Comments on: English is Just Like Any Other Language

By: bingskee

bingskee — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:33:22 +0000

some people react to those who speak English because they cannot speak the language. some people react because they are judgmental. some people are plain patriotic.

but there are also trying hard people who speak the language even if they cannot speak it right. and there are people who believe they speak the language fluently but still lack the click.

By: Gwapito.com

Gwapito.com — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:41:50 +0000

I agree with you Kris, tagalog is not my primary language, it’s even my third language but i am very proud of this country like any tagalog speaking nationalista.

By: Kris

Kris — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:32:16 +0000

The personal hate for English of the Philippines is mostly driven by jealousy[rampant crab mentality in the Philippines]. Isn’t it funny when our ‘nationalistas’ say ‘Nasa Pilipinas ka, mag-Tagalog ka, hindi English’. They must be forgetting that 3/4 of Filipinos are non-Tagalogs. They must realize that to many non-Tagalogs, English[or Spanish] holds a more neutral position

The problem with Filipinos is inferiority complex. If one is good at one thing, what do we do? We brand them as colonial minded person, unpatriotic. Even Filipinos who are native Spanish speakers do not escape this kind of grudge.

The Philippines is weird. If you’re good at English[or basically any foreign language], you are seen with disdain, called unpatriotic. If you’re bad at English, you’re laughed at.

By: Gwapito.com

Gwapito.com — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:51:58 +0000

@Alex
That’s why a few insecure people use english to hype up their reputation to others.

By: alex

alex — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:31:55 +0000

wow, agree agree, so true!

i train koreans in speaking in english. and they have high regards for me just because of that, to think that a lot of east asians are discriminating towards peeps here in souheast asia.