you mean middle class I guess but I don't know Fillipino society well enough to give reliable info on that, there is of course a middle class of some kind but no idea how large it is or what is considered middle class standards in the fillipines (there are lots of shades of poor as well of course).
With less job oportunities many seem to leave the country to work or live abroad.
I seem to recal from Leyte that the middle class largely had chinese roots and there was always talk about what families had spanish roots. But in Quzon all middle class or rich I met where fillipino's (so are 'the chinese', families live here for hundreds of years and have changed names to sound more Fillipino or spanish).
I am shooting a bit in the dark but maybe others can clarify and/or correct me |