why do you consider duterte as a role mode?

The inculcation of values in the hearts and minds of young Filipinos is one of the primary aims of education, at all levels—be it pre-school, elementary, secondary or collegiate. That is one reason why Values Education is integrated in all subject areas of the school curriculum.

One effective way teachers, tutors, instructors and professors inculcate values in their students is by finding role models of fine virtues and discussing their contributions to the moral well-being of pupils and students. That’s one primordial reason why the country’s national heroes and leaders are extolled in classrooms as teachers teach their young charges character/values education, also referred to as “Good Manners and Right Conduct” or “GMRC.”

The country’s presidents are usually portrayed as exemplars of decency and courtesy—and as exponents of polite and refined language. It is sad that, generally speaking, teachers cannot find the incumbent President Duterte as such. Known for profane and vulgar utterances, especially his cursing and vulgar jokes, good-mannered people find it difficult to consider the country’s chief executive an appropriate and worthy example of a good national leader, whose language should be refined and polite.

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Unfortunately, in the case of President Duterte, it has only served to reinforce an unflattering image of the country. Mr. Duterte has made headlines around the world for remarks that run the gamut from innocuously bawdy to dangerously sexist, including jokes about rape. However, he seems to have taken it to another level when the New York Times reported that the President admitted, in a recent speech to local officials, to sexually assaulting a housemaid when he was a teenager. This appears to be the first time in which he publicly admitted to personally assaulting a woman. This, of course, drew condemnation from women’s groups. The President’s office made light of this and dismissed his confession as a joke.

As a Filipino, I must express disgust and embarrassment about the President’s remarks. I am appalled that the Filipino audience laughed. As my classmate said, “We have adapted far too easily to crude and coarse dialogue emanating from our leaders that we would have never have tolerated from outsiders. We have become numb to language that is unbecoming of public servants at any level of government.” Ironically, no female legislator has voiced outrage. They have forgotten they were women first before they became politicians. If a survey was conducted among OFWs, how would the President fare considering hundreds of thousands are female workers?

As if our image had not been battered enough, this was followed by a feature story in the same newspaper about the appalling conditions in Philippine prisons whose occupancy has swelled five times their carrying capacity, with those still awaiting trial because of the glacial speed of our justice system. Even those seeking comfort in a healthy economy despite all the bad news abroad were in for a rude awakening with the headline in a major regional publication “Philippines –‘Sick Man of Asia’ Risks Relapse.” All of these have painted the country as sexist, violent, inept and now even economically mismanaged. I have pointed out before that in the information age, no news is local and our government should be aware that how we are perceived overseas is literally no joke. In competing for investments and tourism – image is everything. The President may wish to consider tasking his economic managers and the DFA to assist in refurbishing our tarnished image. He can make their job easier by being more circumspect of his utterances.