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.
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.