“Apology not accepted.”
This is the message Filipinos in Hong Kong are stubbornly conveying to HK Magazine writer Ko Tik a.k.a Chip Tsao.
It’s a full week since he went to the Philippine Consulate General and matched his verbal appeal with a traditional bow manifesting his contrite attitude over the socio-political storm whipped up by his ill-considered March 27 “satirical piece.”
That ‘mea culpa’ appearance was attended by 70 leaders of over 130 Filipino associations in the former colony of the British Crown.
Tsao had called the Philippines “a nation of servants” as his took a dig at the new Philippine Baselines law which included the disputed Spratlys as a ‘regime of islands’.
Tsao and his publication had tried to wiggle their way out of the controversial racial slur by asserting literary license.
http://hk-magazine.com/feature/war-home
That did not wash as a sincere apology even to the Philippine government which put Ko Tik on its No Entry blacklist, a prohibition which was last reported “set to be rescinded.”
But it now looks like the blacklist’s lifting may not be implemented just yet given the show of force by some 7,000 (according to updated estimates) Filipinos who filled a major Hong Kong street to demand that Chip Tsao make good an earlier verbal promise that he might write a formal retraction of his racial slur.
That retraction is pending so the Filipino organizations have issued a manifesto saying Tsao’s act of contrition is just not complete.
The controversy clearly appears to be escalating rather than dying down.
Tsao in April 6, 2009 issue of South China Morning Post:
I have already done what should be done.
I have no further comment.
I am not a racist.
http://www.thesundaily.com/article.cfm?id=31895
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“But it now looks like the blacklist’s lifting may not be implemented just yet given the show of force by some 7,000 (according to updated estimates) Filipinos who filled a major Hong Kong street”
Wow…. 7000 of them…. domestic helpers!!!!!!!!!!!! Not wanting to be called coming from a nation of servants – and yet they are…… SERVANTS IN HONGKONG!!!!!
SUSGINOO…. ang denial nga naman ng mga flipazzes…. ROTFLMAO!
We look all like immature children. The fellow has apologize already.
Accept the apology. Let us solve the problem of being domestic servant
of the Chinese, but of the world.
Tasio,
I will accept the apology if i was the one personally insulted. No big deal for me. But I was not, my inclination to forgive Tsao does not count. :)
This is the message Filipinos in Hong Kong who are stubbornly conveying to HK Magazine writer Ko Tik a.k.a Chip Tsao..
You are a nation where the president promotes supermaids – and you expect the country to be known as a country of CEOs?
kabayan you all ought to be stuborrnly reminded – - Bachelor of Science graduates working as DH in HK – given that, we want a perception that we are a nation of CEOs….? soooooo…. GUNGGONG!
Small things matter to Filipinos. “Desperate Housewives’ quip” “Fake Perfume” “Philippines land of servants” “definition of filipinos: servants” … etc … etc …
Pero gung-gongness of ZTE invistigation by the senate, irresponsible reporting of Joey de Venecia’s hearsay … OK lang … walang protesta!
ANO BA TAYO? Huh?
Huwag lang kayo magalit sa mga toto-o, ha?
Darm, if they don’t want Chip’s apology
- they can all leave HK and
go back to the PI – work as……
DH pa rin…
ROTFLMAO
I have to agree with you Bong. This is all starting to be unreasonable. The Filipinos in Hong Kong have made their point. Pushing the envelope further is not only being pig-headed but ultimately unproductive. They should come to their senses.
Ding:
It has become a hilarious episode that only Pinoys are capable of making.
At the end of the day, if Pinoys don’t want to hear foreigners commenting on anything that the onion-skinned carries-a-chip-on-the-shoulder folks find as an affront to their self-proclaimed monopoly on patriotism – then, these Pinoys ought to stay in the Philippines, stay in your backyard, stay in their barriootic world and indulge in their xenophobia worthy of an asian redneck in the boondocks of metro manila.
not so fast ding. more specifically, those 7,000 maids were the ones who felt offended by the slur. if they do not want to accept the apology, which according to them fall short of “sincere contrition”, i shall go along with them.
personally, i would consider his going to the RP embassy in Hongkong sufficient, but i was not the one who was personally insulted so my personal inclination to accept Tsip’s apology does not count.
btw, those “maids” were there doing honest though arduous tasks in hongkong. they should be treated fairly and with dignity. simply because they work as housemaids, they lost whatever dignity they have as human beings.
so the saga continues.
darn, why are people associating Tsip to Hongkong as if Tsip owns Hongkong? He is just one of the nationals of Hongkong so his opinion about Pinay maids do not reflect that of Hongkong so the argument that if you were against Tsip you should leave Hongkong already is one that is childish and reeked of outlandish ignorance.
Perhaps, jcc, perhaps.
As you may recall in my previous post in Tsao here at FV, I said it’s time to move on.
