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>1945-1995: boot licking continues, internet is invented. Large portions of the Philippines are ceded to Muslim terrorists in the hope of pacifying radical Islam, making the Philippines the first country in the world to lick Chad's boots AND Muhammad's sandals at the same time. Jollibee is invented and grass huts are upgraded to tin shacks. Balut becomes popular as it helps locals forget how boots taste.
Balut has actually been in Asia for millenniums. It is originally a Chinese dish, and is found in China and Vietnam too.
Claiming that creating ARMM is licking boots is actually pretty ignorant, considering the background for its creation and the situation at the time. It's like saying Russia licks muslim sandals for giving Chechnya autonomy. It's pretty much a good solution to not cede a territory that is significantly cultural different from you and avoid conflict
>1995-2005: Philippines slowly gets internet access and starts bringing money into the country by exporting their women to be prostitutes, maids and wives for the men of much more developed countries.
a significant part of the "OFWs" are actually IT workers, engineers, Doctors and sailors. These are the ones who bring the most earnings back from overseas. Also Philippines are far from the only ones sending their population abroad. Plenty of Indonesians and Vietnamese also work abroad due to the bigger earnings.
I would however say this is a wrong economic approach is very insufficient and the best approach would be to attract foreign investments to create enough sufficiently paid jobs domestically. But Philippines has had overly restrictive rules on foreign ownership which hasn't been significantly eased until recently, so the amount of foreign investments has lagged behind neighbors for ages. This has fortunately changed, in combination with shrinking oversea deployment so the "pinay maid" meme might be history in a few years.