Here are the 10 most powerful business people in the Philippines based on our informal survey:

1) The Lopez clan

Eugenio “Gabby” Lopez III is the eldest son of the late ABS-CBN chairman emeritus Eugenio Lopez Jr. and
Conhita La’O. He belongs to the Lopez family of Iloilo, one of the wealthiest and most prominent families
in the province. Today, he is the Vice Chairman and Executive Director of the Lopez Group of Companies,
a major player in the country’s public service and utility sector.

Lopez has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science in Bowdoin College and a Masters degree in Business
Administration in Harvard Business School. In 1986, he was given the position of Director of Finance in
ABS-CBN by his father when the control over the company was restored after Martial Law. He was
elected the chairman cand CEO of ABS-CBN in 1997, and he took it to where it is today by pushing for a
more diverse media company, exploring Interactive Media, Sound Recording, Post-Production,
International Cable and Satellite Distribution, Sports Programming, and Licensing and Merchandising.

It was also in 1997 that he began to invest in telecommunications and cable telephony, leading to the
establishment of Lopez Communication Group. This was the committee which oversees the projects for
ABS-CBN along with Bayan Telecommunications (BayanTel) and SkyCable Corporation (SkyCable) for
which he is vice president and chairman, respectively.

Charo Santos-Concio succeeded Lopez when he retired in 2012. Until today, however, he remains as the
chairman of the Board of Directors of ABS-CBN.

2) Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco Jr.

Eduardo "Danding" Murphy Cojuangco Jr. is a Filipino businessman and politician. He is the
chairman of San Miguel Corporation, the largest food and beverage corporation in the
Philippines and Southeast Asia. He is a former Philippine ambassador and former governor of
Tarlac

4) The Zobel-Ayala clan

6) Manuel "Manny" Pangilinan

Manny Pangilinan, born on July 14, 1946, is now the highest paid Philippine Chief Executive Officer and
the man behind the Philippine’s pioneer in telecommunications, Philippine Long Distance and Telephone
Company or PLDT.

Manny Pangilinan’s humble beginnings will make you want to drop all your hesitations and hustle more
for your dreams in life. During Manny Pangilinan’s graduation speech in 2006 at Ateneo de Manila
University, which is also his Alma Matter, he recalled his early life from being a student, to being a
professional manager and an OFW, and now, an entrepreneur and corporate activist.

In 1965, before he graduated in college, Manny Pangilinan spoke with his father about his decision to
take MBA in the U.S., unfortunately, his father could not afford it so he had to find his own way. Down
to his fate that time, Procter & Gamble was hosting a national competition for a rare scholarship to the
University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. With tough luck, he won and got himself a free education
abroad. After two years in Philadelphia, Pangilinan applied for a managerial position in his benefactor,
but Procter & Gamble turned down his application. Being a fresh graduate without any experience,
Manny Pangilinan decided to just grab the first job he was offered. He became an executive assistant to
the president at Phinma for six years, with an initial monthly salary of P1,000.

After his career in Phinma, Manny Pangilinan got in to Bancom International, a Philippine investment
bank based in Hong Kong where he learned a lot about international finance from his Chinese
colleagues. Thereafter, he was seconded to a joint venture investment bank with American Express.
Manny Pangilinan expected to be appointed as CEO of that new bank, but to his surprise, he wasn’t. He
considered his life in 30’s as the most crucial chapter of his journey to success, but Manny Pangilinan
had soldiered on and stayed with AMEX to show what a Filipino can do with a strong determination to
propel him.

After four years with AMEX, he was able to prove his point to himself when he got a phone call from his
boss in London and offered him to move forward on his career in London which he politely turned
down.

In 1981, Manny Pangilinan founded the First Pacific in Hong Kong with the help of some clients who
supported his idea of a regional banking and trading business. By 2006, First Pacific has a whopping $5
billion and employs 60,000 work forces all over the region.

After 22 years of working abroad, Pangilinan came back to the Philippines determined to enforce the
badly needed changes in Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT). At present, Manny
Pangilinan is also the Metro Pacific Investments CorChairman of TV5 Network, Maynilad Water Services,
Philex Mining, Philex Petroleum, and Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC).

