It is interesting how education and science allow one to look at the world and honestly admit that it is far more complex than one can ever hope to comprehend. Still, even with the discipline of empiricism, human nature, fear and impatience cause us to simplify things to a point of useless opinions instead of something constructive and usable.
Bourdaine's episode in No Reservations about the Philippines quite adequately describes the reality of the culture.
Culture is described by, quite simply,...