The second video I watched and I had to subscribe. I'm in my mid 60's, married to a Filipina mid 40's, and I've been here going on 10 years in Feb. Much of what you see and say is true and I can validate it without the judgment. It's simply a reality and many are not exposed to such except those who are here and actually who seek the truth. It amazes me, too, how they {Filipinos) live and what they're willing to do, or not, in order to survive for another day. Good work.
I got a dose of this reality after spending a couple of days and a night in a bamboo hut in the middle of a refuge camp in Thailand. I took a pediatrician with me to do medical evaluations of 50 orphans whose parents were murdered by the Myanmar military. When I lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling, I wonder why I was spared from a life of poverty.
Just watching this video gave me my fix of motivation to keep doing what I'm doing, instead of dwelling on the past and first world traumas, so I can only imagine what an experience like that made for you. I bet it was a lifetime dosage.
Great video there should be more people in the world like you let the rich class now whats happening in the world of poverty. Very informative video keep up the good work cheers.
@@conq3097 It was very rewarding…now that I’ve retired, I don’t have the disposable income I once had but I am looking for ways to generate new money to continue the work. We shall see.
I have to say really great reporting. I lived in the Philippines I'm former military I lived in Subic Bay and Cebu for quite a while actually. Of course my wife is Filipino. And we are retiring back there hopefully relatively soon lol. But anyway I do appreciate you trying to bring this lifestyle and issues to the Western world. I'm always asked what it's like when I live there and I always tell them about even the two different or three different classes of people who live in the philippines. One thing I've noticed they can be the poorest of the poor but they're always smiling no matter how bad it gets. Some of the most beautiful people I have ever met anywhere and I have traveled all over Asia. Just a simple differences between Thailand Japan and the Philippines is incredible. I really wish the government would straighten up do more to help people there do more infrastructure try to take care of its citizens. And you're right if you're born in the West the poker hand you have been dealt is incredible compared to lots of other places.
Majority of expats in the philippines are at the bottom of the western society, majority is a pedo and racist and broke asfvk. We need high quality expat in the philippines who could contribute to the filipino people and the philippines.
@@James-gr1vk well of course I completely agree with you. That's one of the things that I want to do first off get out of the United States because we all know it's going to be really bad here really soon. Then go someplace where my money works for me and for my wife's family and the community wherever I wind up in the Philippines
While still living in Manila, Philippines during my school days in the 1960s, I remember we had about 5 house maids at any given time, mostly from the southern provinces, and one family driver. My grandparents were also staying with us because the house actually belonged to my grandpa. Good thing my Mom encouraged our maids to go to night school for them to learn some kind of trade and two of them even graduated from high school. Most of them stayed with us for 10-20 years and sort of became family members.
@@MarineRecon6682 Its not just the U.S. its the entire western so-called civilization. there's nowhere worth living in, in the UK. if you earn below 2000 p/m you are considered on the poverty line. you have highly skilled professionals having to rely on food banks. And don't get me started on this woke feminazi bullshit that's taken the west by storm.
Another great story and a good reminder of how lucky we are in America. I've been to many countries that endure poverty on a scale unimaginable to most westerners, and the Philippines is certainly one of them. You have a good heart. PS - the first time I went to the Philippines, I stayed at The Manila Hotel - 5000 pesos per night and 2500 pesos for the lunch buffet... Didn't realize where I was yet, but will never forget how sad I felt for the common people there.
Thanks Scotty. As an expat Canadian I live in Cebu in the "province", and after 4 years, I sometimes get emotional seeing the daily struggle of most families all around me. My Filipina wifa, our little boy and I live here on less than 1000 pesos per day, but feel very fortunate. It certainly puts the world into better perspective 🙏
I feel the same my friend ! We just by luck of the draw … grew up in the west ! Any of us could have been in these situations. I hope to try to help where I can in the Philippines 🇵🇭 in the future. Even on a small scale . I truly believe everyone can help others and make a positive impact wherever we land ! 😊 Namaste 🙏
Thx for the down to earth vlog. I’ve been married to a Filipina for almost twenty years. I was stationed in Angeles city in the mid eighties.. I try and remind myself from time to time that I may know more about the Philippines than the average US citizen but, I’ll always be clueless when trying to understand what it must’ve been like for people growing up in that kind of poverty. The people of the Philippines are fantastic …
it isnt that hard. imagine getting zero help from the state - no child benefits, no food stamps, no federal student loans, nothing. you will resort to doing the same too.
Thank you for your enjoyable stories! I've been to Phils 5 times now and hope to retire there when I get to that point. Love the culture and especially the Pinay ladies. Your videos are on point!
Similar story with me 20 yrs ago I went to the Philippines with my Philippino wife and daughter and every day this little girl probably 13 too would come and ask to take my daughter and I for walks, It felt really uncomfortable because I feel like she would rather be close to me than my daughter, , Would you believe this girl looks like a young Natalie wood , Omg she was so beautiful I still think about her until now, The last time I hear she have already have two babies, So sad, she looks like she deserves so much more and just growing up in the ghetto, I still remember her name Analin from Manilla , If you see this I hope you are well.
i somehow feel the opposite experience as a swede going to the philippines and marry my now wife. during my childhood i never experienced real poverty per say, but as my mother often couldnt hold a job due to having chronic pain, we had a limited economy in my family. even so, the reason why i never experienced poverty was because my family was reeaally good at saving money. my dad often hunted moose in the autumn and although there was costs associated with that, it still meant luxury meat for dinner at a discount. my mom always had a 6 week long food schedule to buy groceries for many weeks at the time. my dad even could afford to pay me 30 usd in monthly allowance and i used to save that money for years at a time to buy more expensive products like my first laptop and an aquarium. also, we used firewood for heating, the cheapest fuel available. with other words, our income were below average in sweden, and that meant we had to be very careful where we spent our money. every crown (1/10th of a dollar today) was counted, and dealing with money responsibly was the difference between thriving and barely surviving. so you can imagine my chock when i flew to the province of abra, where my wife lives. i already knew from before that filipinos at least were poorer than swedes, so i assumed they would be even more careful with spending. HELL NO. whenever the neighbours earned extra money that they could have saved, they instead waste it on unhealthy snacks and sodas and threw parties. when i and my wife were shopping she could pay or beg me for a tricycle ride, despite our destination being less than 100 m away. when i didnt support her and she earned low income, she would systematically borrow from relatives. when we bought an entire pig to be turned into lechon, the most luxurious filipino meat you could get in the philippines, half of it got rotten and had to be thrown away because she put the meat in refrigerator instead of the fridge, and when i confronted her about it, all i heard was "well, at least we had some lechon...". i am now sitting like a philosopher wondering, is it actually that swedes are poorer than filipinos? because i know that something like this never would happen in a swedish household.
It's not their fault. Filipinos have an entire different distribution of IQ Bell Curve. This is due to their different genetics compared to European people (Denisovan ancestry and so on). Very different impulse control and comprehension of delayed gratification. The story you told resemble that of my grandfather in Italy. He was almost illiterate, nevertheless managed to establish a successful business. Even when he become millionaire and he was retired, he saved every penny. He ate soup of pasta and beans at every lunch for 90 years, because if he did otherwise he would have felt as a spendthrift. Doing this, he was also thinking for his sons, to leave them a significant inheritance. Now he is long gone, but he wouldn't believe his eyes if he could see this scenes of those Filipino people that you (and I) witnessed.
thats some very good points i was going to meet a phillipino lady who became a born again christian and suddenly she knew everything ,i tried to explain to her my western roots and most of us in the older generation were brought up poor but not lacking,our cultural differences are profoundly different but she didnt really want to know and was happy with the status que
It's all about the story Scotty Boy, and you are getting better and better at this. Stories do help to change things over time, and both sides of the planet need change. We can learn from one another, and you might just become a catalyst. We can all contribute in our own small way, but some develop a platform that reaches farther and creates rather than takes. Keep it going my boy. I'll be in the PI's next week for a month and I am interested in seeing what you are documenting for myself. We shall meet up in the future. Gambatte.
@@Regular_Guyph I will be retiring there from Okinawa in 2 years, and will be back and forth quite a bit. Yes, we shall meet up. Enjoy your return to the phils.
