The Filipina "Maid mentality?"

[PeterB]

I suspect that part of the problem is that many college graduates end up working in the likes of Jolibee or MacDonalds here in Phils. It almost seems that you need to be that highly qualified to get these kinds of jobs.

[eljean]

Most of the Filipino's develop this kind of mentality for the one big reason that Philippine is such a less progressive country which has less opportunity when it comes to work, for that reason when any filipino has to go abroad they really settle for less because they always think that it's still compensate more than what they can get it in PI the salary of a maid in abroad is actually same as the salary of a professional working in PI (why do u think teacher in PI goes to middle east to work as a domestic helper, Doctors as nurse in abroad)its because of the salary differences so that is why, and also one big thing about filipino is that we always start at scratch and climb ourself to the top