The BIGGEST CULTURE SHOCK in the Philippines for Foreigners. 🇵🇭 

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I agree with Gary. I would never take a cold shower or take a dump without toilet paper! 😲

Man Leah is so young and beautiful. Gary is a lucky guy!

I love the cold water showers and simple toilets...then again I was living self sufficient offgrid in Germany for 7 years before coming here...

First time i went to the Philippines in 2016, there were many things that surprised me. Taking off my shoes and putting my shoes on and tying them for me. Following me around with the only electric fan they owned. Everyone fanning me with a bamboo fan nonstop. Sisters, nieces an nephews and even elderly relatives. Making me sit and eat before anyone would sit and eat. Not letting me pick up my own plate after eating. Oh and the amount and number of times everyone eats was amazing. Lets not even talk about superstitions.

I always use leaves after I poops long time ago when in my childhood 😅😅 and coconut skin and 🌽😅

Look forward to seeing you tomorrow l! 😊Great video and thanks for sharing! 🙏

ANy man that marries a Filipina is a very very very smart man

You guys took my thought 😁 i was mulling this over to talk about too 😁😁

This info is fascinating. And I agree with Gary. Shocking. 💯

The comforts we have in America, strengthen the separation of family 🤷‍♂️ most Asian cultures have the strongest family bonding culture. Usually because of nearly all the things you named. 8:05 THIS 🫰🫰🫶 family with all the comforts, has no need for sharing in community support. Which “can” create separation 🤷‍♂️

My wife has been in the United States for over 7 years and she still has problems using the singular and plural nouns.

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Another fine video you two. Lovelee will be joining me in June over in the United States little bit over one year to get her a Visa

Remember, Filipinos eat with their hands.

when i was a child raised in central European country we were tought to use leaves if need occurs to go to "toilet" in nature, same washing in lakes and rivers.

I’m going to take a guess and say Gary was not in the Army. If he was he was not in combat arms. No TP, cold showers, bad food sound just like the field or a deployment to me.

Happy poor people is shocking , good shocking . truly grateful people are amazing

I went to a hotel in the Philippines for a return visit after my Filipina wife was with me here in the USA for many years. We ordered our breakfast and I was given a knife and fork, she was given a spoon and fork. We were waiting for our breakfast to be brought out, and she asked for a knife, and one was brought to her. A minute later another waitress walked by and saw that a Filipina had a knife by her plate and promptly picked it up and took it away. She had to tell them that she is used to using a knife and wanted it back. They just assume the foreigner wants a knife and a Filipina would not know how to use one.

I will be in the Philippines in 3 days time for my first visit, this video is very helpful, and I hope I am ready as a westerner. 😊

Funny how you mention about showering I was visiting samar area and all the older siblings and myself , on the road into the village there was a stream by the road and the girl went further along and the boys close to the road and we all bathed there , I wasn’t stocked it was more amusing and a experience but it’s normal for them and for me I not used to it , it was good

Just remember our ancestors used to do in the olden days to understand a lot of Filipino cultures.

I agree with Gary 100%. Everything he mentioned is exactly how I feel and find shocking. The toilet paper, balut and dried fish bothers me as well.

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Do you have a full gospel church there ?I love the praise worship service ! I want to spend 6months there and 6 months in the USA!Between Florida and New York!

When the whole covid lockdown stuff started...the number one thing that was impossible to get was .... wait for it.... toilet paper. Everyone stocked up on it. Even ahead of food.

Thank you for the video! I found your channel through Pea. I am looking for more information like this. In the video several unusual (unusual to me) foods were mentioned. Their was a short description of deboning small fish in your mouth, how is that done?. Can't say every food is on my list to try, I will try any food once. Balut is something I would consider trying, if I knew how to eat it. As an American, I assume eat it like an oyster. Tip the shell and shoot it down. The content of how to eat food, or even why no knife, is interesting to me. Most of the content is about Filipinas/relationships/age gap. As a single guy, all that information is helpful. I would also enjoy watching videos on Philippine table manners, how to eat food w/o a knife. Eating food on camera is not for everyone, including me. A good run down of how to eat, with out standing out in the restaurant. That is information I would like to know. As for the sprayer for your bum, how it is used to not get water everywhere? Not everyone is comfortable washing their bum on camera, including me. That is also some information I would like to know. I can think of a few tastefulish ways it could be done on camera. But I just watch RU-vid, I don't create content. Thank you for the video! I will be watching more of your videos.

Shocking someone cant imagine taking a shower by the river like God intended

I like your chemistry..