That our compatriots in HK have not is ultimately for them to now resolve. What I am concerned about is how this impacts on the larger landscape of Philippine relations with Hong Kong. and Beijing. May patutunguhan pa ba?
Gentlemen,
I know I made a grievous mistake placing front and center Filipina servants in my satire. It never was intended to put down the Philippines. It was meant to be a joke. Now I understand that Filipinos don’t have a sense of humor.
I treat my servants better than Filipios treat their servants. She has two days off. She can use my telephone to call her family but she insisted in texting them. I gave her my used cellphones which she sends to her siblings.
She eats what I eat. I offered that we eat together like a family yet she demured. She said “mahiya”. I don’t know what that means but I take it as she didn’t want to eat with my family.
On her days off she doesn’t work at all. My family does the after-meal clean-up unlike in the Philippines where the servants actually have just several hours off on their days off because they work before they leave and work after they come back.
I treat my servants humanely. She has soft bed with pillows. She has clean room with sheets. It has hand-me down TV but it works. She doesn’t watch TV because she doesn’t understand chinese broadcast.
My family treat her better than Filipios treat their servants. But still I should have much more sensitivity.
Please accept my apology.
Yours truly,
Chip Tsao
Is that you really Tsip Tsao? After inssulting our maids, now you come insulting Pinoys who hired maids because as compared to you, you treat them better?
When I was in the country we allowed our maids to eat with us, eat what we eat, gave them salary that is the accepted pay in the country, which could be lower compared to what you pay them but that is the trade off of their being away with their families plus the fact that Hongkong economy is better than RP.
They watched our television in the family room and not hand-me down televisions. We let their parents build their house in our lot in the province and harvest our fruit bearing trees in the lot free of charge.
We could not afford maids with degree in “international politics” and therefore they go to Hongkong for better pay. We hired the less intelligent ones. But do not lecture us that we maltreated our maids and treat them like dirts and that you treated them more humanely and with dignity.
Disabuse your mind of isolated incidents of abuse of our maids as the general representation of how the country treated her maids. Maids are abused too in other parts of the world, and that is part of the hazard of the trade, but those abuses hardly represent the national trait of any particular country towards their maids.
As you consider the our country a “nation of servants” now you would like to rub it in by impliedly calling the country as “nation of maid abusers”.
I am not surprised at all why those 7,000 maids in Hongkong would not let you go easily on your racial slur because your apology is ensnarled in “sarcasm” of which you seem to be good at.
jcc:
get over it. tsip tsao is not insulting the maids.
would suggest you redirect your attention to arroyo and the philippine government – promoter of the “super maids” program.
EGO (PRIDE) or AMOR PROPIO is common in Spanish-conquered countries.
Pride is confused with DIGNITY (RESPECT) most of the time.
There is dignity in being a servant. What is that Filipino anger then?
IS THAT PRIDE?
For those who wants to be called a nation of CEOs—HUMBLE YOURSELF, FOR SERVANTHOOD IS WHERE IT STARTS!
Mr. Valentin,
In Hong-Kong, our local Chinese servants who was born and raised here find their job as dignified.
I thought, calling Philippines as Land ‘o Servants was a complement because it is a dignified work in Hong-Kong by the locals.
I hired Louisa because what she offered was lower than our locals demand. Just the same I treated her the way I treated our local servants.
I’m worried about my reputation. I’m being villified. The Hong-Kong people raised their eyebrows on my satire which was fully understood by english speaking people.
My satire was not digested very well because we use British english while Philipines understand informal American english.
Now, the undercurrent of local servants are tainted by this brouhaha which I unintentionally caused.
Thank you for your understanding, Mr. Valentin.
I hope we meet one of this days.
I thank you again from the bottom of my heart.
Tsip,
Don’t give us that crap that your local servants considered their job dignified and you were complimenting us by calling us “land of servants”. Go back to your original post and let any English and American speaking people digest it to find that it is full of sarcasm and insult.
Now, you are again insulting us by even insinuating that we do not know our English.. You are really a piece of work..
jcc,
Don’t be taken… the email is coming from the Los Angeles County Mayor’s Office from the same office terminal used by Renato Pacifico…. he is masking his URL and using alternate identities.
