A weakness that Filipinos have is crab-mentality. This is what divides the Filipinos as one people and therefore prevents the building of a progressive nation. For instead, we pull each other down out of envy or just plain egotism. We cannot replace burdensome administration if each of us chooses rather to solo his fight and achieves nothing. This is the weakness of the opposition against the incumbent administration: Each prominent opposition politician is running for presidency instead of rallying their forces together behind one candidate of their own. The opposition in the Philippines is splittered, kanya-kanya. In politics, nothing great is accomplished by a lone wolf. The administration has the greater command because aside for its established political machinery, they have the support of local governments who are dependent on them, and so it is most likey that the administration’s candidate will win the election. And so the stupor of governance remains; our nation doesn’t move forward but rather backwards- like a crab.
Another weakness that Filipinos have is extreme family-centeredness. While concern for the family is one of the Filipino's greatest strengths, in the extreme it becomes a serious flaw. Excessive concern for the family creates an in-group to which the Filipino is fiercely loyal, to the detriment of concern for the larger community or the common good.
Excessive concern for family manifests itself in the use of one's office and power as a means of promoting the interests of the family, in factionalism, patronage, and political dynasties, and in the protection of erring family members. It results in lack of concern for the common good and acts as a block to national consciousness.
The Filipinos should develop a sense of the common good--the ability to look beyond selfish interests, a sense of justice and a sense of outrage at its violation.