Topic: What do teachers mean, when they refer to the FILIPINO MAFIA?

[certified]

I have read this several times posted here. What do posters mean by this phrase?

[ben]

I think they mean that philipinos generally knock around together and protect each other, might cause problems if you happen to annoy them, their kind of beaten (not literally) into learning stuff in education or the right way to do something, that might be the wrong way and can take offence to corrections, indeed quite some exception, mostly though they're not to bad and they work hard, and indeed i've met some really nice ones, they are kind of mistreated in thailand though I feel, since so many are trying to find work here, they really have no job security I guess, sux, anyway I may be wrong.

[hero]

Can't say I've ever heard the phrase or used it myself.  I have noticed that Filipino teachers working here tend to stick together and look out for each other in the workplace or elsewhere.  I guess it's probably a reaction to being looked down upon by Thais and other foreigners here.