Ding,
Why can’t FV prevent Pacifico Palaypay from masquerading as Tsip Tsao? I know Pacifico’s tirade, atrocious spelling and grammar, but the above-post do not have the signatures of Pacifico Palaypay.
jcc,
I will alert our backend…. I can only conjecture that FV is being toyed with… by a malevolent virus….
thanks ding. :)
ding,
this is one of the reasons why i detest “pen names”. some people suffered from verbal diarrhea and have the silly idea that it is alright to defecate in public places as long as they can cover their face.
if you haven’t come across a form of argumentation called reductio ad absurdeum i suggest you better read up on it.
freedom of expression dude – renato’s sh*t is as valid as your sh*t or anyone else’s cr*p on this board for that matter.
i may not like or agree with what he or anyone says, but he has all the right in the world to say what he has to say.
not all people on this planet want to speak/write/talk like you. once you’ve gotten a better grip of that, the better for you and for others who don’t want to be a mini-jcc.
cheers!
bong you can f * * ck or s ***t yourself around.. and don’t have to be ashamed about it because it is your right to express yourself. but atleast my objection is to put some human face on that “f* * cking and s* * tting around to know that he can stand on what he says in public.
but if you f * * ck around and s h ** t around while your face is covered, you seem to accept the fact that you yourelf is ashamed of f* * ck and s * *ting around.
jcc – if you had a quarter of a brain, to click on my blog link – you will see my pad, my kariton, and my face –
and if you had another quarter of brain, you’d have figured out the FV admin approves avatars.
susginoo, have yourself vaccinated for Foot-in-Mouth-disease.
barking at the wrong turn. follow the thread above and you will find out whose got a pea brain. not intetested in your kariton. in our place during party we consider it vulgar to talk about one’s mercedes benz, lexus, mclaren or even one’s salary and position in the workplace… we just drink, sing and play poker. if you’ve got the time and visit my blog i don’t display any car you called kariton or my house, because quite frankly, i just ride the public bus and we live in a tenement house, raggedy, rotten and infested.
jcc:
minding reminding FV about the idiot who said “but if you f * * ck around and s h ** t around while your face is covered, you seem to accept the fact that you yourelf is ashamed of f* * ck and s * *ting around.” – while you are at it, give the idiot a shot for Foot-In-Mouth disease.. lol.
and upon seeing the picture.. now has to come up with a lame reply… change topic na naman…
totally predictable… ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!
ang tali-talino mo talaga Bong V, bow na nga ako saiyo. :)
We are ON THE SAME PAGE, Manong.
Tanging serbisyo lang ni Louisa bilang ‘servant’ ang binabayaran ni Chip Tsao, hindi ang dignidad nito at lalong hindi ang bansang Pilipinas.
I don’t have anything against Chip Tsao with the ‘Land of Servants’ thing. But we servants have the right to fight for what we think is right and belonged to us.
As the master of your servant. You don’t flex your muscles at your servant AND PUT HIM IN SILENCE TO RESTRAIN HIM WITH HIS RIGHTS, who make most of your bread and butter, no pun intented.
Hi makahiya,
Ganap na tana ka. Alinmang trabaho ang pasukin, malibang lamang kung ito’y labag sa batas o sa mga kostumbreng moral, hindi nito inaalis and dignidad ng taongf naglilingkod.
Sa tingin ko naman ang puntong ito’y naipahatid na ka Ko Tik,
Dapat na nating sumulong sa isyu at ang harapin ay ang higit na malalim na mga suliraning pangkabuhayan, panlipunan, at ang pagtalikod at paglaban sa kabulukan ng gobyerjnong nakaupo.
Tama si Chip Tsao sa kanyang posts dito. Doon sa America ang basurero is a dignified work. They don’t hesitate to say “I’m a garbage truck operator” “I’m a cooker” “I work in a car wash” …
If you go to real white American state like Minnesota, Idaho, Colorado … whites cut grasses, deliver newspapers work in liquor store … they’re dignified …
But here, in the Philippines, they spit on garbage workers. “Cooker ka lang”. “Nagtratrabaho ka lang sa car wash”
You Filipino people there in America have you bitched on someone at the donut shop? I bet a big NO. Because you are not only afraid because you respect what they are doing. That’s dignity of job.
Servants in the Philippines are looked down upon. A dead-end job for the “uneducaated”. They are taken advantaged of. Of course, THERE ARE VERY FEW WHO TREAT THEIR SERVANTS humanely.
I don’t have servants. I cannot afford one because my pay BPO operative goes to cable internet for my advocacies:
- legalization, fair treatment and dignification of prostitutes
- fair treatment, dignification and humane working condition for servants
- MOST OF ALL, the professionalization of our journalist and editorial freedom from the fetters of the tisoys and tisays and intsik kwakang baboy tikangkang
Look, we are christians. We are catholics how dare we treat our little brown brothers like trash over fair-skinned white englischtz speaking tisoys and tisays …
what’s wrong with promoting our “maids”? they do hard work and honest job.. better than do something rather than starve. what i am against of is their being maltreated. in tsip’s case, literarily abused or verbally abused.
