Some three weeks after he was caught on video shooting dead in cold blood two unarmed neighbors in Tarlac, Staff Sergeant Jonel Nuezca was dismissed from service on Monday, for “seriously compromis(ing) his character and standing in the Philippine National Police (PNP), which shows his unworthiness to remain in police service,” according to the report of the PNP’s Internal Affairs Service to police chief Gen. Debold Sinas. The Parañaque policeman has been charged with two counts
The term “colonial mentality” is one of the go-to phrases for Filipinos to explain certain aspects of our culture and collective experiences, from the preference for things that are “imported” to the very desire to go abroad. In my own ethnographic fieldwork, I hear people use the term to explain the desire of many Filipinos to whiten their skins, evincing the frequent use of the term to explain our beauty standards. As expected, politicians are frequent users of “colonial mentality” in their rhetoric, mobilizing it to suit their purposes. Like other populist leaders in the Global South, Rodrigo Duterte is exemplary
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