THIS is with regards to the article about the complaint on the BBC TV comedy program that portrayed a Filipina with racist tone. Filipinos whine and complain quickly when one of their kind is made fun of especially when made by foreigners. They will quickly paint it as racist.
Let’s face the fact. Filipinos are also racist. When you portray Visayans in a funny way as to mock them, isn’t it racism? When you mimic their heavy accent when they try to communicate in Tagalog, isn’t it racism? At least they can speak Tagalog while you can’t speak their language which you call dialect. The truth is, you don’t even understand the difference between a language and a dialect.
One example, a dialect of pure Tagalog is Batangas people’s mother tongue. The thing is, racism is alive and rampant in the Philippines done against the other ethnic groups in the islands not only against the Visayans but also against the Muslim Filipinos.
Before you take the speck on other people’s eyes, clean your eyes of your own log. Talk against racism? Talk about racism first that is rampant in your own backyard.
Joe Duterte via Reader’s Comments
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October 23rd, 2008 at 9:23 am
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?
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:00 pm
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”.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
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.
October 16th, 2008 at 10:16 am
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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October 16th, 2008 at 8:47 am
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.