It was a great program, and a bit of an eye opener for me. I considered myself to be fairly experienced in how Filipino's live day to day, but it made me think I have been fairly protected from how a great number of Pinoys live in the squatter camps. The Pinoys I know are all fairly well educated, have decent jobs and don't have to resort to eating pagpag to survive. Whilst they don't have much by our standards, compared to some they are very well off.
Sadly these TV programmes always play up to the stereotype that all Pinoys are poor and live in slums, so that those who don't know what it is like think that everyone lives like that.
If a foreign TV chanel made a program about a British working family and shot it in the middle of an inner city slum, the rest of the world would also assume the whole of the UK is like that too.
It would be nice to see a bit of balance on these programmes to show how the average middle class Pinoy lives and what the slum dwellers aspire to.
Overall, it was great, and made me want to be back over there now.....although I'll give the pagpag a miss
Originally Posted by Englishman2010
... far too many programmes seem to concentrate on the less desirable aspects of the Philippines - and it annoys me intensely 
- when film and documentary makers consistently portray such images ... instead of focussing on the great - and unspoilt - natural beauty that I'm absolutely convinced, abounds throughout the 7.000-odd islands that make up the Archipelago! 
