Lesson learned here, before we do anything against those foreign media we should learn to look first on our own actions. There is the saying that goes like this ” Don’t try to remove the speck of other person’s eye w/o first removing the speck of your own eyes”

I’m already 34, but my English is still much to be desired. Don’t worry about grammar errors, keep on writing and speaking in English. It’s one of the best ways to improve.

Sorry…I’m only 14 so my english doesn’t sound as formal as the other people who commented… =_=”

for your readers who left comments here, when you get the chance visit my blog and get some perspective…

http://sinigang-dmeemai.blogspot.com/2007/10/update-desperate-housewives-remark.html

Anyway, back to the issue. The whole fracas about these racial slurs and racial jokes have become freckles and racial pimples already. We love to poke fun. Bottomline, that’s our nature — and for the life of some of these ‘high-bloodied’ Pinoys, I am sure they have elegant mirrors at home. They should sell them off at eBay.

Enough said.

I would like to correct this line

it should be

Mrs Santiago said that the Chinese were the inventors of corruption

Benj, you’re not getting the whole point Gwapito is trying to imply. From the comments he made(the I read), he is also calling for Filipinos stop being racist other nationalities and even their own. Not all Filipinos are racist but our media promotes racism by making shows where people from rural areas are ‘dumb’,’stupid’, in their characters. We have many sitcoms and local movies that make fun of the Bisaya and Batangueno accent and sadly, to many Filipinos sich things are normal and people who negatively react to those are “too sensitive”.

Why is it hard to accept the the Filipino society has the same degree of racism? Before the Desperate Housewives broke out, Mrs Santiago said that the Chinese were the inventors or racism.–that was in front of the Chinese(mainland) representatives and the Filipino-Chinese community(and the whole Filipino population). They asked for apology and Miriam gave it. End of story. It didn’t really cause an outrage knowing the fact that for decades the non-Chinese have been making fun of the Chinese and their culture in our media. But many who reacted against ABC have gone out of the real issue. Now they’re demanding for scholarship, donations, etc. Maybe, real people who are anti-racism should compel all Chinese people to sue former Senator Santiago for slandering them and ask for half a billion dollar for moral damages

I’m not saying that Filipinos should be passive about offensive remarks about Filipinos. But we Filipinos, if we are true to our commitment against racism should also stop our practice. ..but sadly, many Filipinos are not really willing to. Filipinos should accept that racism is also practiced by maybe Filipinos. Only that way we could start genuine combat against racism

I remember this incident in Singapore. Two male Chinese bloggers were jailed because of saying racist statements against the Malays. I thought of racism(intra) in the Philippines — no one, not even a single media man was convicted or brought to court. The prevalence of intra-racism and racism in our media is highly condoned because most of the people who watch do not belong to the people who are made the butt of jokes. Tha tlife in the Philippines, we blow out of proportion the negative publicity we get but we don’t do anything about our wrongdoings. People make so much excuses.

Sometimes, I’m tempted to think that what happened(DH issue) was some sort of karma. Days before the issue broke our dear Miriam Santiago said that the Chinese invented corruption. Filipinos of non-Chinese descent shrugged it off, they’re not the object of such generalizing statement, anyway.

Reminds me much of a Lucy Torres script many years ago. I don’t hate Lucy Torres but one of her script was “Ang pangit mo naman, Igorot siguro parents mo”. Between the two, which is far more racist? When Carlos P. Romulo was still alive he once sai that the Igorots are not Filipinos(just because we have a different culture from theirs?)… the higlanders were sane enough not to blow things out of proportion. What Mountain Province(the former MP, as in the whole CAR) congressman Alfredo Lam-en did was to go to the congress wearing his bahag saying that the difference between him and Romulo is that he wear his(former) necktie on his waste while Romulo on his neck. I wish Filipinos took it that way too. Filipinos could have responded in a humorous and sarcastic way too.

Hehe

By stating this, I’m not saying that Filipinos should be passive towards unflattering statements about us. But it’s still abbig question mark in my mind why here in the Philippines, many of us tolerate(and even JUSTIFY) such discrimination/racism when we complain too much to the point of blowing out of proportion.

Honestly, I don’t think it’s the nationalism that was really stepped on here, it’s more of ‘extreme egotism’ of many Pinoys. Filipinos “say” fight racism when many of our kababayans are not willing to abandon their racist attitudes