My ex-Filipina-GF told me her first boyfriend was 35+ yo when she was 13. He didn't do "anything" to her, supposedly. And the mom was okay with it. Filipino guy too, not even a foreigner. And we're talking of 2005+, not 1998. So, I didn't bat an eye when you said the teen girl of this story gave you "the look". It could even be love in her head, not just wanting to be rescued.
past summer i was in cebu and rented a coworking space spot, was talking to a guy there often: butt ugly, massively overweight and told me his GF was 16, while he was 26. He dated her since she was 14 / already 2y. He explained that the girl's mom begged his mom to date her as the mom is his mom's old classmate and his parents became for PH standards rich as they had brains. He was a very nice guy and probably made good money for PH standards. I never asked how much but his work was outsource investment advise work for Fidelity; i.e. reports for their private wealth management clients so those are the more intelligent PH. The funny thing is, she was his live-in girlfriend. seems no one really cared. pretty girl from the jungle, both parents happy, guy and girl happy.
The first real world Philippines video I've seen. Brutally honest. I could not believe what I heard. Well done. Insanity lifestyle. Like you said "dealt a bad hand". 13 year old girl just trying to survive. I don't blame her a bit. Growing up white in the good ol USA is like winning the lottery. Good luck on your mission. Friggin A.
Hi my mum is Filipino they are the best people in the world they are so happy they will give you everything & they have nothing I just love going back there all the time coz we people from the west have everything but we still complain the place over there is so beautiful. My only wish is their government wold thing to help them thank you for the video I hope the people that watch see what life is about in that place & they are so happy with nothing. Can wait to go back this summer to see my family there
Man awesome story.. You know Pinoys at my work get offended when I tell them things stories like this like Ive witnessed while living in the Philippines and traveling there. Stories like this Fascinate me. Funny how people living in Barangays like the one in this video get a Nanny to look important and brag and have someone to look down on. Meanwhile the people in the house mostly dont work and could easily do the chores themselves. You see this a lot with the families of OFW. I think your videos are great and when I have time Ill be happy to share my mistake marrying the wrong Pinay and bringing her here to the states.
@davidssunstar My filipina wifes family usually hires a cousin on the block in Talisay to help with chores, now think they have a live in maid (cousin from Leyte))to help take care of the elderly mother and to manage the expenses in the house. The son is embarrassed because he has to ask the cousin for the peso balance...lol. (He was always running out of pesos when he was in charge...lol.
Dear Scotty, Love the stories as usual. You are so good at relating to what is important in the world. You are on the path to greatness my friend. Stay steadfast and steady .......
I so completely understand your inspiration! Such a well told story! I have the same passion as you! You could never get a westerner to get this! It must be experienced! They live in a cast society and are very ashamed of themselves. Maybe someday I can share my stories with you. The Phil completely changed who I am!
Scotty, I think you are on to something with this approach. I think that this analysis of how most of the world lives will work for your channel and keep us interested long term. The stories help us relate to those who are much less fortunate and make us think about how lucky we are in the Western world.
Scotty boy, I so relate to what you're saying here. I'm also so fascinated about the lives of people, especially in other countries outside of North America or the west. But, I'm also fascinated by the lives of people here in Canada also. Take care and maybe we'll run into each other along our travels.
Interesting to notice how lots of poor people have all sort of "issues" that ensures them to never get better. Like what the 30yo did with the money. I also heard that if you overpay the maid (not always, of course) she may one day leave you and live of savings until she reaches 0 money and then starts it all over. "Laid back" taken to extremes from my perspective 🙂
Treating your kids like a commodity would naturally be frowned upon from a Western perspective, the rigidity of some Asian cultures would seem shocking to most I guess living in a constant state of survival has to be psychologically damaging and yet many remain humble and resilient in how they live daily.
I like your stories, I feel sorry for the 13 yr old which is sad. I don't know if you're still in Dumaguete but up in Valencia is a youtuber Old Dog new tricks. He is well connected with other expats. Valencia is cooler because it's higher elevation
Majority of expats in the philippines are at the bottom of the western society, majority is a pedo and racist and broke asfvk. We need high quality expat in the philippines who could contribute to the filipino people and the philippines.
A new subscriber, appreciate your good thoughts to the lowly. Hope more people share their blessings. While it is not their choice to be born in a 3rd world country like the Philippines, the discrepancy of the wealthy rich and the poor are pitiful. Philippines is a very rich in natural resources like gold, copper, etc., and yet only few benefitted from these natural resources. No need to go to Manila to work for a pittance, the Government program provides monthly family subsistence to the poorest of the poor and free education from grade school to college. Everyone is now entitled to formal education free with cash allowance.
I love the video and the footage. Even if we watch the video and say we understand, we cannot, even if we truly believe we do. Unless people have been and actually experienced it first hand (such as yourself) they cannot actually fathom the enormity of the situation of these people. They basically have no options.....
I need to come too,asap, my girl is in Pasig, wood houses back alleys with family. 2 years. I love your video man. im 400 miles south of you, in Oregon.
Well I see narcissism affects women worldwide. That story about your ex-girlfriend saying her family misses her because she's away sounds like a couple of women I dated. Run away as fast as you can when you realize it.
Very interesting. I'm loving your honesty & enquiring approach; I love it that you really want to know what it's like to walk in someone else's shoes. Me too. I'll be following your journey. I like it too that you are prepared to talk about sexuality honestly when you encounter it, knowing that it's likely to generate disapproving comments but caring more about honestly describing what you see. I've a couple of simple points to make: 13 year old girls are likely to be sexual. Their hormones are flowing; they're interested & excited but they don't know why. They do know it's forbidden & it's supposed to be fun. They know It's for girls older than them & they long to be more grown up. Poor girls from large families have often never experienced attention focussed exclusively on them; they've always been just another child in a group of many similar children. As teenagers they crave male attention from boys or men who they perceive to have status & power; they find it enticing and intoxicating and also they want to test out whether they have any power of attraction themselves. This is all fairly normal. As men we must sidestep this interest gracefully, just as women must often sidestep sexual interest in them. It's simply that we're not appropriate targets for their naturally evolving hormonal interests. You are just too distant from the lives of poor people to understand them by talking to them directly. You need an interpreter & that's likely to be your Filipina girlfriend. She will understand it well enough to explain it to you although, as it's so familiar to her she'll find it ordinary and unremarkable & she won't really understand your interest. It's probably what she's trying to leave behind. Nevertheless, if she really likes you she'll try her best to explain it to you if you don't wear her down with too many questions
Bingo. You nailed it !! The thing I found the most enjoyable about that whole scene is that I could actually flirt with the young ladies and not get fired, arrested, beaten up or just get called a dirty old man or pervert... like would happen back home in Canada. I finally felt free, but as you say, one must be careful to self regulate too and not overshoot those liberties.
Yes we in the west and Europe are born in the 1% and have generally already won our first lottery at birth. Your passion will find many sad tales and hopefully some heart warming ones. I started travelling at age 17 in SEA and now 50 yrs later often wonder about the peoples that I met as I was travelling very low budget.
I’m really enjoying your vlog, and your style of insightful storytelling which, given the material, delivery and the tone/cadence of your voice is reminiscent of the late Anthony Bourdain in the translation from his A Cook’s Tour and No Reservations days. As an American, my first exposure to live-in maids/domestic helpers was during my first trip to SE Asia to visit my in-laws in Yangon, Myanmar. I wasn’t familiar with the interpersonal dynamics of the resident/maid relationship, and perhaps got chided occasionally for treating them as an extended family member instead of ‘just the maid’. My conversing was limited because I spoke only little/very basic Burmese and they spoke no English. During my third trip, the 17 year old maid at the time was very pretty, coming from a small village in the countryside from a family that was apparently well off by local villager standards because she wanted to experience ‘city life’. She seemed to be intrigued with me as I was a Westerner, and was a bit flirtatious. She did her routine chores during the day and evening, but was allowed to put those aside and join the family in the TV room when the very popular Korean soap opera-style drama that was all the rage in Burma/Myanmar at the time came on. I took a photo of her one and showed her on the camera’s LCD screen, after which she would find a time when the matriarchs were not around and get dolled up with her nicer clothes and makeup, then naughtily/sneakily motion me over to follow her somewheres out of sight to take pictures of her. After we left, she would end up quitting to return to her home village, but later conveyed through a family member that she wanted hard copies of the seven photos I had taken send back to her in Myanmar, and few years after that trip came back to pay respects to the family on one of the lunar holidays, and had asked ask, and talked about, me at the time. She would be in her early to mid thirties now and I’d be curious to see how her beauty has developed over the years and how she’s doing. The next maid encounters came with visiting our daughter and family in Singapore, with the majority of the maids hailing from the Philippines. Again, I would tend to treat them like family and get chided for not respecting the established status division. Some interactions involved me teaching them how to cook Burmese dishes, with one teaching me how to cook chicken adobo in return. Maids in Singapore only get Sundays off, and the ones that don’t spend all day with church activities or hangout and run errands at the Lucky Plaza Filipino mall on Orchard Road tend to go to the ‘tea dance’ at some of the bars at Orchard Towers, a legal red light district, of which I checked out one at the Blue Banana bar that was an interesting experience to see Pinay maids dirty dancing together. Lots of freelancing Filipina prostitutes on tourist visas at and around Orchard Towers, mainly single mothers with their kids being watch by their moms back in the Philippines. I have seen a lot of poverty in my travels around SE Asia, especially in Myanmar & Cambodia.