Definitions of satire:
* sarcasm: witty language used to convey insults or scorn; “he used sarcasm to upset his opponent”; “irony is wasted on the stupid”; “Satire is a …
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic and performing arts. …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire
* A literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. …
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/satire
* satiric – satirical: exposing human folly to ridicule; “a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine”
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* satirist – a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* The Satires are a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal written in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries CE.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satires_(Juvenal)
* satirical – of, pertaining to, or connected with satire
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/satirical
* satirist – A person who writes satire
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/satirist
* The literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose or correct it.
http://www.word-mart.com/html/glossary3.html
* A literary technique in which ideas, customs, behaviors or institutions are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society.
http://www.northwestern.k12.oh.us/curriculum/documents/glossary.doc
* A piece of literature designed to ridicule the subject of the work. While satire can be funny, its aim is not to amuse, but to arouse contempt. …
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/terms/Literary.Terms.3.html
* a literary work which belittles or savagely attacks its subject. A distinction is sometimes made between direct and indirect satire. [Contributor: Dr. Ismail S. Talib, National University of Singapore.]
ablemedia.com/ctcweb/glossary/glossarys.html
* In satire, human or individual weaknesses or shortcomings are shown by means of ridicule, derision, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improvement. …
http://www.hjk-steinfeld.de/index.php
* is the exposure of the vices or follies of an indiviudal, a group, an institution, an idea, a society, etc., usually with a view to correcting it. Satirists frequently use irony.
academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/lit_term.html
* 1. the use of ridicule or scorn, often in a humorous or witty way, to expose vices and follies. 2. a literary example of such ridicule or scorn.
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/READ/FRAMEWORK/glossary/general_p-t.html
THEY ARE ALL FORGOTTEN: Desperate Housewives (diplomas), Howard Stern’s (Filipinas on Prostitution), Mariah Carey’s (brown monkey), Claire Danes/ Kate Beckinsale (Manila stinks)…
CHIP TSAO’S WILL BE FORGOTTEN.
ARE THERE FILIPINOS WHO WERE ACTUALLY THREATENED BY THESE COMMENTS?
you consider tsip’s post a satire while others consider it plain insult. where is the satire in this: calling us servants who have no legal rights to claim for an island which could be lawfully belong to us because as a “nation of servants, we cannot flex our muscles against our masters”.
what is the relavance of my legal right over a piece of property which could lawfully belong to me to my status as a servant?. servants can own a piece of property too.
i would buy the idea that she is maltreated if it weren’t a satirical piece of prose.
have you seen with your own eyes – Chip Tsao abusing his maid?
do you all know for a fact that Chip Tsao does have a maid?
it’s a piece of fiction.. susginoo.
Atty. Camano,
Kasama mo ako.
Ang tunay na paninindigan ay hindi nagtatago sa likod ng maskara o nagkukubli ng URL.
Ding,
T.Y. :)
Atty. JCC,
I am not here to argue whether Chip’s post is a satire or insult. I am attempting to share deep thinking (Philosophy/ Wisdom) after 21 years of being exposed in a US multi-racial society.
I observed that other cultures are relatively quiet with racial insults but with a DEEP RESOLVE/ DETERMINATION to fix the actual problem.
PRAGMATISM is a word that I learned from the Americans. It means result-oriented. WHAT IS THE ACTUAL PHYSICAL RESULT IN THE ACTUAL PHYSICAL WORLD?
What is the actual Physical harm of these comments?
China claim the Spratlys in 1935 versus Vietnam, long before Chip Tsao was born (1958). Philippine claim started in 1946.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands
IN THE ACTUAL PHYSICAL WORLD, THE INABILITY OF THE FILIPINOS TO PROVIDE SUFFICIENT JOBS FOR HIMSELF IS THE ACTUAL PHYSICAL HARM!
Valentin,
This will be my last post on this article:
Maids in HK felt they were harmed by the statement of Tsip. They protested on the streets despite Tsip’s apology. Who are we to say that there was no harm inflicted by the “insult” masqueraded as “satire” where we live thousand miles from HK and clueless of the situation on the ground?
If China owns the Spratleys they can have those reefs for all I care. I am consistent enough in my post that the main island of RP had already been sold to China through various projects financed by Chinese money, the latest of these projects could have been the botched ZTE-Broadband project whose funding was to be sourced from “China Bank”.
I said also that one day, we will wake up singing the Chinese national hymn.
But when you started berating the country as a “nation of servants” and therefore we cannot put a claim on an island that belongs to China because it is imprudent to “flex your muscles against your masters”, you are not arguing that legally and historically the Spratleys belong to China. You were arguing that those reefs belong to China because as “servants it is imprudent “ to lay a claim over these islands.
You were also parsing Tsip that those coral reefs belong to China because of her claim in 1937 over the these islands whereof we just put a claim on them in 1947. Incidentally those disparate claims have to be adjudicated in a forum acceptable to the various claimants including Brunei, Vietnam, Malaysia and Taiwan. It has nothing to do at all of who among the claimants made the earliest claim.
If you consider the baseline doctrine of 200 nautical miles, it is a fact that those reefs are within the 200 nautical miles from the nearest baseline of the island of Palawan. Those reefs are way beyond the 200 nautical miles of China. But if you still want China to have those reefs, be my guest, just don’t rub it in that as “nations of servants we cannot put a claim over these reefs as against our masters”.
