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@chocopie7890 countries like singapore are good place to work, study, or earn money but not for living or retiring. once u have lots of money, u live cheaply as noble elites in a poor "third world" country actually...
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@newtype5005 @ChefCaffy no actually its because if you notice where the country of origin the maids usually come from. they're mostly from the philippines, indonesia, or myanmar, of which they all also have a maid culture. I wager the maid culture to also be present in other southeast asian countries. I'm from the philippines and it's normal among the upper middle and upper class to have a maid, u might even call it a status symbol here. the upper class has always recruited domestic workers from the lower classes (if female) to be maidservant-caretakers (katulong/kasambahay/yaya), or laundrywomen (labandera) and (if male) to be family drivers (drayber/tsuper), security guards (guwardiya/bantay), gardeners (hardinero), pool cleaners. its customary among the upper class to always have a maid and some upper middle class families too. my family has one and we used to have many more years ago when i was younger and my family was richer. we recruit them either through an agency or through networking as in someone we know like a past maid knew a friend or family from the provinces thats willing to work in the capital or city. what we call as yaya/katulong/kasambahay work most their whole lives living under the master's roof with all domestic housework responsibilities from cooking, cleaning, laundry, feeding pets, caring for children, sometimes even tutoring children, fetching children from school, most everything in the west one would think a mother would do, hence it does not make sense to me when someone mentions my "mother's cooking" since in my childhood it was never normal for my parents to cook. the maids always sleep in their own room, usually near the kitchen or laundry area. in my old house when my family was richer, they had their own little house with each room having 2 maids living in there. the kitchen in an upper class house also usually has another room connected to it where maids dine at instead of the master's table. this whole practice has spanned for centuries probably, since we have records in precolonial times of slaves/ indentured servants who were kind of doing the same thing. in modern times, we just exported these to hong kong and singapore or wherever overseas filipino workers find work at. thats why they are hush hush about it and a bit fewer. also, as someone who is ethnically a chinese filipino, i get how the people of hong kong and singapore got to adapting the culture and i know china also has. i myself have distant relatives in hong kong...
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the domestic maid culture in Singapore and Hong Kong started precisely because we in the Philippines were exporting our Yaya maids
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doesnt make any sense that someone whos willing to work as a maid has a maid at her own home lol. having your own maid in the philippines is something the upper and upper middle class has... and you won't find any of them ever stooping to that work because they themselves are the ones who sometimes underpay these people...
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@sahayeda5220 yes, the practice in the philippines started out among the upper class and we just exported it to other countries where overseas filipino workers offer their services. growing up in an upper or upper middle class family in the philippines means you almost always have at least one maidservant-caretaker. all responsibilities that are attributed to a mother in the west is something that a maidservant does here for you if you grew up in an upper or upper middle class family...
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domestic helpers, maids, drivers, gardeners in Singapore and Hong kong just imported the maid culture from the Philippines and Indonesia because the upper class of Philippines and Indonesia have long always had maids, drivers, gardeners doing the domestic house work
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its legit though... when i was younger, there was a guy maybe in his teen years that my tutor hired that works to supposedly sit and guard at the guardhouse and i remember him saying that hes only paid like around equivalent to 40-50 USD per like maybe a month or half the month. I live in the philippines
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In the Philippines, virtually every upper class family and some upper middle class family have maids/helpers. we call them as "yaya". my family used to even have a separate little house in our property where they stay and these days every condo in the philippines is structured so that there is a room by the kitchen where maid/helpers stay...
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yep its also normal and even customary in the philippines among the upper and upper middle class to hire maids, we just started exporting them there cuz they heard they could get paid more there through different currency conversion and higher minimum wage norms even if u guys dont think its that much. i say this because i myself have distant local relatives in hong kong since im from the chinese filipino community where its very very common to have a maid or even a family driver and if ur rich enough, a security guard or pool cleaner or gardener... or if ur one of the billionaire families or noble political families, personal bodyguards...
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the whole state of singapore mostly considers itself as an elite class
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dafuq...
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that would be like calling a janitor a sanitary worker
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the maid culture in the Philippines precisely started out from the families of upper and upper middle class families in the Philippines, we just started exporting our yaya maids and drivers
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@민애림-s3y of course, ph and indonesia arent the only countries with maids, but its fairly normal in the upper middle and upper class families of these countries to have maids, especially that their wages are considerably cheaper than the expected salary of maids and caretakers in east asian countries where its more expensive
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@-EchoesIntoEternity- its an ingrained culture. singapore just adopted this maid culture from the country of origin of where the original maid came from. in this case for example, its normal for the upper class or upper middle class of the philippines to have maidservant-caretakers. we call them as yaya/katulong/kasambahay. sometimes it does lead some of our upper class to be a bit elitist... but for example, my childhood itself has always had a maid who's cooked our daily meals, cleaned the house, and did the laundry every day. some even cared or tutored me as a child... all roles of which in the west would be attributed to the mother.
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@iampetz im not talking about the commonality of hiring maids. im talking about where the culture comes from
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i knew a guy here in ph who is a minor but worked kinda like an informal security guard type job where he just sits in a guard house or opens the gate for vehicles. i think he told me he got paid around that amount for maybe half a month or maybe it was around $50
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some people in my country actually get paid that... at least maybe for half the month...
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u wish
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@sallylemon5835 its actually not affordable in japan to have maids since recruiting one from the populace is too expensive. I wonder though why they dont hire foreign domestic maids since it would be a great solution for their declining population resulting from busy workaholic lives
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only the filipino lower class works with that sort of career since it is the career they have at home. the only difference is that they're paid more in other countries for the same kind of work.
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right... we export our maids and nurses and now that is supposedly just us...
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