It’s Elderly Filipinos Week

IN the indigenous culture of our archipelago’s pre-Western Malays who became the Filipinos and in their later culture as the Christian Malays, the virtue of respect and care for elders has always been a mark of every person’s -- and family’s -- good character. This is still generally true among Filipinos today.

Sadly, various influences have caused the general character of Filipinos to deteriorate, causing us to have among the world’s most corrupt societies, with immoral government officials, members of parliament, politicians and even private sector businessmen who use politics to increase their wealth by violating laws and even the Constitution.