Mother’s Day 2009 will always be remembered by the members of my family, including my 96 year old Mama-in-Law as the day we met the great Filipino Champion and Hero, Manny “the PacMan” Pacquiao at dinner. At the Prince Albert in the Hotel Intercontinental last Sunday evening, he ordered French wine, the Salad Scallope, Grilled Lobster, Roast Prime Rib of Beef (medium, with a side of rice!) and the Crepes Samurai for dessert instead of souffle. Wild cheering and sustained applause greeted him as he entered the restaurant. My sister-in-law jumped up for joy in a move I’ve never seen before in someone usually so demure. The atmosphere was electric–and whether they were the lowliest busboy there, or the superb maitre D, Felipe, or the perfumed-and-manicured members of the Manila-Makati elite, all the social barriers seemed to evaporate, and for that one shining evening, we were all proud Filipinos basking in the reality of the greatness and even greater potential of our people–proven and embodied in this one great hero and champion. He is living proof that the brown-outside-white-n-hollow-inside racists here at FV are dead wrong. He explodes the insulting racism and interminable taunting of certain professional trolls and self-proclaimed geniuses with his stunning accomplishments. Whether we are rich or poor, smart or dumb, we can stand with our heads held high knowing that these miserable, misbegotten, misshapen souls ought to come and join us in celebrating an all-Filipino victory. We would welcome their seemingly closed minds and hard hearts with open arms in a recognition not only of our admitted flaws and imperfections, as individuals and as a nation, but also our grand nobility and sublime grace as human beings first and foremost, and only Filipinos second.
I urge all our colleagues here at Filipino Voices and throughout the Blogosphere to combat coconut racism and its perhaps unconscious intellectual support for fascist dictatorship. Let us stand for virtues even greater than nationalism, and with supreme self-confidence in our people, look to the bright future of our country by having faith in them. As Manny Pacquiao has shown!
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what is coconut racism?
I hope it’s not the belief that this country will not progress if it continues to be ruled by the minority.
GabbyD,
“Brown on the outside, white-n-hollow on the inside” Filipino-on-Filipino racism. It’s a Fil-Am neologism from the 60s and 70s.
Hmmmm, “Filipino-on-Filipino racism”.
Reminds me of an article I wrote waaaay back:
Racism among Filipinos
Click here to read the full article! :D
We UP alums are the Master Race under the alma mater criterion! LOL!
Oooops that’s exactly what the American colonizers intended! LOL!
Bert,
I mentioned in an earlier thread that we, well-endowed chaps from UP, do not have to hold anything.
In addition, like the U.P. mascot of the talking and thinking Parrot, ‘ay matigas ang dila.’
Choosing a Boyfriend
Three Collegialas were discussing their choices in the kind of guy one should date.
1st Collegiala: “If you want someone who’s really handsome, get someone from La Salle.”
2nd Collegiala: “Yeah, but if you want a date who’s smart, you’ll want someone from UP.”
3rd Collegiala: “Of course if you want both, you’d want an Atenean.”
and the yaya of the second kolehiyala blurted unexpectedly “… ayyy… kumuha na lang kayo ng kano para ayos na ang buhay ninyo.”
I know the smarts end up in UP, the over rich in Ateneo and the rich La Salle.
The handsomes are evenly distributed. Why should Ateneo have the monopoly of them? Unless the Jesuits and the gays have a strong clamor for them, I don’t think so.
POGINOMETRY
Definition
The mathematics of expressing the sum of a man’s appeal to women. For more than a handsome pair of X and Y chromosomes, there are indeed many other factors that size-up male magnetism such as a very persuasive “Peso”-nality that attracts women like a giant lodestone drawing fine metals to its folds. Image thus becomes a configuration of various non-facila and nonphysical pluses and minuses which fine-tune the cyber-picture of the Ideal Man.
Note: For the sake of the clueless, *pogi* is Filipino slang for guapo (handsome).
Transpo
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. The shortest time to reach a girl’s house, er, heart is normally by flashing a car. Owning one is an automatic 10 pogi points. Chauffer-driven, plus 20 pogi points. Subtract 5 if it’s the rinky-dinky type that regularly breaks down when going out on dates. Add 10 pogi points if brand new.
Add 20 more if it’s a Japanese car and 50 if it’s either a Benz or BMW. A Porsche is disqualified from earning points because anyone who owns one automatically becomes a Richard Gomez clone. No pogi points, sadly, for perennial pedestrians. Plus 30 pogi points, though, if you ride a mountain bike to school or work (health buffs are cool). If you happen to pedal through EDSA via pedicab, minus 50 pogi points.
Pedigree
Often suggests if the guy’s gene pool has a tradition of success and excellence. If the family name smells of politics, add 10 pogi points. If it’s a Marcos or crony-sounding name, subtract 50 pogi points. If the lineage could be traced to a Spanish friar, add another 10 pogi points (tisoy muy bien?).
If it’s a taipan-sounding name, add 2 pogi points. No pogi points for ethnic-sounding family names.
Address
Where you live indicates how you live. If you’re from Manila, you’ve got to be streetsmart. A Makati address suggests urbanidad. Alabang and Novaliches, a suburban, less stressful existence. Thus, a Makati address gets an automatic 5 pogi points, while an Alabang address an automatic 10 pogi points. If in Makati, Dasma, Magallanes or Forbes plus 20, San Lorenzo Village and San Antonio Village plus 10, Bel-Air plus 5, 10 pogi points for New Manila, Greenhills and Valle Verde. No pogi points for those who live in Corinthian Gardens because many houses there were reportedly built on hidden wealth. In QC, 10 pogi points for residents of White Plains, Blue Ridge, St. Ignatius, Xavierville, La Vista and Ayala Heights.
“Gillage (as in gilid ng village) people,” no pogi points. No pogi points, too, for Looban, Gagalangin, Calumpang, San Andres Bukid, Tatalon Estate and Dasma (as in Cavite) residents.
