If they were Muslim, they would've passed Malaysia as the most developed country in SEA by now
>>220687094if they were muslim they'd be island bangladesh. their problem isn't which religion they practice
>>220687094Wrong. It would be a breeding ground of terrorists and we would've been the Iran of SEA.
I'm sure allah would have given them plenty of free oil.
>>220687179thats us>>220687188thats malaysia>>220687497thats brunei
No muslim country can't be rich without oil. Malaysia's largest company is literally called Petronas. They are pseud-rich nation anyway.
>>220687094All these fantasies and the filipino employer will still demand a college degree to scrub toilets for 16 hours a day for $2
If Philippines had received culture from Southern China instead of Western empires they would have become another different JapanIt sounds strange to me that a SEA country closest to East Asia is suffering from the biggest poverty problem in SEA
>>220687094No. We are poor compared to those other nations, because of the archipelagic penalty whereain, all foreign investors prefer to invest in Malaysia or Thailand since it's simply not expensive there compared to here wherein, a bunch of scattered islands instantly makes the Philippines' Utility and Transport costs 10x higher than one land; Malaysia and Thailand. In fact, if they were in our shoes they would perform worse off than us, since even when have the least land, least amount of farmable land, and are scattered by dividing seas, our GDP Per Square Kilometer is 3rd only to the 1st and 2nd richest countries in ASEAN, the microstates Singapore and Brunei, but nobody dares look under the hood and merely judges the book by it's cover. Life is harder here and it takes 10x the effort to attain the same level Thailand and Malaysia takes for granted.
>>220687094>if they were muslimisn't mindanao the worst part though
GDP Per Square KilometerSee how top performing the Philippines is? Leastt land area but highest output per land area? But nobody appreciates this and merely judged the book by it's cover.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvb0vtc5hxg&pp=ygUeR0RQIHBlciBTcXVhcmUgS2lsb21ldGVyIEFTRUFO
>>220687876turkey is rich
>>220687094They're muslim in the southern island though.
>>220690878This. Naval transport is the fastest for shipping commerce and trading over long distances but for small scale travel and exports within the country it sucks ass.
it's funny how everyone in sea just keeps surpassing the philippines while they just stay there sucking amerimutt cock
>>220691041That's only because they secularised the country. It's all going to shit with Erdogan at the helm
>>220691321that's what they think as long as they're not communist
>>220691549azerbaijan, albania, bosnia and kazakhstan are more secular than turkey and they're shitholes
>>220691321Life is hard in the Philippines; utilities and transport, since we are scattered islands are 10x more expensive than in Malaysia or Thailand, hence no one wants invest here; there is also the fact that we are the most disaster prone nation in the world. I assured you if the shoe is in the other foot, and you transplant a Thai or Malaysian in Insane Difficulty Philippines, they would self-end, but if you put Filipinos into their place, we are rich. That's why Filipinos who are so accustomed to hardship in the Philippines suddenly are often the richest professionals in the USA or Singapore where life is easier.
>>220691191In Thailand all you need to do is ride a train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, in the Philippines, in order to get from Manila to Cebu, you ride a train, then transfer to a car, then transfer to a ship, then sail, then port, then go to a car again. It's 10x more expensive than the singular train in Thailand. Hence no fucking investor is willing to put businesses here since transport alone is expensive as hell.
>>220690939Despite everyone here glazing the Muslims for being rich merely for their oil wealth unavailable to Christian Filipinos; in Muslim Malaysia, Christian Sarawak is actually the 3rd or 4th richest state whereas in the Christian Philippines, Muslim Mindanao is dead last or second to the last in prosperity.
>>220692182The rest of the country isn't prospering either.
>>220692182>Despite everyone here glazing the Muslims for being rich merely for their oil wealth unavailable to Christian Filipinos>Christian Sarawak is actually the 3rd or 4th richest state yeah and sarawak and sabah are the main producers of gas&oil in the country, retard
>>220692503It's partly also sociological both Sarawak and Sabah are the main oil producers of Malaysia but Sarawak which has even less oil than Sabah ended up richer than Sabah.
>>220692277VGH United in Poverty.
>>220687094Philippines will be Muslim again, mashallah
>>220687094they already have issues with isis groups as a christian nation, if they were muslim the entire country would be a terrorist state
