Now, one can't suggest that the millions of OFWs lack financial literacy since most, if not all of them are aware of how valuable money is and how important it is to manage their daily expenses. They all can't also be afraid to take risks since they are risking going abroad to be able to make enough money to return home. The movie Anak is a good example to prove my point. Vilma Santos played the part of an OFW who returns to her homeland as a tired working mother with enough earnings saved to start her own little business. Unfortunately, she risked wasting all her money on an investment, which eventually forces her to go back to work abroad for her family. Her character followed one of rich dad's advices of not being afraid to take risks. So is it just because she was unlucky like most of our countrymen abroad? There are more reasons for this. .
A highly paid slave I still a slave. In the United States this might hold true, but for jobless Filipino graduates, a highly paying job is as rare as a glass of water in the desert. To further emphasize the importance of jobs to Filipinos, here is an excerpt from a column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer stating, "Last Wednesday new graduates of information technology schools who were jobless stormed the business center in Makati and staged a protest in front of the Enterprise II building where the Microsoft office is located. The protesters said they wanted to dramatize the plight of the jobless graduates and to appeal to the business community for employment." Abroad, people might have the option to turn down opportunities to work because of the inadequate benefits that comes with the salary. Here in the Philippines, as it can be clearly seen, it is a different matter. Thousands of Filipinos don't have the luxury to turn down jobs, especially high paying ones. Lack of jobs makes everyone is a potential competition for future jobs. So even if it means being a slave, Filipinos would gladly take on a line of work just so they can put food on the table.
His own father was of the old school, a teacher who had a great education and yet was poor. ... How does the author learn from his "rich dad"? ... Of course, they demand a raise or threaten to quit, but rich dad explains that he has been teaching them how to be successful in life as they requested. ... "Oh, yes, I hear it all the time," said rich dad. ... Or 'The rich are crooks.' ...
One example was with her dad that decided to abandon her mom and the rest of the family for a yellow skinned female whose husband died in an accident on the farms they worked at. Then again when her and her family moved to a new town after her mom divorced her dad and her mom's new boyfriend was yellow and the rest of his family was yellow. ... The whites were always the most rich and had everything that could be imagined. ... The yellow people weren't as rich as the whites were but they had a little more money then moody and her family did. ... But none the less they were poor. ...
He turns out to be a very rich millionaire and a very well recognized founder of Florida. ... He wasn't a lazy man, it was just that the family was literally dirt poor. ... This is an example of how poor they really were! ... He was the founder of the family, and the one who got them rich! ... Zech was out on his horse one day when it started to poor, literally. ...
Our nation would not get far if only the rich were educated and the poor left on the streets. ... People like my dad came here from the Philippines seeking to live a better life. ... My mom and dad told me throughout my years of schooling that without education, I have nothing. ... My mom and dad would always lecture me and tell me that I have to get good grades for my future. ... People have that dream to become successful and rich, they all have that chance. ...
Without intelligence, this paper would not be written or read. An uninspiring false assumption in pop culture tells us that intelligence can simply be reduced to recalling of facts or high academic performance. Accumulating knowledge alone means nothing, at least in terms of intelligence. Although t...
For example, the mother comes from a very rich family while the father comes from a fairly poor family. The mother does not know what living poor is like, therefore she regrets coming to the desert with her husband and wants to go back and live with her father. ... A father's role in a family is to support and work hard, by leaching of the wife's father, the dad would feel poorer and less respected by his own family members. ...
(Coontz, 69)" In other words, Coontz is trying to open our eyes to the fact that all families need public support and as long as we pretend that only poor and underprivileged people need help and public assistance we will "shortchange poor families, overcompensate rich ones, and fail to come up with efficient policies for helping the working middle class". ... In conclusion I do believe that family is very important, but the traditional family as we knew it, mom, dad, son, and daughter, no longer exists. ...
That is how social classes between rich and poor usually develop. ... The upper class has an advantage of knowing other rich people because their families already know them. For instance, on the video "People Like Us" the rich throw parties for only people who have a lot of money. ... For instance, in the video "People Like Us", Tammy tells her story on how her dad was 4 poor and she knew that in the future she would be poor as well. ... It is a good thing that we see whether or not the rich are getting richer and poor are getting poorer. ...