High School
If we had a local Official Preppy Handbook, alumni of all-boys, old Catholic schools like La Salle and Ateneo would earn 30 pogi points. Graduates of UK and US prep schools, 20 pogi points (lamang lang sila sa Inglesan). Any other school abroad, plus 15 pogi points. Any other younger exclusive Catholic schools like Xavier, Don Bosco, Aquinas, and Southridge, 10 pogi points. Basta nakatapos ng high school, plus 5 pogi points.
Sports
If a guy is into soccer, plus 20 pogi points. Any racket sport (except pingpong and pelota), plus 15 pogi points. If engaging in not-so-popular sports like rowing, fencing and archery as well as sepak takraw, arnis, eskrima and sika-ran (indigenous sports are “in” dahil eksotik), plus 20 pogi points. For the golf enthusiast, plus 15 pogi points. Talent and skills in tong-its, minus 50 pogi points because it’s too hoi polloi. No pogi points for basketball because three-fourths of men are PBA fanatics.
College Organization
Membership in AISEC and its local hybrids (like IBA and JMA) or any other socially-oriented org that has chapters in DLSU, Ateneo, Miriam, Assumption and UP, plus 5 pogi points because they have a conscience to speak of, now rare among college students.
Girlfriend
If the current squeeze or the former flame is a beauty titlist, an Absolut girl, or one of Manila’s Five Prettiest, automatic 50 pogi points. A campus celebrity or a showbiz denizen, 40 pogi points. If the typical pretty colegiala, 30 pogi points. Any girl, plus 10 pogi points. A mainstay of “That’s Entertainment,” minus 100 pogi points.
Ganito ba tayo kababa? Boxing is education-optional, academically not supported! Are we this oblivious? Don’t Filipinos ever read foreign news sources despite what Flips claim to be technologically advanced on internet?
wHY are filipiinos agog over kindergarten-dropout? Is it a good example? I don’t know about Flips, are we this ignorant? Ganito ba ka mababa ang exemplar sa mga Flips?
What has become of us?
HESUS MARIA JOSEF TABANGA! Patay na talaga ang utak natin!!!!
Waaaaa! Waaaa! Waaaaa!
Espiritu sannto tabangi po kami!!!!!!!
We should be celebrating Flips in America’s National Academic decathlon and Scripps spellingers bee!!!!!!
What are we to celebrate when Flips cannot even make it to first elimination of Academic decathlon and scripps spellinegers bee and pagkatapos magyayabang na magaling ang Flips sa englischtzes, degree holders pagkatapos magaling sa spellengerisrs ….
SIRA BA TAYO NG ULO?????????
Lithium, RP, lithium!
come on, DJB, you can point-blank tell Renato to shut up, but to respond with “..lithium… lithium…” is crass, vulgar, boorish.
“Lithium, RP, lithium!”
What does this mean?
crass, vulgar, boorish.
baduy?
danny,
lithium is the lightest of all known metals. if you read it as metaphor, it means that renato is not dense.
Nice try, JCC. But about 859 of his own comments ago Renato Pacifico already admitted to being a bipolar manic depressive. Lithium happens to be the most effective means of controlling the particular chemical imbalance in the brain that is responsible for this illness. He is not however, like some, a plain racist mofo. In fact I suspect he is a very intelligent and well-read person. Just noncompliant about his medications. I’m really concerned about him because he is only in the manic phase when he is on these comment threads. If FV ever shuts down for more than a few hours, I am afraid he may fall into a perilous depression.
I may be crass, vulgar and boorish. But at least I am not insensitive and osmium. (See JCC’s comment to continue with the chemistry lesson).
Psychological autopsy is a procedure for investigating a person’s death by reconstructing what the person thought, felt, and did preceding his or her death. This reconstruction is based upon information gathered from personal documents, police reports, medical and coroner’s records, and face-to-face interviews with families, friends, and others who had contact with the person before the death.
http://www.deathreference.com/A-Bi/Autopsy-Psychological.html
DJB is conducting a psychological profile of Renato on the basis of his englithezes prose and “pekeng peryodista” rants and concluded that the guy is Manic Depressive or suffering from a Bipolar Disorder… heheheheheeheheh ….
If lithium is the lightest, is osmium the heaviest?
Bert,
I think at one time, lutetium was the heaviest (largest mass per nucleon), but osmium the densest (grams/cc). Although my information is likely to be dated.
Thanks JCC!
Pleeeez naman, be sensitive naman!!!! Pleeeez lang!!!!!!!
Sana si Pacquiao magiging gaya ni Arnold Scharzenegggerrss na nagiging Gobernator sa Californiya … Dapat si Kristo na mayabang buligan si Pacquiao na kukute …….
Waaaaa!!!! Waaaa!!!! Bwi hi! hi! hi! LITHIUM PLEEEZ LITHIUM PLEEEZ!!!!!1 I need lithium!!!!!!
To be fair to benny, he never explicitly advocated for a fascist dictatorship. The gist of his message to all who would listen can be summarized in the following: Get out of the Philippines and migrate to a western democracy, and stay away from your fellow Pinoys.
Jeg,
It would be interesting to hear that directly and explicitly from Malign0. And forget not, that racism has been an important justification of fascists. As literary critics our job is to expose and oppose such connections.
Manong Dean, you never cease to amaze me. Malign0? Hahaha! It rhymes… :D
Dean,
Who’s Malign0?
the coconut.
or, the singkamas!
Nice pics by the way. And how nice of Pacman to pose with fans.
I remember being in a bar once with a pal watching a show and they announced that Pacquiao has just come in fresh from a successful defense of his 122-pound title at the Araneta. He passed by our table and shook my hand and I was amazed at how small his hands were. We were about the same size then. By now, after years of pummeling heavy bags, sparring partners, and opponents, his hands are probably huge as the bones in his fists acquired more calcium in response.
