Originally Posted by
A_Lee
Trying to do any sort of business in the Philippines is totally madening because the Filipino way of doing things is just so opposite of what most people think is logical. I deal with customers for my job from all of Asia and they all have a lot of iidiosyncrasies but no matter how hard I try I just cannot understand the typical Filipino way of dealing with customers and business partners. I am not at all surprised either that you were laughed at over your plight.
Actually, I wonder if the alleged Filipino attitude is anything like the alleged Latin American attitude (wouldn't be surprising as the Philippines was a Spanish colony, administered from Mexico, for hundreds of years before U.S. colonisation in 1898).