My relatives live in the Philippines, in Bohol to be specific. I have an uncle who is the Postmaster for Valencia, uncles who work abroad as Engineers and give back to their relatives in the Philippines (Bohol, Pampanga), I have cousins who live in Bohol, and I have aunts in the government, and one aunt who is the Assistant Provincial Director of Bohol.
Talks with them in the phone and with my cousins and uncles have been about how the country is prospering, changes are happening in the Philippines. What you may claim to be regression is seen as progress and positive changes by others.
Additionally, so what if I am in the United States? Do I not have a say on my own beloved homeland? Was I not born in Bohol and raised in the Bisayan way of life? Do I not speak Bol-anon as you do? Do you consider me any less for being overseas and raised in the American Way of life?
Additionally, Marjun, my statistics are from economists in the Philippines and economic think tanks in the United States and abroad.
yup! you have wealthy relatives like you! how wud they understand the real score? statistics are only based on the incomes of the few rich businessmen. if you only have a chance to talk to the mountain and village people, they wud say diffirent statistics based on actual
Sorry, but please don't generalize.
My relatives are not wealthy, my family comes from very humble beginnings. My father's dad did not even finish elementary school. My papa titing came from pintuyan island in southern leyte and hitched on a pumpboat when he was only 8 y/o to get away and make a living, it was his own hard work and his faith that led him to survive; and his wife was only a school teacher, and they had 7 children and all finished college. And my Papa Titing, my father's dad, died when my dad was only 21 y/o, leaving the entire family crippled. However, they all sacrificed, my lola worked overtime and family aided them so that they were all successful. My aunt, most especially, was helpful for her other brothers. My family is very humble, and it was not wealth that brought them to their current disposition, but through HARD and HONEST work.
My mother's side of the family. My mother's father and mother did not even go to college; my lolo ciano didn't even finish elementary school because he came from a poor family in barangay anas in valencia, in the bukid. He had 12 brothers and sisters, and as the eldest he worked, in the basak, as a boy helper; he went to Mindanao in his youth to help his family, as for my lola nating, she worked ans a business woman. And they were both able to send their children to college and finish; all of them. Not because of wealth, no, they were very poor. But through the grace of God, faith and hard work that my relatives were successful.
The same for us here in the 'states. There is not one day we forget of our humble beginnings.
We are not wealthy, but honest and hard working family members. The Lucino-Salvo-Ebuenga-Salise family are hard working people. We are not elites, but simple commoners.
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