Hohooommm, what happened to DJB’s anti-religion stand that he was fawning at the very foot soldier of the Roman Catholic Taliban, Manny Pacquiao who was never ashamed to kneel and say privately his prayer at the corner at the ring before the fight and made the sign of the cross looking up at heaven after his spectacular 2 round knockout?
Ye who love a nation’s legends,
Love the ballads of a people,
That like voices from afar off
Call to us to pause and listen,
Speak in tones so plain and childlike,
Scarcely can the ear distinguish
Whether they are sung or spoken;-
…
Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple,
Who have faith in God and Nature,
Who believe that in all ages
Every human heart is human,
That in even savage bosoms
There are longings, yearnings, strivings
For the good they comprehend not,
That the feeble hands and helpless,
Groping blindly in the darkness,
Touch God’s right hand in that darkness
And are lifted up and strengthened;-
DJB,
does this mean you believe in God already? Or are you still a darwinian die-hard? :)
or dawkinian’s die-hard? :)
JCC,
I love poetry.
Friendly advice DJB, please leave benigno alone for a moment – you had him all “mishapen”.
Back to Pacman. Forgive me but I find Renato positively disgusting and inclined to follow his drift. Why indeed hail Pacman “hero”, champion alright?
You are the one in raised clenched fist in the picture, are you? Nice shot for posterity.
Let me fly my ‘bird backward’, if I may. To me, sports is sports, and one really wins or loses, either way. Good for Pacman, for the Team – they have money they cannot even count now.
As a people, we can be something better that a boxing great.
Pacquiao nuked the white racism on the sports coverage of the Beeb. CNN may be more culturally sensitive by featuring the PacMan still, But the Beeb has no peep after the Hatton was axed like an English oak.
Hay naku DJB. Your term “coconut racism” is sooooooo conyo. A coconut or buko for me IS GREEN on the outside and has white meat on the inside with buko juice as a plus. Buko describes better the conyo environmentalist!
Your coconut racists are really “singkamas”. Trying to be white on the outside and white on the inside. However the singkamas racists have nothing substantial on the inside and has little calorie content!
Oh but Ben, the carabaos LOVE singkamas. To them it is full of nourishment in the heat of the sun, juicy, crunchy, refreshing. It would not do to associate their favorite thing to eat of blistering afternoon sun.
Bit of lexical history…This all started with the Chinese activists in America, who started calling chinky eyed versions of our own Racist here as “bananas” yellow on the outside, white on the inside.
Maybe the Mexicans would take you up on your suggestion though: they don’t have carabaos, but they do have “jicama” — spanish for singkamas I guess.
Not Spanish. Mexican. The source of our words for such food items as atsuete, sayote, kamote, tsokolate, and kakawate (although the Spanish ‘mani’ is more popular).
The generational gap explains the conversational gaps between you and DJB. That and your Aussie-white versus DJB’s America-white.
Im totally surprise with the pictures Matanda na pa la si DJB andami ng puting buhok. I thought mga nasa 30s lang. No wonder kadalasan ay masungit….dala siguro pag menomenopause !
nag bibiro lang po
Ya Rego, am pushing 66 already, but I cycle 50 km a day. Just did Kennon Road two weeks ago: 3.5 hours, 42.2 km one mile up. Post a pic. Show us your muscles.
oh thats admirable. in my case Im just 42and I maintain a 145 lb weight by just being active.
BTW I have an Ilocano freind here who is already 75 and still very active
DJB,
I am 58, still play basketball with my son, 29, but had to catch my breath in every two minutes.. after five minute non-stop run i can see pink and stars. You are in good shape, and I detest the comment about you being “masungit” sometimes because you were having a “menopause”… hahahahahah !!!!
DJB,
Please don’t think I laid you a trap.
This is the whole beauty of blogging – little monsters discover even bigger ones. He he. Joke lang rego. But you can pick up the stick you like.
Hehe. I can take more than I give Primer. Ang pikon lang ang talo! But it is getting tiresome around here…
One Dr. Bono has theorized of intelligent men – there is such a thing as an “intelligence trap”. When you reach a certain point, threshold call it6 that, it seems that you’re just moving around that area without creating ‘new more atoms’ as if it were.
At one time or the other, we all find ourselves wanted to go out of the noose. Speaking of that, benigno is finding real hard time to even just loosen the noose a bit which you may have pulled all too hard to choke the guy, our friend, nonetheless.
I have no illusions about being able to “choke the guy”. That would be futile. He believes in himself too much for that, and in nothing else. Thus, is he implacable. But this is not a beauty contest and there’s bigger fish to fry in other ponds and other places. We are always talking about how it is only ideas that matter, so that is the clash in which I am most interested. It is not Malign0 that I hate, but the ideas that have found a suitable home in his head, from which they fly like vampire bats at twilight.
They are infinitely, infinitely more dangerous than a simple coconut adrift on the southern sea who proclaims himself a giant among men.
Mind your own business. Just choke yourself.
Discuss ideas, not people.
Tsismosa.
Pakialamera :D
I stand beside you Dean.. as always.. my faith is great in The Filipino people.. we as the Filipino shall see a brighter future indeed.
To be identified a coconut
Historically, really, an insult
For he who is labeled a coconut
Is apparent to have betrayed his root
A natural in white nation he’s not
He’s brown-clad yet call his fellow a coot
Oh, my…from where he belong he forgot
No doubt a coconut as a result!
Baycas,
I see no insult if i am identified as a “coco”.
Coconut should be our national tree and not the acacia tree. Young leaves are canisterized to hold “makagkit na suman” and on lent, these common materials for “palaspas”; matured leaves can be woven as roofs, midribs as “walis na tingting” and the stem (we call palapa in Bicol) when dried are used as firewood. Trunk when sawed off, serves as firewood too, house posts and frames to hold roofs and walls.
