Why do Filipino people migrate to other countries and give up their Filipino citizenship?

Josh Marlo Aviñante

 

Political Economist, Food Technologist, Journalist

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Why do Filipino people migrate to other countries and give up their Filipino citizenship?

I had been asking the opposite. Do Filipinos really believe life is better with a Filipino passport?

Believe it or not, a Filipino passport is even weaker in the Philippines than abroad. For example, you are charged a hefty travel tax every time you fly out of the country even fir a short three-day holiday to neighboring Malaysia. And airport officials will treat you like shit if you have a Filo passport. But on an Australian passport, for example, you fly out with no hassle. Airport officials don’t harass you if you have a non-Filipino passport.

Yet, believe it or not, most Filipinos like it in Phils - being transported like rats and cattle, the heat, the crab mentality, the fake food, the depressing colours. It’s being “humble” for them and wanting a better life is arrogance. They like being kings inside their nipa huts and bossing their children around. Bossing everybody around. They can’t do that in a developed country.

But for those with adventurous spirits, why do Filipinos migrate and give up their citizenship?

1. It’s a brand new world with a clean slate. Philippines had not been that nice to them. They do not like the crab mentality, the lack of ambition, the laziness, the bullying culture.
2. It’s cold. It’s comfortable. You get to wear fashionable clothes and look good instead of looking the same like everybody else. You get to wear boots, gloves, leather jackets, full suits.
3. It’s modern and progressive. People think of ideas and not other people. People talk about ideas and not other people.
4. Nobody knows them there. Notice that Filipinos don’t congregate. Thry don’t have Filipino Towns like China Town. Filipinos can smell each other. They hate each other. They avoid each other at all cost. Especially in the U.S.
5. Obviously, steak is affordable. Real cheese and real milk is affordable. Chocolates, pizza, candies, real honey. A car is affordable. A decent wage is not that hard to find and afford these things. Just don’t be choosy. Even upper middle class Filipinos back home can’t afford steak, real cheese, real milk everyday. It’s something they only get to eat on special occassions like a birthday. Pringles is already a grand birthday gift for Filipinos. Cadbury is already as valuable as a raffle prize. Only rich Filipinos can eat McDonald’s or even Jolibee for lunch. McDonald’s is already fine dining for most Filipinos.
6. They have a good reputation overseas as good workers. At least they think that they have a good reputation as good workers. Luckily, the idiot ones don’t want to leave their kingdoms of nipa huts and thug friends. The nice hearted ones are the ones who make it overseas. Although I’ve bumped into asshole Filos in Australia but they are only 1 percent or less.
7. They can always come back for a holiday in Phils on a foreign passport. The only priviledge they lose from a loser Filipino Visa is opening a business, which Philippines is among the worst country to do business in because of red tape, corruption and despicable business ethics. You lose the priviledge to vote but who gives a fuck, it’s a thug who will win as president anyway whatever you do. There is just too many thugs in the country, some 99% of them. It reflects on the chain of thugs they elect and help win.
8. It is dangerous in Philippines. Your own president will kill you without judicial process. Your neighbors will kill uou for dressing up nice, speaking proper english, having fair skin. It’s safer to be a janitor in the U.S. than be an office manager in Philippines.
9. Most Filipinos who leave do miss the country at first but most I know stop havinh holidays back home after awhile. They het used to the better life in a developed country and see no point in getting harassed by crab mentality and government thugs.

These reasons are mostly for European countries, America, Australia. In the Middle East and Asia, where they don’t seek a new citizenship, the reasons are:

1. They are saving for a business
2. They are saving for property investments
3. They are keeping their choldren in school (government is useless in Phils. You need money to stay in school. You need money for a simple hospital condition like a flu. Government in phils is just “props”. But they will collect 33% of your income tax)

You have a life in the Philippines if you are rich. Not even upper middle class. You have to be rich, just so you can match the life of a part time waiter in the U.S. But rich people are less than 1 percent of the population. But believe me, the lifestyle of these Filo millionaires are just the same as a highly paid engineer in the U.S. They are nowhere even close to the poorest billionaire in the U.S.

Banatao, an unknown Filipino-American millionaire in Silicon Valley is way richer than Jaime Zobel de Ayala, who is supposively the richest man in the Philippines. Ayala said so himself in an interview.