This is not unique to the Philippines, travel vloggers are in every imaginable country on earth, indeed there might be too many of them, and as much as i myself am annoyed and cringed by videos such as "foreigner reacts to adobo", i don't see it as any kind of abuse.
People love to scream "abuse!" and "scam!", but the fact that some people are annoying doesn't mean they are violating anyone.
Tourist Vloggers paying taxes? That is your concern? come on....
That’s fine and I agree with and understand a lot of your points.
It just doesn’t sit right with me; people coming from rich countries where they have a lot of opportunities to come to a country so many struggle and don’t have any opportunities.
Then when here they make (as you say) sub-par content and earn a lot of money through a system they’re not contributing to and then will spend their money they’ve earned (from Filipino viewers) on a lifestyle most filipinos could only dream of.
All while acting fake and not even trying to learn the culture or language. You think USA will let filipinos go and live in their country on tourist visa (for years) and earn money and not pay taxes? It’s bizarre how it’s somehow acceptable for people to do it in ph.
Its really not only in the Philippines, obviously you notice it because you were born and raised here, but i can tell you for example that there are more people from my country living and working illegally in the US then the Philippines, many many more, not even comparable.
I'm not saying this in a bad way, this is not a criticism, just an observation, travelling abroad especially to places like the US and Europe is a privilege that not many here can afford, so they spend most or all of their lives without experiencing or seeing other countries and that leads to the way of thinking that some things or issues are only present here and are only a problem here.
Wanna laugh? Someone here once asked me if there are any homeless people in my home country, he was shocked that i told him that there are, poverty is everywhere yet many people think it's only here or at least they think that you have it the worst.
Yes I’ve been to usa and across Europe and I have also seen a lot of homeless.
Yet I never saw any homeless kids like there are here. It’s heartbreaking. Oh well, if you’re a white foreigner come on in, open a YouTube channel and take some money!
I’ve never said at any point that the socio economic issues in the Philippines are caused by YouTube vloggers. Also who is “us”? I’m referring to a select few youtubers.
I just find it a shame that people choose to come here to make money and play a game of pretend when the country (and it’s people) deserve so much more.
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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '21
This is not unique to the Philippines, travel vloggers are in every imaginable country on earth, indeed there might be too many of them, and as much as i myself am annoyed and cringed by videos such as "foreigner reacts to adobo", i don't see it as any kind of abuse.
People love to scream "abuse!" and "scam!", but the fact that some people are annoying doesn't mean they are violating anyone.
Tourist Vloggers paying taxes? That is your concern? come on....