Coconut tree is a source of “tuba” (a local concoction which is as inebriating) which if made to ferment becomes an exquisite vinegar. It gives us buko and buko juice too. In between young coconut and matured coconut is “lukadon” used as pudding of buko pie vendors In Lucena. Matured coconuts provide coconut milk used mostly for cooking vegetables and fish. “Bikol express” is unjustly served without being cooked in coconut milk. Coco jam is made of coconut milk. Coco milk heated up in a pan for the water to evaporate becomes coconut oil. The brownish residue after the oil is drained is tasty substitute for peanut butter.
My mother used to tell us that they had survived during the Japanese era by eating buko and drinking buko juice. And instead of milk, she said, she fed my elder brothers with buko juice.
Coconut husk are used to smoke “tinapa” and copra, and in the provinces, and to ward off insects and mosquitoes. To usher in the flowering of mango orchard, you can use the reliable coconut husks to smoke the orchard.
Hard coconut shells are being fashioned for different ornamental trinkets and decorations. Kids used small shells as castanets to liven up their favorite folk dance.
Goldilocks could have long removed from their menu the yummy “lumpiang sariwa” without the continuous supply of fresh “ubod” from coconut.
I don’t see any derogatory implication of one being referred to as having gone “coco”, nor see any racist implication in it, that if is we really value the tree for all its worth.
:)
Miss the ginataang ubod with sprinklings of those muscular crabs we called ‘bakla crabs’, no aligue but oozing with taba inside. Miss my small island called Namanday, lying somewhere there in the most hinterland of Albay facing the Pacific Ocean, with pearly shells strewn sandy beaches and brackish mangroove swamps teemiong with ‘dalo-dalo’ and ‘supsupon’, a variety of long pointed snail that when cooked with gata all you have to do is suck the suculent meat, and swoon.
Wish I could take all of you guys there and then we can forget the wranglings for awhile.
bert,
we have our own punaw and bugitis. I have this entry in my book:
“If I was not waiting for father to come ashore after midnight fishing, my early morning routine in this fishing barrio was to gather live shells (bugitis) that buried themselves few inches in the wet sand along the beach or look for the big shells, (punaw) from under the muddy mangroves basin whose water recedes into the nearby sea.
My elder sister, would stew the sea shells in lemon juice with malunggay leaves and picked the meat from the shells which opened up from the boiling water. You can see few grains of silvery sand settled in the kettle after you emptied the pan. The rich taste of sea shell meat and its soup had tide over many of our hunger in those days.
The punaw is cooked in a different way. You opened it up fresh with a knife and scope the meat from the shell and fry the meat in a lard. The lard was being sold in a transparent waxed paper and cut in size like a bath soap in today’s standard; it was soft and turns liquid few seconds after you put it in a pan. Our alternative source of cooking oil was from coconut milk boiled for hours for the water to steam off and leaves behind sweet smelling hot oil and soft brown curdled tasty sediments which we used as a substitute for peanut butter for our pan de sal “camote” or corn in a cob.
The punaw meat, cooked brown and crispy was a delicacy. Some would vend it in skewers of bamboo sticks like ordinary pork barbecue, or like the famous isaw or fishball of Diliman campus. This crispy shell meat tasted delicious.”
Enough, enough, JCC! Or I will be forced to go home! And then I will miss you guys. Haaay, buhay.
sheesh, at least coconut…
kesa walang coconut..
or… plain NUTS.. NUTTY
:D
The term “coconut” is derogatory in other countries. But why worry the Brits have been charmed by Pacquiao.
Anyone can say it as a term to identify “the coconut” but not to a person or a group. Usage beware.
Nick,
Let’s re-name this site as Pinoy Online Poets’(POPs) workshop, to be moderated by no less than DJBalagtas himself. :)
Nick,
Let’s re-name this site as Pinoy Online Poets’(POPs) workshop, to be moderated by no less than DJBalagtas himself. :)
ROTFLMAO. Made my day dude.
‘urge all our colleagues here at Filipino Voices and throughout the Blogosphere to combat coconut racism and its perhaps unconscious intellectual support for fascist dictatorship’
Hmmmm. If DJB thinks benign0 is a mosquito blogger, then Filipino Voices would be the:
KATOL NG BAYAN? :)
Phil Manila:
Hilarious dude. :D
Get a motel room already you two.
Get a motel room already you two.
DJB’s esteemed comment. :D
How classy…… NOT :D
ahahahaha ang saya saya dito grabe ang saya makasama ang mga intellectuals….NOT
If you had lived in the U.S. You will encounter Racism. The White
People are trained in their Mindsets. That they are Superior Race.
Look at the ideology of Hitler of Germany. The White Aryan Race
are the Superior Race. Other Races are inferior. They must be
serve the White Aryan Race. White Supremacy agendas are still alive
in the U.S., and in the European countries.
It is your responsibility to prove that they are wrong. By having
good education, the best knowledge in your brain, and by succeeding
in life. Ability is colorless. Brain is gray. It is not white, brown, black, yellow or red.
Manny Pacquiao showed them that they are wrong. He knock out Hatton.
Our National Hero, Jose Rizal tried to show us, a century earlier
that the Filipino can be the best in any field or profession. He studied almost all fields of studies. His girlfriends were almost all
Whites. His wife was Irish.
We still dont understand what he was trying to convey to us…
Racism is really a form of pandemic mental illness in a given population, usually against a subpopulation. But COCONUT RACISM is an especially twisted kind of racism, much like an in-grown toenail. Coconut racism as practiced here at FV is a mental illness among a MINORITY of the population. It is Filipino-on-Filipino racism which seems to find its roots in the phenomenon of emigration. It is an aping of the new emigres sudden thrust into a completely alien society. I think it is in fact a kind of self-innoculation against becoming a target of racism in that new millieu by adopting the prejudices of the majority there. They are trying to prove they are white even if outside they are brown.
The danger in Coconut Racism is however the same as in all racism. It has led in the past to the fascist suppression of its targetted populations in many countries.
