A growing percentage of Filipinos now view foreigners as LBH
10yrs ago I never seen anything like this. Now I hear it EVERYWHERE . For those unaware LBH means LOSER BACK HOME. Why is this becoming a thing now in the Philippines? In my opinion it’s because over the past decade it has been TONS MORE FOREIGNERS coming to live in the Philippines and it’s mostly due to one factor. Before, what most foreigners would do is get a Filipina and then take her back to America or the West. Most never considered living in the Philippines. Then the word got put out on the internet that bringing a Filipina back to the West was a bad idea because she ultimately divorce you and then be with more desirable men in the West which was the experience of tons of Westerners. So the new idea now became to just come to the Philippines, find you Filipina, and stay in the Philippines away from the West that way you never have to worry about her leaving you for more desirable foreigners in your home country.
So this is the playbook the last decade of so and it’s created an influx of foreigners into the Philippines who basically live. The younger generations of Filipinos are not stupid and they’ve figured out that most of these foreigners have no prospects and are lower class in their home countries.
Why do I bring this up? So many times I see in this forum foreigners thinking they are viewed as “special” by Filipinos. I think this only applies to the younger foreigners or female foreigners because Filipinos are more than use to seeing old, retired foreigner males. It’s a totally different dynamic than it was years ago.