Woow, now that I’ve seen a couple of your video’s im still in shock. Seeing footage is one thing but those shorts stories and the honest raw unfiltered way of telling them is a whole new eye opener for me. Never stop making these video’s and keep opening and I mean really opening peoples eyes. 🫵🏼👍🏼🫡👊🏼✌🏼🇳🇱
That’s the very reason why people from the west have higher suicide rates. Their coping mechanisms are so below par and why family is not what binds them. But hey no one really gets everything.
The young maid WAS given a bad poker hand- but she compounded that by not attending school. My wife's family has employed several maids/nannies over the years and always gave them an option of going to school or working. Some chose work and the others school. The educated ones were nearly always successful- by Philippine standards at least. I always tell anyone going to the Philippines to find an educated Filipina- it's a target rich environment for any westerner. The Philippines has a good education system but they don't force anyone to go to school, so if your Filipina can't speak and read English, its your first clue she isn't educated and has only 3 real choices of employment: a maid/nanny, a sex worker, or girlfriend/wife of a westerner. Choose wisely.
Well said Scott. I have seen the poverty myself in my trips to the Philippines and I really feel for these people. It brings home just how lucky most of us are in the west. Keep up the good work and I look forward to your next video.
Lots of thirteen year olds work for neighbors and farmers on Leyte. Children are often told by parents that they owe the parents for being born. And the children hear this so often that they believe the parents.
That was odd, you showed picture from Mark nowhere UA-cam channel. The 2 older women are interviewing a young impoverish Filipina. Mark's channel is still running but with a new crew. I know the 2 women have their own channel but forgot the name. Mark does some good charity work, but I'm no fan of his politics.
This is why I say that even with all the problems here, I am and have always been so thankful to have been born in the US. So many of my fellow Americans really do not realize just how lucky we are.
13:55 OK, "forced" to find work is a very myopic Western and modern way of seeing this. I grew up on a fruit farm in Upstate NY 60+ years ago. We were "forced" to work on the farm from my earliest memory, so maybe 5 years old. It was hard, often wet and cold labor. Sometimes around dangerous chemicals. But that's all judged by today's standard. At the time it was considered good for children to learn how to do things and deal with hard work. When I graduated high school I went into the Army and was subjected to more hard and harsh work as the Army thought it was the best way to teach young men how to survive in the most horrible of situations. IMO being taught how to do hard work in a harsh environment did in fact teach me a much more valuable lesson than I ever learned in school or college. I hit my career hard and enjoyed working long hours because it was so easy. Like being on vacation. While many around me complained and were always trying to do as little as possible. I retired at 45. It's not that retiring earlier was some prize, I continued to "work" just not for pay. The big prize was I've been very happy my adult life. I see others around me very unhappy even though they have it very easy. Sad to see. Would a person rather be poverty stricken and happy or like most Westerners who are unhappy oblivious to how easy they have it?
Key difference being you stayed with your family and stayed in school. Which led to future success. Telling a 13yo girl to go live with strangers and be thier servant with no prospects for her future is not the same as your daddy making you help out around the farm.
My former LDR told me her mother started seriously teaching her domestic tasks at 9. Her parents sent her to Manila (from Leyte Prov.) to work as a domestic at the age of 13.
Thanks for sharing your experiences...yes I suppose you're correct to mention that people in western countries may not be aware of the situation in third world countries. I was born in a third World country and lived in fire poverty. Out of the frying pan into the fire, I took a contract to work in Papua New Guinea, and stayed there for 14 years, working in various occupations. It opened my eyes that there are even poorer people everywhere... I was quite surprised when I met an Australian who told me he didn't like custard, or pears, or nectarines etc.. and couldn't stomach peanut butter ... Yet in my mind, I would have loved any food, and wouldn't be so choosy, if I had the opportunity of having any food! Such is life!
Riding around Thailand, stopped to share a beer with a farmer pushing his cart down the road. He asked to me to take his daughter….. just take her, “she’s yours now”
16:00 You misread her "look". You see the poverty and it's strange and in your face. Raised in the West you only know that fantasy world. The "look" was genuine female attraction to a provider male. It is instinctual built into human females. It's exactly the same as the instinct of an older male being attracted to a young female. Both instincts are there so humans reproduce and risk children. For 99.9% of human history a female needed a male to provide for them to have any hope or raising children. The older the male the more experience and muscle mass he'd have to be that good provider. She did understand why she was attracted to you, only that she was. Just as you have no idea why you are compelled to look at every female passing near you and be so focused on young attractive women. It's instinct. But Westerners of course jump to "must see him as a way out of poverty". A 13 year old who grows up in poverty is unlikely to even understand poverty. This 13 year old was eating well, living in a much better home and probably thought see was doing really well. The age thing....I get it, today a 13 year old girl is a child. But only 100 years or so ago life expectancy in PH was 30 years old. If a female waited until 18 to marry had a good chance of dying before her children grew up and they would also likely died. Marrying and having kids at even 10 years old was not just normal for 99.9% of human history it was a requirement for humans to survive as a species. Which is why we evolved these traits. People who live in rural areas aren't exposed to modern Western indoctrination and the old ways remain in place for much longer timeframes. Only last year did the PH government raise the age of sexual consent from 12 to 16. Most Westerners of course would be horrified that even 16 is allowed. Many Americans would be shocked to learn it's 16 in much of the US. Being horrified by a 13 year old is interested in sex and relationships is a very modern thing.
Yes, I'm thinking along similar lines to you. Interesting comment. Although we all understand that they're children, it doesn't follow that they don't have awakening sexual & emotional feelings themselves.
A big taste of reality is what I call it. Most Filipino's live for the day and what I mean by that is if they get money, it will be spent fast before anyone like family will ask for some of it. The reason I gather this is because they feel shame on a different level than western people (they take this very much to heart). Allot of Filipino family's depend on a family member that works abroad to send them money to survive, and they are very lucky if they have this. I have seen very young kids in that same situation with family's that they were not born into, but they felt lucky to have a family at all due to parent that just couldn't provide for them.
The social issues have never been solved despite thousands of laws passed. One thing interesting is Filipino attitude of being contented without having enough. And instead of worrying the responsibility for the child's future, parents often use the children as investment to get back in return sooner than later by forcing a child to help or becoming the main source for the family finances.
newly subscribed.. I enjoy your storytelling.. I'm also fascinated with the PH.. Visiting Leyte in 13 days.. Selling my chit to move to PH before the end of next year.. Thx for your content..
hope you had been visiting before? Philippines is not for everyone, good idea to try for a short time first (before make the big jump), have health insurance and Money for a ticket home (if something dont pan out) Good luck
When I grew up in 60s and on it wasn't unusual at all for a young 12 year old girl to work for the neighbors. I think my sister made a dollar a day. She did everything. Also I know of a neighbor girl who put on the Thanksgiving meal for a whole bunch. of people when she was 12 years old. The mother had a job at the nursing home so she couldn't be there and that's 12-year-old girl made a huge Thanksgiving meal for all the deer hunters that came up for deer season and the neighbors too that were hunting with them I have no doubt the mother give her a clues how to do things but she did it so this idea of a 13-year-old working that way is nothing in my opinion
Hi Scotty guy , here from Spain I am Spanish, mine English is not brilliant but I enjoy and I have Lol a lot with you , already watch all your videos , please when will be a new one ?. Thanks
...I started working at 14 loading watermelon on flatbed trucks and hay bails. I was born on "78 so this was the early 90's but I wasn't forced I chose to. I broke bread with my mom cause we were a poor family. It's levels to survival mode even in the U.S.