Do I speak Greek here or our contempt against our government is so much that we could no longer sensibly discuss the issues without wagging our finger in indignation against our government and impute every bad faith against it and good faith on any of her adversary. No wonder we cannot move on as a nation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea
The earlier we do away with having to measure other people’s views with our own level of subjectivities, the better it is.
There is an objective world out there that regardless of our subjective interpretation about it, nothing is really changed.
It is this. Some people here think they have the moral suasion, the higher mind, the better prognosis of just about everything.
Ironically, they use strong words that more than tackles the topic tackles the blogger or commenter himself.
JCC,
the servants in HKG are happy bec they have the ability to send their children to college.
JJC, how long has your servant been serving at home with you? 1 year? 5 years? 10 years?
After 10 years, is she still your servant? As her master you have done nothing to lift up her station life? What kind of master are you? A nurturing one? or one who perpetuates slavery?
I got his line of reasoning from the website below
http://streetstrategist.blogspot.com/
JJC lawyer ka pala?
What have you done, specifically, in the last 10 years that will help this country and will no longer export servants in 2 years time? In 5 years time, in 10 years? Tama nga yung writer sa blog. At the rate we are doing it, we will NEVER stop exporting servants, at least not in the next 20 years…
gerrypat,
i have done nothing except to send my kids to school so they will not become servants in HK, and I have no more servants in our household.
gerrypat, may i ask what have you done yourself? or you want me to assume your conceptualization of what the government should have done to provide opportunities for its citizens, and therefore i was a failure because i was not able to provide them jobs?
not my duty to provide our compatriots with job but what i know is this: americans, germans, chinese, italians and other nationalities are scattered all over the world and making honest living and the one who were successful were not blaming their government for their failure to provide them jobs. they were even thankful for their governments not being able to provide them jobs so they were given the impetus to look for work somewhere else.
so my query, gerrypat are you still that kind of Pinoy who cannot find job somewhere else and you want to empty out the hideous innard in your belly and be consumed of your hatred against your government?
if that is the case, it is okay that you cry on my shoulder because i can understand your pain.
btw, gerrypat,
i did not blame my parents for their inability to send me to college they being poor. my circumstance gave me strenght to work hard and become a person i wanted to be. only if we stop blaming others because of our helpless circumstance and look within us on how to improve ourselves, i believe we can move on as a people and as a nation.
Attt JJC
ang suerte mo. you were able to send ur kids to college and never had to send them abroad as maids.
How about the the 70% of the Filipino Families whose income are less than P23,000 per year (thats per annum), malas lang ba sila? (statistics from NSO, acdg to the weblog I mentioned earlier, not sure abotu this data though)
Nagtrabaho na man din sila for 12 hours as janitors, maids, sales clerks.. and some are labandera, off on carpenters, masons, etc.. 70%!!!!!!!!!!!!! walang suerte?
There is something wrong in our economic system. Nabasa ko yong essay “Why Filipinos Are Not Rich” sa internet download and grabe yong revelations doon.
gerrypat,
dapat ko bang problemahin iyong 70 per cent? hindi ba obligasyon din nila ang magsumikap? hindi ka ba expose sa kuwento ng mga mahirap na taong nagsumikap at nahango sa kahirapan? kailangan bang ipagdikdikan mo na kailangang arugain ka ng gobyierno para maitaguyod mo ang iyong mga panagarap?
Jump in ako dito ha.
Of course, atty JCC, you dont worry about the 70% workers who are earning min. wage only (data yata ng DOLE) and the 90% of the Pinoys who are earning less than the P23T per month earned by the Servants of HKG.
You dont worry bec you are not one of them. You are able to send your kids to college.
The 70% being min. wage workers will never send their kids to college even if they work 24 hours a day — as a general rule.
As a general rule, 70% will not be able to feed their family (they earn only the min. wage), no matter how hard they work bec their wages are very low.
So will they rely on the exception? relying on exception is GAMBLING, not hard work.
Rather than wait for “gambling” chances, they go to Italy as servants.
Anong ginagawa natin? Nothing until Tsao came.
In fact, JCC never wrote about helping the servants , not a thing. until Tsao came.
Tsao is our conscience. He told us that we are a nation of servants, that is factual bec we export servants as a policy.
Some are engineers and some are lawyers but do these lawyers or engineers care? hanggang salita lang sila.
tingnan mo, 2 months from now . wala na nag concern nila. tama yong blogger na nabasa ko.
Flavor of the month lang daw ito for the rich and the middle class pinoys.
Ulsys,
read my April 9, 2009 at 9:18 pm post.
or what have you done yourself to help these Pinay maids?
