They nurse the sick in California, drive fuel trucks in Iraq, sail cargo ships through the Panama Canal and cruise ships through the Gulf of Alaska. They pour sake for Japanese salarymen and raise the children of Saudi businessmen.
Thus starts the LA Times article on the Philippines’ most successful export: its workers.
Compelling photos also accompany the article.
Also, peep this related Wired article from 2002, One Nation, Overseas, which calls the Philippines “the forerunner of tomorrow’s distributed economy, supplying nurses, teachers, techies, and sailors to the global village.”