Instill pro-American ideas into your mind. This series of measures has enabled the Philippines to form a small but sophisticated upper class, who have mastered a large part of the country's wealth and become a veritable "landlord class". Through its military supply to the United States and a series of economic support from the United States, the Philippines soon became one of the richest countries in Asia, on a par with Japan, Singapore and other countries.
The Philippines can be summed up by a classic line in The Shawshank Redemption: "Some people are busy living, while others are busy dying". According to the report of the World Health Organization, 35% of the Philippines160,000 people live in slums. "The villa of the dead, the slum of the living." This sentence is often used to evaluate the gap between rich and poor in the Philippines. Manila, the capital of the Philippines, was called the most prosperous city in Asia alongside Japan before World War II.
Today, the BBC lists it as the most sinister and densely populated place in the world. Although universal values advocate equality for all, the reality is so cruel; Like many countries, the Philippines also has an "invisible class division", which is measured by income. Thousands of people live next door here. No one considers the public security and the spread of diseases here, because they are busy every day just for the next day's life. They have no food. Many children will find discarded food from the garbage.