Drug (Shabu) Smuggling; I’m a racist with a cause.

Ethnic Filipinos almost always is at the loosing end when smuggling is the topic of discussion. Hundreds of items are being smuggled by unscrupulous Chinese traders, some of which are with the direct knowledge and affirmative attitude of our government. It is lamentable that Filipinos are made to pay exorbitant and unjustifiable taxes while smugglers are scat free.

Drug smuggling is one example. It is an open secret that the source of these commodities originates both from Mainland China and Taiwan. Yet, the drug smugglers are undaunted because same in the higher echelons of our government are themselves Chinese!

This technique of drugging the whole nation to make them docile and easier to control was done by the British in Hong kong. Below is an excerpt;

• “The story of how opium was forever associated with the Chinese can be explained by trade in the eighteenth-century and the two Opium wars. In the latter half of the eighteenth-century, the Qing regime in China was subjected to increasing pressures from European governments to open up to foreign trade. Britain was among the leading nations trading European products and technologies to China, in exchange for Chinese goods such as tea and silk. But it was one particular export that was to become controversial, and later led to great hostility between the two governments - opium.”

Hundreds of thousand of ethnic Filipinos are affected with this plague of addiction, and this part of our society that is affected has resulted to crimes, destitution, moral degeneration and family breakdown.

Fortunately, the perceive drug lord in one of the community I have visited invested her money buying agricultural lands, employing the villagers to work on her farm, although the wages is so minimal, about 120 pesos a day. She engages in animal husbandry. She have piggery farm, cattle range, poultry farm, rice land, rice mill. And she uses the latest mechanize farm vehicles. And one of her grandiose project is a 3 hectare lot with concrete perimeter fence, 15 feet high, massively built, and costing more than 15 million pesos.

The bad side however would go this way. The money derive from drugs can be use to finance political candidates such as Congressman, Governors, Mayors, all the way down to the barangay level. Even our Judges can be bribe or threaten by this group. Also, the money can branch out to other illegal undertaking such as human trafficking, white slavery, manufacturing of fake medicine, misbranding of canned goods like what happened to Del Monte fruit cocktail, Spam Pork Luncheon Meat, Libbey’s Cornned Beef, and Dove Soap. All these fake goods came from Mainland China and were pass on as popular brand products.

Entertaining or associating with these drug syndicate is like shaking hands with the devil. You cannot dissociate with them except when you are dead. It is no longer surprising that even inside the office of PDIA (Philippine Drug Agency); there are some government agents who are held hostage by this drug syndicate. We hear of confiscated drugs (shabu) which is worth hundreds of thousand pesos, apprehended and confiscated by PDIA (Philippine Drug Agency) which just disappear, some turns in to flour. We hear of law enforces being used as protectors. Governors, Mayors, etc, in the province like what happened in the premier city of Cebu wherein a big drug factory was raided by combines PDIA and NBI agents. I know personally two PMA officers who got hook up or became addicted to Shabu. Where are all this leads into?

What is ironic about the smuggling of the prohibited drug is that some of Customs people must have conspired to let in these drugs to our country. There is absolutely no excuse for customs personnel, especially now that we have about six (6) top of the line, ergo over-priced, X-ray machine operating. How stupid can our government be!

We have a Philippine government ruled by ethnic Chinese who allows prohibitive drugs from their motherland to poison the ethnic Filipino populace. The analogy is pure and simple. “Pinagtutulungan na tayo ng Mainland China at Taiwan government para makuha nila ang ating bansa.”

Ethnic Chinese by nature are clannish and never treats other race as their equal. The testimony to this is what they did to Tibetan monks and its ethnic population. In Xinjiang region, they made a “crushing campaign of religious repression” against Muslim Uighurs. The natives or ethnic population of Xinjiang is Turkic Muslim or blend of Arab and European race. Similarly, whenever they occupy a foreign country, the trend is to dilute the population by sending millions and millions of Chinese. This is why the Philippines has so many undocumented Chinese. The migration started way back 1946 right after Japan’s surrender. Unfortunately, the Atom Bomb of Gen. McArthur was not approved by the then President Truman. Had it been so, China’s civilization could have been retrogressed ten to twenty years back.

“NO WAY CAN YOU CONQUER OUR COUNTRY!”

By defintion, “racism” means prejudice against another race. Tagalogs and Visayans belong to the same race so it’s not “racism”.

I totally agree with you. It’s wrong to be racist. But in our culure it’s ok to mock foreigners or our fellow countrymen who comes from the province which you see in everyday shows on tv or film. but when we are faced of this, we complain. Blatant hypocrisy..