You're 44 now you were 19 years old at the time that was 25 years ago, she would be 38 years old my dear Scotty. Great idea to document peoples lives from the province. Filipina UA-camr Rubeauti has done a handful of videos of province girls and province life.
It has already been documented it is called 'Metro Manila' If you get a chance watch the movie. Thanks. Over time you realize you can not save the World. Just do your best w/ what you have and don't take situations you encounter personally. Don't shoot the messenger. Just saying you have to set boundaries when dealing with places like the PI , or it will physically and emotionally tear you apart.😏👍
I live here 5 years. Yes it all around. But my self , I will not make video on it , as it's like doing a poverty point. Everyone know there poverty in poor countries. And don't like how people booking travel. And take people to poorest places to make a buck are two. Yes I was cebu, and People paying tp look at how poor people live . Like monkeys in a zoo.if want help. Just find a NGO, That have a program that help them with schooling to get a job. I don't gave to the street people, I give a card say where to go. Most kids out on street have a handler who take the money. Are part of a gang.i work with the city I live in. They have a department that set up for the homeless and the squter. Squter are people sit up housings on public land they don't own. And sad to say. But lots here don't want to work, just like in America. I got many jobs here in Manila, they don't show up on first day. Are just till first paycheck then gone.
It breaks your heart to see this. I saw it in Vietnam with 8 year old girls out in the freezibg cold of winter walking the streets trying to sell beaded necklaces to tourists - just to make ends meet. Kids need to be loved and need to be kids
Nice video footage in the slums with great storytelling Scottyboy but I have a question. When you say "nanny" in your videos do you actually mean a maid that cooks , cleans, etc? I thought nannies watch the kids. Or are the terms different in the Philippines? Thanks
Greetings from another 🇨🇦 !! Your right our poorest areas are faar better than some of the places I've been I guess the closest we get r some of those remote indigenous areas hmmmmm 😬
I lived in Isabela for more than two years. Previous I lived in Cebu City for almost 3 years. Poverty is rampant in the Philippines. However, living in the province there is always something to eat. Not always what you want, but there is always something. Being poor in the city is a lot harder. I noticed when my neighbor got low on cash. Those times she started looking for wild plants. It just happened to be those times when I had big bean harvests, or the chickens produced more eggs than I could eat or I happened to set a lot bigger dough than I planned to etc. Lucky for me I got some help to reduce the waste those times. One time I found some big fat larvas in the trunk of a rottening coconut tree. I gathered them and offered them to her. But that time she refused to help me out. So my father in law and my son had a nice meal out of it instead.
@@Regular_Guyph One time me and my father in law took the van out for a test drive after some minor repair work. We drove the dirt road through the rice fields down to the mai road and then back home again. On the way back it had gotten dark. Way ahead I could see a flashlight just waving all over the place, like someone desperately was searching for something. As I came closer I could see what it was. A big cobra was rolled up on the road ready to attack and in the outskirts of our headlights was the guardian of the duck pond with a flashlight. I looked at my father in law, he looked at me and I asked if I should just run it over? He nodded and so I did. 1,5 tons of Korean steel made short process of that snake. I could see in the rear mirror a very happy guy withva flashlight in hand hurrying over to catch a free meal. I suppose that night the predator became the prey.
I like your poverty research study idea. Pay the interviewees a few bucks, they will be your best friend. PS, I had a college professor always say, ‘The rich get richer and the poor get babies’
the history of human civilization calls this, "working and supporting the family." Old story. The primary reason why more people are not dead from starvation.
Her story is everybody's story. Believe it or not this is the norm in the Philippines. Mindanao is 3 times worse. Tondo is way worse.This is the part of the Philippines they don't want tourist to see.
My fiancee is from Isabela. We were just there during Christmas. Its a fairly progressive province. They have a modern airport with a daily CP flt to Manila. Very modern nice SM Mall. Cool weather. Very much like Hawaii. I suggest you visit for an updated perception.
I always thought The Filipina Pea was the most base channel about Filipinas and the Philippines, but yours is solid, man. Thank you. Some of our Western female energies are present there as well, it seems, but I'm wondering if it's of the same toxic nature? Like myself, I'm not looking for a young woman, so any low body-count 35 to 55yo will be perfect, but it sounds likely you have to find someone recently widowed, or just pulled out of a coma, even in the Philippines.
Sad story. But thinking about it more, I wonder if it's sad mostly because we're viewing their situation through our first world lens? Westerners have lived with bartering money for goods for many centuries. But provincial Filipinos lived for thousands of years without requiring money to get their essentials. I think if we viewed them back then we'd consider them "poor." But in reality, they were just living their lives (and probably fairly successfully in their eyes) without any funds. They hunted, gathered, and bartered for whatever they needed. It's only lately (in societal terms) that people from the indigenous areas have been looking to the cities to get money. Mostly to buy things/extras that are relatively new to them. And mostly sent by elder men who want modern vices like cigarettes and liquor. Can the provincials survive without money today? It's arguable, but personally I think they probably could since they managed to survive for millennia without money. Of course, I freely admit I'm ignorant about the situation and issues there, so it's possible that they really can't survive today without money. And in that case, they're definitely at a disadvantage compared to their city cousins. Unfortunately for the provincial women - and the younger ones in particular - they're going to be used by men to get the things they want. Women seem to have very little power there and the laws seem... lax.
If I were the gf I would help the 13 y/o for her schooling. Elementary Or High School is not that much knowing she’s earning more than enough in Canada. Education is the only way she could get out from poverty.
@@bigjohnson7415 ohh did she? I think I missed that. But I think she still can afford to put her in public school, for everyday allowance 20 yrs ago 10 Pesos per day would be enough..
mother and daughter live in the same house happen in the Philippines. mother nanny/, the maid has a daughter who helps her mom with her work chores both have a place too live. some local girls have kids at 15 and start to work at 15 as maids are nanny.
@@KATHERINE-so5di I was speculating the the GF, as an OFW, probably at least semi-supported the family. It would make sense that she was sending money home, but you would know more about the Filipino family dynamics than I do.
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The second video I watched and I had to subscribe. I'm in my mid 60's, married to a Filipina mid 40's, and I've been here going on 10 years in Feb. Much of what you see and say is true and I can validate it without the judgment. It's simply a reality and many are not exposed to such except those who are here and actually who seek the truth. It amazes me, too, how they {Filipinos) live and what they're willing to do, or not, in order to survive for another day. Good work.
Great story, I hope you find the grown-up 13 year old maid.That interview would be a great story hear online
I got a dose of this reality after spending a couple of days and a night in a bamboo hut in the middle of a refuge camp in Thailand. I took a pediatrician with me to do medical evaluations of 50 orphans whose parents were murdered by the Myanmar military. When I lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling, I wonder why I was spared from a life of poverty.
Just watching this video gave me my fix of motivation to keep doing what I'm doing, instead of dwelling on the past and first world traumas, so I can only imagine what an experience like that made for you. I bet it was a lifetime dosage.
Great video there should be more people in the world like you let the rich class now whats happening in the world of poverty. Very informative video keep up the good work cheers.
It sounds like you did a great thing there...👍
@@conq3097 It was very rewarding…now that I’ve retired, I don’t have the disposable income I once had but I am looking for ways to generate new money to continue the work. We shall see.
But it’s here in csnada the immigrants are bringing it over Myanmar is one of the most fucked up people on earth
I have to say really great reporting. I lived in the Philippines I'm former military I lived in Subic Bay and Cebu for quite a while actually. Of course my wife is Filipino. And we are retiring back there hopefully relatively soon lol. But anyway I do appreciate you trying to bring this lifestyle and issues to the Western world. I'm always asked what it's like when I live there and I always tell them about even the two different or three different classes of people who live in the philippines. One thing I've noticed they can be the poorest of the poor but they're always smiling no matter how bad it gets. Some of the most beautiful people I have ever met anywhere and I have traveled all over Asia. Just a simple differences between Thailand Japan and the Philippines is incredible. I really wish the government would straighten up do more to help people there do more infrastructure try to take care of its citizens. And you're right if you're born in the West the poker hand you have been dealt is incredible compared to lots of other places.
Majority of expats in the philippines are at the bottom of the western society, majority is a pedo and racist and broke asfvk. We need high quality expat in the philippines who could contribute to the filipino people and the philippines.
