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The Phillipines are an Asian Nation. It has an unique history of colonization. It had been twice colonized. Other Asian nations, like India, Malaysia and Indonesia had had only one dominant European colonizer. The Phillipines was inirially a Spanish colony and subsequently an US colony. Thus its people soeak English (the American version) and Spanish. Thus it is culturally exposed to both English and Hispanic influenced terrirories in the world, besides having a defined national identity in Asia. Thus culturally it is exposed to a wider area of the modern world than India, for example, which is otherwise a much larger countries with much larger natural human and military resources. If its a matter of political, economic or military participation in the modern world system, the Phillipines has participated to the extent it could commensurate to its available natural and human resources. It's military resources aren't that much, and weren't ever designed to be that much, that it can intervene in regions outside the Phillipines on its own. It doesn't need to and doesn't want to either. The Filipinos are natural Pacifists of the Asiatic type. They wont ever act politically or militarily against another country. But if they are attacked, they can and will react. The general attitude on non interfering friendliness that the Filipinos irradiate in dealing with foreigners, is very likely to draw many friendly nations to their side if they are threatened. This can be viewed as the Filipinos success story in participating in diplomatic exercises with the rest of the modern world.
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