I don't think your microphones were connected. I think a lot of the happiness comes from high vitamin D levels and being exposed to a lot more sunshine than people in colder/northern climates.

they do everything in the river.number 1 and 2

I'm an ex env health officer. Also my digestive system is weakened by post op bowel cancer. I am therefore hyper hygienic or the 'fallout' doesn't bear thinking about! So no streetfood or anything suspicious!

Well look, the leaves are out for me, but the old bum gun is vastly superior to TP. I kinda think the old tabo works better too. Go Philippines!

6:10 I don’t either, so I use baby wipes after I use toilet paper.

I was born in the Philippines.. raised in the United States over 20 years.. I prefer taking a shower with a bucket.. I just feel cleaner that way …

How about leaving shoes outside where all the rats/frogs/dogs and bugs can soil them then you walk outside and just stick them on your feet without cleaning the shoes or slippers first.

I laughed along while watching Gary describe the shocking stuff! lol. I love his reactions and also it's fun watching Leah just smile and laugh. I can add a few more things to the list... Eating chicken intestines, chicken feet, pig feet, seeing a lady breastfeeding her baby while riding on the back of a motorcycle, seeing very young children roaming in and around the busy streets with no parents around, I personally got bit by a rat while walking home at night (that was shocking), men standing at the side of the street peeing virtually anywhere in town. I could go on but this list is getting too long! Thanks for another great video guys

I live in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina so using leaves when we were playing in the woods as a youngin is nothing new to me now like a bidet yes also people here and other parts of the South eat pickled pigs feet and also chickens feet I personally do not like either one of those yes it has a lot to do with where you grew up and how you grew up

I'm interested in finding out how your two met?

Balut 😱 😂 i also don't have the stomach to try it, to me it just feels strange to eat a whole tiny chicken from an egg. I love chicken but i usually eat just the meat and skin 😂 not the feet, beak, feathers, bones 🤷‍♂️😂 but i understand it's a cultural difference and im fine with it. The tiny dry fish too im not a fan 😂 im quite particular about what fish i eat though anyway, always have been. The toilet paper thing don't bother me too much since it's more hygienic to wash than wipe 🤷‍♂️ but was shocked when i couldn't find toilet paper or bidet 😂 figuring the tabo out. The jealousy thing though that really is shocking to see first hand

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Leah you are so sweet and nice, you have a very loving heart. Gary you are blessed and it is interesting the differences in the cultures.

Toilet spray, aka as I learnt the other day, 'the bum gun'.

This video actually had me laughing out loud. As a westerner, we grow up with such privilege, even being "poor" in the US would be a very comfortable living for some of the stuff I've seen in PH province videos. It's incredible how happy, humble, proud and generous they are with so little. But yeah, everything he listed is pretty shocking to most of us who grew up in a society of consumerism, western conveniences where every chore is either automated or has some electric device to massively speed up the process, cheap access to clean drinkable tap water, hot water, electricity and hvac. We have it so easy over here and we take it for granted so much. Now I'm off to watch the video of what Filipinas find shocking about foreigners haha, this should be good.

Hope U 2 coming soon here 2 Europe !?

Can't wait to see what she finds shocking about foreigners.

I hear what you are saying. But I'm one of those foreigners that likes to eat balut but not my Filipina. Dried fish is ok too. I'm shocked at how foreigners married to Filipinas don't try their foods. Gary you should see how Leah reacts to sauerkraut.

My #1 is cutting in line. We just don't in the US

Without toilet paper, it is not shocking but pure unhygienic. I know there is lack of sanitation in provinces, but for me it is still unhygienic. I guess people in provinces are accustomed to it.

Leah you deserve a better man.

In filipinos defense when it comes to toilet paper. They actually clean their butts. Tissue paper or anything you use to wipe will still leave your butt nasty. I've adopted this from my Filipina. Water is the real cleaner, not tissue. But to each its own. 😊

its first toilet paper then wash.get it right people

have you 2 ever heard the word bidet

No toilet paper? Pink eye must run rampant

Leah, I’m wondering after doing a poo poo and washing (which I believe is more hygienic than toilet paper), do you dry the bottom with a towel before pants go back on? Also tampo?? Maybe Gary can answer this one 😏 Leah, you don’t look like you engage is tampo.. would this be true? Balut is definitely a no-go for me however dried fish I don’t mind. Also, what’s surprising and funny I feel is how filipinas’s point with their lips instead of pointing with fingers 😂

I want to ask you what do you think of Andrew Tate especially his views on women and feminism

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The jelaousy of Filipinas might be the reason they dont offer knives in Restaurants. This fact could save your life, if your eyes follow a girl, while you sitting and eating with your wife!