@@James-gr1vk well of course I completely agree with you. That's one of the things that I want to do first off get out of the United States because we all know it's going to be really bad here really soon. Then go someplace where my money works for me and for my wife's family and the community wherever I wind up in the Philippines
While still living in Manila, Philippines during my school days in the 1960s, I remember we had about 5 house maids at any given time, mostly from the southern provinces, and one family driver. My grandparents were also staying with us because the house actually belonged to my grandpa. Good thing my Mom encouraged our maids to go to night school for them to learn some kind of trade and two of them even graduated from high school. Most of them stayed with us for 10-20 years and sort of became family members.
@@MarineRecon6682 Its not just the U.S. its the entire western so-called civilization. there's nowhere worth living in, in the UK. if you earn below 2000 p/m you are considered on the poverty line. you have highly skilled professionals having to rely on food banks. And don't get me started on this woke feminazi bullshit that's taken the west by storm.
What else can they do smiles are free plus it’s all you know.
Another great story and a good reminder of how lucky we are in America. I've been to many countries that endure poverty on a scale unimaginable to most westerners, and the Philippines is certainly one of them. You have a good heart. PS - the first time I went to the Philippines, I stayed at The Manila Hotel - 5000 pesos per night and 2500 pesos for the lunch buffet... Didn't realize where I was yet, but will never forget how sad I felt for the common people there.
Thanks Scotty. As an expat Canadian I live in Cebu in the "province", and after 4 years, I sometimes get emotional seeing the daily struggle of most families all around me. My Filipina wifa, our little boy and I live here on less than 1000 pesos per day, but feel very fortunate. It certainly puts the world into better perspective 🙏
How much of a loser are you to be poor in a poor country despite your education and citizenship in a first world country?
I feel the same my friend ! We just by luck of the draw … grew up in the west ! Any of us could have been in these situations. I hope to try to help where I can in the Philippines 🇵🇭 in the future. Even on a small scale . I truly believe everyone can help others and make a positive impact wherever we land ! 😊 Namaste 🙏
Thx for the down to earth vlog. I’ve been married to a Filipina for almost twenty years. I was stationed in Angeles city in the mid eighties.. I try and remind myself from time to time that I may know more about the Philippines than the average US citizen but, I’ll always be clueless when trying to understand what it must’ve been like for people growing up in that kind of poverty. The people of the Philippines are fantastic …
it isnt that hard. imagine getting zero help from the state - no child benefits, no food stamps, no federal student loans, nothing. you will resort to doing the same too.
Thank you for your enjoyable stories! I've been to Phils 5 times now and hope to retire there when I get to that point. Love the culture and especially the Pinay ladies. Your videos are on point!
Similar story with me 20 yrs ago I went to the Philippines with my Philippino wife and daughter and every day this little girl probably 13 too would come and ask to take my daughter and I for walks, It felt really uncomfortable because I feel like she would rather be close to me than my daughter, , Would you believe this girl looks like a young Natalie wood , Omg she was so beautiful I still think about her until now, The last time I hear she have already have two babies, So sad, she looks like she deserves so much more and just growing up in the ghetto, I still remember her name Analin from Manilla , If you see this I hope you are well.
Great vid again. Master storyteller who always leaves the listener wanting to come back for more!
@Scotty, I just love your stories and your way of story telling. Not only humorous, but full of information from your travels.
i somehow feel the opposite experience as a swede going to the philippines and marry my now wife. during my childhood i never experienced real poverty per say, but as my mother often couldnt hold a job due to having chronic pain, we had a limited economy in my family. even so, the reason why i never experienced poverty was because my family was reeaally good at saving money. my dad often hunted moose in the autumn and although there was costs associated with that, it still meant luxury meat for dinner at a discount. my mom always had a 6 week long food schedule to buy groceries for many weeks at the time. my dad even could afford to pay me 30 usd in monthly allowance and i used to save that money for years at a time to buy more expensive products like my first laptop and an aquarium. also, we used firewood for heating, the cheapest fuel available.
with other words, our income were below average in sweden, and that meant we had to be very careful where we spent our money. every crown (1/10th of a dollar today) was counted, and dealing with money responsibly was the difference between thriving and barely surviving.
so you can imagine my chock when i flew to the province of abra, where my wife lives. i already knew from before that filipinos at least were poorer than swedes, so i assumed they would be even more careful with spending. HELL NO. whenever the neighbours earned extra money that they could have saved, they instead waste it on unhealthy snacks and sodas and threw parties. when i and my wife were shopping she could pay or beg me for a tricycle ride, despite our destination being less than 100 m away. when i didnt support her and she earned low income, she would systematically borrow from relatives. when we bought an entire pig to be turned into lechon, the most luxurious filipino meat you could get in the philippines, half of it got rotten and had to be thrown away because she put the meat in refrigerator instead of the fridge, and when i confronted her about it, all i heard was "well, at least we had some lechon...". i am now sitting like a philosopher wondering, is it actually that swedes are poorer than filipinos? because i know that something like this never would happen in a swedish household.
It's not their fault. Filipinos have an entire different distribution of IQ Bell Curve. This is due to their different genetics compared to European people (Denisovan ancestry and so on). Very different impulse control and comprehension of delayed gratification. The story you told resemble that of my grandfather in Italy. He was almost illiterate, nevertheless managed to establish a successful business. Even when he become millionaire and he was retired, he saved every penny. He ate soup of pasta and beans at every lunch for 90 years, because if he did otherwise he would have felt as a spendthrift. Doing this, he was also thinking for his sons, to leave them a significant inheritance. Now he is long gone, but he wouldn't believe his eyes if he could see this scenes of those Filipino people that you (and I) witnessed.
That’s what happens when you’re with a province girl. They are poor for a reason, just lower iq than normal.
ohh that is very interesting thanks for sharing
Interesting tale because Pinays don't waste food culturally speaking
thats some very good points i was going to meet a phillipino lady who became a born again christian and suddenly she knew everything ,i tried to explain to her my western roots and most of us in the older generation were brought up poor but not lacking,our cultural differences are profoundly different but she didnt really want to know and was happy with the status que
It's all about the story Scotty Boy, and you are getting better and better at this. Stories do help to change things over time, and both sides of the planet need change. We can learn from one another, and you might just become a catalyst. We can all contribute in our own small way, but some develop a platform that reaches farther and creates rather than takes. Keep it going my boy. I'll be in the PI's next week for a month and I am interested in seeing what you are documenting for myself. We shall meet up in the future. Gambatte.
Hey man I'll be in phils from March so I may miss you but if you return ...
@@Regular_Guyph I will be retiring there from Okinawa in 2 years, and will be back and forth quite a bit. Yes, we shall meet up. Enjoy your return to the phils.
@@rabukan5842 are you a Japanese citizen or a foreigner living there?
Another Great story from Scotty Boy!!
My ex-Filipina-GF told me her first boyfriend was 35+ yo when she was 13. He didn't do "anything" to her, supposedly. And the mom was okay with it. Filipino guy too, not even a foreigner. And we're talking of 2005+, not 1998. So, I didn't bat an eye when you said the teen girl of this story gave you "the look". It could even be love in her head, not just wanting to be rescued.
No eye to eye contact to Scott , I should be careful Lol😂😂
past summer i was in cebu and rented a coworking space spot, was talking to a guy there often: butt ugly, massively overweight and told me his GF was 16, while he was 26. He dated her since she was 14 / already 2y. He explained that the girl's mom begged his mom to date her as the mom is his mom's old classmate and his parents became for PH standards rich as they had brains. He was a very nice guy and probably made good money for PH standards. I never asked how much but his work was outsource investment advise work for Fidelity; i.e. reports for their private wealth management clients so those are the more intelligent PH. The funny thing is, she was his live-in girlfriend. seems no one really cared. pretty girl from the jungle, both parents happy, guy and girl happy.
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Good story, very interesting and makes you think. Appreciate it
The first real world Philippines video I've seen. Brutally honest. I could not believe what I heard. Well done. Insanity lifestyle. Like you said "dealt a bad hand". 13 year old girl just trying to survive. I don't blame her a bit. Growing up white in the good ol USA is like winning the lottery. Good luck on your mission. Friggin A.
Great story Scotty. Thank you
Thank you for sharing this story AWESOME regular guy...
