An e-mail touting a new TV channel/website called OFW-TV was sent to me this morning. I don’t qualify as an “Overseas Filipino Worker” but I find some of the site’s contents, which contain lots of video, interesting to watch.
(I should set-up a del.icio.us account for stuff like this, shouldn’t I? But then again, I probably shouldn’t yet, lest my main blog content would become totally sparse. Just been so busy.)
I wonder what the long-term effects of the OFW phenomenon will be. I don’t know how it is for people in other countries (the Pinas isn’t the only one that exports that many laborers is it?), but it seems like to lose mom or dad for a long time could have long lasting detrimental effects on the kids. Maybe not as much as it would Americans who don’t always have extended families, I guess.
Hi Phisch. Read this 2002 Wired article which calls the Philippines the “forerunner of tomorrow’s distributed economy, suppl(ying) the labor force for the global village”:
@nwbingham Thanks for the clarification, especially coz when you click on the link, and you see the bookshelf, you think "Library!" in reply to nwbingham23 hrs ago
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I wonder what the long-term effects of the OFW phenomenon will be. I don’t know how it is for people in other countries (the Pinas isn’t the only one that exports that many laborers is it?), but it seems like to lose mom or dad for a long time could have long lasting detrimental effects on the kids. Maybe not as much as it would Americans who don’t always have extended families, I guess.
Hi Phisch. Read this 2002 Wired article which calls the Philippines the “forerunner of tomorrow’s distributed economy, suppl(ying) the labor force for the global village”:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/philippines.html
Salamat…interesting article, no? Long live cell phones and internet connections, may they prosper and continue to keep parted family members intact.