I've been to pinoy land several times for many years due to work related issues and frankly they are very friendly people. when I intro myself to one of our client they gave a lot of praised about how well singapore as a country and they mentioned if there is one country they want to emulate it is singapore. then I stumbled in one of the conversation when i said I am chinese and they were shocked and quipped: "I thought you're singaporean?" I quickly replied that in singapore there were singaporean-chinese, malay, indian and others. I was surprised when one of the fair-looking tall guy, ang moh look, says that in philipine there are many different races also but they all call themselves pinoy whether they were chinese ancestry, spanish or malays from southern mindanao... over the years that i travelled there I notice a strong emerging trend of migrant like Koreans, Japanese, PRCs, Taiwanese, Americans and even europeans... last I heard there were around 4millions of them now and the fastest growing the Koreans. The pinoy economy has been booming for the last 10years and I could not recognised Manila anymore so many high-rise and high-end condo sprouting like mushroom... so many sports car like ferarri, lamborghini and luxury cars like BMW, Merc, Audi on the road. The most posh location I've been there is called The Fort in the Makati financial district and frankly can rival any of the modern cities in the world today. Last visit I made were in Feb this year and I'm billeted at RWS Manila, the casino was comparable to Las Vegas and recently they opened Solaire the newest integrated resort hotel and casino in Manila, heard it cost around USD3.5b to build that will include indoor beach and entertainment centre. The pinoy like to explore other countries either through working there or visiting them (if they are rech enough) it's in their psyche to go out and challenge themselves in other environment whether its work or business, they are no different from us in terms of desire for better life excepts they are not bothered how the politicians run their country as they try to fend for themselves and not relying on their gov't for jobs or support.