What to you is the most plausible explanation for the root problem of the Philippines?

Micro level

Poverty, traffic, and corruption are critical problems present within the Philippines, but the underlying root cause of these problems is basically the lack of discipline among its citizens. The lack of discipline within an individual causes him/her to make rash decisions and take actions without consideration of other people. We become carefree and lax in our way of living that we become contented with what we have currently. With this innate nature of irresponsiveness, we tend to overlook our own faults and start blaming other people for the problems of the country. Well in fact, we are actually the main contributors of the country’s existing dilemmas. This type of response has been practiced to a large extent that it already manifested into a habit, a culture, or rather an identity for us Filipinos. Thus, this makes the problem almost impossible to solve.

Macro level We are the people we think we are, and we are the change we want to be. From this, it can be inferred that all our currently existing problems in the Philippines can be attributed to our mindset. We have been succumbed into thinking that our country has no hope and is up to no good because we always compare with 1st world countries. We have set the standard so high that we lost hope on our own selves. Also, our wrong notion of a prospering economy within a country would entail a better way of living, which would be instantaneously experienced by every family. Our thoughts of increased salary and wages or decreased cost of goods, similar to that of other prosperous countries, are the fruits of an efficient and uncorrupted government is misleading. When we don’t experience these self-centered benefits, we blame the government and accuse them for our own shortcomings. All societal classes, from the upper class to the lower class of the country, are all guilty of these type of reactions. We won’t be able to solve this problem when we haven’t yet defeated our conflicting battles within ourselves.