This is a high-wire question. But, I do not actually refer to the strict meaning of the word, which his “grouchy”, “irritable”, “ill-natured”, “peevish”. What I am actually referring to is about the Filipinos’ “crab mentality”.
So are we “crabby” in our mentality? How many say “yes”, and how many say “no”?
There is a majority belief among Filipinos that we do have a crab mentality. What exactly is a “crab mentality”? Wikipedia described crab mentality in a phrase “if I can’t have it, neither can you”. Crab mentality has been observed among the “crabs in the bucket”. Individually, the crabs could easily escape from a bucket, but instead, they grab at each other which prevents any from escaping and ensures their collective demise. In human behaviour, the analogy is that of a group that will attempt to “pull down” any member who achieves success beyond the others, because of envy or competitive feelings.
This meaning is very true among the Filipinos. There is always a tendency for us to “pull down” anyone who is about to achieve success in his/her career, and most of the time, out of envy. And precisely, this is the reason why a lot of Filipinos have gone abroad to ensure possible success, because there is no guarantee of reaching success in the Philippines unless one was born rich and need not work in contrast to those who come from a struggling family and being abroad is the only possible way out to poverty and could guarantee professional success. It doesn’t necessary mean though that the rich are immuned to such a type of “mentality”, albeit it could be a worse case insofar as the rich ones are concerned. Definitely, being abroad entails a lot of hard work, perseverance and desire to succeed to reach the targeted goal. So I would say that the failure or success of one does depend on the person him/herself. Crab mentality may not work in the sense, unless the Filipino is at luggerhead with another Filipino because of business interest. And surely, it can be more manifested in business especially when competition between them is at hand.

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Thanks for you view. I would have appreciated it much should you have identified yourself thus giving me better chance of expressing a more adequate response.
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