Well, yes and no. I think for example in the Philippines I hear nothing but “akogare” as the Japanese would say, a “yearning” to live in a better place, a desire to get out of that rathole. So many Filipino men desire to work on any construction site anywhere in the world as long as it is not in the Philippines, and so many Filipina women yearn for a Western man as an escape mechanism to get out of that economic, political, military and social basket case known as The Philippines.
Good point.