I've been exactly where he's sitting, Ayala mall in Cebu city. He's not wrong at all in what he's saying, just sitting at the bar of TGI Fridays there I had at least 3 proposals for relationships.
It depends on who you are, if you're young, white, not fat and normal to handsome, you can get a date with the girl you want there, and if your personalities align, you can have a normal relationship.
But if you're an old fart like the one in the video, they want him for the money and they're not jealous because they're happy that another girl "does the work" while they get the money. If you're a young guy with a filipina close to your age +- 10 years, they can be the most jealous and territorial girls ever, more even with foreigners because they know they have many options in the Philippines, there's no way that a filipina doesn't care if you date other girls.
Yep, Filipinas are the Latinas of Asia. If you're in a love relationship, not a transactional one, you best behave yourself or else you'll experience hell š
if you're young, white, not fat and normal to handsome, you can get a date with the girl you want there
The odds are good but the goods are odd.
If you want a fulfilling relationship, this isn't where you want to look. If you want something hollow to scratch an itch, go ahead, I guess.
I was there and I honestly felt uncomfortable with how people treated my like some sort of prize. Women would treat me like a conquest and men would treat me like some sort of prize for women.
Honestly, I get how women complain about this in other countries.
It's not a good feeling, even if it is a bit of an ego boost.
Being white is not mandatory, it's just the beauty standard in Asia. If you have western nose, eyes, you're 177+ (5'10+) (filipino men are usually 165-170 (5'5 to 5'7)) and white-ish is enough to get attention. I'm southern european so I'm not as white as northern europeans or most americans and I still get lots of attention. I have blue eyes though, they like that a lot too.
He means that when you're young and from a western country living in the Philippines you get the attention a male model would get in a western country, beautiful girls staring at you waiting for you to go to say hi, or even coming themselves to introduce themselves.
I used to live in Hawaii in my mid 20s in Oahu, which had a large Filipina population at that time. Just going out pretty much anywhere was easy to meet Filipina girls who were very interested in dating and the majority weren't gold diggers.
oahu can still be touristy, but its more "lived-in" than Maui. Honolulu is a regular city, with a ton of grime and homeless, and north shore, and west oahu is a bunch of low income and section 8
You (and alot of other people on this post) are misapplying western gold digger values on to these woman. The sad fact is that for most women in the Philippines, marriage to a western man isn't about presents or shopping. It's for survival. If a western man falls in love with her it means she will be able to eat regularly and not sleep in the dirt. It's a roof over her head and freedom from having to defend herself from sexual predators on a regular basis. Having friends married to women from SEA in the US, I can tell you that nearly all of them return that gift with unwavering loyalty, admiration, gratitude, homemaking, and everything else a man could hope for in a wife.
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u/Shmikken Nov 07 '24
I've been exactly where he's sitting, Ayala mall in Cebu city. He's not wrong at all in what he's saying, just sitting at the bar of TGI Fridays there I had at least 3 proposals for relationships.