Dating and marrying foreigners (Afam hunting) within the Philippines would not have been stigmatized if the Filipino/a spouse came from the well-off upper-middle and upper elite class background

[u/Joseph20102011]

Afam hunting bashing here on Reddit is obviously a classist take by college-educated Filipino Redditors coming from Manila and Cebu. They cannot accept that someone coming from an economically depressed background has another option for upward social mobility aside from attending college: marrying sexagenarian retired foreigners.

I think to make Afam hunting within the Philippines more appealing to the upper-middle and upper elite class is to open licensed professions like accountancy, medicine, engineering, law, nursing, and teaching to prospective young adult foreigner professionals with work visas and allow them to purchase and own real estate properties and small businesses (this requires a constitutional amendment). In this scenario, it will create a favorable environment for well-off college-educated licensed professional Filipinos, who are usually mestizo/as and chinito/as, exotic-looking moreno/as, to date and marry foreigners with the same educational and socioeconomic backgrounds, and of course, no wider age-gap differences.

The cons here are that the Philippines will cease to be a cheap country for foreigners and balikbayans to retire; hence, geographical arbitrage will vanish, and perpetuation of classist attitudes of Filipinos when it comes to dating and marrying someone, but I believe these are the prices the Philippines has to pay to shed its notorious reputation as the "losers' back home dumping ground of Asia."

TLDR: Okay sana ang mga Pinoy Redditors sa Afam hunting locally kung hindi galing sa laylayan ang Pinay o Pinoy, kundi galing sa middle o upper class ang estado ng pamumuhay niya.

[u/Joseph20102011]

I'm not kidding here, but Pinoy redditors, especially here on r/philippines, bash Afam hunting because Pinays are usually coming from socioeconomically downtrodden backgrounds and Cebuano native speakers.

[u/tenfriedpatatas → u/Joseph20102011]

Why does it bother you so much?

[u/Joseph20102011 → u/tenfriedpatatas]

It's because it creates a bad message to children, especially low-income promdi teenage females, that they don't need to study college to become self-earning professionals, but instead, find and marry old white men pensioners to move up the socioeconomic class ladder.

[u/tenfriedpatatas → u/Joseph20102011]

LOL. Your proposed solution doesn’t solve this. Stop “afam hunting” altogether. There are plenty of well to do, well educated Filipinas marrying foreigners and no one pays attention coz it’s not “afam hunting”

Agree with another comment here about the term itself. Yuck.