Do the filipinos in the phillipines consider filipinos in America snobbish?

Well, when my family was there, they were surprised that we actually mingled with the locals.

Theres a grain of truth to that. Especially when the Filipinos who just migrated to the USA return to the Philippines for vacation act as though they are higher than the locals and show off their English(which is nothing BTW). I work in a hospital and even though the Filipino staff knows you are a Filipino, they would seldom speak to you in Tagalog, Ilocano, etc. mainly in English, but when you hear them speaking among their clique or group of friends, it's all Tagalog or other Filipino dialects. To me thats very disgusting and overly snobbish behavior.

Just the snobby ones. Some Fil-Ams definitely seem O.A, but that's just the difference in culture. What's normal in the Philippines, isn't exactly normal in America.

i don't think so. i just got back from the Phils. after a 22 years absence and i don't think i was a snob. i even went to plant corn for gods sakes. LOL. i had a great time except for the heat, i can totally do without.

I like that. It was the same for me after 23 years. I tried to blend in with everybody and worked out well. I also helped harvest rice when I was there in my mom's barangay. Even in Oct. the heat was still intense.

this is not to generalize but i notice among some filipinas who are married to foreigners, been to the states and all, when they come back to the country they speak English to everyone like they've totally forgotten their native languages. and they act and talk like they're superior among everyone else..
then again for some that i've seen and observed...
there are really a lot who remain down to earth

I noticed that all the time in the Philippines and it's disgusting. It's like they were parading their husbands and using their English to show off. Hell, there are those who in front of a bunch of Filipinos in public would turn around and purposely kiss their 80 year old hubby just to get people talking.

^ er really i don't see anything wrong with kissing in public or PDA..hehehe

It's more like saving face of their family and not posing as some Americanized hoe. Thats a true Filipino trait.

It was only 40 days. Easy as pi.

i dunno but i don't mind filipinos becoming a bit more liberated as long as they keep it real... stay proud and patriotic

Liberated? I don't call that liberated, I call that a lack of class. What we need to to is liberate ourselves from hunger and unemployment rather than liberating our carnal desires.

Pride goeth before a fall.

er i get what you mean about liberating our people from hunger and poverty..
but man, if their in love and they can't help it, leave them be if they start kissing infront of you...
it's not like they take a sack of rice away from a family's table when they kiss

Manners maketh the man.

C'mon now, if "purposely" kissing in front of people to get them thinking something is love, I call that lame.
Bad taste is bad taste no matter what.

we wouldn't know if they're in love or not really...
you know the only think that makes it look gross is when the woman is ugly and the man is too old...

My opinion is, that is the vast majority of these couples. LOL.

^ lolz
sad to say but true..
but i haven't seen all of 'em..
lots of 'em are but i dunno if majority...

but ffs live and let live

Iunno, in my family we're more humble than our relatives back home because they''re used to being in the upper eschelons of society whereas I'm jsut a regular suburban boy... :S

They scoff when I mention things like taking the bus and whatnot. LOL.

LOL. I know exactly what you mean. I used to be a rich kid, in the Phils. But when I got to America, I'm just a regular kid, who walks, and works for extra cash, and my friends now aren't exactly "sosyal" , like they used to be in the Philippines.

LOL My friend from QC went through the same thing.

Or if the girl is young and beautiful and the man is old
Plus we wouldn't know about their love or not and thats not the point here. We're Filipinos and we're Asians, we have standards back home in our homelands.

yep. i think lots of people actually got motivated to plant because they were saying....look at them (me and my sis), they're from america and willing to plant and help and all. ok...ok...so i lasted mayb 30 mins. only but at least i tried. i was sooooooooo tired!! and told my family, never again will i complain about my job in the states. my job is way easy compare to planting corn and rice, now, that's a tough job!! the heat alone will kill me for sure.

She made me wait 40 days, exactly.

All because we'd planned to see Supoerman IX on the Sunday matinee, but then she SMSed me in the middle of class on the Saturday, to ask if we could bring the date forward by 24 hours. It was July 1st.

I was too busy with students at the time to disagree, but by the time I got home from work at 16:00 I called back that it would not do the scenario the right justice that day.

40 days. Mai pen lai.

I met a new girl that same night.

no we're all just a bunch of hard cunts all together. well in my area anyway.

You wanna play wid fire? You gonna get burned.

what. . the . . . fuk r u talking about?

From what i noticed, when Pinoys start fronting that they're better than the folks back home do they get labeled as snobs. You'll notice this right away when they front their name brand clothes, fancy phones, selfish behavior, perfect English, failure to speak in their native tongue and disregard respect for the elderly.

If overseas Filipinos were more aware of their fellow Filipinos' body language of being quiet or staying out of the conversation would they notice that they are seen as snobby.

At the same time, if Pinoys were too giving people take advantage of them really fast by asking for favors, money or their belongings. That's too common when i visit relatives, even amongst the ones who are well to do.
Having that snob aura has its advantages when trying to avoid leaving less than what you came with. But once you need something, you'll end up paying twice the amount or twice the time to get things done.

Plus I try not to be like other Balikbayans. Like those that overly shop and complain about the price when it's already cheaper than overseas, show of their fu-king English skills, gold, name brand clothing etc. Yet there are good and bad things about both Filipinos at home and from abroad. The most I had problems with are from the goddamn Filipino snobs from abroad and a just a few arrogant idiots back home that thought they knew more than the ones abroad. Both sides should share each others experiences to enrich each other. Then there are the Filipinos in the States that say, "Oh, you're going back home to visit? Aren't you scared since may-gulo sa Pilipinas?" Or "Why do you want to go there? Go to Hawaii instead, it's more beautiful and safer?" I'm like stupid sh*t eaters! Thats my home country and I can go home anytime I want. If you don't like it, then never set foot on MY home country again. And then there are the ones back home who think we don't know anything about back home and look at us in disdain as though we forgot our national language or the local dialect. Then thats when the taking advantage of takes place too, after which they will chismis about you behind your back saying that your Mayabang, kuripot, 'Kano etc.

I know it was back breaking work working in the fields, but hey, we all had a fun time and joked and laughed with each other, unlike back in the States where my temper is ignited all the time.

ill go home wearing a sando, shorts and tsinelas because its gonna get effin hot.

one of the things i don't like is how the people in the philiipines automatically think u have a lot of money just cuz u live in the US.

and everyone back home expects you to send money..
that's just lame

There's actually family members or acquaintances that ask you to bring their job resume with bio to any employment agency in hopes of hooking them up a job or a sponsor abroad or even friends or acquaintances who insist on showing pictures of their daughters or sons to potential penpals, which makes me look bad if i were to refuse or when i tell them that it's nothng more than promoting mail order brides.

And when they don't get a callback you get blamed for not pushing them through. Hate that $hit.