[john70t]

When I lived in SF, I sometimes hung with a cabal of the shadiest inbred Philipinos. Everyone owed something to someone else, and was trying to borrow just a bit from Peter to pay a little back to Paul so they wouldn't get into too much trouble. It was like a game. Round and round it went. My 'friend' said his girlfriend's mother was stabbed in a Manilla market and she needed to borrow ten grand from me to save her life. Yeah no.
New guy gets welcomed warmly. Buys all drinks and food for everyone "it is our custom" then doesn't get invited again. (I didn't). On to the next sucker.
Most of all their full time jobs seemed to be applying for some grant or whatever to get free stuff from the government. Welfare, education, food stamps, whatever.
Stacks of applications. They collaborated.

I also noticed just about everyone working in the San Francisco Airport restaurants were Phillipine women.
I walked the whole place to double-check.
Someone got an exclusive contract...

I also knew some self-starting intelligent pinoys who were 100% moral upright model citizens and who would spit at those other people.