Analysis Of Nick Joaquin's 'A Heritage Of Smallness'

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Our country, the Philippines. Occupant are keep on rising much faster compared to our frugality. Our country indeed has been as sluggish as lackadaisical when it approaches to the aspect of improvement. It grosses a lot of years, even periods for us to be able to take an advance movement towards one step of modernization. Other nations like Singapore, which has been populate by other more influential country had been able to adapt yet get up and make themselves more prolific. But all through the years, the Philippines had remained yet no changed at all .The Philippines became more immobile with their status in the folks. Instead of becoming more globally minded, we incline to just always calm down and make it easy and just accept the fact that our progress is crumble and crush.

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