As Bishop Cruz points out, the Philippine government backs globalization, but the result has been importing cheap Chinese good (which underprice and end up destroying local industries) but we pay for this by exporting our people. Indeed, most of my stepson's wealth is from my husband's fifty years of work in the USA as a doctor.
I support globalization, but it is not good for families when the only way they can survive is to break up family ties. It would be much better to find good paying jobs here.
Yet what is the alternative? Despite the NPA and a lot of aging PC nuns and priests preaching liberation theology, socialism has failed.
A third way, more popular in "hippie" days but whose roots are deep in the Catholic idea of subsidarity, is EE Shumacher's Small is Beautiful.
Many of these ideas are similar to those expounded by GK Chesterton, a writer most famous for his "Father Brown" mystery stories.
Joseph Pearce, who has written biographies on Chesterton (and Tolkien) has a new book updating these ideas to the modern world.
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