THIS is all bullshit. We are not even focusing on this issue.
Who are these people adding fuel to ignite hatred and malice against the TV station and its parent company Walt Disney? Excuse me, they do not represent the doctors and any Filipino in the United States; they might as focus on something more interesting. We have no complaint
about what had been said. Only a dumb person would still insist on what kind of apology the station needs to provide.
They have already apologized. Am I assuming that these some so-called “Filipinos” are up for dinero, mukhang pera kayo. If you keep on pressing those silly issues it will have an impact on the ordinary Filipino living in the US; they can be implicitly discriminated against if these stooges keep going. If there was anything that was said, look at [it] the positive way.
Filipino doctors need not take it as an insult but further [improve] themselves and work better. Simply to stave off the negativity and show your worth as a qualified, dignified and intelligent doctor.
– Gina Lauder, California (via e-mail)
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October 21st, 2007 at 10:21 pm
there are more serious issues in the us than the desperate housewives thing…read about fil-am doc noel chua in georgia charged w/ murder of his patient. those in the us should look into this…seems like the doc has been wrongfully convicted by the jury. and his bank account has been siphoned. many of his friends have raised money to help him in his case. napakabait daw na doc ito, tapos, ganito ang fate nya? don’t you think we should veer our concerns to this issue, rather than the pathetic teri hatcher’s lines?
for now, i can just pray for this doctor.
October 20th, 2007 at 11:19 am
It is an astonishingly certified fact that fellow Filipinos discriminate amongst their own kind in some sort of grassroots ethnic level. Those from Manila, labelled everyone outside their territory as promdi and even think that the Philippines is just Luzon with Manila or Quezon City as its capital and the Visayas/Mindanao as colonized territories. Moreover those from Luzon(Ilocano, Tagalog, Pampangueno, etc), they branded inhabitants of Mindanao as “muslims” or some sort of racially ethnic whatever terms. Lastly, even a slight firecracker explosion in some purok somewhere in Dapitan City will be tagged by the Manila-based broadcast media as “war-torn Mindanao”. And so on and so forth. Doesn’t that mean ethnic racism to such a disgraceful degree if we define it that way in contemporary Philippine society?
So going back to the thread of this discussion, the author might be logically correct to some extent. And there was a printed INQ7 article just recently that the alleged Fil-Am leader was reportedly given assurances and up to an extent forged a deal with ABC management that Fil-Ams will be hired to work for them. Then, what followed is a deafening silence about that issue nowadays. Ergo there is a basis that it just boil down to money matters.
In retrospect, there might a slight hint of racial slur on that ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” episode. Nevertheless, depending on the view of who tabulated and calculated the statistics, majority considered it as a “dry pointless white man’s joke” and the said station apologized just to appease any concerned parties. But there are still disgruntled segments of Fil-Am groups that cannot show satisfaction without an oozing blood. Maybe these remaining renegades were not able to get a slice of ABC’s “generous” financial offer.
October 19th, 2007 at 1:50 am
It’s starting to get really irritating. ABC has already apologized and we should put this behind us now. The world has heard our voices and certainly we have been noticed. Likewise, the world heard of the broadcast apology. What else do we want?
The filipinos are known to be very forgiving people, culturally speaking. We should move on. I don’t appreciate the fact that everytime I visit Inquirer.Net, I keep on seeing this issue getting resurrected, again and again. Stop adding fuel to an already dying issue. Let’s grow up together and show the world that we’re better than what the world might have originally thought about us.
October 18th, 2007 at 4:42 am
I think it isn’t bad to ask for a public apology. We Filipinos abroad are doing our share in making the countries where we work or live a better place. To simply say those who insist on a public apology are dumb is a sad symptom of a problem we have as Filipinos. Since we discriminate among ourselves, we are almost immune to the discrimination from other races as long as we are not the ones directly involved. Call it colonial mentality or whatever. It’s so sad.
October 16th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
What are they really fighting for, anyway? :V