Filipino maids, known as the world's most professional nannies, they have professional housekeeping skills, understand English, have a certain culture, compared to other regions are not only cheap and "good quality", they are in the world today as a special business card of the Philippines, how to produce, and what pain behind it?
The Philippines as an Asian country, in everyone's mind still have a certain cognition, such as the Philippines population of more than 100 million, but the economic development is backward, belongs to one of the poorest countries in Asia, but what you may not know is that just half a century ago, the Philippines, can also be regarded as a developed country, in Asia is second only to the existence of Japan, but also has the title of "Asian democracy window", is the United States in Asia's loyal little brother, in 1969, even some countries predicted, The Philippines will become one of the world's top ten powers, how did the Philippines end up in such a beautiful place, and what does this have to do with the emergence of Filipino servants?
To talk about these issues, we need to briefly know some basic history of the Philippines, for example, the Philippines was colonized by Spain, the United States and Japan for a period of time before the founding of the country in 1946
For example, in 1565, Spain occupied the Philippines, and after three hundred years, the United States defeated Spain, took over Spain's class, and ruled the Philippines, and during World War II, Japan took over the hands of the United States, and then after the end of World War II, the United States took charge of the Philippines again after Japan, and indirectly arranged the establishment of the Philippines
So how did the philippines come to its former glory?
Time came to 1950, the outbreak of the Korean War, the United States did not know the sky high across the Pacific, wanted to intervene in the affairs of East Asia, the result of the Korean War after the United States tasted the taste of defeat, and then ran to the Vietnamese part of the conflict, it is these two wars, indirectly let the Philippines and Japan, the two little brothers, the economy has taken off; the United States rushed to Asia to participate in the war, the Philippines naturally became a base for the United States here, a springboard, as the saying goes, a cannon, gold two, The demand for war stimulated the economy of the region, and in the late 1960s, the per capita GDP of the Philippines reached $1,000, which at that time was about 10 times the per capita GDP of our country;
At that time, the Philippines, where the economic development was extremely prosperous, also became a good target for American propaganda, you see, the Philippines, my little brother, according to our democratic system, according to the way I taught him, to establish a country, develop the economy, will be successful, at that time, the philippine capital Manila, also known as the "Little New York of the East"; such a promising country, the people are also full of hope, naturally there will be no case of their own labor running out; however, after the end of the two wars, the United States patted its butt, The Philippines, because there is no stimulus from the needs of war, his original foundries naturally have no value, the problem is that in the decades of the war, the Philippines has not formed its own core industry, the economy is completely dependent on the needs of war; when the smoke of war dissipates, the drawbacks hidden in the smoke also begin to be revealed;
The Philippine economy collapsed, emulating the political system of the United States, resulting in the Philippines' own domestic politics and economy completely controlled by several major families, in the official arena is full of corruption and corruption, the sharp decline in the economy so that the people began to gradually complain, all over the country, frequent riots, coupled with the impact of the economic crisis on him, the Philippine economy at this time can be said to be a cliff-like decline, the people are miserable, the unemployment rate continues to refresh records, more and more people below the poverty line
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In view of the serious economic downturn in the country and the increasing number of opposition forces in the country, in 1974, President Marcos promulgated the Labor Code, which allowed and encouraged his own people to work overseas, which could not only improve the living standards of some people, but also help ease the political pressure at home; it is estimated that at that time, Marcos did not expect that such a decision would gradually become a business card of the Philippines in the world;
In fact, filipino maids do not only refer to Filipino maids, which also include male technicians, seafarers, construction workers, etc., these Filipinos working overseas continue to earn foreign exchange to send money to the country, labor income has gradually become a relatively stable source of income in the Philippines; according to a survey done in 2016, the total remittances of Filipino overseas workers reached 27 billion US dollars, which has accounted for 9.8% of the Philippine GDP;
In the eyes of Filipino maids, there are two places to work overseas, and in their hearts is a heavenly existence, one is the United States, and the other is Singapore;
The United States, we said earlier, whether it is life, culture or political system, the impact on the Philippines is very deep, although the United States has caused a lot of catastrophic events for the Philippines, but still does not hinder the Filipino maid's liking for this part of the United States, the Philippines itself lists English as one of the official languages, although many people mock that people have strange accents, but fluent communication is not a problem for them, going to the United States is not only high wages, but also more convenient to communicate; and then Singapore, a big reason, It is more money, and it is close to home, and it is convenient to return to China to visit relatives;
In addition to these two places, there is another place of Filipino maid, everyone is also very familiar, that is, Hong Kong Filipino maid, in 1989 statistics, in Hong Kong nannies or family nurses, Filipino nationality accounted for 90.2% of the proportion, it can be said that filipino maid, in Hong Kong almost monopolized this industry; then why is filipino maid so popular in the world?