Hi my mum is Filipino they are the best people in the world they are so happy they will give you everything & they have nothing I just love going back there all the time coz we people from the west have everything but we still complain the place over there is so beautiful. My only wish is their government wold thing to help them thank you for the video I hope the people that watch see what life is about in that place & they are so happy with nothing. Can wait to go back this summer to see my family there
Your half Filipino that's cool
Man awesome story.. You know Pinoys at my work get offended when I tell them things stories like this like Ive witnessed while living in the Philippines and traveling there. Stories like this Fascinate me. Funny how people living in Barangays like the one in this video get a Nanny to look important and brag and have someone to look down on. Meanwhile the people in the house mostly dont work and could easily do the chores themselves. You see this a lot with the families of OFW. I think your videos are great and when I have time Ill be happy to share my mistake marrying the wrong Pinay and bringing her here to the states.
@davidssunstar My filipina wifes family usually hires a cousin on the block in Talisay to help with chores, now think they have a live in maid (cousin from Leyte))to help take care of the elderly mother and to manage the expenses in the house. The son is embarrassed because he has to ask the cousin for the peso balance...lol. (He was always running out of pesos when he was in charge...lol.
well done for the honest reporting
My fiance is in Kenya and it is life changing to take things in from another perspective. Keep up the good work.
Dear Scotty,
Love the stories as usual. You are so good at relating to what is important in the world. You are on the path to greatness my friend. Stay steadfast and steady .......
I so completely understand your inspiration!
Such a well told story!
I have the same passion as you!
You could never get a westerner to get this!
It must be experienced!
They live in a cast society and are very ashamed of themselves.
Maybe someday I can share my stories with you.
The Phil completely changed who I am!
Looking forward for the videos of your upcomming trip
Scotty, I think you are on to something with this approach. I think that this analysis of how most of the world lives will work for your channel and keep us interested long term. The stories help us relate to those who are much less fortunate and make us think about how lucky we are in the Western world.
Scotty boy, I so relate to what you're saying here. I'm also so fascinated about the lives of people, especially in other countries outside of North America or the west. But, I'm also fascinated by the lives of people here in Canada also. Take care and maybe we'll run into each other along our travels.
Interesting to notice how lots of poor people have all sort of "issues" that ensures them to never get better. Like what the 30yo did with the money. I also heard that if you overpay the maid (not always, of course) she may one day leave you and live of savings until she reaches 0 money and then starts it all over. "Laid back" taken to extremes from my perspective 🙂
Treating your kids like a commodity would naturally be frowned upon from a Western perspective, the rigidity of some Asian cultures would seem shocking to most I guess living in a constant state of survival has to be psychologically damaging and yet many remain humble and resilient in how they live daily.
I like your stories, I feel sorry for the 13 yr old which is sad. I don't know if you're still in Dumaguete but up in Valencia is a youtuber Old Dog new tricks. He is well connected with other expats. Valencia is cooler because it's higher elevation
Most people in the west have no idea of how extreme poverty is in some countries. Your stories are interesting and entertaining mutually….
Majority of expats in the philippines are at the bottom of the western society, majority is a pedo and racist and broke asfvk. We need high quality expat in the philippines who could contribute to the filipino people and the philippines.
A lot of women here mock the women there for their circumstances.
A new subscriber, appreciate your good thoughts to the lowly. Hope more people share their blessings. While it is not their choice to be born in a 3rd world country like the Philippines, the discrepancy of the wealthy rich and the poor are pitiful.
Philippines is a very rich in natural resources like gold, copper, etc., and yet only few benefitted from these natural resources.
No need to go to Manila to work for a pittance, the Government program provides monthly family subsistence
to the poorest of the poor and free education from grade school to college.
Everyone is now entitled to formal education free with cash allowance.
I love the video and the footage. Even if we watch the video and say we understand, we cannot, even if we truly believe we do. Unless people have been and actually experienced it first hand (such as yourself) they cannot actually fathom the enormity of the situation of these people. They basically have no options.....
I need to come too,asap, my girl is in Pasig, wood houses back alleys with family. 2 years. I love your video man. im 400 miles south of you, in Oregon.
Thanks for sharing….
Well I see narcissism affects women worldwide. That story about your ex-girlfriend saying her family misses her because she's away sounds like a couple of women I dated. Run away as fast as you can when you realize it.
Very interesting. I'm loving your honesty & enquiring approach; I love it that you really want to know what it's like to walk in someone else's shoes. Me too. I'll be following your journey. I like it too that you are prepared to talk about sexuality honestly when you encounter it, knowing that it's likely to generate disapproving comments but caring more about honestly describing what you see. I've a couple of simple points to make:
13 year old girls are likely to be sexual. Their hormones are flowing; they're interested & excited but they don't know why. They do know it's forbidden & it's supposed to be fun. They know It's for girls older than them & they long to be more grown up. Poor girls from large families have often never experienced attention focussed exclusively on them; they've always been just another child in a group of many similar children. As teenagers they crave male attention from boys or men who they perceive to have status & power; they find it enticing and intoxicating and also they want to test out whether they have any power of attraction themselves. This is all fairly normal. As men we must sidestep this interest gracefully, just as women must often sidestep sexual interest in them. It's simply that we're not appropriate targets for their naturally evolving hormonal interests.
You are just too distant from the lives of poor people to understand them by talking to them directly. You need an interpreter & that's likely to be your Filipina girlfriend. She will understand it well enough to explain it to you although, as it's so familiar to her she'll find it ordinary and unremarkable & she won't really understand your interest. It's probably what she's trying to leave behind. Nevertheless, if she really likes you she'll try her best to explain it to you if you don't wear her down with too many questions
Bingo. You nailed it !! The thing I found the most enjoyable about that whole scene is that I could actually flirt with the young ladies and not get fired, arrested, beaten up or just get called a dirty old man or pervert... like would happen back home in Canada. I finally felt free, but as you say, one must be careful to self regulate too and not overshoot those liberties.
Yes we in the west and Europe are born in the 1% and have generally already won our first lottery at birth. Your passion will find many sad tales
and hopefully some heart warming ones. I started travelling at age 17 in SEA and now 50 yrs later often wonder about the peoples that I met as I was travelling very low budget.
I’m really enjoying your vlog, and your style of insightful storytelling which, given the material, delivery and the tone/cadence of your voice is reminiscent of the late Anthony Bourdain in the translation from his A Cook’s Tour and No Reservations days. As an American, my first exposure to live-in maids/domestic helpers was during my first trip to SE Asia to visit my in-laws in Yangon, Myanmar. I wasn’t familiar with the interpersonal dynamics of the resident/maid relationship, and perhaps got chided occasionally for treating them as an extended family member instead of ‘just the maid’. My conversing was limited because I spoke only little/very basic Burmese and they spoke no English. During my third trip, the 17 year old maid at the time was very pretty, coming from a small village in the countryside from a family that was apparently well off by local villager standards because she wanted to experience ‘city life’. She seemed to be intrigued with me as I was a Westerner, and was a bit flirtatious. She did her routine chores during the day and evening, but was allowed to put those aside and join the family in the TV room when the very popular Korean soap opera-style drama that was all the rage in Burma/Myanmar at the time came on. I took a photo of her one and showed her on the camera’s LCD screen, after which she would find a time when the matriarchs were not around and get dolled up with her nicer clothes and makeup, then naughtily/sneakily motion me over to follow her somewheres out of sight to take pictures of her. After we left, she would end up quitting to return to her home village, but later conveyed through a family member that she wanted hard copies of the seven photos I had taken send back to her in Myanmar, and few years after that trip came back to pay respects to the family on one of the lunar holidays, and had asked ask, and talked about, me at the time. She would be in her early to mid thirties now and I’d be curious to see how her beauty has developed over the years and how she’s doing.
The next maid encounters came with visiting our daughter and family in Singapore, with the majority of the maids hailing from the Philippines. Again, I would tend to treat them like family and get chided for not respecting the established status division. Some interactions involved me teaching them how to cook Burmese dishes, with one teaching me how to cook chicken adobo in return. Maids in Singapore only get Sundays off, and the ones that don’t spend all day with church activities or hangout and run errands at the Lucky Plaza Filipino mall on Orchard Road tend to go to the ‘tea dance’ at some of the bars at Orchard Towers, a legal red light district, of which I checked out one at the Blue Banana bar that was an interesting experience to see Pinay maids dirty dancing together. Lots of freelancing Filipina prostitutes on tourist visas at and around Orchard Towers, mainly single mothers with their kids being watch by their moms back in the Philippines. I have seen a lot of poverty in my travels around SE Asia, especially in Myanmar & Cambodia.
