So we messed up our Phillipines occupation as well, eh?
I don’t understand your reference to “our philippine occupation”, can you explain in greater detail please.
Restrictions on property ownership mentions foreigners, aliens, non-Filipinos, etc, but as far as I know, does not single out Americans or any other nationality.
To me, it’s a matter of fairness and reciprocity. Many other countries, for example Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and others, allow personal ownership of land and business by foreigners as if they were citizens of that country. However, in the Philippines, which claim a special relationship with the U.S.A., the legal policies are slanted to give advantage to Filipinos over foreigners in every instance. Sometimes situations are contrived to do just that !
I have been going to the P.I. for longer than most Freepers have been alive, have lived and worked there and have been married to a Filipina for 22 years so I have more than a casual understanding of the country, its policies and it’s culture.
Many who post here are extremely naive in regards to living in the P.I. Having said all that, It’s their country and they can run it any way that they want to. I understand that if foreigners, myself included, don’t the policies in the P.I., there is always the option of not going there.
Just saying !
Topsail