Really,
it’s very much desired to observe viral news in social media. The more you feel
the intense feedback from different users, the more you amaze yourself to
follow it squarely.
The
Balikbayan Box issue spreads like wildfire among OFWs abroad that the Aquino
Administration (who else?) especially the BOC Commissioner Alberto Lina got what
it takes the wrath of the century!
Likewise,
BOC employee Maria Roussel Tan even took her stand about the topic but has been
bombarded too by OFWs for her negative remarks about the Balikbayan Box. She
apologized to them and explained that her FB page was hacked. But some OFWs are
adamant to accept her apology. At least, she’d done her part to ask
understanding online.
What
really made OFWs to react aggressively with this kind of issue?
OFWs
are prone to defend themselves what really hurt their feelings and the way the
government treated them especially as what they observed and heard. It’s most
likely that they experienced hardships (for some OFWs?) getting what they
dreamed before but in reality it’s not. The feelings are there all throughout
while working abroad that sending precious items means there’s love accompany
with it. Knowing that somebody, somewhere will open it besides their family, it
affects them at once. Somehow, they get used to the old traditional ways when they
sent packages, so little changes from the government regulation means
intruders.
They
expect that the Philippine government will give them support for whatever
problems they encountered abroad. But things were different across the social
media that their mindset changes too. Judgmental as it seems, it trigger the
core when majority feels otherwise.
The
saga between OFWs and the Philippine government leaders are indefinitely
unreachable. Both sides differ with something it will not be resolved with
mutual agreement. But these things can be seen as challenges for the nation’s
leaders to move forward with the OFWs development.
Lessons
learned for all of us to be aware of social media negatives but instead get
informational subjects on it.