I hate to generalize Filipinos but damn!. Every Filipino family I know has at least one relative that's a nurse. My mother's a nurse, my sisters studying to be a nurse, her boyfriend is studying to be a nurse, and I don't even want to mention my cousins and aunts.

Its a way to go abroad and earn a high paying job even if they do not really want to be a nurse.

First there was the Japayuki then the Domestic Helper then the Factory Worker then the Computer Professional then the Nurse then it goes on an on...

yeah.. almost every family have nurse nursing student RN working abroad.... well my boyfriend is a nurse, his sister is a nurse his aunties are nurse abroad, on my side i have 4 cousins taking up nursing... i have neighbors who are nurse and nursing students, i have friends who just got their license .... hmmm almost 55 percent of my highschool batchmates took up nursing... That why i didn't take it... i'm supposed to be a nurse!!! NO REGRETS

until now that is...

CHED will be monitoring universities with nursing courses and will close new colleges that will open the course nursing since there are
just too many nurses nowadays....

seriously, filipinos should stop being a sheep
its like most people would just go for nursing just because that's what most students are taking up nowadays...

kinda cheap

It's such an easy course to pass. My sister did it. My aunt did it, and so many people I know who just want to get into the money. It's quick and easy to get into, the pay is so high and the job is really stable because you can't really make mistakes because who ever heard if anyone filing malpractice charges agains a nurse? Once you're into it, you can't lose. Set for life.

It's a global trend I refer to, so perhaps The Philippines is just following the way of the World?

Nurses are in high demand all over the world and developed countries are so short of them that they send recruiters in places like the Philippines to recruit nurses. It's a recession proof career and offers alot of opportunities, not to mention the big pay with great benefits.

they want to leave the country...

the reasons are quite obvious (self-explanatory)

Pretty much what sitataymo said.

Plus Phillipinos are soo nice people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cus filipinas are caring by default

THIS IS SOOOO STUPID!

Nurses are paid very well and you can work anywhere in the world.

My mother is a nurse.

As well as my aunt in Sugar Land.

I assume nursing is popular because it's the only way people in the Philippines can really get out of the country.

Its not being a sheep stooge... you can almost guarantee that you can get a job after you finish it. Not everybody was born with a silver spoon like you, kiddo. Being a nurse is not trying to be "cool" but a matter of survival.

lol dude even filipinos born in canada want to become nurses.

i don't get it either.

then again...

viet --> nail salon
korean --> convenience store owner
chinese --> restaurant owner
jew --> anything that pays six figures

Its not just nursing man, you can see filipinos here everywhere. They work in factories, security, janitorial jobs... any easy industry that you can get into we are there....

i didn't mean that EVERY filipino goes into nursing. you gotta admit though, nurses is pretty common among filipinos... i know more than enough

why does the industry have to be easy to get into?

some of my friends want to becoming engineers and my best friend wants to go to med school...

Nursing is one of the most popular course here in Australia.

Yeah, in canada nursing is common. So are factory jobs, janitorial and secretary positions. Like I said, anything easy to get into we are in it. So I dont know what you exactly suggested with that nursing $hit, but you obviously suggested something stereotypical like a filipino would more likely go into nursing than something else.

Filipinos usually go in places where they can go in easier yet get decent wages. That only goes for 1st genaration filipinos though, 2nd generation and above usually go in higher and more paying jobs because their life have given them more choices. Thats why you see so many filipinos working in factories, even if you combine all the filipinos working in a higher field the numbers are not even close if you compare them to filipinos who work labour jobs.

^^Are you comparing Nursing to Factory work??

WTH and this isn't stereotypical?

No its not.

Here is the difference. I say "filipino rides hondas, acuras, minivan, pretty much any car"(not stereotyping). You say "yeah those filipinos and their hondas"(stereotyping: suggesting most filipinos likes hondas).

Nope. Im talking about entry level work.

I like this thread...... I'm not sure about the statistical amount of nurses out there, but whatabout if the whole world is being run by nurses?? Wouldn't be nice for everyone to have two or three degrees at least? Just in case the economy shifts? It's always good to be dextrous/knowledgable at different fields.

My sister graduated in Civil Engineering then moved to Occupational Therapist and now studying Nursing.... LOL, she just goes where there's moolah.

So did she ever got to work with all this studying?

Let's see. I eat spam and fried rice, play guitar, sing in an acapella group, drive a Honda Accord, currently studying Computer Engineering, and my mom's a nurse while my dad is an anesthesiologist living/working in Singapore. I drink, I gamble with friends, go karaokeing, and ballroom dancing. What did I miss?
Oh, my dad wants me to become a doctor as well.