At least white racists practicing white racism ARE whites. Our coconuts practice white racism yet if they looked in the mirror, or their own family pictures, they would see how pitiable and ludicrous they really are.
Jose Rizal already had their number in the Noli and the Fili. That’s where I actually get this psychological information.
Coconut racism is if you don’t agree with DJB.
If you don’t agree you are coconut racist.
Hay naku, bolahin mo ang lelong mong panot.
DJB,
I realize that like BongV, mang RESTITUTO FRUTO migrates to the U.S. and adopts the mainstream American culture quickly and completely, he then becomes TUTTI FRUTTI.
But what if a Pinoy COCONUT goes to the U.S. and continues with his native habits, is he then like you:
CHOCNUT?
I realize that like BongV, mang RESTITUTO FRUTO migrates to the U.S. and adopts the mainstream American culture quickly and completely, he then becomes TUTTI FRUTTI.
The assumptions are WRONG.
If you refer to the personal responsibility ethos – it is not exclusive to American culture. Filipinos can be personally responsible, as enablers would have it – it is better to be the ideal native. And to distract away from the damage done by enablers – they are quick to raise the “racist” card.
How can a call for personal responsibility be racist? When in fact, you are recognizing the fact that the Filipino has the potential to be great, but to achieve that potential he has to stop believing he can’t do it, and he has to shed off obsolete mindsets.
Is that racist? It’s the farthest thing from the truth. And racist as used in this post above speaks a lot about the level of comprehension about the concept – not only is the use of the word off tangent, self-serving, it is also outright IGNORANT.
If you like, Malign0 and BongA are actually Dona Victorina de de Espadana, who speaks, thinks and sounds just like them…from 120 years ago!
DJB:
Peoples and governments are correlated and complementary:
a fatuous government would be an anomaly among righteous people, just
as a corrupt people cannot exist under just rulers and wise laws.
Like people, like government, we will say in paraphrase of a popular adage.
-Jose Rizal, The Indolence of Filipinos :D
Wow BongV, what long hair you suddenly have (Skinhead No. 2.)
o yung mga pekeng Rizalist dyan tandaan ang sabi ni lolo jose:
like people, like government.
However, there IS hope for our coconut racists, because at least among the arrivistes and parvenus among them, the only difference between a coconut racist and a nominal patriot is whether or not they get laid off in the economic crisis, or are displaced by newer immigrants. Thus transformed into double misfits, they try to jump back into their own old skins. The ones who are rejected as prodigal sons, are however the most dangerous. They are the ones who actually become skinheads.
sorry that YOU TOO have fallen victim to CLICHE and stereotyping of “the white race”.
you must have horrible anger issues that have yet to be dealt with.
*** not all Germans were Nazi’s btw.
just like not all white southerners are aligned with the KKK….
from your comments you choose to look backwards.
I look foward to the future, my friend and the integration of a global community.
-white kano married to a pinay….NOT a mestiza…..
i notice all the guys in your photos, except pacquiao himself, and in particular you, conspicuously, have raised fist as though they all can box. pinoys think they can box because pacquiao can? maybe this is a form of “coconut racism” you are talking about? (lol)
Kornee Attorney.
Peoples and governments are correlated and complementary: a fatuous government would be an anomaly among righteous people, just as a corrupt people cannot exist under just rulers and wise laws.
Like people, like government, we will say in paraphrase of a popular adage.
-Jose Rizal, The Indolence of Filipinos :D
Rally rally rally… granny trannies of the world unite
Adebrux,
Nobody knows who Malign0 actually is. (Or cares.) But he/she/it is a memetic reincarnation of a character in the Rizal novels, Dona Victorina de de Espadana, the original Coconut Racist. There is nothing in fact original or clever about my diagnosis of this mental illness, coconut racism, which now seems to afflict primarily a small number of permanent (they hope) OCWs. Jose Rizal had their number long ago and already exposed them for what they are.
Dr Pac Man: Labanan ang coconut racism
Fan: Dr. Pac Man, sinong pipiliin nyong trainot?
Si Fred Roach o si Queen Blogger
Dr Pac Man: You are a coconut racist!
KLING KLANG KLONG TILILING KLEMBANG TOINK.
:D
Adebrux,
But you can more or less tell who they are by the funny sounds they tend to make, like the rattling sound of a broken marble in an empty coconut shell.
“At least white racists practicing white racism ARE whites. Our coconuts practice white racism yet if they looked in the mirror, or their own family pictures, they would see how pitiable and ludicrous they really are.”
Hmmm… Surely, there can’t be any “coconuts” writing in FV! Or are there?
JCC,
Amazing coconut!…your post above…
My poem on the “coconut” is in the context of DJB’s “coconut” in this blogpost. Some bloggers here at FV need introspection as to their behavior as “coconuts.”
CheekyChic is right, “coconut” is derogatory…but some British Asians thought they needed to become “coconuts.”
“They feel they need to fit into society and that society looks at them in a bad way.” Please read here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/07/questions_of_identity.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6921534.stm
Saludo, mon capitan!
Are we talking of two kinds of coconuts here, baycas? One by natural selection, the other by choice?
Baycas,
Thanks for the links to the Beeb articles. Never realized the term “coconut” to refer to racist personae, had actually entered the Anglospheric Mainstream like that, and with various shades and connotations, some contradictory or variant. Very nicely expands and establishes the term and its definition: Coconut racism. (Hey Google Bus pick this post up and link it with the Beeb tag in the Serp algorithm, ok?)
Dang! We have skin problem, weight problem, race problem, we also have coconut problem?
HA!HA!HA!HA!HA! Cocohead? Logic too confining? HA!HA!HA!HA!
Can the Philippines be run the American way? NO WAY! IMPOSIBLI!!!!
Philippinos can only be run with sticks and stones. Nothing less, more than more!!!!!
But the USA can be governed the Pinoy way! Hehehehehehe!
