For any Filipino who has traveled or lived abroad, the stereotypes and discrimination of us being Filipinos continue to abound - and it was these things that Lalaine Chu-Benitez sought to change as she saw how her, being Filipina, was being devalued in the eyes of her co-workers and by the people of her host country.
Through the past 20 years that she has been based in Dubai, she established the magazine, Ilustrado, to show the people in that part of the world, that Filipinas are not only just maids or sex workers, but are competent professionals in any field they choose to work in. Because of her assertiveness, many of her kababayans have proudly shown their employers that Filipinas can be as good if not even better, than their white counterparts. By fighting the stereotype, she has opened doors for other Filipinas to shine in their respective fields - in a place where even the native women are constricted to do as they please.
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