Comment on wish
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 22 hours ago
And then there were all the kids wishing they were in America rather than their boring first-world suburb/provincial town. They didn’t get any more specific, and I imagine they were probably thinking of New York/LA/somewhere glamorous, and would have been bitterly disappointed if the maliciously-helpful wishing genie had whisked them away to a rustbelt town in Ohio or some unincorporated community in Alabama or wherever.
Just about anywhere in America is an improvement on the Philippines. My wife’s from there and all her friends married white American guys. They have all told me the same thing; The poverty is staggering.
My wife doesn’t say anything about it, but I gather she grew up solidly middle class. I don’t think she has a clue how the poors live.
Spain and then America both exploited the Philippines for centuries. Spain made indentured servants of the local population and turned their economy into a cash crop resource extraction machine for Spanish wealth.
America took over around 1900 and continued that legacy, extracting sugar, coconut and hemp while stalling land reform laws for locals.
It makes sense to move to the nation where the fruits of your and your ancestors labor has been stolen to.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Fishing community in Alaska.
Rusty@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
That sounds kinda nice to be fair.