Dating and marrying foreigners (Afam hunting) within the Philippines would not have been stigmatized if the Filipino/a spouse came from the well-off upper-middle and upper elite class background

Afam hunting bashing here on Reddit is obviously a classist uptake by college-educated Filipino redditors coming from Manila and Cebu. They cannot accept that someone coming from the economically depressed backgrounds have an another option for upward social mobility aside from attending college that is marrying sexagenarian retired foreigners.

I think to make Afam hunting within the Philippines more appealable to the upper-middle and upper elite class is to open licensed professions like accountancy, medicine, engineering, law, nursing, and teaching to prospective young adult foreigner professionals with work visas and allow them to purchase and own real estate properties and small businesses (this requires a constitutional amendment). In this scenario, it will create a favorable environment for college-educated licensed professional Filipinos, who are usually mestizo/as and chinito/as, to date and marry foreigners with the same educational and socioeconomic backgrounds, and of course, no wider age-gap differences.

The cons here are the Philippines will be a cheap country for foreigners and balikbayans to retire, hence geographical arbitrage will vanish, and perpetuation of classist attitudes of Filipinos when it comes to dating and marrying someone, but I believe these are the price the Philippines has to pay to shed it reputation as the "losers back home dumping ground of Asia."