Tag: OFWs

Hospitality and Hospital Industries: Pillars of Philippine Economic Growth

May 31, 2022 zaxx 10 Comments

Entertaining tourists and guests, and making them feel welcome and at-home make up a crucial pillar of the Philippine economy. Our national-pastime-turned-industry of singing, dancing, cracking jokes, and playing basketball provides our valued international and local visitors a good time to sit back and relax over San Miguel light and chicharon bulaklak pulutan while the…

Culture, Development, Economy, Society

Filipinos need to Cut Down Pakisuyo and Paubaya

May 1, 2018May 1, 2018 ChinoF 5 Comments

When our webmaster Benign0 wrote about the problem of “pakiusap” (requests, usual the asking of special favors that sometimes lead to impunity), I was reminded of another “paki” word – pakisuyo. It means to ask someone to do something for you. Another is paubaya – to entrust something to someone. Sometimes, I see the word…

Culture

Is 13th Month Pay Symbolic of Filipino Wastefulness?

December 27, 2017 ChinoF 13 Comments

We Filipinos take for granted the 13th month pay. We probably would go on a witch hunt if we found our company does not give it (let me note that 13th month pay is separate from Christmas bonuses). This pay scheme was mandated by a law introduced by Ferdinand Marcos in 1965, and it continues…

Culture, Money Talks

Survival Mentality makes Philippine Society Nasty

August 4, 2016August 6, 2016 ChinoF 47 Comments

Recent articles, such as that of our webmaster Benign0, have reminded us how the murders we’ve seen lately have long been part of Philippine society. We have warlords, killings and Filipinos who hate each other just for having different ideas. Philippine society can indeed be nasty, and it has been for a long time. But…

Culture

Filipinos Who Changed Citizenship Still Have a Say on their Homeland

May 28, 2016December 11, 2016 ChinoF 39 Comments

The OFW phenomenon has yielded some complicated situations. For example, there are Filipinos who have renounced their citizenship and become citizens of other countries. Yet they share some views and criticisms about their home countries. Other Filipinos brand them as traitors, because they have left their country for a better life and supposedly abandoning their…

Society

The Ethics of Flaunting Wealth

February 9, 2015February 10, 2015 ChinoF 15 Comments

The concept of flaunting wealth, or display/show of wealth, seems to be yet another topic of contention in the Philippine social environment. It became the subject of debate following the discussion of the Marian Rivera-Dingdong Dantes wedding, and was the subject of other discussions such as my piece on Century Properties scion Robbie Antonio. Many…

Money Talks

Are Filipino Celebrations in Singapore going too far?

April 25, 2014April 27, 2014 ChinoF 133 Comments

It’s no wonder Filipinos were again the subject of controversy in Singapore. There was some recent furor on Filipino celebrations of independence in the country. A group of Filipinos ran an ad where they announced a celebration of the June 12 Philippine Independence day happening on Orchard Road. This angered many Singaporeans, who expressed their…

Culture

Misbehaving OFW’s: the Filipinos’ own worst enemy

January 20, 2014January 21, 2014 FallenAngel 36 Comments

Ok na sana daw for Pinoy Pride and the reputation of Filipino caregivers/nurses eh. What with Rose Fostanes, a long-time caregiver in Israel, winning their local version of the program X-factor. She became yet another “hero” that the validation starved Filipinos would be using in order to prop up to the world that they are…

Crime, Culture, Development, Lifestyle, Society