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1. Fact and Definition claims are good for "Definition" or "Description" essays.
2. Cause claims are useful for "Cause Effect" or "Causal" essays.Policy claims are good for
"Problem Solution" or "How to" essays.
3. Value claims are good for "Comparison and Contrast" essays.
4. Policy claims are good for "Problem Solution" or "How to" essays.

1. Should Barbie be banned? (value)

Growing up, I had a friend who wasn’t allowed to play with Barbie. She didn’t have any
Barbie dolls at her house, so when she came to our house it was like a kid in a candy
store—she just couldn’t get enough. I’d look at my Malibu Barbie, with her long flowing
hair (just one of many Barbie dolls my sister and I had), and her Barbie Dream House,
and Barbie Corvette, and think how cruel my friend’s mother was. How could anyone
deny their daughter such fun?

But now, 20-something years later, I don’t feel the same way I did then. In fact, if I were
to have a daughter of my own, I wouldn’t let her have a Barbie either. I don’t care how
much of an icon the doll is considered to be, for me, Barbie doesn’t really have a place
anymore in this day and age, and I’m not alone in this sentiment.

This past Monday Mattel announced that things aren’t going so well for them. Despite
having just come out of the holiday season, their sales have plummeted. In the hopes of
fixing things, there has been a change in management over the last couple days, but
the real problem is that Mattel is trying to play “keep up with Jones’s,” with brands that
offer more than just a piece of plastic for which to play. Barbie, regarded as a “core” toy
for Mattel, has literally slipped into irrelevance despite attempts at new models that
“carry a briefcase or drive the latest roadster.”
I think what Mattel is failing to see, in so many words, is that it’s that Barbie is the worst.
Here’s why.

1. Barbie sets really (and I mean REALLY) unrealistic body standards.

Yes, I know you’ve heard it before, but it’s true. And when you think about the fact that
little girls who, when they grow up will face enough pressure from society and the media
to keep their weight to an unrealistic amount, it’s just starting them off on the wrong foot.

If Barbie were a real woman, her waist would be a mere 16 inches. If you compare that
to the U.S. average waist for a woman, which is 35 inches, it’s not just unrealistic, but
absurd! If Barbie were real, she’d only have enough room in her body for half a liver.
How the hell is champagne supposed to be properly filtered through half a liver?

2. Barbie doesn’t age.

This year Barbie will turn 56 years old. Of course most little girls don’t want to play with
an old lady of a doll, but the fact that Barbie and her friends are all so young shows that
there is no variation. There is beauty in getting older and accumulating the lines that
come from a lifetime of laughter, and teaching that to girls early on could stop them from
hating themselves when they reach a certain age.

3. There’s an “Oriental” Barbie.

Where I come from (the year 2015 and the progressive city of NYC), referring to
someone of an Asian ethnicity as “Oriental,” is a whole boatload of wrong. Although the
Barbie was originally made by Mattel in 1980, when, I guess the world was far less
sensitive to these things, it still bears the same name and you can easily purchase it
on Amazon or a variety of other places.

I realize that when it comes to “collectors” items” you want the original packaging in tact,
but come on! At least try to update the marketing of it to “Asian.” I’m not being uptight!
I’m using basic logic and common sense here!

4. Barbie’s lifestyle is a delusion joke.

When I was a kid, Barbie had her Malibu Dream House and her Corvette, as I
mentioned. She also has her Ultimate Limo, Glam Convertible Car, and whatever the
hell else that can only be associated with money, money, money.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2013, 45.3 million people were living in
poverty. And although Mitt Romney seems to think a middle class salary is somewhere
between $200,000 and $250,000 a year, the reality is that it’s somewhere around
$41,000 a year, with 25 million middle class families living paycheck to paycheck.

Movoto’s chief economist has said that Barbie’s “actual dream house,” depending on
where it is in Malibu, would range anywhere from $395,000 to $1 million. With the
median yearly salary of the middle class being a measly $41,000 and the majority of the
U.S. being in the middle class, that’s not a very realistic house to purchase. Granted, $1
million is pocket change for the 1 percent out there, but for the rest of us, not so much.

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5. There are way too many issues with “Black Barbie.”

