You can't take away the way how the Filipino's loved eating rice, because we can't last a whole day without eating it, we will becomes weaker as we control ourselves eating it, and most of our daily energy comes from the carbs of this rice. Unlike in other country, they can live a day without eating it, like in the Western country, as you can see in some movies, when they are eating, they never shown some rice in the table, or sometimes there is, but it is too seldom, because they don't eat too much rice at all, they rely their carbs in eating bread, potatoes, bananas and other types of foods, who are rich in flour and fibers.
Maybe the main reason for this is because the main source of our livelihood is agriculture and rice production is one of the most biggest industry in our country. We are also one of the large producer of rice in the entire world. It is also the cheapest way to ease our hunger, we can live a day by just eating some rice, even there's no meal at all, somes with some flavor of a salt or other seasonings, we are able to survive the entire day. The dish is just to add some flavor, but eating rice the the most important in order for us to live our daily life.
One of the saddest reaility about our country is, there are lots of poor people living in many provinces, they are almost dying just to produce the rice in the table, especially to those people who don't owned a land and just working with a land lord, they are not paid enough for their work and effort, they can just have a small portion of it. ou can't take away the way how the Filipino's loved eating rice, because we can't last a whole day without eating it, we will becomes weaker as we control ourselves eating it, and most of our daily energy comes from the carbs of this rice. Unlike in other country, they can live a day without eating it, like in the Western country, as you can see in some movies, when they are eating, they never shown some rice in the table, or sometimes there is, but it is too seldom, because they don't eat too much rice at all, they rely their carbs in eating bread, potatoes, bananas and other types of foods, who are rich in flour and fibers.