Racism is how you feel it.
You can draw the line if it is offensive to your personality or just a joke.
Nowadays, racism is not much of an issue as we see Obama leading the presidential race.
As the filipinos are being global, all over the world and branded in one kind of profession it attached on our name or nicknames, just like DH, etc, etc though we are still filipinos.
Being branded is not racism, british are famous for being nanny or nannies, or butler or in Spain mayordoma or chief of chimays.
I think our language is the one doing it.
Our own word description is discriminatory and racist. Just like the words, chimay, alila, katulong, yaya, basurero, barbero, tsimoy, magbobote and so on and so forth.
Unlike in english, it can termed as butler, nanny, chauffeur, may class.
Americans, british are sports people. Hindi sila pikon.
They can take jokes no matter what, but not offended for it is a joke.
I think the Department of foreign Affairs should watch Saturday night Life and see how they make fun of Obama, Palin, Biden, Mccain.
Lastly, we should always eat onion, para kumapal ang balat natin… for in onion there is strength.

We Filipinos should lighten up. The alleged racial slur occurred in a comedy show. We all know that comedy shows make fun of everybody, no one is spared, not even presidents, heads of state, and other famous people.
The best way to respond to this so-called racial slur is to laugh it off. Further demonstration of rage about it does not make the Filipino look better — it only shows immaturity and insecurity on our part. Personally, I have great confidence in the excellence of the Filipino race in general that a minor joke like that at our expense does not bother me at all. I say bring it on! We know our own worth.

Yes, there is indeed ‘racism’ in our backyard. And this is worse when some of our countrymen prefer ton teach their kids English for whatever reason (e.g., in retaliation, social status, future career), leaving them ignorant of our national language, i.e., Tagalog.

Nevertheless, it should not prevent us Filipinos to react on the way we are portrayed in such program. For them (Brits) it is funny, because in reality that’s the way some of them are treating our countrymen in their home land. Let’s face it, most British are pompous and we must stand up by earning the respect from them.

As the song goes, “Everyone’s a little bit racist.”

Like it or not, it’s human nature for us to hold certain stereotypes of a people based on just their color or heritage.

The secret is to take it in stride and good humor - nobody’s truly colorblind.

Boo to our congressmen for making much ado about the BBC.

Filipinos willingness to do the dirty jobs overseas are expected to bring dirty feedbacks from foreigners to the Filipinos as a whole.

The whole Phils can howl over the recent BBC showing but it will not end there as long as the Filipinos are willing to accept and perform those lowly jobs available overseas and as long as the Govt accepts the fact as HEROISM that lifts the Philippines.

Remember when Ramon Zamora spoofed Adolf Hitler back in the 80’s? We all had a good laugh, but did we even consider if this ‘joke’ offended the Germans? How about Yoyoy Villame’s song “Buchikik”, movie characters like “Akong” and countless of others?

The point is that we should not be making a big deal out of this so-called “racist slur” because we’re guilty of the same thing. Besides we Filipinos have a saying “ang pikon talo” and getting all worked up and demanding for an apology (aka getting “pikon”) is kinda being “un-Filipino”. Instead, let’s do what we do best and come up with our own banter against the Brits and return the favor.

“Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.” - Fulton J. Sheen

The Manilenyo’s typical mimicry of other people’s accent when they try to speak Tagalog is not racism but a form of humor, (although those feeling offended don’t find it funny).

If it were pure and simple racism, they wouldn’t mimic the accent of their own kind, the provincial Tagalogs but they do. Batanguenos have more of their share of this than their Bisayan cousins. Batanguenos, however, don’t get offended and indeed they all the more showcase their delectable dialect.

To think that perpetrators of this form of linguistic “racism” are always Tagalogs themselves is in itself nearer to the essence of racism lumping all Tagalog people as insensitive idiots with a bloated superiority complex.

Truth to tell, this tendency to mimic other people’s accent is shared by many Manilenyos whether they themselves are actually Ilokanos, Kapampangan, Bikolanos etc.

Indeed some of the more hilarious Tagalog variations are not those spoken by Bisayas or Batanguenos but by Americans, Chinese and Japanese. (I once heard the Russian ambassador in Manila spoke in Tagalog, and it was so close to Manila accent that it almost felt frightening).

My wife laughs at me a lot whenever I try to speak or write in Bikol, her native tongue. Yes I detect a faint sense of pride or even superiority on her part but it is no way near that ugly word, racism.

Yes, Manilenyos need a lot of growing up to do when it comes to being sensitive with their fellow Filipinos, especially towards non-Tagalogs. This, however, is a case of immaturity or at least insensitivity, not racism.

Whats wrong with portrayals of the truth? Thats information to others. Its like comfort women asking back for their dignity n kind while their grand daughters are elbowing their way to Japan, or the recto and non-recto dctors hinted by that desperate housewife.o r that number two most corrupt woman we know at the pasig. Yu should see our locals doing the unexpected onto the audience invited up the stage.