First of all, “Black Barbie” didn’t come to be until 1980, although she did have a black
friend named Christie in 1968. But, as DNAinfo notes, it wouldn’t be until 2009 when the
black Barbie doll would finally display features that aren’t only associated with
Caucasians. In addition, Mattel has refused to make party products featuring black
Barbie dolls for Barbie themed birthday parties.

In 2013, Karen Braithwaite, launched a Change.org petition hoping to remedy the

situation. When Braithwaite spoke to Mattel about the issue she was told by executives,
“Licensees don’t want ethnic-themed images for party supplies because large retailers
won’t buy them.” So we’re not just talking about Barbie being non all–inclusive, but
racism.

6. Barbie screws up career ambitions of little girls.

It’s bad enough we live in a society that still thinks math and sciences are for boys and
men only, but when a doll promotes such thinking then it really needs to go. A 2014
study found that even when Barbie is dressed up as a doctor, she doesn’t allow for girls
to see themselves in such careers. As the studied concluded, after asking girls to
interpret how they viewed potential careers for themselves after playing with Barbie and
Mrs. Potato Head (I didn’t even know she was still around!), “Barbie may be one way
that ideas about a girls’ place in the world is communicated to the girl. Perhaps Barbie
can ‘Be Anything,’ but girls who play with her may not apply these possibilities to
themselves.” But what can we expect from a doll that has her own Dream Kitchen? The
only thing dreamy about a kitchen is whether or not there’s leftover pizza in the fridge.

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7. Barbie is the perfect example of the sexualization of girls’ toys.

Last year, in case you missed it, Sports Illustrated‘s swimsuit issue featured a four-page
spread of Barbie, and although Mattel even admitted that the pictorial “is not a program
targeted towards girls,” it’s still a doll that millions of little girls love, in an issue often
wrought with controversy because of the sexual images. As Eve Vawter
of Mommyish wrote:

“Our girls are only so young for such a very short time, and taking one of her toys and
putting it alongside sexualized and dehumanized images of women to fall under the
male gaze is wrong on so many levels. It’s bad enough this toy is sexualized as much
as it is, and by sticking her in with other women in a sexy photo spread we are making
no doubt about it. Barbie is no longer just a doll. She is a sex doll.”

Even in 1976 Barbie’s original designer, Bill Barton, shared his disappointment in how
Barbie had evolved. “She’s become a sex symbol,” he said of the doll he had created
for little girls. “I really have misgivings about what’s happening today. She has gotten
too sexy.” And that was almost 40 years ago.

8. It’s 2015!
There is no doubt that Barbie had her place and time. I will concede to that, but the fact
is that it’s been over a half century since her creation, and Barbie doll lovers everywhere
need to concede, too, that this is different era. We want more for our daughters than
kitchen sets, dream houses, and flight attendant costumes. I’m not saying it’s wrong to
have dreams, to be a stay-at-home mom, or be a flight attendant, hell, I’d love to be a
flight attendant, but what I am saying is that there are more options for women today.
We should not only want more for our girls, but expect more from them, too.

With today’s technology, we can show our kids that there are no limitations to what they
can achieve when they put their minds to it, and toys centering on learning and evolving
intellectually should be the focus. Barbie will always have her place in the past, but
maybe in this century, that place should be in the back of some dark closet somewhere.

It’s easy to say, “Oh, she’s just a doll,” but she’s also “just a doll” that’s impacting the
women our girls will be when they grow up, even if you don’t want to see it that way.

by Amanda Chatel, from YourTango

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Barbie's Positive Influence

MARCH 22, 2010
Barbie – just the name alone is epic. Images of a glamorous doll with long blonde hair, a tiny
waist, and a big bust, come to mind whenever someone mentions the name. She has captured
the attention of so many people for the past 50 years, especially young girls who often want to
be just like her and look just like her. For the past month, the Women’s Center has been
hosting events across campus examining Barbie’s role in society and her influence on young
girls. Tomorrow at the Toy and Miniature Museum, we will be hosting “Barbie: Love Her or
Leave Her?” The event will address the way some people played with Barbie growing up, and
how that may have influenced how they feel about her now. We’ll even be showing a short
video of what some UMKC folks think about Barbie.