Wooooo Hooooo You are intense GerryPat … highly radioactiv … must be eating Bush’s yellowcake …
Our servants … errrr …. househelp cannot even send their siblings to school … they are perpetually househelp … like, forever.
di ko idea yon intense words. got it from the blogspot, dont know the writer.
http://streetstrategist.blogspot.com/
many ideas and statistics doon to nuke away all the arguments ng mga tao dito sa FV
Atty JCC,
Life is a continuous education. It never stops until the day we die.
Question: How does other cultures react to racial slurs thrown at them? Let’s learn.
Back in the 90′s, a Japanese official quoted “the new American generation lost the (work) ethic of their forefathers” (because of the car wars). Well, Americans reacted with resentment. SOME RACIAL SLURS WERE THROWN AT THEM.
The Japanese reaction?…SILENCE.
The Japanese Solution?…To slowly put Japanese car factories in the United States. IT WAS AN ACTUAL PHYSICAL ACTION.
We can talk forever about Chip Tsao.THE ANSWER IS THE ACTUAL PHYSICAL ACTION TO RESOLVE AND TRANSFORM THE NATION OF SERVANTS AND NOT RESENTMENT.
valentin,
look at your example. it was the japanese who make “lait” to the americans and the americans reacted against the slur, then the japanese “silently invaded” U.S. by doing nothing about the “counter-slur” except making sure that their cars make a good sales in the U.S.
we did not throw any insult against HK, it was HK through Tsip who make “lait” and we reacted against the slur, and now you want HK people not to react anymore instead to work silently and sell whatever they have to RP so they can invade RP silently?
sigurado ka ba sa “frame of mind mo?”
if there is no LAIT, then theres no satire. by definition yan.
kung walang nilait – hindi na satire yun. susginoo
satire
One entry found.
Main Entry:
sat·ire Listen to the pronunciation of satire
Pronunciation:
\ˈsa-ˌtī(-ə)r\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin satura, satira, perhaps from (lanx) satura dish of mixed ingredients, from feminine of satur well-fed; akin to Latin satis enough — more at sad
Date:
1501
1 : a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
2 : trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly
Atth JCC
Given this definition, how do you classify Tsao?
Mga lawyers, stick to the words yan, letter by letter.
do you understand the meaing of literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn? satire is a literary insult to obtuse the sting. the insult was still there, kunbaga, itinago lang sa literary form para hindi masyadong masagwa ang dating, pero insulto pa rin.
ano ba ang business ni Tsao na isang intsik para insultuhin ang mga Pilipino, maging maids man sila sa HK?
jcc:
at ano bang tingin mo sa gobyerno ng pilipinas? dapat purihin?
sino ba ang mga gunggong na bumoto sa mga taong ngayon ay nagpapatakbo sa pilipinas?
aba’y sa tindi ng katarantaduhang nangyayari ngayon sa pilipinas – ang lahat ng mga pumili sa mga taong ngayon ay nagpapatakbo ng pilipinas ay hindi lang dapat insultuhin – dapat itapon ang mga yan sa dagat at iwanan doon – ng mabawasan ang mga punyetang pasaway sa pilipinas.. mga buwisit.
asus papalag ang pinoy keso ininsulto ng intsik – aba’y tingnan mo rin naman ang mga pinoy sa pinas kung mag–insulto ng intsik – nagmamalinis pa ang mga bwisit.
bong V, ako’y ordinaryong mamamayan lamang, ano ba ang koneksyon ni GMA sa aking opinyon? Hindi naman ako Kabinet Opisyal.
Si Tsao ay isang “racist”. Kahit sa biro dapat siyang maging tolerant sa mga pagsasalarawan niya ng ibang lahi. Mas higit ang responsibilidad niya sa problemang ito dahil isa siyang journalist. Sira rin ang ulo ng editor o publisher niya at pinayagang lumabas ang article na ito kaya tama lang na humingi rin sila ng paumanhin. Tulad ng karamihan nating mga kababayan, hindi natawa sa “satire” ni Tsao, dahil ang larawan na pumasok sa isip ko ay isang malangsang beho at habang tumutulo ang laway, ay sinisigawan ang isang DH na naglalaba, tungkol sa problema ng Spratly. Patawad po, pero kaya ko rin pong maging “racist”.
Copy and paste from
http://streetstrategist.blogspot.com/
very thought provoking
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(And later, after I wrote this article, this was confirmed by Luisa to ABS-CBN News; Luisa is not an employee of Tsao and doesn’t work in Tsao’s home.
Tsao has Indonesian helpers. She didn’t even know what was written in Tsao’s column, and she has served her master – Tsao’s father, who lives separately – for over 14 years.
It would be illegal for Luisa to work in both Tsao and his father’s homes; one contract, one home.
She wouldn’t have stayed that long if she was not treated well; each contract is good only for 24 months.
She has no plans of leaving her employer, and as expected she doesn’t have a degree in International Politics, and did not graduate from the University of Manila.
