Like my brother's girlfriend's mom often tells me that she likes my dogs because they are imported. Hmmmm....Of coarse I would just smile at her, but DUH!!! My dogs were born and raised in Quezon City!=PLOL!...just curious!=D

i hear them a lot of times.did you know that spare parts for bicycle made in China or Taiwan are connoted as "Local"? while Japan and US are Imported?well, i also here our construction workers pertaining to tools made from China as "Local". i think what they mean as Local is of low quality and Imported as High quality.for your dogs i think she means they aren't the local breeds (askals) so they are Imported.

imported breed

as long as it came from a balikbayan box, it's expensive... jejeje...

To pronounce something as imported is to show-off, and nothing more.

As often as using "branded" to convey the same. Or in your dogs' case, "may lahi" instead of a plain askal =D

For many Filipinos, "imported" has come to mean high quality or "de kalidad." And almost always, these are supposedly items from the US. Little did we know that a lot of products we use here in the US are made from somewhere else.Purebred dogs (and even those of mixed breed resulting from good pedigree) are likewise considered "imported" as distinguished from the common mutts.

really depends on the person's knowledge or his words of choice as he speaks and rights. usually people who use imported have the knowledge that those things are of high quality and is of good product or comes from countries that have high reputation when it comes to production. Sometimes, filipinos tends to use imported to products that are even made in the Philippines due to the fact that the brand or product have been produce by a leading company.

The connotation is frequent.

Because we think that imported products/kinds are made from USA. When in fact if you look closer some clothes have tag "MADE IN BANGLADESH" etc. and there are times you can read "MADE IN THE PHILIPPINES" in their products.Always when I hear the word "imported" the first thing that comes to my mind is the dollar sign $. That makes it expensive.