So this event got me thinking about my own childhood and the way I played with Barbie. What
influence did shehave on me? My childhood wasn’t too long ago, and I do still remember
having buckets full of Barbies and playing with them when I was a little girl. My Barbies were all
different skin tones. My mother wanted me to understand diversity through my dolls, so I
would play with them as if they were different races. The way I saw all the different skin tones
that Barbie had, reflected the diversity I saw if my friends growing up. So for that, I think Barbie
had a pretty good influence on me.

Growing up, I never thought deeper about Barbie. All I was worried about was whether or not
Barbie had all her accessories and looked pretty once I clothed her. I never once thought that I
should strive to look like Barbie or that she was the epitome of feminine beauty. Barbie was just
a doll; that was it. I enjoyed playing with her and she made me happy, so I think my
experiences were very positive.

I’ve read some blogs and heard many discussions regarding Barbie’s bad influence on young
girls and their body image. Her super thin figure, elongated legs, and big bust do reflect an
unrealistic body shape for anyone. Perhaps some young girls have looked at Barbie and
imagined looking like her. Perhaps in some of these cases, this desire has grown into unhealthy
obsessions and girls have turned to extreme measures to transform their bodies to look like
Barbie. But for me, this was never the case. For me, it was more about what Barbie had and
what she had achieved that had more of an influence on me.

Barbie had it all, so who wouldn’t want to live the Barbie life? She had all the nice sports cars,
she lived in luxurious homes, she had lots of friends, and she was accomplished in several
professional careers. And did I mention her wardrobe? A shopaholic’s dream! Sounds like the
good life to me! I believe that Barbie is a great figure to have in our society, but it should be
understood that she isn’t real. She’s fun to play with and she encourages little girls (and boys)
to use their imagination and dream big. I think, like me, many young girls who played with
Barbie realized that she is just a doll and they were more influenced by her independence,
career aspirations, and the joy she brought to us as we were growing up.
So please come to our event tomorrow at the Toy and Miniature Museum at noon and let us
know how you played with Barbie growing up and how you feel about her now. It should be an
interesting discussion.

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The Benefits Of Playing With Barbie Dolls

NOVEMBER 4, 2013 BY DEXTER CHANLEAVE A COMMENT

Dolls, in general, have been playing both the role of entertaining children for a long history, as
well as, being a collector’s item for some adults. Barbie Dolls, in particular, have become some
of the most popular doll series for many years, but have you ever wondered how good are they
for our children?

The Barbie doll has received much criticism from adults back in the past as well as the present
times. Why is that so? Parents are conscious about the shape of the dolls and they don’t wish that
their young daughters will get too influenced by a false sense of body image. This may seems
like a very fair criticism and it’s right to question the influence a toy can have on a child’s image.
However, in real cases, most children do not really pay attention to this and to most of them, they
are receiving positive benefits out from playing with Barbie dolls. Here are those examples/
When a child is playing with a Barbie doll, it helps to improve on their creativity and
clothes/colors combinations skills because there are so many outfits, shoes, accessories, and play
sets that they can mix and match. During a group play, this can improve on their interaction
skills as well as they can share their ideas behind their decisions for dressing up their dolls.
These are definitely great benefits in the development of children as they learn there is no limit
in this world, and they are only limited by their own minds.

Playing with Barbie dolls has the ability to influence your child’s creativity. She can create many
different looks for Barbie based on how she feels and comes up with different scenarios to
encourage creativity and activate that part of your child’s brain!.

Do you know that the Barbie doll could provide your child with successful career choices?
Barbie comes with a variety of career options, e.g. Nurse, Doctor, Police Officer, Firefighter and
even Computer Engineer, that can help to play a part in encouraging your daughter that she is
not limited in her future career choices. Barbie encourages your daughter that she can be
anything she sets her mind to.

Encourage Role-Playing
The varieties of Barbie play sets are also a great option to encourage role-playing. Role-playing
provides your child with a better understanding of the certain aspects about the real world
outside of his or her controlled environment.

The different scenarios, complementing roles that the Barbie doll offers and how your child
plays it out, are important areas of child development. This is where your child starts to learn
about responsibility and independence. Her imagination is highly activated, and your child sees
a different side of life, other than just playing the usual “mommy” role with baby dolls.