And Luisa is not the only one exported as a servant by the Philippines, and Hong Kong is not the only country to where the Filipinos and Filipinas are exported as servants, and the Philippine government is very much active in expanding this exportation, even considering war- torn Iraq.
Isn’t it embarrassing that the Philippine government officials and many Filipinos who over reacted to Tsao’s column, really believed Luisa has a degree in International Politics? Hypocrisy.)
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A dear friend, Leslie Bocobo over at his blog, The Undertow, has this perspective about the brouhaha which refuses to go away… if anyone cares to:
http://lesliebocobo.blogspot.com/2009/04/apology-not-taken-not-so-fast-chippy-i.html
Incidentally, Leslie knows I am posting this.
Leslie does not speak for me – and No, I am not insulted by the article, nor do I find it insulting.
Living in America and being exposed to a diversity of cultures, not to mention having a working understanding of racial relations – as far as I am concerned, the flipazzes negative reaction is a display of collective low self-esteem and a silo mentality.
I for one doesnt give a lot of weight to Leslie. Does she have a servant? Why does she have one? Isnt it anachronistic? Slavery? Why doesnt US and Japan and Canada have servants? Bec their servants would have been paid $7.00 per hour minimum wage. And they’d rather not have servants. Adopt natin ito sa Pinas. We wont exporting servants, and we wont have servants at home. Then we can no longer be called a nation of servants.
Lalaki pala si Leslie, akala ko babae, Sino ba sya na paniwalaan ko? I like the millions of Filipinos who chose to remain silent view it as a satire.
A person, I dont know like Leslie, is not my representative and his writing has more rhetoric than facts.
To Ms. Les,
Count me out of the 92 million other Filipinos who were insulted by Mr. Tsao… ^_^
Oops! Pardon me… Lalaki pala si Les…
Ding,
Very nice link. I like her point of view because it strengthens my own. I wonder why the other Bocobo, (DJB) has a different mindset. But as Mao said, “let thousands of flowers bloom”.
Atty JCC,
basahin mo muna.
leslie is not babae.
is this the kind of famous person who shares your myopic view?
jcc,
Good that you noted that. Diff’rent strokes for diff’rent folks.
And her’s a vid dedicated to Tsao.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC0OcwsJjhc&feature=channel_page
ding,
there seems to be no life in the islands, but the background music is full with patriotic flavor.
ding i noticed lately that there are newcomers at FV who seem to hold the sillietst idea that they have the monopoly of the truth have been the recipients of the best upbringing.
kung baga, nuong mag hasik ang panginoon ng katinuan at karunungan sa mundo, ay itong mga tao lamang naito ang gising at kaya sila lamang ang nagkinabang. :)
“here’s”
Atty JCC,
The Japanese SILENCE IS STRENGTH and not weakness. They were not humiliated,in fact, continue respect.
They also know that Commerce is the bottom line. It’s not about being mukhang pera but a DEEP UNDERSTANDING on how nations really interact.
The Japanese response is from their DEEP THINKING & DISCIPLINED heritage(of BUDDHIST/ CONFUCIAN/ SHINTO).
Filipino response is HISPANICIZED AMOR PROPIO(PRIDE) Heritage.
Anybody from Los Angeles remember proposition 187? Did you guys remember how the Mexicans reacted?
Chip Tsao is nothing compared to Carlos Mencia’s rants – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esKwU3BrUfM
Paano yan, rally ang mga Asians araw araw? ROTFLMAO
jcc,
Ok lang naman, sabi ko nga, lahat tayo ay nilikha ng Maykapa, maging ang mga May Kapal.
Unawa naman rito sa FV maging kalayaan ng kausapin ang sarili. :)
Ang iba naman ay malaya ring magsagawa lamang ng SEO.
CHIP TSAO (SATIRICAL WRITER): Philippines is a Nation of Servants.
Philippine Reaction: ONE ROUND OF BOXING—Congressman ROILO GOLEZ
Reaction from: Spanish MACHO! Heritage
MIRIAM SANTIAGO DEFENSOR (SENATOR, representing Filipino People): China invented corruption
China Reaction: general SILENCE
Reaction from: Buddhist-Confucius DEEP THINKING Heritage
Source: http://streetstrategist.blogspot.com
Which one is acceptable to the Filipinos and the Philippine government?
A nation of servants?
A nation keeping servants in their own homes?
A nation keeping servants at slavery wages?
A nation of slaves but using the euphemism “servants?”
A nation of servants hiring servants?
A nation exporting servants to every country who accepts servants?
A nation being the world’s biggest exporter of servants?
A nation of professionals earning less than a servant’s wages?
A nation of corrupt politicians and government officials?
A nation of cannibals?
Sa totoo lang, I visited the link above (streetstrategist blog) ang hayop ng arguments nang taong yon.
The most intelligent and brilliant take on the Tsao issue so far. Little emotions, pure logic supported by statistics. He analyzes the issue from the point of view of a foreigner viewing all these commotion and the practicality of a Pinoy who thinks this society exporting servants should be changed.