First, the level of education is high, according to the statistics of the Asian Immigration Labor Center in 1989, filipino maids, compared with Thai maids and other domestic servants in other regions, the level of education is much higher, the proportion of filipino maids with junior high school education is 32.6%, 31.7% of high school education, and people with university education or above are actually 28.7%; the same price, more people are more willing to choose people with relatively high cultural level; and in the eyes of Filipino maids, Hong Kong's region has a rapid economic development and a relatively stable society. The environment is also relatively relaxed, and the English language can be roughly communicated, so Hong Kong is also an ideal place for them;
Second, the professional level is high, as we mentioned earlier, home economics education in the Philippines is quite popular, and it is listed as a compulsory course in the junior high school curriculum, so their professional skills such as home management, care for the elderly, nursing gardens and other professional skills are relatively high, and there are many such training institutions on the streets of Manila, as well as qualification examination bodies;
Third, good living habits, good personality, because most Filipinos believe in Catholicism, and Catholic doctrine in optimism, and patience occupies a high proportion, which leads to their personality is very suitable for domestic work, for the employer and their own identity is more open, and then the living habits are better, compared to other nationality maids, Filipino maids are relatively more hygienic, living habits are correspondingly better, and this also makes employers more willing to choose Filipino maids;
There is heaven, corresponding to the existence of hell, two oil crises, the price of crude oil in the Middle East is getting higher and higher, and this has also spawned a large number of rich people in the Middle East, these rich people have a higher and higher demand for servants, in 1995, the United Arab Emirates sentenced a Filipino maid to death, the reason is that the Filipino maid rebelled against the 85-year-old employer to rape her, and accidentally killed the employer, but the follow-up because the government in the back of the help, although the death penalty was exempted, But still faces a year in prison and a hefty fine;
In 2018, Kuwait, in a freezer in the employer's home found a Filipino maid's body, autopsy showed that the Filipino maid had been beaten many times before his death, because of this incident, the Philippines and Kuwait also had a dispute, Duterte ordered that the government pay for air tickets to help Kuwaiti tens of thousands of Filipino laborers return home, and issued a temporary ban on going to Kuwait to work, and the Kuwaiti side announced the withdrawal of the ambassador to the Philippines, you know, the removal of the ambassador, which is a very serious incident in diplomatic matters This is only an incident of persecution of Filipino maids who have been found to have been found, and in practice, there are many, many more such things that have been concealed abroad;
Of course, filipino maids also have a lot of shortcomings, such as love petty theft and other habits, many people joke that to hire Filipino maids, first of all, the family should buy a safe, of course, these are just individual phenomena, flaws do not hide Yu, Filipino maids are so popular in the market, naturally there are more advantages than his shortcomings, in today's society, many Filipino maids are forced to go abroad to work out of poverty, many children just a few months after birth, mothers will leave them to go abroad to earn milk powder money, according to statistics, There are about 2.5 million Filipino maids working abroad all year round, which has countless children in the process of growing up facing the lack of maternal love, but the discrimination against Filipino maids in society is not uncommon, many people even joke that the Philippines' biggest export is women, family mutilation and national heroes, in a group of people in a country at the same time, can not say that this is a normal phenomenon, relying on labor exports to maintain economic development, not only for the Filipino people, for the Philippines, is both a paradise, It is also hell, if the Philippines wants to return to the glory of the past, the glory of the past, it also needs to find a healthy development path for them;