By EU Ambassador to the
Editors's Note: "Address by the Honorary Patron of the Manila St. Andrews Society, Ambassador Alistair MacDonald, on the occasion of the annual St. Andrews Ball, Manila Polo Club, 21 November 2009" is what the ambassador wanted for this blog's title.
Our Chieftain asked me to say a few words tonight, before we move on to more important things. I asked him if he wanted a 20-minute speech, a 30-minute speech, or something more substantial. He told me that about 2 minutes would be closer to the mark, because the haggis would be getting cold.
Nevertheless, within these
constraints, I would like to say a word about the links between the
I did a quick Google on
One was about fishermen--I hadn't realised myself that there were perhaps 500 Filipinos working on Scottish fishing vessels--enjoying the sun in Fraserburgh or Ullapool, and learning to send text-messages like "Fit like, mun?" I thought at first that this was a question of relative cost--and I was confirmed in that view by comments that the Filipino fishermen were earning the glorious sums of between £250 and £600 a month--not a lot, particularly if you think what the conditions are like on fishing-boats, out in the North Sea or the Minch. But I also found an article which suggested that salaries were a secondary consideration, and that the main attraction of employing Filipino fishermen was that they are simply good guys--they work hard, are easy to get on with, and as one skipper said, "They're great workers, but most of all ye can trust them. They dinna come home drunk or off their faces on drugs." Maybe this says more about Fraserburgh than it does about OFWs, but it was clear that the Filipino fishermen were generally very much welcomed by their hosts in the North-East.
The second main theme that I found
in Google was about the desire of the growing number of Filipinos in
This was also from the United
Filipino Communities of Scotland, where on their website I found a paper
explaining that the first members of the Filipino community in the UK arrived
in London in the late 1940's and early 50's and discovered the exotic pleasures
of a ride on a double-decker bus, or a night of Latin rhythms with Edmundo Ros.
But something was missing. And it wasn't until they went on to visit
There was even a suggestion that Filipinos and Scots must in fact, centuries or millenia back, share a common ancestry. The proof? Consider the strange similarity between Hoy, Ay Nako, and Och Aye the Noo. Consider also our joint preference, and I quote, "for strange songs and dances involving animal sounds and the possibility of severe personal injury." Not to mention our joint preference for truly appetising if unusual foodstuffs--balut, or haggis.
And with that mention of haggis
(and of course of balut, though I don't think that this is on the menu
tonight), I will leave you with the thought that Filipinos truly appreciate
Scotland--just as Scots, and particularly those of us here tonight, very much
appreciate our cheerful and generous hosts.
* Former British Ambassador to the
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At the annual St.Andrews Ball, Manila Polo club, Ambassador Alistair MacDonald addressed the crowd by word . Actually he was confused on the duration of the speech that he should give. He said about the links between the Philippines and the Scotland. The number of Filipinos working or studying in Scotland is increasing. There are so many similarities between Scots and Filipinos that we may start thinking that they share common ancestors. Even in the case of food, the preferences are common.
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