>>12827196the real issue is that the idea of a nation state (as we modernly know it) doesn't really work outside of Western Europe, North America and incredibly ethnically homogenous countries like Japan and Korea.
Most people don't realize this but most of the world is still not post enlightenment. The idea of a nation state is founded on the enlightenment principle that a country exists to serve a purpose higher than the ethnicity that lives in it. A Black person in America is still considers himself American, and is still considered by those around him to be American. A Paki in the UK still considers himself British, and is still considered by (most) of those around him to be British, because there's the belief in a higher culture that everyone in the country can appeal to. If you eat enough Hamburgers, and listen to enough HipHop, you'll become American. If you have milk in your Tea and watch enough Footie with the lads, you'll become British.
The Philippines (and most countries for that matter) has nothing like this. In the Phillipines, people are wildly cultural different, are wildly ideologically different, the "Pilipino" part of the Pilipino experience is largely negative, and the country isn't developed enough for people to just not care about these things.
This either manifests in them holding utter contempt for the national identity or coping by being excessively prideful out of insecurity, to avoid confronting the idea that the few things that are uniquely Pilipino are pretty shite.