Woow, now that I’ve seen a couple of your video’s im still in shock. Seeing footage is one thing but those shorts stories and the honest raw unfiltered way of telling them is a whole new eye opener for me. Never stop making these video’s and keep opening and I mean really opening peoples eyes.
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Top man Scott. Great videos.
I love your flash backs of BC / Vancouver. I used to work in coal harbour.
coal harbour oh dang man
I never realised how rich I was until I came across your channel!
Same, until I traveled the World in the military........first World problems are a joke!
That’s the very reason why people from the west have higher suicide rates. Their coping mechanisms are so below par and why family is not what binds them. But hey no one really gets everything.
The young maid WAS given a bad poker hand- but she compounded that by not attending school. My wife's family has employed several maids/nannies over the years and always gave them an option of going to school or working. Some chose work and the others school. The educated ones were nearly always successful- by Philippine standards at least.
I always tell anyone going to the Philippines to find an educated Filipina- it's a target rich environment for any westerner. The Philippines has a good education system but they don't force anyone to go to school, so if your Filipina can't speak and read English, its your first clue she isn't educated and has only 3 real choices of employment: a maid/nanny, a sex worker, or girlfriend/wife of a westerner. Choose wisely.
Well said Scott. I have seen the poverty myself in my trips to the Philippines and I really feel for these people. It brings home just how lucky most of us are in the west. Keep up the good work and I look forward to your next video.
Lots of thirteen year olds work for neighbors and farmers on Leyte.
Children are often told by parents that they owe the parents for being born.
And the children hear this so often that they believe the parents.
That was odd, you showed picture from Mark nowhere UA-cam channel. The 2 older women are interviewing a young impoverish Filipina. Mark's channel is still running but with a new crew. I know the 2 women have their own channel but forgot the name. Mark does some good charity work, but I'm no fan of his politics.
This is why I say that even with all the problems here, I am and have always been so thankful to have been born in the US. So many of my fellow Americans really do not realize just how lucky we are.
13:55 OK, "forced" to find work is a very myopic Western and modern way of seeing this. I grew up on a fruit farm in Upstate NY 60+ years ago. We were "forced" to work on the farm from my earliest memory, so maybe 5 years old. It was hard, often wet and cold labor. Sometimes around dangerous chemicals. But that's all judged by today's standard. At the time it was considered good for children to learn how to do things and deal with hard work. When I graduated high school I went into the Army and was subjected to more hard and harsh work as the Army thought it was the best way to teach young men how to survive in the most horrible of situations.
IMO being taught how to do hard work in a harsh environment did in fact teach me a much more valuable lesson than I ever learned in school or college. I hit my career hard and enjoyed working long hours because it was so easy. Like being on vacation. While many around me complained and were always trying to do as little as possible.
I retired at 45. It's not that retiring earlier was some prize, I continued to "work" just not for pay. The big prize was I've been very happy my adult life. I see others around me very unhappy even though they have it very easy. Sad to see.
Would a person rather be poverty stricken and happy or like most Westerners who are unhappy oblivious to how easy they have it?
Key difference being you stayed with your family and stayed in school. Which led to future success. Telling a 13yo girl to go live with strangers and be thier servant with no prospects for her future is not the same as your daddy making you help out around the farm.
great story. i got my first taste of my good fortune the first time i went to cambodia.
My former LDR told me her mother started seriously teaching her domestic tasks at 9. Her parents sent her to Manila (from Leyte Prov.) to work as a domestic at the age of 13.
Unbelievable! Keep them coming Scotty Boy…
Thanks for sharing your experiences...yes I suppose you're correct to mention that people in western countries may not be aware of the situation in third world countries. I was born in a third World country and lived in fire poverty. Out of the frying pan into the fire, I took a contract to work in Papua New Guinea, and stayed there for 14 years, working in various occupations. It opened my eyes that there are even poorer people everywhere... I was quite surprised when I met an Australian who told me he didn't like custard, or pears, or nectarines etc.. and couldn't stomach peanut butter ... Yet in my mind, I would have loved any food, and wouldn't be so choosy, if I had the opportunity of having any food! Such is life!
Riding around Thailand, stopped to share a beer with a farmer pushing his cart down the road.
He asked to me to take his daughter….. just take her, “she’s yours now”
16:00 You misread her "look". You see the poverty and it's strange and in your face. Raised in the West you only know that fantasy world. The "look" was genuine female attraction to a provider male. It is instinctual built into human females. It's exactly the same as the instinct of an older male being attracted to a young female. Both instincts are there so humans reproduce and risk children. For 99.9% of human history a female needed a male to provide for them to have any hope or raising children. The older the male the more experience and muscle mass he'd have to be that good provider. She did understand why she was attracted to you, only that she was. Just as you have no idea why you are compelled to look at every female passing near you and be so focused on young attractive women. It's instinct.
But Westerners of course jump to "must see him as a way out of poverty". A 13 year old who grows up in poverty is unlikely to even understand poverty. This 13 year old was eating well, living in a much better home and probably thought see was doing really well.
The age thing....I get it, today a 13 year old girl is a child. But only 100 years or so ago life expectancy in PH was 30 years old. If a female waited until 18 to marry had a good chance of dying before her children grew up and they would also likely died. Marrying and having kids at even 10 years old was not just normal for 99.9% of human history it was a requirement for humans to survive as a species. Which is why we evolved these traits. People who live in rural areas aren't exposed to modern Western indoctrination and the old ways remain in place for much longer timeframes. Only last year did the PH government raise the age of sexual consent from 12 to 16. Most Westerners of course would be horrified that even 16 is allowed. Many Americans would be shocked to learn it's 16 in much of the US.
Being horrified by a 13 year old is interested in sex and relationships is a very modern thing.
Yes, I'm thinking along similar lines to you. Interesting comment. Although we all understand that they're children, it doesn't follow that they don't have awakening sexual & emotional feelings themselves.
all good points
A big taste of reality is what I call it. Most Filipino's live for the day and what I mean by that is if they get money, it will be spent fast before anyone like family will ask for some of it. The reason I gather this is because they feel shame on a different level than western people (they take this very much to heart). Allot of Filipino family's depend on a family member that works abroad to send them money to survive, and they are very lucky if they have this. I have seen very young kids in that same situation with family's that they were not born into, but they felt lucky to have a family at all due to parent that just couldn't provide for them.
The social issues have never been solved despite thousands of laws passed. One thing interesting is Filipino attitude of being contented without having enough. And instead of worrying the responsibility for the child's future, parents often use the children as investment to get back in return sooner than later by forcing a child to help or becoming the main source for the family finances.
Good Video Scotty 📹 👍 👌 👏.
Stay Safe 💕 💞 🙏 🙏
newly subscribed.. I enjoy your storytelling.. I'm also fascinated with the PH.. Visiting Leyte in 13 days.. Selling my chit to move to PH before the end of next year.. Thx for your content..
hope you had been visiting before? Philippines is not for everyone, good idea to try for a short time first (before make the big jump), have health insurance and Money for a ticket home (if something dont pan out)
Good luck
@@mabuhayproductionltd3627 thank you for the advice.. I visited last June.. Will visit again over Christmas and New Years.. Thanks..
Before you put out your story you researched the roots . Great story Scott.
When I grew up in 60s and on it wasn't unusual at all for a young 12 year old girl to work for the neighbors. I think my sister made a dollar a day. She did everything.
Also I know of a neighbor girl who put on the Thanksgiving meal for a whole bunch. of people when she was 12 years old. The mother had a job at the nursing home so she couldn't be there and that's 12-year-old girl made a huge Thanksgiving meal for all the deer hunters that came up for deer season and the neighbors too that were hunting with them I have no doubt the mother give her a clues how to do things but she did it so this idea of a 13-year-old working that way is nothing in my opinion
Wow powerful story.
It's the reality nobody wants to admit
I live in a poor village on Leyte. 13 year olds will give you a smile.
Your story is reasonable
What do you do for enjoyment?
Hi Scotty guy , here from Spain I am Spanish, mine English is not brilliant but I enjoy and I have Lol a lot with you , already watch all your videos , please when will be a new one ?.
Thanks
...I started working at 14 loading watermelon on flatbed trucks and hay bails. I was born on "78 so this was the early 90's but I wasn't forced I chose to. I broke bread with my mom cause we were a poor family. It's levels to survival mode even in the U.S.