Aliws ako sa pagbabasa at pagpapalitan ng mga kuro-kuro hinggil sa isyung Chip Tsao. Tila yata wala ng katapusan ang mga balitaktakan. Pinoy talaga!
Base sa aking “pagmamasid” at paghahambing ng mga argumento, mas makabuluhan ( repeat: mas makabuluhan, dahil lahat ng mga sumulat at lahat ng mga nag-react sa FV, because they have their own piece to share, ay nagbigay kabuluhan sa pagpapalitan ng mga kuro-kuro hinggil sa isyung ito), para sa akin (repeat: I’m speaking for myself) mas makabuluhan ang mga argumentong inilahad ni JCC, na “humarap sa mga kaaway” by showing himself in that photo at hindi “nagkubli sa isang maliit at blankong parisukat”. That’s a test of a man’s true courage.
Nabasa ko rin ang blogspot ni Leslie Bocobo, isa pang (again, mga kababayan, this from my point of view, or read: I’m speaking for myself) mahusay na manunulat tulad ni JCC, at isang respected satirist. I would think that Chip Tsao can learn a lesson or two from Leslie on how to write a good satire. And, maybe, in the spirit of true Asian brotherhood, Leslie need not charge the latter anything for these lessons, when Chip Tsao finally comes to visit this “nation of servants”.
I am one of those anxious to see the day when we finally bring to a close this Chip Tsao saga or… brouhaha. Sabi nga nila, “All is well than ends well.”
MABUHAY KAYONG LAHAT!!! IN UNITY, THERE IS STRENGTH!!!
Lamberto
P.S.
Namamasyal lang po ako sa Filipino Voices website at wala akong masyadong panahon… kaya kahit gustuhin ko man na mamalagi at makipagpalitan sa inyo ng aking sariling mga kuro-kuro, time is not on my side.
Ergo, hindi ko na rin minarapat na maglagay ng aking sariling picture, tulad ni JCC at Ding Gagelonia. Pero, totoo po ang aking pangalan, alay sa akin ng aking mga magulang.
Lamberto
Mga Kababayan,
ALL OF US HAVE GOOD INTENTIONS sa bansa natin, regardless if it’s satire or insult.
However, there is a BATTLE GOING ON sa atin dito. MY OPINION VERSUS YOUR OPINION…MY PRIDE VERSUS YOUR PRIDE.
Speaking of pride, NATIONS CONQUERED BY SPANIARDS are dominated by this-(ILLUSTRADO, EN GRANDE, MACHO, INDUSTRIES NA SIKAT KA LIKE CELEBRITIES, etc.)
I noticed Atty. JCC is from UP. I had been emailing some UP aLumni who were valedictorians/ board top-notchers and I noticed that PRIDE OVERCOMES THEM. Not because they’re not smart.
I struggle conquering pride, but we all must in order to solve the problem.
LET US BE HUMBLE and LET US RESPECT ONE ANOTHER.
bong v.:
Nakakalungkot na isipin na ang iyong panig tungkol sa usapang ito ay nakalaan sa isang banyaga na maliwanag na nang lait at nag alipusta sa isa nating kababayan. Ang mga nasaktan sa mga salita ni Tsao ay lahat ng ating mga OFW at immigrant sa buong mundo. Ang ating mga OFW ay dapat makamtan ang sapat na kabayaran para sa kanilang magaling at marangal na trabaho. Sa trabaho lang po, hindi po ang dignidad o mga karapatan nila. Kung ikaw po ay "westernized" na sa pag-iisip at katawatawa sa iyo ang kapwa Pilipino, ikaw po ang umalis sa Pilipinas. Kung nasa ibang bayan ka na, sa CNN o 'o Riley Factor ka na lang mag hanap ng kapamilya. Tumawid ka ng kalye upang umiwas pag may nasalubong kang mukhang Pilipino.
i think what it basically comes down, to is rich verse poor.
if your rich, you got it made, if you are poor, your screwed basically. its not so much about race, nationality, religion etc. its either u have it, or u dont. many of these filipina maids, most likely come from poor families, otherwise they would not be working as a maid in Hong Kong. the editor who made the inappropriate comment, was basically being racist toward the have nots of society. i do not think it was racism directed in the sense of national origin, but it was racism against the lower socio economic class of Hong Kong. dont forget their are many poor chinese in hong kong also. in fact most of China is poor, yes its true. every country has this problem with class. yes racism might be part of it, but class is even a bigger factor. Please dont forget their are many wealthy filipino people also. And yes, they employ their own people, and i have heard stories that they do not treat their own brethern well either. the wealthy feel like they can treat the poor like this in almost every country. but the one country where i think it is more equal in terms of fairness, is you got it “America” sure they have the rich and poor, but the government for the most part makes it fair, under the law