Interesting ASEAN Reads:
1. Understanding PH Chairmanship and the ASEAN Community
2. Celebrating ASEAN 50th Anniversary in the Philippines
3. ASEAN 2017: Covering History and Blogging the Story
I’m browsing the morning news when I chanced upon this report from ABS CBN. Despite the Philippines’ robust economic growth, it has failed to lift the labor market where many are trapped in low-paying and unstable jobs.
This reminded me of the press briefer held by the Philippine Marketing Association for their 47th National Marketing Conference, dubbed Hello ASEAN.
What caught my attention is how Vietnam has progressed, 50 years since ASEAN was founded, and managed to have the lowest poverty rate. Compare with the Philippines, PH is only better than Myanmar.
Furthermore, Vietnam successfully increased the IQ level of her citizens, and became 2nd only to Singapore. While Filipinos was reported to have the lowest IQ in ASEAN
In a business forum I attended three years ago, Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima said that the greatest asset of the Philippines is her young population. A younger population can mean higher productivity, with more wealth created to support senior citizens. Sec. Purisima further said the government will pour more funds to education to make it accessible to the underprivileged. This can lead to a higher IQ which can open opportunities to high quality and high paying jobs.
With the K to 12 program rolling out this year, the quality of education is being addressed (crossed fingers). Unfortunately, free quality education for all is still a dream. And with NEDA alarmed with the high percentage of youth inactivity, we have a serious problem ahead.
If the survey result is reflective of reality, then stakeholders on education, maternal and child health should get its acts together to address this alarming report. Pointing fingers and bashing will bring no good.
credit: images lifted from the powerpoint presentation of Wilfrido V.E. Arcilla, Program Advisor of 47th National Marketing Conference.
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[…] for minors and adults who opted to take the legal route to address their situation. Top 5 Hello ASEAN: Filipinos have the lowest IQ? This post is the ‘odd’ one in the pack. It neither addresses employment or bullying […]
What I observed in the Filipino culture is the lack of motivation to observe and study a certain expertise beyond academe and books.
They are contained in spoon feeding to the point of taking the infos literally. We must explore and question what we are fed to learn.
Be a guinea pig in a certain expertise because experience is the best judge. Look beyond the surface and try to step up not to compete but to be relevant not only to self but to others as well.
If one’s objective is to only be better for one self and taking all the credit, you will be limited. Try to learn beyond struggles and limitation and not to compete.
This is a subset from this study: https://www.worlddata.info/iq-by-country.php. “The studies are not entirely uncontroversial as they’re often considering only specific population groups or only a few individuals per countries. If, on the other hand, an average is obtained from all the tests and studies, an at least usable overview will be obtained.” Results are not reliable since the population sample is very small.
thanks for this
IQ value shown (94) for Vietnamese is not dependable due to it is not elaborated from any test, It is an assumpsion by a surveyor, then many articles cite the result then making Vietnamese become second smartest people in ASEAN.
Smart or not smart by IQ indicator is meaningless.
South Korea has the most educated population in Asia and a very strong universities. But they also have economy focused completely on industrialisation, automatisation, high tech services. They simply produce so much so high quality students because they are in demand and they have industry which will use their skils. It is mechanism which drives itself farther.
Only educating and producing students without low tax incentives for creating small and medium filipino businesses won’t change anything. These students won’t have a ready jobs or practical skills and capital to build something on their own. So what will they do? They will emigrate and all money invested in education will go with them abroad will be lost.
To increase IQ:
– good, healthy diet should be promoted – no processed shop low quality, full of sugar and salt food – healthy diet means – maximum 3 but proper meals daily with green vegetables, herbs, eggs, meat/fish fat, unrefined energy dense cocoa oil, and less rice/sugar/alkohol/ other processed plant oils/grains. And using sea salt with minerals not that processed one.
This also includes promotion of planting of new sorts of healthy food around. Rice monocultures isn’t a variety nutriens a healthy brain needs. Also many healthy herbs are everywhere which ppl forget to use while it could save them from visits to doctors and buying expensive medications with ugly side effects.
– promotion of good habits in children – showing education programs in TV and not entertainment without any value – which internet you can find any knowledge you want – if you only have a bit time, cellphone and a focus on rising a smart child. School won’t do your job as a parent and even as a teacher! Teach your children what you know as fast as your baby is able to grasp it.
-promotion of proper spending of foreign remitances – not for consumption, eating up that money – but for development of small businesses, training kids how market, sales and growing business looks like since the very first years of his life. Nothing is for free but strong efforts, looking for opportunities and trying hard always brings Gods help and prosperity in future.