The Irony Of Promoting Economic Protectionism With IMPORTED PRODUCTS

While this picture is already ten years old but you can see the stupidity here. I remembered writing about playing "Akoy's Isang Pinoy" on an imported music player (and smartphones seem to be the most common ones). Now it's time to talk about the incredible irony of this picture. They are promoting economic protectionism with the whole, "Save and create jobs by buying Pinoy and local." But do you know the IRONY of this picture? If you do have some common sense then you will realize that they're promoting economic protectionism with IMPORTED PRODUCTS. You may find an imported watch (worn by the protectionists) and more importantly, they're using IMPORTED EQUIPMENT to make that huge tarpaulin and for the sound system!

Buying local does save and create jobs but as said, local businesses are not entirely enough. Foreign investors provide both customers and services for these local businesses. If the local products don't deserve to be bought by either Filipinos and foreigners so what's the use of campaigning to buy them? If they want to create the Sariling Atin-Only Economy then why in the world are they using well as said, imported products? Just where did they get the microphone and stereo? Were the equipment used of Filipino brands and Filipino made? I may be having Filipino-made clothes (due to them being more affordable) but I use mostly imported equipment or at least foreign-branded equipment as well. For all you know, the Powerpoint presentation was created with an Apple laptop, the sound system was Sony, and they are taking pictures with Kodak digital cameras during this event.

Let's take a look at local Filipino businessmen. Are all their equipment and even some materials they use for production purely from the Philippines? They would be importing materials and equipment while mixing it with Filipino-sourced materials. Their delivery vehicles are in fact all-imported or of imported brands. You can't have them all Filipino-sourced. They may be considered Philippine-made products but they still use imported stuff and equipment to do so. I would be sure that some of the Philippine-made products I use have imported materials in them. They were also promoted with imported equipment. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to see them on the Internet or on TV, right? I enjoy Filipino products and imported products not for their origin but for their usefulness. It's not colonial mentality to love imported products. Colonial mentality is when you think everything imported is better even when it isn't.

The best explanation for this contradiction is these guys just don't even care. They want socialism but they love capitalist products. It's all because their nationalism is nothing more than a serious sham. Nobody can take their so-called nationalism seriously -- not especially if they're using imported products to promote economic protectionism.