You're 44 now you were 19 years old at the time that was 25 years ago, she would be 38 years old my dear Scotty. Great idea to document peoples lives from the province. Filipina UA-camr Rubeauti has done a handful of videos of province girls and province life.
I appreciate your caring attitude
I wish i could help all of them.....makes me sad to see children suffering.
awesome really enjoyed it
Never been there .I understand that technology meets poverty in these islands oh PHP..thanks for your efforts
Excellent info
It has already been documented it is called 'Metro Manila' If you get a chance watch the movie. Thanks. Over time you realize you can not save the World. Just do your best w/ what you have and don't take situations you encounter personally. Don't shoot the messenger. Just saying you have to set boundaries when dealing with places like the PI , or it will physically and emotionally tear you apart.😏👍
I live here 5 years. Yes it all around. But my self , I will not make video on it , as it's like doing a poverty point. Everyone know there poverty in poor countries. And don't like how people booking travel. And take people to poorest places to make a buck are two. Yes I was cebu, and People paying tp look at how poor people live . Like monkeys in a zoo.if want help. Just find a NGO, That have a program that help them with schooling to get a job. I don't gave to the street people, I give a card say where to go. Most kids out on street have a handler who take the money. Are part of a gang.i work with the city I live in. They have a department that set up for the homeless and the squter. Squter are people sit up housings on public land they don't own. And sad to say. But lots here don't want to work, just like in America. I got many jobs here in Manila, they don't show up on first day. Are just till first paycheck then gone.
@@endlessroads9936 Thanks for your reply @Endless roads, Yes there are answers. You understand. God Bless. 🙏
It breaks your heart to see this. I saw it in Vietnam with 8 year old girls out in the freezibg cold of winter walking the streets trying to sell beaded necklaces to tourists - just to make ends meet. Kids need to be loved and need to be kids
Nice video footage in the slums with great storytelling Scottyboy but I have a question. When you say "nanny" in your videos do you actually mean a maid that cooks , cleans, etc? I thought nannies watch the kids. Or are the terms different in the Philippines? Thanks
I was wondering the same thing.
Mostly Filipinos understanding its just the same thing..
Very interesting. Yes, please document the undocumented !
Just leave the beautiful Housegirls alone. Keep them paid properly, but other than that leave them alone,
Greetings from another 🇨🇦 !!
Your right our poorest areas are faar better than some of the places I've been
I guess the closest we get r some of those remote indigenous areas hmmmmm 😬
Yea the small towns are good. Where are you?
@@Regular_Guyph im within 1hr of Toronto scotty !! I'm under 3 yrs from retirement I hope!
Been to the PI many times ......Yes this type of thing is Very common
what is your main comfort zone in the phils?
Nice video. More details regarding the funbags on the 30 year old would have been appreciated 😆
Good call
You put out very great content Scotty I enjoyed the video and the story behind it
Hi Scotty we all waiting for a new video, thanks 🤪🤪
Interesting story. Just subscribed and good luck on your journey.👍
I lived in Isabela for more than two years. Previous I lived in Cebu City for almost 3 years.
Poverty is rampant in the Philippines. However, living in the province there is always something to eat. Not always what you want, but there is always something. Being poor in the city is a lot harder.
I noticed when my neighbor got low on cash. Those times she started looking for wild plants. It just happened to be those times when I had big bean harvests, or the chickens produced more eggs than I could eat or I happened to set a lot bigger dough than I planned to etc. Lucky for me I got some help to reduce the waste those times.
One time I found some big fat larvas in the trunk of a rottening coconut tree. I gathered them and offered them to her. But that time she refused to help me out. So my father in law and my son had a nice meal out of it instead.
Wow cool man
@@Regular_Guyph One time me and my father in law took the van out for a test drive after some minor repair work. We drove the dirt road through the rice fields down to the mai road and then back home again.
On the way back it had gotten dark. Way ahead I could see a flashlight just waving all over the place, like someone desperately was searching for something.
As I came closer I could see what it was. A big cobra was rolled up on the road ready to attack and in the outskirts of our headlights was the guardian of the duck pond with a flashlight. I looked at my father in law, he looked at me and I asked if I should just run it over? He nodded and so I did. 1,5 tons of Korean steel made short process of that snake. I could see in the rear mirror a very happy guy withva flashlight in hand hurrying over to catch a free meal.
I suppose that night the predator became the prey.
thanks Scottie
I like your poverty research study idea. Pay the interviewees a few bucks, they will be your best friend.
PS, I had a college professor always say, ‘The rich get richer and the poor get babies’
It's sad how some families exploit their daughters 😔
the history of human civilization calls this, "working and supporting the family."
Old story. The primary reason why more people are not dead from starvation.
i have helped many poor pinay (and no doubt some scammers). i tell them westerners have won the lottery by where we are born. subscribed.
0:30 Linscott Cr... in Richmond?
Yes
Things are very different when everyday is a life or death situation.
Very good story
Love the stories….if your around Hensonville you should stop over my house I got a pool table and plenty of cold beer
Sounds good. Just outside of Angeles?
Poor girl. I would have offered to send her to school. If she didn't want school i would have hired an at home tutor until she learned basics.
Her story is everybody's story. Believe it or not this is the norm in the Philippines. Mindanao is 3 times worse. Tondo is way worse.This is the part of the Philippines they don't want tourist to see.
My fiancee is from Isabela. We were just there during Christmas. Its a fairly progressive province. They have a modern airport with a daily CP flt to Manila. Very modern nice SM Mall. Cool weather. Very much like Hawaii. I suggest you visit for an updated perception.
No thanks not isabela .Good luck down there .Stay to long word will get out .No thanks.Good luck anyway
Great video to show the west wat it like all watvy say I have experience I cry at yr story I go with girl never bee school can’t read wr
Imagine being born into that life and having no way out of it. I feel terrible for these people.
Well...I bet the majority of them are twice as happy as us westerners...Atleast, from what I see in these videos.
I always thought The Filipina Pea was the most base channel about Filipinas and the Philippines, but yours is solid, man. Thank you. Some of our Western female energies are present there as well, it seems, but I'm wondering if it's of the same toxic nature? Like myself, I'm not looking for a young woman, so any low body-count 35 to 55yo will be perfect, but it sounds likely you have to find someone recently widowed, or just pulled out of a coma, even in the Philippines.
Lots of mature 13 year olds in philippines. I do not know how but they often do jobs reserved for adults.
Sad story. But thinking about it more, I wonder if it's sad mostly because we're viewing their situation through our first world lens? Westerners have lived with bartering money for goods for many centuries. But provincial Filipinos lived for thousands of years without requiring money to get their essentials. I think if we viewed them back then we'd consider them "poor." But in reality, they were just living their lives (and probably fairly successfully in their eyes) without any funds. They hunted, gathered, and bartered for whatever they needed. It's only lately (in societal terms) that people from the indigenous areas have been looking to the cities to get money. Mostly to buy things/extras that are relatively new to them. And mostly sent by elder men who want modern vices like cigarettes and liquor. Can the provincials survive without money today? It's arguable, but personally I think they probably could since they managed to survive for millennia without money. Of course, I freely admit I'm ignorant about the situation and issues there, so it's possible that they really can't survive today without money. And in that case, they're definitely at a disadvantage compared to their city cousins. Unfortunately for the provincial women - and the younger ones in particular - they're going to be used by men to get the things they want. Women seem to have very little power there and the laws seem... lax.
Itbayat people live like that. Check it out on YT. Worth a visit.
If I were the gf I would help the 13 y/o for her schooling. Elementary Or High School is not that much knowing she’s earning more than enough in Canada. Education is the only way she could get out from poverty.
Hey Kat, I was thinking that the GF was the one supporting the house, family, and the young girl as well. Seems most likely, don't you think?
@@bigjohnson7415 ohh did she? I think I missed that. But I think she still can afford to put her in public school, for everyday allowance 20 yrs ago 10 Pesos per day would be enough..
mother and daughter live in the same house happen in the Philippines. mother nanny/, the maid has a daughter who helps her mom with her work chores both have a place too live. some local girls have kids at 15 and start to work at 15 as maids are nanny.
@@KATHERINE-so5di I was speculating the the GF, as an OFW, probably at least semi-supported the family. It would make sense that she was sending money home, but you would know more about the Filipino family dynamics than I do.
@@hillbillyintheasia6122 yesss this is very true.. 😔