Yes actually, but not for long... She wasn't paid enough as a Civil Engineer, so she switched to Occupational Therapist, where she worked in America for 4-5 years... Now, went back home to study Nursing.

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stereotypes wouldn't exist if there weren't any truth to them.

In terms of high paying jobs for women (traditionally associated with women in society that is) there simply isnt a whole lot of them.
Nursing is one of the few (not soley) high paying jobs that women can get & yet be still consider socially acceptible.

I didn't know there are socially unacceptable jobs for women, lol.


Doesn't occupational therapist pays well? I would choose that over nursing probably just base on the supply and demand from this thread..

Every girl in my family is a nurse overseas. I guess you can stereotype them.

Its never right to stereotype someone.

That just about justifies the stereotype that Filipinos who come from abroad are always negating a comment and looking for justification behind it.

And this puts everything in it's place

I dont understand you. Are you agreeing with me or is this the way you express sarcasm?.

I will.


Why are nurses in high demand? I propose that dispite their "professional" status like the teaching profession their compensation is the same as a senior unionized factory worker. With much worse working conditions, around sick and dying people, working all shifts, weekends and holidays. So it is almost as hard to get natives willing to be nurses as domestic help. Afterall all that time and education gets you the same benefit as a mailman working a few hours of overtime.. However for the OFW that factory worker"s income is many times that of the maids income.

because it's good money? you can earn 100k a year if you do enough overtime

... compare that to the average wage in the phillipines.

how many of your parents earn around 100k? and if they do what is their education?

exactly.

Person 1 says "Filipinos can be doktoras, dentistas, tuberos, pretty much any job" (not stereotyping)... you say "yeah those Filipinos usually go in places where they can go in easier yet get decent wages."



And it disturbs me even more b/c you just stereotyped Filipinos as being lazy and prone to doing menial work. I would expect that out of my slightly racist grandma, but not you.

Wow @ you reaching... just because you got caught being stupid, doesnt mean you have to point the finger at me. This is so funny... filipinos like you pretending its all cool, but inside you are not different with people who stereotype our own people like the socialites and others..... I know your kind....

I wasnt stereotyping, it is true. Filipinos who just came here usually go for these entry level jobs because they have no choice. They have family in the philippines or family here to support. They aint got no time to go to school, thats not stereotyping, einstein. Thats telling the truth. You on the other hand characterized a whole group of people... GOOD JOB!.

How am I the only person "caught being stupid" if this entirw thread is about said stereotype?

You're not stereotyping, you're beyond that.
If all Filipinos can be only menial laborers in your country even when you don't really know whether they are first or second generation immigrants then you are at the point of racially profiling Filipinos as menial laborers.

You just got caught being stupid. Insulting a moderator IS being caught stupid.

nah that's not it. you got it the first time.

if I get annoyed at someone solely because I see it as a threat against some meaningless position, that makes me a huge tool.

But we are not talking about other people. I was talking to you because of the post you made. Its obvious from that post that you are one of those people. You are a mild case, but still you are one.



Wow, this dude just TOTALLY misread the whole post and tried to twist it up... lmaoooo FYI, i dont give a sh1t about mods. NERD. And you gotta be truly gay to even think of banning me or whatever because I stated a legitimate opinion about you.

I still don't get what "those people" are. And I probably would've conceeded defeat right now since my post was intended to be harmless, but the fact that you accused me of stereotyping and responded by throwing another stereotype in the air is just totally fu-ked up IMO.

Yah there are Filipino factory workers, no one is denying that. I know of one, and she works in a factory because she never got a chance at ANY sort of education because her parents couldn;t afford to send all their children to school, and being the eldest, she got shafted.

But kaysea (and I) were talking about the BIG picture. Everyone's got a friend or two BORN IN CANADA that wants to be a nurse. If all your friends that are born here are still don't want to get an education and are fine doing menial jobs or working in retail full-time, then your friends are either stupid or lazy as fu-k.

homophobia is "gay", you loser.

I didn't misread you, stupidity is easy to point out.

I don't want you banned, how am i going to have someone to show as an example of stupidity?

tsst hoy, no flaming haaa

I enjoy arguing with you... LOL.... and i didnt mean gay like a homosexual.. i meant gay as in "wack"...

You live in Canada. It is your duty to be politically correct at all times.

Except when talking about Filipino nurses.

Yes you did... how can you tell someone who wrote the post what his post meant????? LMAAAOOOOOOOOO.... oh man, you are comical.....

HAHAHA....

Do you often have moments of lapses in reasoning?