Filipinos call it crab mentality. A lot of Filipino just don’t like it when someone has a better life specially if they live next to their house  that they can see them often. In our day to day life-in the Philippines We have encountered many Filipino who are like a black hole trying to pull everyone they can into a dark place that represent; sadness, depression and drama but even with that I am still not so use to it and I am not like a black hole. When someone starts talking and pulling everyone down  by making a bad picture of  anyone they hate (just because of the fact that they are so jealous of the way they live or the way they are) I talk back and my words  tell them that I am not into their game – and it is like I push them out of my life.
 “crab mentality” has become a norm in our society  to a point that we hardly even see it as a bad thing anymore and those who are against it are considered not sociable and unfriendly.People having a crab mentality are all the time trying to bring their opponent down. These are the people who cannot do much to improve their own status or achievement. Instead they try to thwart the attempts of those who aspire to move up the ladder of success. 

Based on my research, Philippines is a 3rd world country so more than half of its population is not well educated so as expected much of its populace is not  well educated enough to live in harmony with other people in a less destructive way.  As We see it –  it takes a good education and some mental level for one to know how to realistically analyze and criticize the culture and traditions one has experience and live with for the rest of his life.

They are too proud of themselves and treat others as inferior beings. You can sense a breeze of arrogance from people with crab mentality. They feel like they have royal blood flowing in their veins, and they treat other Filipinos as peasants. When they earn some achievements of their own, whether big or small, they brag it to everyone to position themselves higher from the rest of the Filipinos. And that is why they will always look down on you, especially if you’re a Filipino who came from the province or a “probinsyano/probinsyana”. They can be racist to their own race – the Filipinos. Oh, I mean they can be racist to other regional races of the Philippines.

They blame their comrades for their failures rather than help them. What is more disgusting about Filipinos who have a crab mentality is that they will pull you down further when you’re already down. When Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) turned the lives of many Filipinos in the Eastern Visayas into the darkest part, the “crabs” were nothing but blamers instead of becoming the helpers. Rather than giving us a hand, these “crabs” broke our already broken souls and hearts. And the saddest part of this, these “crabs” include some public officials who are supposed to give us first-hand public service.

They treat their comrades as competitors. It seems like the words unity and cooperation are not in their vocabulary. They always treat other Filipinos as competitors instead of teammates. You can find this kind of people everywhere. In a basketball team, in your office, and even in a cooperative organization, they could be there. Again, envy, jealousy and selfishness cause them to refrain from cooperating. Instead of giving victory to the whole company or team, they just want to grab all the success for themselves. And just like what we discussed in #3, they rather let the team lose, than let it win without making themselves as the star player.