I mean on stage we term as Hai Duzo in Japan.

There is no racism among filipinos for racism is between or among different race.
Whether one is a tagalog, bisaya, ilokano, pampangueno, illongo, manilenyo, we are all filipinos, one race, one nation.
So, if one is making fun of tagalog bisaya, it is because of accent and nothing else.
Just like in america, there is southern accent, new yorker accent, british and black accent but all english.
Enough of this nonsense talk, pinapawisan ako ng daghang singot sa inyo.

So if you are “racist”, or more accurately a person harboring regional bias, that negates your right to accuse another of racism? I don’t think so. If you are a person full of filth, your right to lecture another about the virtues of cleanliness is simply non-existent as the credibility of the boy who cried wolf. But it does not mean that you cannot point out to him, in a factual observation, that “hoy kahigko sa imo!”

I don’t know if the remark on the BBC show was in fact racist. I have never seen it. However if you qualify a maid as a Filipino, that is where the concern lies because it is based on preconceived notion that maids in the UK are generally of Filipino or of any other Asian descent. It reinforces the idea that we are their servants! The show itself is an example of this.

the writer has a valid point. It may be a war of sematics but there seem to be regional descrimination as he mentioned, to the Visayans. That is also true to the Mekeni’s, Ala-eys, Indays, Ilokaoks, Igorot, Negritos, etc.

Filipinos make fun (and money) of Intsik, Bumbay, Negro and nung panahon ni FPJ - mga Sakang.

Pinays as domestic helpers? Sure, some of these woman are proud to be a slave.

The writer should have used the word “discrimination” instead of “racism”. Moreover, the writer should have pointed out that discrimination does not only apply to making fun of other cultural groups. The article could have been written better.

The writer should be careful in raising racism issues. The article sounds like hateful towards Tagalogs. In the US, the blacks are very successful in raising racism issues, so that the whites are now complaining about being themselves discriminated against. I think the concept is called racism in reverse.

JOMA said (15): “… Pinays as domestic helpers? Sure, some of these woman are proud to be a slave.”

That’s quite unfair and harsh statement to make, don’t you think? And you appear to impress us you are against discrimination?

What’s the difference between you working for your employer, a white collar job perhaps, and
another who works as domestic helper? If I borrow your definition, you are both slaves; the only difference perhaps you are a prouder slave if your pay is good. And oh by the way, slaves don’t get paid so no reason to discriminate against domestic helpers and call them slaves. Happy or not.

pinoy racist????what a concept.

how about arrogance? lacks of civility,compassion with other, and also moral turpititude. lastly, we have issues with some form of complex.

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The main reason why FIlipinos are victims of these so called media bias, or as what they say as racism, is because of the current economic situation of the country. More and more people from first world and even the third world countries look down on us because we are anywhere looking for jobs and are offered with low salaries. Everything stems from the Philippine government, which is I guess located between earth and hell. I am not proud of working in a foreign country, but it is a necessity since my family doesn’t have the wealth needed to sustain living in a long period.

I have noticed that we are training our kababayans as slave, in our very own country…I encountered one of our kababayan in a mall abroad, and she kept on addressing me as “sir”..”sir, eto po yung sukli nyo, sir”…It is great to see her address her customers with utmost respect, but I somehow see it as a sign of slavery, an existence of a gap between master and slave, a sign that we can easily be intimated by ordinary people, a sign that we are poor…overseas, you can call your boss by his first name, without losing each other’s respect..this is a sign of equality..lets minimize this “sir” and “ma’am” mentality that we are sowing in our country nowadays…a simple “Hi, how are you?” is a great phrase to hear from a stranger…what do you think?I might start calling the president simply as “gloria”.

Mang Goryo (21), to be addressed ’sir’ and ‘maam’ may seem slavish to you but that is traditional Pinoy brought up by his culture to be respectful. Actually, sir and maam are terms of address made up by the present generation, which is a departure from the previous generation that used Mr. and Miss, and which were Mang or Ale like in Mang Juan or Aling Maria used by the older generation.

I’ve met foreigners who complimented me for the very respectful way they were addressed by young Pinoys here. How they wish their kids could emulate the Pinoys.

These foreigners thought our ways are courteous and respectful and they did not look down on Filipinos for addressing them sir and ma’am or even hint it’s slavish. If these foreigners are proud of our respectful ways don’t you think you should be too?

i agree with this notion. me, am a visayan. i can speak the visayan language in a very harsh accent and can speak tagalog without you knowing that i from visayas area. the best thing is we can speak at least 3 languages or even more than that.