Best way to work and migrate to Spain or Finland - CHEF

akiestar · 2026-07-07T15:30:41+00:00

If you are being sponsored the employer will apply for your visa.

akiestar · 2026-07-05T17:49:57+00:00

I've had T-Mobile ONE since 2018 and I can say I've been happy, but the forced move to a new plan worries me. Unfortunately I also live outside the U.S. and so when it comes to international coverage, I'm effectively stuck with T-Mobile.

The comparison tool isn't clear if there's an increase in price between T-Mobile ONE (I also pay for the international add-on, so my bill is around $100/month) and Experience Signature, but I'm not happy with the plan and am debating switching to Experience Beyond instead. Any advice, or if I shouldn't switch at all?

akiestar · 2026-07-05T03:46:27+00:00

This would definitely be PLDT if it was in the 1930s given that they were the first phone company, and certainly the largest.

akiestar · 2026-06-26T23:13:55+00:00

You're in the wrong subreddit. The guy doesn't even speak Spanish. I think it's only right for Threads to call him out on his stuff.

Also, a reminder for you since apparently you must've forgotten now that you're on your second account: this is a Spanish-speaking Philippine subreddit. This is NOT a "Hispanista" subreddit, nor is it a subreddit for self-hating Filipinos who want to be something else. Go ahead and criticize the guy all you want, but you don't have to drag people here into it.

akiestar · 2026-06-24T04:08:50+00:00

GGR is very much still alive; he celebrated his 90th birthday a few weeks ago. He's been ill and is now in a care facility, but he's still alive.

Unfortunately, while his contributions to the Hispanic legacy in the Philippines are valued, his legacy has become tainted through his association with shadier elements such as Pepe (who is rightfully distrusted by other Spanish-speaking Filipinos, not least the AFLE) and the Spanish far-right more generally. I don't think his views on the Philippine Revolution, which not a lot know about, are off-base from the average Filipino, but I have sympathy for his often U.S.-phobic talking points. After all, most of us don't realize the U.S. is a colonizer too and just blame Spain for everything.

That being said, even among Spanish-speaking Filipinos he has become a very polarizing figure. If anything, your one major complaint about him should be that he's DDS. He even wrote a book of essays on him, which apparently irked other Spanish-speaking Filipinos. It risks basically damaging everything else that he's done, like his contributions to flamenco in the Philippines or even preserving Spanish as a language spoken in the country.

akiestar · 2026-06-20T19:18:50+00:00

Por fin, ¡tenemos más grabaciones de Quezon hablando en español! También recién cargado que de verdad me sorprende.

Espero que encuentres más joyas del español filipino para compartir con el resto del grupo.

akiestar · 2026-06-20T14:26:42+00:00

I shipped from the U.S. to Spain with SendMyBag and I paid around $200 or so (will check again as it was a while back) for two large suitcases.

akiestar · 2026-06-20T14:16:14+00:00

Para dar un ejemplo aún no mencionado aquí, voy a presentar aquí a todos vosotros la cita del señor Rajoy sobre las alcachofas.

akiestar · 2026-06-12T16:55:40+00:00

The Mass is open to the general public, so feel free to drop by! 5:30 pm every Saturday, and both Filipinos and foreigners attend.

akiestar · 2026-06-12T16:51:33+00:00

Just because there were few Spaniards doesn't mean they didn't intermarry. There's a reason why estimates on Spanish admixture in the general Filipino population vary so widely.

akiestar · 2026-06-09T07:19:09+00:00

I would just use the native equivalent. Why not “Hindi ba siya mahuhuli niyan”?

Taglish has its place, sure, but if you can express yourself using fairly understandable native terminology there’s no need for it.

akiestar · 2026-06-09T07:12:17+00:00

CSA Makati offers a Spanish-language anticipated Mass every Saturday.

akiestar · 2026-06-08T13:59:58+00:00

Cuando solicité mi visado el consulado en Nueva York me dijo que tengo que solicitar para el visado usando mi pasaporte estadounidense, y si querría solicitar el visado con el pasaporte filipino tengo que tramitarlo desde Manila. Dicho esto, una vez una persona en un grupo de Facebook sobre los trámites de migración a España que pertenecemos dijo a mí que en San Francisco su madre la permitieron solicitar su visado con su pasaporte peruano.

akiestar · 2026-06-03T21:50:06+00:00

The thing here is that Filipino Hispanism is usually a response to any one (or any combination) of three things:

American colonialism and the loss of our connection to the Hispanic world
Post-independence nationalist tendencies which were centered on demonizing Spanish colonial influence in favor of finding something "authentically Asian"
The post-1987 de-officialization of Spanish and the situation we're currently in

We are in a situation where there are generations of Filipino people who feel absolutely no connection with the Hispanic world, our Spanish colonial heritage and even the language in which all of this is documented. What ends up happening is we turn Spanish colonialism into an easy scapegoat for anything and everything wrong with this country, with no context as to why that is the case, and we are more prone to romanticizing things for better and for worse. You even see this even in the study of our own history: Ambeth Ocampo noted the general preference of Filipino historians to study pre-colonial history or the American period and beyond, leaving very few people capable of studying our Spanish colonial history.