Blackshama,
But Pinoys do best outside their country. Here follow my drift.
http://jcc34.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/bahamas-diary-day-three-062908/
An American of Filipino descent will be president of the US someday. We’ve already had a Filipino governor of Hawaii, where an American of Kenyan descent grew up. Oh, and Renato Pacifico, how can you ignore the fact that every President and major leader there came from somewhere else, or had DNA from people that did? (Sh*t, his lithium is wearing off again! He was doing so well already, kanina.)
Peoples and governments are correlated and complementary: a fatuous government would be an anomaly among righteous people, just as a corrupt people cannot exist under just rulers and wise laws.
Like people, like government, we will say in paraphrase of a popular adage.
-Jose Rizal, The Indolence of Filipinos
Circa 1896
Austin Craig wrote in his preface to the translation of “THE INDOLENCE OF FILIPINOS” that ‘The essay itself originally appeared in the Filipino forthrightly review, La Solidaridad, of Madrid, in five installments, running from July 15 to September 15, 1890. It was a continuation of Rizal’s campaign of education in which he sought by blunt truths to awaken his countrymen to their own faults at the same time that he was arousing the Spaniards to the defects in Spain’s colonial system that caused and continued such shortcomings.”
Austin further commented that:
There seems now a, prospect that insular legislation may make available to the individual the guarantees of personal liberty upon which America at home prides itself, that municipal self-government and provincial autonomy may become realities in the Philippines, and possibly even that both Filipinos and Americans may realize before it is too late how our elastic territorial government could be made to exact from them much less of their independence than the sacrifice of sovereignty necessary in Neutralization or internationalization.
Rizal pointed out
Alas! The whole misfortune of the present Filipinos consists in that they have become only half-way brutes. The Filipino is convinced that to get happiness it is necessary for him to lay aside his dignity as a rational creature, to attend mass, to believe what is told him, to pay what is demanded of him, to pay and forever to pay; to work, suffer and be silent, without aspiring to anything, without aspiring to know or even to understand Spanish, without separating himself from his carabao, as the priests shamelessly say, without protesting against any injustice, against any arbitrary action, against an assault, against an insult; that is, not to have heart, brain or spirit: a creature with arms and a purse full of gold ………… there’s the ideal native!
Unfortunately, or because the brutalization is not yet complete and because the nature of man is inherent in his being in spite of his condition, the native protests; he still has aspirations, he thinks and strives to rise, and there’s the trouble!
After pointing out the government’s shortcomings. Rizal next looked his countrymen square in the eye. He writes further:
We can reduce all these causes to two classes: to defects of training and lack of national sentiment.
The very limited training in the home, the tyrannical and sterile education of the rare centers of learning, that blind subordination of the youth to one of greater age, influence the mind so that a man may not aspire to excel those who preceded him but must merely be content to go along with or march behind them. Stagnation forcibly results from this, and as he who devotes himself merely to copying divests himself of other qualities suited to his own nature, he naturally becomes sterile; hence decadence. Indolence is a corollary derived from the lack of stimulus and of vitality.
The lack of national sentiment brings another evil, moreover, which is the absence of all opposition to measures prejudicial to the people and the absence of any initiative in whatever may redound to its good.
A man in the Philippines is only an individual, he is not a member of a nation. He is forbidden and denied the right of association, and is therefore weak and sluggish. The Philippines are an organism whose cells seem to have no arterial system to irrigate it or nervous system to communicate its impressions; these cells must, nevertheless, yield their product, get it where they can: if they perish, let them perish. In the view of some this is expedient so that a colony may be a colony; perhaps they are right, but not to the effect that a colony may flourish.
The result of this is that if a prejudicial measure is ordered, no one protests; all goes well apparently until later the evils are felt. Another blood-letting, and as the organism has neither nerves nor voice the physician proceeds in the belief that the treatment is not injuring it. It needs a reform, but as it must not speak, it keeps silent and remains with the need. The patient wants to eat, it wants to breathe the fresh air, but as such desires may offend the susceptibility of the physician who thinks that he has already provided everything necessary, it suffers and pines away from fear of receiving scolding, of getting another plaster and a new blood-letting, and so on indefinitely.
We have heard many complaints, and every day we read in the papers about the efforts the government is making to rescue the country from its condition of indolence. Weighing its plans, its illusions and its difficulties, we are reminded of the gardener who tried to raise a tree planted in a small flower-pot. The gardener spent his days tending and watering the handful of earth, he trimmed the plant frequently, he pulled at it to lengthen it and hasten its growth, he grafted on it cedars and oaks, until one day the little tree died, leaving the man convinced that it belonged to a degenerate species, attributing the failure of his experiment to everything except the lack of soil and his own ineffable folly.
Circa 2009
The native is still the ideal native – as Primer our colleague says “behaving almost like a slave” – EXACTAMENTE – as they have been in 1896.
I wonder if Rizal would also be branded as a coconut racist when he writes the Filipino is halfway to becoming a brute.
Today, a Filipino has the right of association but our associations are weak and sluggish. Our choice of leaders tends to border on who is the most senile or who has the most mullah – Rizal was right on the money when said “blind subordination of the youth to one of greater age, influence the mind so that a man may not aspire to excel those who preceded him but must merely be content to go along with or march behind them. Stagnation forcibly results from this”
More Questions
How much has changed since 1896, it seems time remains at a standstill – the collective IQ and EQ of half-brutes is still pretty much around.
Have we taken Rizal’s admonition to heart? is the admonition for the government only?
Do we discuss grades resulting from an educational system designed to produced brutes, and behave like a brute showing off how excellent the brutishness is? – Or, should we be discussing how the educational system can be reformed to produce critical thinkers, doers, responsible citizens, entrepreneurs – not half-brutes.
We only have 24 hours in day, and our priorities
Worse, a call for personal responsibility is played off as racist.
But who really is the racist?
