L-O-V-E not V-I-S-A
By Reine25
@Lucky15 (37346)
Philippines
May 30, 2016 6:18am CST
What are they after?
What are they thinking?
How about love?
Read an article about a fellow Filipina, sharing her sentiments on being judge by the other people of her choice.
Marrying a foreigner has this "stigma" of being after a."greener pasture" (pangkabuhayan showcase).
But what if it is love?
Some find it hard.to believe that it is love that made.them.marry a foreigner.
Hope some stop.giving those not so nice.assumptions or judgement about interracial marriage.
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26 responses
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
30 May 16
WE have to accept the fact though that there is truth to that though I'm not saying it's true to every single Filipino women. Nobody would ever have thought of that if that hasn't been done before and popularly at that. And it's not just Filipinos by the way. Thais do that too. And I have read some American guy saying he knew of the fact Filipino women marry foreigners just to escape poverty in this country and I am not blaming those Filipino women. I am blaming our government that we have to resort to such desperation. I have met a lot of Filipino women who had confessed they married their foreign husbands for that reason but learned to love them in the end.
So I'm not blaming those making judgments. If it were I marrying someone from another country, I wouldn't care much what they think. I know myself well enough not to be affected anyway. So why would someone feel bad if indeed it's love that she chose that foreign guy?
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
30 May 16
@Lucky15 It's not the judgments that stained the assumptions. It's the women who did it that has made such stereotyping.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
30 May 16
My Filipina friend is married to an American and their marriage is very happy
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@Letranknight2015 (51513)
• Philippines
1 Jun 16
@Lucky15 I know some one who writes here too, still active on facebook though
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@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
30 May 16
Whether we like it or not that perception stays for decades. We cannot blame them. Like who wants to marry a 70 year old man and the she's young of 25. Of course to make their life better. But I still believe that when marries there is always love after. I believe in LOVE.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
30 May 16
I know some who married a foreigner and really loved each other (relationship last) but I also know some relationships that did not last very long.
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@acelawrites (19273)
• Philippines
30 May 16
I like your "pangkabuhayan showcase" it is similar to "para sa ekonomiya"(for the economy)! ha ha ha!
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@acelawrites (19273)
• Philippines
30 May 16
@Lucky15 ganern nga! (that's it) ha ha ha. Maraming andalucia! (lots of money!)
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
30 May 16
that is the bad reputation because of cliche thinking of other people
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
30 May 16
@Lucky15 the flower int his post, looks familiar, when we were kids, we used to get the small fruit of that and sip. Is that the bush called baka-baka
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@rachz_kisses (3798)
• Philippines
28 Jun 16
I have cousins who choose to marry foreigners and they are happily married up to this day. They're just envy, that's all. 
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
30 May 16
some folks're jest so quick to judge :( one ne'er knows the "motive" 'n such aint none'f their business.
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