The Foreigner Eye
I was at Greenbelt viewing an art exhibit today. There were people from a lot of nationalities. It so happened to be some "Asia Cartoon Week" exhibit. I just stood at the back after viewing the portraits because I didn't want to get stuck by the amount of people that flooded when the ribbon was cut, but I did get a good view of most of the cartoons and the messages they conveyed.Many people were viewing the exhibit. Office people, students, lovers, families even.
Let's rewind a bit on the lovers part. One is filipina, and the other is a foreigner. I'll take a guess he's an old american. She was scantily clad in a blouse and skirt of the thinest fabric, so thin her bra outlined all the well-endowed areas it could. And the legs, they just won't quit at all.
But as she turned her face in our direction, I gasped...
it's not that she was ugly.. it's just that.. from a scale of 1 to 100 (highest), if girls in the whole area were lined up, she would probably be in the bottom 20. This is definitely the thousandth deja vu I've had. And there I had my billion-peso question..
What is it with foreigners that attracts them to filipina women which are the least attractive to filipino men?
Seriously - it's just out of curiosity. Not that I want women like her.
I could only think of one sensible, general reason: mutual benefit. Telling me that "It's love" is the biggest bullcrap I've ever heard. If you want to test this -- Introduce me to a filipina who marries a poor foreigner. (Oh wait, there's no such thing as a poor foreigner, how the hell did he get to manila without money for his plane ticket?)
Most foreigners I've talked to have one common denominator about the average filipino women.
They are easier to please and they don't resist much. ("easy" as one of my american friends say).
But this "easier to please" type of filipina, is not the typical hottie you'd see at the mall coffee shop.
She is not the Maria Clara at the office or the Lara Croft of your college outdoor trekking club. The foreigner meant the not-as-pretty type who i'm sure our past maid was prettier by far. To my disbelief I even asked him twice which girl he fancied the most when I showed him a picture of girls taking up nursing - he pointed to the least pretty. Then I showed him a picture of my prettiest friends, to my disbelief, he didn't want any of them.
So then and there I have verified that there is really a pattern in the attraction of foreigners towards that "type" of filipina.
Probing further, I also learned (well as if I didn't know already) that filipino hospitality is world-renowned-- this being a big factor in foreigners preferring filipinas to women of other nationalities. They say something that tantamounts to "when I grow old, an american wife who can't stand me anymore will throw me to an old-folks-home". A filipina won't. They'll care for you 'till your dying day. I don't know if this is entirely good.
Well, that's good for the lesser-pretty type of filipina. Their future is set. They get to go abroad without a hassle, and they live the good live for the long haul. Take a look at my pretty friends - usually, their mind-set is, "I'm stuck here, how will get to go abroad when my boyfriend wants us to settle here?", and all those kind of stuff.
There's also a not-so-good impression on filipinas -- courtesy of the Japanese. To them, filipinas are an easy lay because japan accepts around 100,000 filipinas to work as hostesses and GRO's in Japan. Couple that with the culture in Japan - it's still as patriarchal and traditional as it was years ago. A female officemate who worked in japan for a good number of months even told me, if you're a filipino male and you make enough female japanese acquaintances, you won't even have to go to a red-light district to get laid, lest pay for it.
After hearing all this, I sighed to myself -- it was good and bad to be a filipino male. You are blessed with the company of the hottest goddesses to ever walk the planet, that is -- THE filipina; while at the same time, you are the most challenged nationality in the race of males in the world because in general, in manila, a filipino males' capacity to raise a family is severely crippled by severely downed economy..
...but that, is another never-to-be-told story.
posted by Urban Warrior @ 9:19 PM
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