He who exercises tough love so that his countrymen may address their weakness and thereby become stronger.
Or he who thinks the natives are the ideal native and should remain as they are?
I would assert that Jose Rizal articulated the matter quite clearly.
If this nation will have a chance to move forward – it has to step out of its collective denial – and face the issues head on and behave like sober,rational,logical, and compassionate individuals.
Have we, as a nation, really grown up since 1896, or have we as a nation remain, in the words of lolo Jose - ideal natives halfway or even all the way to becoming brutes?
Einstein is German, Madam Curie is French, Mother Theresa is Albanian, Bill Gates, Martin Luther King, Thomas Jefferson are Americans, Jesus Christ is from Judea (modern-day Israel and West Bank), Mao Tse-tung is Chinese, Dalai Lama is Tibetan.
Who is our Pinoy equivalent among the world’s greatest personalities?
Don’t you think DNA is race-related?
Can’t Jose Rizal qualify in this? I believe he had more credentials than some of these people.
Danny,
Rizal is chinese…
Danny,
Jose Rizal DISPROVES the suggestion that “greatness” is “race-related”, which is self-evidently a RACIST suggestion.
Did he have more credentials than some of these people? Well one only needs to read the letters and testimonials of the Spaniards, Germans, Englishmen, Belgians, Japanese, French, Americans, Austrians, etc. who knew him, worked with him, were inspired by him and even to this day honor and revere him, to see how utterly racist are the ideas of those around who think otherwise about the distribution of intelligence, greatness, and human potential that the First Filipino demonstrated contrary to their coconutty notions and auto-racist mentality.
Jose Rizal DISPROVES the suggestion that “greatness” is “race-related”, which is self-evidently a RACIST suggestion.
Scientifically speaking, we do not know. The last time someone dared hypothesize that ‘greatness’ is somehow race-realted (or to use a more scientific term, DNA-realted) was when Nobel prize winning science legend James Watson said that data showed that black Africans arent as smart as other races, he attracted a sh*tstorm of politically correct condemnation even from his fellow scientists. He was shouted down and was forced to withdraw from a conference where he was supposed to present his data. The reason we believe — the reason I believe, anyway — all races are equal and can be as great as any other is not scientific evidence. It is something more powerful than science; something that drives humanity itself more strongly than the desire for scientific knowledge.
JCC, you asked, “Don’t you think DNA is race related?” after listing some great persons in history from various races and nationalities.
On the face of it, the question is senseless, but let me rephrase it the way I think you meant it:
“Don’t you think “greatness” is race-related?”
The answer is a firm and proveable: NO!
DJB,
but you did not address my claim that J. Rizal is Chinese. :)
so who are our Pinoy Greats?
JCC,
What do you think the biological Chinese ancestry of Rizal proves? He also had Malay, and possibly Indian ancestors. Ultimately, we are all Africans, no?
Besides, Jose Rizal was not Chinese culturally, educationally, or mentally. He was in fact Spanish in these regards (viz> he wrote in mellifluous spanish), but such Hispanic superstructure was built on an indio substrate.
This whole discussion ignores evolution and the simple fact that nations are actually artificial divisions of one human race.
The coconut racists cling to this argument by example, but I am not sure what it proves. You have to make the argument more explicit.
What exactly does your claim the J. Rizal is Chinese, prove, suggest, or indeed mean, considering the premise is not even factual except genealogically.
I don’t think that greatness is race related. And if we consider Rizal as Chinese, then what are we? Who are the people that we can consider as Filipinos?
DJB/Danny,
When I posited the idea that DNA could be race-related it was for the reason that I have not seen so much so much greatness in Pinoys. Just look around you. DNA predetermines the make-up of the individual, as a genius or a great statesman, a great patriot or as a visionary. Not that I am not proud of my heritage, but this is another way of looking inwardly at ourselves and find what ails us? Is it our culture or it is ingrained in our DNA that we remain third rate race?
Japan, Singapore and China had made great leaps while we lagged far behind. A government official in Japan who is perceived to be corrupt, resigns posthaste, no buts, no ifs, no quibble. Compare that attitude to the attitude of our government functionaries and you will get the picture. In Singapore you are not allowed to chew gums because after they are chewed, they could nestle under public chairs and tables. See how they address their aesthetic concerns and hygiene?
Is the Greatness of Rizal DNA-determined because of his Chinese ancestry? Maybe or may be not. But his being born in the Philippines, by natural process developed his compassion to a race that had been enslaved. He was willing to be its spokesman and its champion. Does his Chinese DNA predestined his individual make-up to be a patriot and a visionary? Or is it his Indian and Malay DNA that predominates in this make-up?
JCC:
If one goes by DNA – i don’t think there is a distinct “Pinoy” race, however, there is a Malay race – and there are many notable personalities produced by the Malay race.
The “greatness” of Pinoy DNA as a variant of the Malay race is another story.
“Pinoy” is a cultural construct – a non-entity that did not exist prior to the Spanish conquest of the islands, in contrast to the Japanese or Chinese who can trace their lineage centuries before the Gregorian calendar came into norm.
So to answer the question within, NO, greatness is not race related.
“This whole discussion ignores evolution and the simple fact that nations are actually artificial divisions of one human race…” DJB.
Do you believe in that?
Where is the artificiality between one race with white skin, high acquiline nose, six feet tall and a race of brown-skins, “pango” and five feet tall? Where is the artificiality between one race who have conquered the moon and the outer space, while others have yet to conquer famine and hunger; between a race which in 1940 have already been building tanks, ammunitions and airplanes with another which can only fashion
“balisong” “bolos” and “paltik?”. Where is the artificiality between one race which can build “silos” while the other can only build “baha-kubo?” Those are not artificial divides, those are great and canyons of divide.
If you see Turkish college girls, and some Middle East women, you will be amazed to find their flawless skin and the symmetry of their face identical to posters and statues of the Virgin Mary which the Catholic Church has been portraying all along.
