

With that said, the article has helped me gain information that I haven’t known

before. Global south countries are vividly different from global north countries. There are

certain types of ways and ideologies that quite differ from how they plan or express but

there are also ways that are similar that the south and north have practiced. For me,

even though these countries have differences with one another we must still practice

having sympathy with each other. We may be too powerful but that doesn’t mean we

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 must take advantage of it. Always remember that God is the one who has put us in that

situation so we must use it wise fully and not to be able to use it for evil doings.

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