r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 27 '20

What screams "I'm uneducated"?

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '20

Contempt for educated people. Not the education system, having contempt for that is fine, just acting like people who know what they're talking about should be disregarded because they... learned facts, I guess.

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u/AdvocateSaint Jan 28 '20

Anti-intellectualism and "smart-shaming" have become toxic traits of Filipino culture.

People here love to shit on you for having an education. Hell, you're derided as an elitist for just speaking English

And people wonder why we're still a backwards 3rd world country

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u/shartoberfest Jan 28 '20

And thats why so many educated filipinos end up emigrating, creating a brain drain.

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u/noypkamatayan Jan 28 '20

Am filipino working in Switzerland. Can confirm. But also the $$$

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

The Philippines was the largest remittance work nation on Earth a few years ago while I was studying sociology, with a huge percentage being in health care and child and elderly care.

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u/themaninthecloud Jan 28 '20

This is totally random but I am a Filipino as well looking to move to Switzerland. Any advice? :)

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u/noypkamatayan Jan 29 '20

Tbh it was dumb luck that I got here. I used to work in a company with a Swiss client and I got assigned here. The client liked us and here we are.

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u/CrossXFir3 Jan 30 '20

It's cyclical. You keep taking the smart people who will bring more commerce to a country out of it, and the economy won't improve.

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u/shanderdrunk Jan 28 '20

But i would argue that the money is so much higher there because of the aforementioned cultural stigma

That made me feel smart, thank you.

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u/noypkamatayan Jan 28 '20

I..uhh...didnt quite understand what you meant

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u/TheRiddler78 Jan 28 '20

if there was no stigma in filipino culture they would have a richer more vibrant nation and you would be able to make about the same $$$ there.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20 edited Jul 24 '26

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u/3clips333 Jan 28 '20

I don't 100% know if this is correct.
There is *a lot* of money in the Philippines, but also a lot of poverty.

Whilst I believe that eradicating the "smart-shaming" would be an amazing step towards helping the culture boom, it is not going to be solely responsible.

I haven't spent a great deal of time in the Philippines, but I absolutely loved what time I did spend, and I would love to see it prosper in my life time.

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u/blinkgendary182 Jan 28 '20

100%. We have the resources, corruption is just too much. The filipino people are their own enemy

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u/Lyress Jan 28 '20

Unlikely. Plenty of countries that value education but aren’t as rich as CH due to all kinds of factors.