Human race are entirely distinct from each other. Some race are definitely well-endowed than others.
to bongV: One of today’s differences from Rizal’s years : a number of today’s Filipinos want to learn English at least enough to meet seamanship-requirements or to be workers in Hongkong or other countries; same Filipinos having courage to leave Pinas and be a lot further away from their carabaos.
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But these words (from Rizal’s work “Indolence”) sometimes still happen:
If by one of those rare accidents, some wild spirit, that is, some active one, excels, instead of his example stimulating, it only causes others to persist in their inaction. ‘There’s one who will work for us: let’s sleep on!’ say his relatives and friends. True it is that the spirit of rivalry is sometimes awakened, only that then it awakens with bad humor in the guise of envy, and instead of being a lever for helping, it is an obstacle that produces discouragement.
UP:
It happens a lot of times.
What’s silly is when the inaction is called to task, Lolo Jose’s half-witted brutes can only say “racism” – totally silly, ludicrous, and downright ignorant :D
I shall always take as a supreme compliment to be called “Lolo Jose’s half-witted brute” by BongVictorino de de Espadana.
For compared to Jose Rizal, I loudly admit that I am a half-wit and a brute. In comparison to Dr. Rizal, let me add, that I am totally silly, ludicrous and downright ignorant.
In this comparison there is no shame. I am an ant, or less. But I stand proudly on the shoulders of such a giant and survey the field of battle with enthusiasm and excitement.
For what is quickly becoming obvious is that the Giant’s Poetry has already infected another brain that is gently, gently being nudged in the Right Direction. That brain is cussing and writhing in pain, purging itself of the viruses acquired from moral dwarves and malignant racists. He was always half ours anyway and I believe in the end he will totally surrender to the Giant, if never to the Ant.
That is as it should be!
Peoples and governments are correlated and complementary: a fatuous government would be an anomaly among righteous people, just as a corrupt people cannot exist under just rulers and wise laws.
Like people, like government, we will say in paraphrase of a popular adage.
-Jose Rizal, The Indolence of Filipinos
The Giant is a Benign0 fan :D
And the ant remains clueless :D
DJB,
You find it fulfilling joustling with BongV whose expertise is to “cut and paste” huh? :)
Well, JCC, here is how it actually works…after a while they will be cutting and pasting almost nothing but my words and even in their dreams and nightmares I shall be there in their brain.
BongVictorina and Maqlign0, these coconut racists are the modern reincarnation of Senor and Senorita de de Espadana in the novels. They were already refuted long before they were born.
And either they will die as miserable racists and chauvinists against their own race, or the race they think they will have adopted will do it for us.
Unless of course they can be saved by others.
There is no escaping this fate or this choice.
The incorrigible, suffer the punishment of being imprisoned in their own coconut shells, like crabs with claws for hands and minds as hateful as any that reigned in the dark nights of the past.
They are not however to be ignored or trivially dismissed, but must be handled like dangerous animals or infectious diseases lest they bring the chaos in their minds into the hearts of real men.
We should not be surprised in fact if BongVictorina and Malign0 are one and the same person, the same one who dropped out (expelled?) from the Ateneo in the year…
No diffeent from Mental Copy and Paste.
Memorize Rules of Court – after decades of practice – you’d think you are the original – hell no, YOU are not – mental copy-and-paste – online copy-and-paste – same copy-and-paste.
Hey, if we are pseudo-intellectual masturbators, my sperm might as well have the farthest throw :lol:
bong P, mr ‘cut and paste’? hell, no. he’s so original, he thinks he’s licensed to plagiarise from obscure websites at that. that’s where he got his ephiphany as an atheist. oh well, to become an atheist by stealing words from obscure sites–am like, is the coconut thinking?
imilie:
panahon pa ni mampur yun – you are still stuck in a time warp :lol:
DJB:
Read this one million times – Like people, like government :D
Devils can quote Scripture, but racists spin the words even of patriots and great men to serve their evil ends. Yet the energy expended results only in excavating a deeper hole in which to fall in dishonor.
We can only thrown them a lifeline and hope they will have the sense to grasp it.
DJB:
You do not have a monopoly of patriotism. Nor you have a copyright or trademark on the definition of patriotism.
And, the words you speak might very well be the most fitting for YOU.
By preventing our countrymen from finding their strength and striking out their weaknesses we create wimps.
By preventing gold to pass through the fire we create gold laden with dross.
By a deliberate attempt to prevent grinding the blade through the grindstone we perpetuate a society of dull blades.
In doing so, we are doing this nation a disservice. We deserve better.
DJB:
And, the words you speak might very well be the most fitting for YOU.
By preventing our countrymen from finding their strength and striking out their weaknesses we create wimps.
By preventing gold to pass through the fire we create gold laden with dross.
By a deliberate attempt to prevent grinding the blade through the grindstone we perpetuate a society of dull blades.
In doing so, we are doing this nation a disservice.
We deserve better.
You do not have a monopoly of patriotism. Nor you have a copyright or trademark on the definition of patriotism.
As Joe Black puts it “Take love, multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever..and you still have only a glimpse of how I feel for” my country.
I’m trying my darndest to look for this “hole” you speak of that some people supposedly fall into in “dishonor”, gramps.
But I can’t seem to find it.
Care to help us out a bit here? :D
Aptly said DJB. Now I’m beginning to be your fan.
what makes you think you are NOT the devil, djb, or the “racist” for that matter (at least, in the mind of others)?
I cannot believe that in the 21st Century there are fellow Filipinos who sound as bad as the worst racists, White Supremacists and Social Darwinists of 19th Century who had a great old time drawing up imaginary racial hierarchies (note: using BOTH the Bible and Science as a basis). Good grief, all this talk about race! I suspect that these posts are being avidly read by those crackpot “White Nationalists” and “White Separatists” in the States (if you want to have a good laugh, or a good shudder, visit their blogs)