The Philippines is a "land of Servants"?

[steven21]

Chip Tsao recently wrote a SATIRICAL article on territorial claims over the Spratly islands. The article can be found here: http://hk-magazine.com/feature/war-home

Here's the excerpt:
"The Russians sank a Hong Kong freighter last month, killing the seven Chinese seamen on board. We can live with that—Lenin and Stalin were once the ideological mentors of all Chinese people. The Japanese planted a flag on Diàoyú Island. That’s no big problem—we Hong Kong Chinese love Japanese cartoons, Hello Kitty, and shopping in Shinjuku, let alone our round-the-clock obsession with karaoke.

But hold on—even the Filipinos? Manila has just claimed sovereignty over the scattered rocks in the South China Sea called the Spratly Islands, complete with a blatant threat from its congress to send gunboats to the South China Sea to defend the islands from China if necessary. This is beyond reproach. The reason: there are more than 130,000 Filipina maids working as $3,580-a-month cheap labor in Hong Kong. As a nation of servants, you don’t flex your muscles at your master, from whom you earn most of your bread and butter."

Predictably, there's a LOT of Pinoy blogger and forum outrage over this. But is it misdirected rage?

If Pinoys are outraged over Tsao's satirical article (satire, people, satire!) then they should also be OUTRAGED over a Saudi newspaper article that praised Pinoy saudi OFWs or that San Francisco newspaper article praising Fil-Ams for not being independent and not welfare-dependent. All these pieces base their opinions on GENERALIZATIONS based on SOME empirical data. Isn't it TRUE that the disproportionate mass of Filipinos in HK are "servants" (domestic helpers)? Isn't it TRUE that the Philippine government's budget is spread so thin that it can barely fund it's national defenses? Chip Tsao's impressions are based on fact. Facts and fairness are two different things. Generalizations can be unfair but they are based on GENERALIZED facts. If they weren't they wouldn't be used. Their potency lies in their ability to draw from facts that the audience can agree with.

But why do only "bad" generalizations get condemned? If there is outrage, it should be outrage against ALL generalizations, positive and negative.

Much of the outrage over this article is misplaced. Instead of being angry that a journalist based his satirical observation on the fact that there are over 130,000 filipino domestic helpers in HK, maybe the outrage should focus on WHY there's 130,000 filipino domestic helpers in Hong Kong to begin with?

We, Pinoys, can keep playing the VICTIM and "I'm Offended" card all we want but the reality remains--a large portion of our population wants to leave the Philippines because of the sad economy. Why not focus the RAGE on the economic arrangement that keeps us a "nation of servants." It is true, a large portion of the Philippines is composed of maids, drivers, tricycle drivers, bus drivers, and guards. Why is this case? It's all about the ECONOMIC PATH we chose. There's many articles written on this, here's one that ENCAPSULATES it:

Why is the Philippines POOR? http://www.forumcash.com/wordpress/why-is-the-philippines-poor/

Bottomline, before you become outraged--THINK FIRST and focus your rage on the REAL tragedy of the Philippines. Assailing some Hong Kong journalist online is worthless. The problem is deeper than that and its easier to fix than you think.

[reinvaldez]

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[ookamiHIME]

Those kinds of things - of course we should be bothered and outraged!

Those people who think they're so great, when they have tons of businesses overruling our country!

They live with our hard work! If we didn't work for them, they'd be sleeping six feet beneath the ground because of their spoiled and bratty manners!!!

Their companies wouldn't even prosper if not for those citizens that work beneath officials! Those officials know nothing but manage and order! While the people beneath them do all the work and they think that they are THAT great?!

Without our fellow citizens working out there in the "wild", who would take care for the elders that they couldn't handle?!

And they even dare! Bow to our masters? Hah! They aren't our masters! We live in the bread and butter they give?! Do they even have any idea what they are talking about?! Without agricultural countries like us, they wouldn't even have those f***ing bread and butter - although Philippines is literal, theirs were money, still, right?

They owe their very lives to countries like ourselves and they dare look down on us like that! The only thing their country knows anyway is to abuse power to control those they think are lower than them!!!

They should rather use their brains before speaking. The words they just stated just shows how worthless of a person they are!

Sorry for the flame. I am not pure filipino. I have a quarter chinese blood. But still!!! To insult my mother country like that! It's infuriating!!!

Anyway... that specific chinese has made a public apology... What irritates me now is China in and of itself. That land was ours and now they are claiming it! The law states that it being our boundary, it is ours... And they build an outpost pretending it to be for tourist purposes, and then they had military facilities and bunkers built without permission!!!

And now we're the ones who are not allowed there?!!
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