Tag: immigration

Why are Chinese workers WORTH MORE than Filipino workers in the job market?

March 3, 2019 benign0 12 Comments

For all the noise about the growing number of Chinese workers flooding the Philippines, very few “activists” have raised this most important question of all. Why do Chinese workers attract bigger wages than Filipino workers? Furthermore, it seems employers of Chinese workers in the Philippines are willing to take significant effort and incur the cost…

Development, Economy, Money Talks

Filipinos led by Leni Robredo flirt with inciting racial hatred for ethnic Chinese foreigners

February 11, 2019 benign0 13 Comments

Filipinos who are demonising a Chinese national who threw a cup of taho (a sweetened beancurd snack) at a police officer the other day are flirting with the dangerous possibility of inciting racial tensions with ethnic Chinese foreigners residing in the Philippines. Jiale Zhang is currently facing charges of “direct assault” against a police officer…

Politics, Society

Are those who remain silent about Donald Trump’s policies being silence-shamed by the Liberals?

January 31, 2017January 31, 2017 benign0 20 Comments

It has become quite obvious (but not to some “thought leaders”) by now that the Filipino public holds Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to standards different to what mainstream media and the cliques of “socially-aware” liberals put up. Despite months of harping about “human rights”, “civil liberties”, and all the other trendy stuff Liberals love, hardly…

Media, Society

Do immigrants steal jobs from their host country’s natives?

January 30, 2017January 30, 2017 benign0 7 Comments

The common-sense wisdom is that they do, because they work cheap. Take Silicon Valley. They lead the pack whining about a lack of “programming talent”. Their solution to that “challenge” is to (1) open America’s doors to immigrant “talent” and (2) convince girls that coding is a cool activity to engage in. The hope is…

Economy, Money Talks, Society

#BREXIT shows that social and economic collectivism is a pipe dream

June 27, 2016 Hector Gamboa 13 Comments

The recent vote by the people of the United Kingdom (UK) to leave the European Union (EU) has rocked the world. Many of my friends living in London, England have expressed their disappointment over the result of their referendum. There are lots of uncertainties and this has rocked the UK market as well as the…

Economy, Politics, Society

#Brexit is an opportunity for Britain to re-learn what it means to be British

June 24, 2016June 25, 2016 benign0 69 Comments

Democracy is a bitch when it doesn’t go your way. That’s pretty much the sentiment New Age mouthpieces in corporate media and the broader community of hipsters who parrot the politically-correct taglines of people “outraged” by the British vote to leave the European Union today (trending in social media under the hashtag #Brexit). One commentator…

Culture, Economy, Society

3 Reasons Why I Don’t Trust Grace Poe

April 7, 2016 Grimwald 31 Comments

Okay, I know I’ve already established myself clearly as an opponent against a Mar Roxas presidency but now, it’s time to move on to another candidate to bash. Granted, I really hate Mar Roxas for his association with the Aquino family but Grace Poe has earned quite a bit of suspicion due to a good…

Culture, Media, Politics, Society

How German political-correctness was doused by its own version of the Mamasapano massacre

January 28, 2016 benign0 22 Comments

As it turns out, it seems the Philippines had unwittingly served as a test tube for what is turning into a template process with which a period of exuberant national political correctness meets its demise. This insight can be gleaned in the events that led to the crushing of “dreams” of an autonomous Bangsamoro “nation”…

Crime, Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Society