Originally posted by admin+Jul 6 2005, 10:08 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(admin &#064; Jul 6 2005, 10:08 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>The good samaritan happens once so the press makes a big thing of it. I returned a handbag with credit cards in last year to a womans house, I never got in the papers.
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Precisely. It&#39;s such a rare event it makes national news. What a sad indictment of the country.


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If it&#39;s so safe why do Westerners live in walled castles with guards, and not with the general population? I wonder
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Not just westerners - any filipino with money shuts themselves away from the masses inside huge walled subdivisions, and tries to pretend the outside mess of poverty and destruction doesn&#39;t exist.

There&#39;s a reason why the Philippines has failed to attract tourists in the same way that other SE Asian nations have - it&#39;s too corrupt and it turns everyone off. Even Vietnam is overtaking it. Vietnam&#33;?&#33;?&#33;?&#33;