One for you Gary. Reference no toilet paper. I work a lot in the Middle East. It is normal in the public and home toilets in the cities to have the water jet hose for cleaning your rear end after use. You don't find toilet paper except for westerners. Actually, it's a lot cleaner.

Eating pig blubber 😮

When the Filipina is so desperate to get out of poverty she'll take and foreigner, its not love its exchanging gifts, now he's a certified walking ATM.

Leah first off it's rotten egg! Second it's a fertile egg! 🤮

Leah, when you use water to whipe your arse, what do you use to dry it? You can't just pull up your panty over a wet arse! 🙂 In the Philippines, table knifes are regarded as leathal weapons. I remember buying some at Gaisano and the saleslady had to go and get the manager, because he was the only one who had the key to the display in which the knifes were stored. Gary, I'm disgusted by the same kind of food as you, but I must say that there are many other Filipino dishes that I really like.

I always, always carry a knife with me. Perhaps growing up and living on a farm ally life is part of the reason. But always have a minimum of a folder on me. Even in bed itt is only inches away.

Another shocking thing I noticed in another RU-vid video about strange food was at the local street food market and the vendor selling "chicken head on a stick". I cannot even imagine eating that. Yes, the toilet paper thing is shocking to me too. I have a spray hose connected to my kitchen sink to rinse the dishes before putting them in the dish washer BUT they still need to go into the dish washer to get washed, otherwise the dishes would be greasy. I tried my spray hose with peanut butter on the palm of my hand and it did not do a good job of cleaning off my hand, so, I can't imaging a spray hose at the toilet working very well for cleaning one's butt.

I call it a "Bum Gun", the modernized tabo 🤣 but they're called a hand bidet sprayer. Showering in public with others might be shocking at first, but I don't think it's a big deal since they do it clothed, doing it with cold water wouldn't bother me since I take luke warm and gradually turning it down to cold showers any ways. When I was deployed to Afghanistan and had guard duty, the locals houses were almost right up to the fence and would see the kids out playing with nothing but a water bottle on a string and they were as content as could be. The day before my next guard duty I went to the BX/PX and bought some small toys and candy, that could fit through the holes in the chain link fence, and passed it through the fence to them. The joy on their faces was priceless! One of the fathers came over to see what was going on, and saw what I gave the kids and he shook my hand and said "thank you". I agree seeing poverty on such a scale for the 1st time is shocking, but it also separates people and shows who they truly are. One group will feel sadness and want to help, the other group will let it go to their head that they're better than they are and let their ego drive the bus and be demeaning and condescending. I think one thing this video shows, there is culture shock on both sides. When in a MULTI-cultural relationship, it is no longer "This is my country and how we do it," BOTH will have to be open minded to adapt and change to each others cultures. You don't have to agree with it, but you can come to a compromise both can live with. HIS culture is what made him the person he is, deny his culture you are denying him as a person and he is not going to stay. Understanding the foreigners culture will stop MANY unnecessary problems before they occur. She also needs to forget about tampo, she needs to SPEAK UP, openly and HONESTLY if she doesn't like or understand something he says/does and tell him, so he can explain to her why, and fix the problem before it becomes more serious. A LITTLE jealousy is good, it shows she cares, but when it turns into an interrogation just to pick up your phone or walk out the door, it has crossed the boundaries into psycho behavior. Excessive jealousy will have the complete opposite affect she is hoping for, it will push him AWAY, NOT bring him closer. He is looking for PEACE and not having freedom to move around like he's in prison, is NOT going to bring him that peace. One thing a Filipina should think about/realize, he chose YOU over the 50+ MILLION other Filipina's, don't give him a reason to look else where, and he will remain loyal and faithful to YOU. Let's face it, he's a man, he is biologically hard wired to look at women, and he is going to look, and YES he is judging those other women compared to you, but he chose you and they aren't you and he will find some flaw with her, so the other woman isn't good enough. Why take a risk on the unknown when he knows what he already has. Bring him the peace and happiness he seeks and he will give you his heart, and no other Filipina can steal from him what YOU possess. Take away his peace and happiness and you are pushing him into the arms of other Filipina's that aren't taking it away.

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... if you dont wash your bum with water after wiping, i find that shocking. If you stepped in mud, would you wash your feet or shoe off with water or only wipe with paper lol ? Some "western" ways are great and learning how many other cultures are more effective and combining the two cultures is even better. Food preference is mostly about what you've previously been exposed to and personal taste.

Wait. What! No toilet paper? Ooh No!!! Hold on a minute. I sell toilet paper here in Canada. I see a business opportunity $$$. Philippine Expats, here I come... to the rescue!

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