Virgins? As far as I know, none.DCX_10 wrote:Winston, how many virgin girls have you landed in Philippines? I was told that it is a big deal in Philippines, like the family will chase after you?
But I was a few girls' "second", or so they claim.
Virgins? As far as I know, none.DCX_10 wrote:Winston, how many virgin girls have you landed in Philippines? I was told that it is a big deal in Philippines, like the family will chase after you?
Winston wrote:Virgins? As far as I know, none.DCX_10 wrote:Winston, how many virgin girls have you landed in Philippines? I was told that it is a big deal in Philippines, like the family will chase after you?
But I was a few girls' "second", or so they claim.
Why? Does it feel more like an accomplishment to land a virgin? I don't get it. Is it more ego flattering to "break" a girl out of her virginity?DCX_10 wrote:I want to get myself a few Filipino virgins....
Yes, I think a lot of guys feel proud to break-in a virgin. One can argue that a girl will always remember her first time (don't you remember yours) and therefore, as her cherry popper, you will always occupy a special place in her life.Winston wrote:Why? Does it feel more like an accomplishment to land a virgin? I don't get it. Is it more ego flattering to "break" a girl out of her virginity?DCX_10 wrote:I want to get myself a few Filipino virgins....
I get the impression that Steve has really been emotionally damaged by his experiences with women in the US. Hope he gets out before he completely loses it.Winston wrote:Hi all,
Just to let you know, Steve keeps agreeing to post the 2nd interview with Larry, but then changes his mind, so obviously subconsciously he doesn't want it to be made public.
However, he is talking to Mark Edward Davis right now, whose book I introduced in the "Book and Website Recommendations" board, and is planning to do a formal interview with him, which will be really good and exciting. So we can look forward to that
In the meantime, I've archived some of Steve's past interviews with others such as Scott, Chris, etc. about American women for you to listen to here: http://www.happierabroad.com/podcasts.php
Probably, as most of us here have been. I hope he goes to the Philippines soon so he can blow off steam. Otherwise, he should spend time listening to the relaxing spiritual music that Jamesbond and Momopi posted in that thread in the Music board. That definitely helps. I've sent those clips to him.Rock wrote:I get the impression that Steve has really been emotionally damaged by his experiences with women in the US. Hope he gets out before he completely loses it.Winston wrote:Hi all,
Just to let you know, Steve keeps agreeing to post the 2nd interview with Larry, but then changes his mind, so obviously subconsciously he doesn't want it to be made public.
However, he is talking to Mark Edward Davis right now, whose book I introduced in the "Book and Website Recommendations" board, and is planning to do a formal interview with him, which will be really good and exciting. So we can look forward to that
In the meantime, I've archived some of Steve's past interviews with others such as Scott, Chris, etc. about American women for you to listen to here: http://www.happierabroad.com/podcasts.php
Excellent breakdown Larry. I have another question. My girlfriend's sister recently delivered a baby and they had to do a cesarean. It cost them 50,000p. I heard that her boyfriend paid for it. Her boyfriend is not rich at all. He must be making at most 300p a day, I'd imagine. So how could he afford that? How do Filipino families afford expenses like that? What do they do when they need a cesarean and don't have that kind of dough? What happens then? How do they have so many kids with no money and so many massive bills? It doesn't add up. Many Americans do not even have an extra thousand dollars, so how are Filipino families able to come up with that, when they always claim to be broke? Any explanation?LarryElterman wrote:Winston Wu wrote me the following question: He was referring the the low salaries of Filipino workers. It’s a good question so I decided to answer it on the Forumn.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FROM WINSTON
That's very little money and salary. I've always wondered, how can anyone survive on 180p a day or even 300p a day. I mean, mathematically we could not survive on that. It's not enough even to pay rent and food everyday, nowhere near enough.
So how does the average Filipino survive and buy clothes, pay for trikes, food, bills, etc.? The numbers don't add up.
Furthermore, how do all the many SM Malls stay in business? The average price of jeans at SM is around 1000p or more. If someone is making 180p, how can they ever afford to buy those jeans, since they could not even pay for food or bills or their family's expenses and school fees, etc.
So then where do all the rich folks come from that keep SM in business everyday? Someone has to be buying stuff regularly. But who? The average person making 180p a day can't.