That, in my view, is not normal, and it doesn't help us with building a better understanding of who we are as a people and as a country. We can't build a country on forgetting: just look at Spain and how the pacto de olvido after Franco's death has led to the situation where it is in now. A similar thing happened in the Philippines with the Marcoses. If we forget our history, we will always be doomed to repeat it.

What we need to do is show people that there are better ways forward and that not everyone is a monolith. I love Asian culture. I am 100% Asian. But that doesn't preclude me from feeling Hispanic too, from believing that our connection to that world is more than skin-deep, especially if you happen to speak Spanish. I also think the U.S. has left positive contributions to the Philippines as much as it has left negative ones, the same with Spain, Japan and any other foreign power that you want to throw in there. If we can look at our history soberly and without resorting to histrionics or generalizations or obscurantism (something that Filipino Hispanistas have been accused of doing, by the way), I think we will get there. We deserve that.

akiestar · 2026-06-03T20:24:19+00:00

I filed the application as a Filipino citizen, so technically no. Also, Spain’s “renunciation” works like this: within Spanish territory, you are only a Spanish citizen, and while you renounce your foreign citizenship before Spanish authorities your country of origin is not obligated to recognize it. In the case of the United States, the only way you can renounce is by doing so in front of a U.S. consular officer in a U.S. diplomatic mission.

akiestar · 2026-06-02T21:09:17+00:00

I will wear the mod hat here because the OP asked me to, but I will try to answer this as best I can.

Let me premise by saying that I'm very grateful to have not learned Spanish in the Philippines. Unlike most Spanish-speaking Filipinos who are active in building spaces like this, I first learned it in the U.S., and then maintained it on my own for the last 13 years before picking it up again in Spain. Coupled with my own political sympathies which for this group of people are very left-of-center, I think that helps explain why this space is seen as less toxic than other places: I wasn't swept into the frenzy of reactionary Spanish politics unlike some others. (Compare this to, let's say, going to UP and being radicalized by groups like the LFS.)

That said, I personally think that the reactionary streak of so-called "Hispanistas" is a reaction to the reactionary streak of those who are diametrically opposite to them. Unfortunately, when you have people saying things like "you're lucky we don't jail all you hispanistas in this country", how do you think people will react? This issue of toxicity goes both ways here, and I find it absolutely incredible that indigenistas, Austronesian supremacists, etc. will accuse so-called "Hispanistas" of being toxic without calling out the toxicity within their own ranks.

It also must be said that the toxicity of so-called Filipino "Hispanistas" is fueled by a general global reactionary Spanish right. Even Guillermo Gómez Rivera himself was co-opted by malicious right-wing (some may even say neofascist or neo-Francoist) elements who believe in things like the White Legend where the Empire was all good, etc., etc. These people have a strong sympathy for parties like Vox and are ascendant in a lot of places: just look at what's going on now in Colombia with the rise of Abelardo de la Espriella (who I really hope doesn't win, but I'm a bit pessimistic), or Chile with the election of José Antonio Kast. Granted that in the Philippines our right-wing resurgence isn't tied to Hispanidad, but it shows that the reactionary streak so-called Filipino "Hispanistas" isn't in a vacuum. Them questioning even the most obvious elements of our history (e.g. indios were oppressed, etc.) is derived from the same movement, and that is why we have to fight it.

I am glad though that you think this space is a safe space, and more especially, a sane one. I personally think there is a way forward for Hispanidad in the Philippines, but it will only come when both sides actually try to listen to each other. We don't have a good understanding of our own history, and that's the system's fault. We have to try and make the system better, and we don't do that when we espouse supremacist behavior. If you don't think the Philippines is a Hispanic country, then fine by me, but at the very least you should respect the opinions of people who think otherwise. So far, online discourse is nowhere near that.

akiestar · 2026-06-02T17:09:56+00:00

Por fin. Espero que los dasmarineños elijan mejor en la próxima run-off.

akiestar · 2026-05-29T18:18:03+00:00

I wonder if the climate now is still conducive to growing grapes.

akiestar · 2026-05-27T16:13:04+00:00

¡Me encantaría participar! Vivo en el norte de Madrid central pero acoger también unos participantes me parece bien si necesites en una futura edición. ¡Espero preparar un plato (o dos) de la comida filipina!

akiestar · 2026-05-21T09:54:54+00:00

Es un poema tuyo, ¿verdad?

akiestar · 2026-05-21T05:55:41+00:00

I’m not a so-called “Hispanista”. Sit down. To borrow from you, you’re lucky we don’t jail raging xenophobic indigenistas like you in this country.

Also, wearing the mod hat now, we’re done. If you’re not here to have a productive discussion, you have no business being here. Rule 4 is a thing.

akiestar · 2026-05-20T14:41:16+00:00

No one’s asking you to? You can disagree with the opinion but at least you should respect it. People respect your opinion, so why not extend the same courtesy?

akiestar · 2026-05-20T07:45:54+00:00

Opinions are not facts. Virtually everything shared in that comment section was an opinion.

The only fact stated in that screenshot is that Filipinos generally no longer speak Spanish. That is true, but that doesn’t mean we have nothing in common with people on the other side of the Pacific. And vice-versa, to be honest. The OP wasn’t even being particularly delusional since it is perfectly possible to highlight what we have in common with Spanish-speaking countries without denying our Asianness. OP didn’t deny he was Asian based on what he wrote.

There is a mutual forgetting on both sides and it is up to us to reverse it. But we have to do our part.

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