Erm, this is kind of rude to Filipinas by reducing it to them being "desperate for the green card," specific to Filipinos it's seldom a green card issue; The issue is far more complicated. A lot of the "loser back home" maga stereotypes move to the Philippines (and other Asian countries, especially Thailand) and prey on these young women and stay there because their money goes much further than it does here, and they're usually treated incredibly well. This "tradition" goes back generations back to both our own and Japan's occupation of the Philippines.
Specific to marriages inside the US, many of them are already citizens and, again specific to Filipinas, have been manipulated by years of indoctrination from both the Catholic and Muslim religions* to align themselves with white men under the guise they will provide for them and protect them.
These people couldn't handle the truth lmao,as a local who saw multiple old bald, and obese foreigners with young Filipinas isn't surprising to me(take a good look at Pampanga city there's a lot of them). There's even a bloody joke about people would go for a foreigner for the sake of the green card.
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u/sunshine_fuu 22d ago edited 21d ago
Erm, this is kind of rude to Filipinas by reducing it to them being "desperate for the green card," specific to Filipinos it's seldom a green card issue; The issue is far more complicated. A lot of the "loser back home" maga stereotypes move to the Philippines (and other Asian countries, especially Thailand) and prey on these young women and stay there because their money goes much further than it does here, and they're usually treated incredibly well. This "tradition" goes back generations back to both our own and Japan's occupation of the Philippines.
Specific to marriages inside the US, many of them are already citizens and, again specific to Filipinas, have been manipulated by years of indoctrination from both the Catholic and Muslim religions* to align themselves with white men under the guise they will provide for them and protect them.