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Physically, Losing Filipinos Eternally A person not satisfied ...
Submitted by cheeneex on August 5, 2006
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Losing Filipinos Physically, Losing Filipinos Eternally
A person not satisfied with something would continue to search the world for the perfect substitute that would give him or her the satisfaction he or she could not find with what he or she initially had. A man not satisfied with his mobile phone equipped with a 1.3-megapixel camera would unceasingly dream for another phone that has a 2-megapixel camera, with more space for messages and phonebook entries. A woman not satisfied with the shoes she owns would save up so she could buy more and more shoes. An employee not satisfied with his or her salary would try to look for another job that would give him or her a satisfying salary. A citizen not satisfied with his or her life in the country where he or she is in would move to another country to find satisfaction.
In the Philippines, unsatisfied citizens like the one mentioned above are not uncommon. They are like the undisciplined drivers of the country you encounter them everywhere you go. College graduate from small provinces becoming domestic helpers in Kuwait, engineers turning into nannies in America, and doctors becoming nurses in the United Kingdom are some of those Filipinos who move to other countries because they are not satisfied here. According to Maruja M.B. Asis of the Scalabrini Migration Center-Philippines in her article, "The Philippines' Culture of Migration" on January 2006, "As of December 2004, an estimated 8.1 million Filipinos nearly 10 percent of the country's 85 million people were working and/or residing in close to 200 countries and territories."
However, we cannot blame those Filipinos. Describing life here in the Philippines as hard is an understatement. Almost every month, we discover controversies and anomalies in the administration. People power revolutions and rallies are constantly being held all around the country. The prices of goods and services also continue to rise but the...
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