Imperialist notions.
And it all began in 1898.
The Americans invaded the Philippines to get themselves an access point to the vast East Asian market. Two million Filipinos died due to massacres in towns and villages, and hunger, malnutrition and abuse in concentration camps. For Theodore “Rough Rider” Roosevelt, Filipinos are nothing but Pacific “injuns”: people who in the account of their less than stellar civilization deserved to be exterminated en masse, despite the fact that they have just done setting up a republic borne out from the remnants of the Spain’s dying empire in Asia. There’s even a song by the US Army named “Damn the Filipinos” for that.
Whatever that was left of the population in the islands were subject to intense propaganda, part of their “tutelage” to let the archipelago be as they saw fit.
With military bases set up at Clark and Subic during the early years of American colonial rule, GIs then proceeded to go around the streets of Manila to “have some fun”, in search of women whom they could bring back to the barracks to perform intercourse, to be rewarded handsomely.
In a classic case of Stockholm syndrome, this left a lasting impression on even those who saw themselves sexually violated against their will, for they themselves are of the lower class, whatever the GIs gave them as “reward” they simply took it out of desperation to survive. They told their family members that such a thing happened, and soon enough even parents are gung-ho in selling out their children to such predators even if that meant the child’s innocence was violently taken away.
Over the decades following, Americans are quick to take advantage of this phenomenon of their making, while Filipinas always think without hesitation that to get married with an American is a sure way to get out of poverty, even if that meant selling their soul and ditching their honor and dignity to some ugly bastard.
That is how the metropolis revolving around Clark Air Base came to be, and years passed Angeles and its adjacent cities were developed for this purpose.
Angeles, Pampanga. The Harlot Capital of the East.
Once other visitors of other nationalities took note of what was going on, other Western men like the Russians, British and most especially the Australians joined the Yanks in the bride-grabbing spree in the Philippines, with the Aussies proving themselves far more rapacious in grabbing underage females and making them do things.
While grappling with never-ending national poverty, Philippines is culturally and politically the closest to America and the West in the Asia-Pacific thanks to its colonial history. That, including imperialist notions caused by the American conquest and occupation, makes all the more easier for Western women to find and take advantage of young Filipina women to be taken as Dutch wives for their own benefit.
“You’re road.”
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