How Do Filipinos View Balikbayans?

[Gil Grissom]

Rich and Foolish...hehehe

[Guest airmax]

madatung. may kilala akong barkadang taga LA paguwi dito naubos ung pera dahil sa mga nalapit na kamaganak. naawa tuloy ako safriend ko.

[transcience]

they've got plenty of moolah.

[DUBFAN]

From all my actions to my relatives, I'm viewed as someone who is able to put a smile on their face, with just the little things I do. Yes they love their pasalubong, they love having their favorite cousin, nephew, uncle, grandson, grandnephew be the "BOSS", I learned quick from my very first visit to the Philippines, I really have it a lot better than my relatives here in the Philippines. With that each and every visit I make home, at a minimum I make it home twice a year. their reward as well as mine is spending as much time as I can doing everything and anything under the sun that they want. Sure I may be out $500 or more each visit, but hey I easily spend that during the year just getting myself the normal stuff, a soda here, a snack there, etc. :thumbsupsmiley:

 

Now when I'm anywhere else in the Philippines, since I don't speak tagalog, I get this stare, this guy looks filipino, but his english is like American, so then the light bulb comes on he's got "kala", pera , and lots of it. I may have, but remember I like most people work an honest job for the money I get, I don't just pick it off the street.

 

So I'm not trying to be karipot, just playing it smart, I can bargain with the best of them, I can tell also when someone is trying to give me a raw deal,

 

As far as the women, hey my pare "gifted" calls it "babe magnet", it ain't no lie, they hear the voice, that guy is speaking in dollars, not pesos. Happens all the time to me at Baywalk, the malls and everywhere else....

 

I love the Philippines, no other place like it! :hypocritesmiley:

[guile1912]

MGA HARD WORKERS AND SUCESSFUL PEOPLE.

 

[diver_703]

don't forget, there's no place like home...

[Riot6]

So having a dual citizenship would give me permission to acquire real estate (house) compared to (condos) if I'm not a Filipino Citizen?

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I'm once again researching the new information on Balikbayans and rights to property ownership and also the dual citizenship issue. Here's what is in the official website of the Philippine Consulate in Los Angeles (my brother clued me in that they have the info posted):

 

Land Ownership by Former Filipinos in the Philippines

 

The webpage is really clear with a nice table for comparisons between residential use and commercial use.

 

 

 

Dual Citizenship FAQs

 

My brother tells me, since he called the consulate, that the processing fee is $50. Then there's the oath taking and I hear there is also a cursury background check.

[superkikay]

Balikbayans are being stereotyped na madaming money and daming pasalubong. Most people doesnt even realize that they're working their butts off in a foreign country and life there can be so cruel.

[sarapngpinay]

Nothing just a plain unsucessful person here in PI who's biting the bullet of being treated even below third class citizens abroad.

[miataGUY]

Theres no place like home.even after living here for 16 years,i still miss the traffic, the clubs, the foods at sympre my good old friends.when im on vacation for a month or more after working so hard, all i want to do is have fun and enjoy my stay to the fullest .some filipinos hate balikbayans for thier arrogant attitude and a.ss...le manner, i dont blame you guys coz theres a lot of them.kahit ako naasar pag nagkikta ko sila sa resto, bar at public places at kung magsalita sila at magkwento na taga states sila ,ganito ,ganun and im just like hello di nman ganun kasarap at kadaling kumita ng pera dito sa states, no offense but most of them are from west coast ( california) sorry for being bias im from eastcost.I was alone at a bar few months ago sa makati, a guy seat next to me and order a drink, a lil chit chat, hes a balikbayan, he speaks english pag tinananong ko ng tagalog, i ask him him kung ilang taon na sya sa califonia, low and behold he says TWO YEARS. :grr:

[S\\m//T]

Nothing just a plain unsucessful person here in PI who's biting the bullet of being treated even below third class citizens abroad.

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I agree with your statement brother... That's the reality of life abroad... :thumbsdownsmiley:

[igol ays]

Nothing just a plain unsucessful person here in PI who's biting the bullet of being treated even below third class citizens abroad.

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I agree with your statement brother... That's the reality of life abroad...  :thumbsdownsmiley:

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how can you guys be so negatively judgemental? :thumbsdownsmiley:

do you even try to get to know the balikbayan about whom you generalize?

and just what is a third class citizen?

[jajacute29]

how can you guys be so negatively judgemental?  :thumbsdownsmiley:

do you even try to get to know the balikbayan about whom you generalize?

and just what is a third class citizen?

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You're right,but let them write their own opinion on how they view "BALIKBAYANS"....siguro nga balikbayans wre third class citizens from them,wether it is true or not again its their opinion...............Para sa akin balikbayans were brave and a hero as well..brave coz they choose to be apart from their loveones for their own good, working hard and facing the fact of being lonely living in another country.hero?coz aside from their family getting the profit,lets not forget that the balikbayans also has a contribution in our country(kahit na small contribution lang)....and for being a "THIRD CLASS CITIZEN"?as what they've said,well if they were successful enough to say that..good for them...yun lang po :hypocritesmiley: PEACE

[uvHst3p]

i guess i hate the view of the filipinos i know. they view balikbayans as big boxes with plenty of pasalubong and money that are shelled out from the balikbayans pockets

[dodo]

how can you guys be so negatively judgemental?  :thumbsdownsmiley:

do you even try to get to know the balikbayan about whom you generalize?

and just what is a third class citizen?

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pre, your seeing the typical Filipino crab mentality.