I could never add this up. I've asked many Filipinos to explain this mystery to me, but they aren't sure either. My girlfriend just says "Well they find a way to make ends meet" and leave it at that. But still, the numbers don't add up, not even close.
You ever figure this one out?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I think I can more or less answer this question.
First of all there are a lot of Filipinos that have access to help. Of course some are married to foreigners or have foreigner boy friends. Many have relatives married to foreigners. Many have family members working abroad and sending money home. Some are friends to more wealthy Filipinos that help them out. There are many pretty young woman being mistresses to wealthy Filipinos that help them out.
There is also a wealthy class in the Filipinos, perhaps a few percent, the ones owning all the land and business, and there is an upper class (but not rich of maybe ten percent)
So there are quite a few Filipinos with access to more than bare survival money.
But still, there are quite a number of Filipinos working and living on 5000 peso’s a month. How is it possible? For sure in the USA this would not be possible, but in the Philippines it is, and here is how:
First lets address housing
Some of them live in large groups in houses belonginging to the family clan. These are extremely basic shacks handed down from generation to generation. There is no taxes or costs associated with these houses (shacks).
Others rent a place with a group of friends. Maybe they rent a small basic apartment for six thousand a month and ten of them live there.
Still others rent what is called a bed space. This is basically just litterly renting a bed in a room with many other people. A bed space can be as little as 500 peso a month. A nicer one with a common room and tv and electricity might be 1000 a month.
Needless to say there is no privacy in any of these situations.
Now lets address food. They don’t eat at resteraunts. They buy there food at the market, and its nothing fancy for sure!
For example, they might subsist on mostly rice, a few vegitables and a tiny bit of pork or dried fish. A half pound of uncooked rice is about 10 peso. They might buy a few vegitables and pork and basically spend about 50 peso a day on food.
So far you have 1000 for the bed space and 1500 for food. That’s about 2500, and leaves 2500 for everything else.
Clothes? They don’t buy them at the SM mall, that’s for sure! They buy them at second hand shops where a pair of Jeans is 50 to 100 peso, and a Tee shirt is 20 peso. Shoes are second hand slippers (flip flops) costing 20 peso, or if they splurge for new ones, rubber flip flops for 80 peso.
They cant afford to go to the doctor or dentist. They don’t go to movies. For a lot of them the rest of the disposable income goes towards drinking!
By the way, want to get drunk for cheap? A big bottole of tanduay rum is only 100 peso or so, and this is luxury. You can buy rot got almost pure alcohol and for about 20 peso get roaring drunk.
It’s a pretty picture? Could you live that way?
ladislav wrote:I have found different places to be different when it comes to judging. It depends on who you are, and who they are, what group you are perceived to belong to and how they expect that group to behave. Generally, a Western white male who is different will be judged at home because he is a member of majority and thus is expected to confirm. In many places in the 3d world a western white male will be exempt because he is an outsider, a male, is thought of as rich and a tourist.
In the West they do not judge minorities. A black guy can walk around with huge dreadlocks and if anyone as much as squeaks, he calls them a racist. A Pakistani woman is London will parade around in Muslim clothes and people will lower their gaze out of PC respect for her. Gays will be kissing in parks and again, most people will respectfully, with a smirk turn away mumbling to themselves : I am not prejudiced, I am not prejudiced.
In the US, Europeans who do not act like mainstream Anglos will be judged and called all sorts of names. But people will not expect non mainstream people to do that.
In Asia, Asian women will be judged but not a Western man. This is why many people want to go to the US. Japanese women who feel oppressed in Japan, find freedom in America. Gays who would be dead in their country, Jews, all kinds of such people will breath freely in the US and enjoy the freedom. But not white males.
In the Philippines a white guy is above reproach and in India, too because of a very strong heritage of colonial oppression but a Filipina American girl coming from the US is treated like a hooker and is constantly judged. She is left alone in the USA , though. There, it is freedom for her to be herself. Not for me.
In Thailand, which was not colonized, white people are constantly judged but because you do not speak the language, what they say about you simply sounds like "ping pang pong poong" to you.
So, basically, you find a niche place for you. And depending on who and what you are in may be located here or there or wherever. Just check out where a person of YOUR type will be less judged.
In countries where traditionally oppressed groups suffer, they yearn to go to America and when they get there, they have freedom. In a country where they oppress men, the men would be better off if they went to places where someone else is oppressed and where they are left alone.