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shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoJust 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.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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.