Comments on: People Of The Year 2008 http://filipinovoices.com/people-of-the-year-2008 Powered By A Collective Voice Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Dennis Quijano http://filipinovoices.com/people-of-the-year-2008/comment-page-1#comment-25548 Dennis Quijano Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:30:55 +0000 http://www.filipinovoices.com/?p=1232#comment-25548 The country will never know the true extent of the sacrifices made by Filipinos working abroad: the loneliness, the working conditions, the misconstrued bias of most employers they feel towards these poor workers. It's true that they keep the economy afloat with the foreign currencies that they send home but these don't matter to them. What matters more is that with their toil, blood and sweat, they are able to keep their families from starving, send their kids to school and generally let their families enjoy a lifestyle they themselves are deprived of. The country will never know the true extent of the sacrifices made by Filipinos working abroad: the loneliness, the working conditions, the misconstrued bias of most employers they feel towards these poor workers. It’s true that they keep the economy afloat with the foreign currencies that they send home but these don’t matter to them. What matters more is that with their toil, blood and sweat, they are able to keep their families from starving, send their kids to school and generally let their families enjoy a lifestyle they themselves are deprived of.

]]> By: karkpopper http://filipinovoices.com/people-of-the-year-2008/comment-page-1#comment-25370 karkpopper Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:58:35 +0000 http://www.filipinovoices.com/?p=1232#comment-25370 That submission that the migrant workers (OFWs) are the people of the year since they toil abroad to keep our national economy afloat isn't one school of thought that OFWs themselves can understand, at least since 90% of our OFWs are into the labor force across the globe - or the blue collar jobs. Most of them do not understand how they made the economy afloat but since we keep on telling them that they do, then probably they just know it to be so. In fact, it reflects the fact that in this country, no jobs are available to keep you in subsistence level so some 3,000 Filipinos leave the country each passing day for jobs only our race will accept. We call that virtue - patience (euphemism for our slave mentality). That submission that the migrant workers (OFWs) are the people of the year since they toil abroad to keep our national economy afloat isn’t one school of thought that OFWs themselves can understand, at least since 90% of our OFWs are into the labor force across the globe – or the blue collar jobs.

Most of them do not understand how they made the economy afloat but since we keep on telling them that they do, then probably they just know it to be so. In fact, it reflects the fact that in this country, no jobs are available to keep you in subsistence level so some 3,000 Filipinos leave the country each passing day for jobs only our race will accept. We call that virtue – patience (euphemism for our slave mentality).

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