142 Chasing the Wind: Assessing Philippine Democracy The first part of the definition allows us to demarcate the boundaries, fuzzy as Civicus (2010) refers to it, between civil society and the other spheres—the larger society composed of individuals and groups, political society, market, and the state. Another way to delineate civil society from the other spheres is shown in two figures below. Figure 1 (Anheier and Topler 2010) distinguishes the space that civil society occupies between the private, the realm of private networks of families and friends, and the public sphere, the realm of the state. What is important to note in Figure 1 is the solid line that separates the private from the upper two spheres, a manifestly culture- bound segregation. In the Philippines, this line is at best blurred inasmuch as kinship networks, specifically among those that have been privileged from colonial rule, do extend and cover the other realms. Figure 2 (Anheier and Topler 2010) shows the overlaps between the three sub-spheres of political, civil and economic society. Though the list of groups in the figure is not exhaustive, the illustration highlights the fact that there are serious overlaps, a reality that has been noted in previous studies and which have brought about a categorization of NGOs based on its origins (e.g., GONGOs or government organized NGOs, BUNGOs or business NGOS). Figure 1