isuue! issue!

after hearing the news about this article i searched about it immediately on the net..

the article goes like this..

Chip Tsao - The War At Home (Racial Discrimination against Filipino)

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The War At Home
March 27th, 2009

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.

As a patriotic Chinese man, the news has made my blood boil. I summoned Louisa, my domestic assistant who holds a degree in international politics from the University of Manila, hung a map on the wall, and gave her a harsh lecture. I sternly warned her that if she wants her wages increased next year, she had better tell every one of her compatriots in Statue Square on Sunday that the entirety of the Spratly Islands belongs to China.

Grimly, I told her that if war breaks out between the Philippines and China, I would have to end her employment and send her straight home, because I would not risk the crime of treason for sponsoring an enemy of the state by paying her to wash my toilet and clean my windows 16 hours a day. With that money, she would pay taxes to her government, and they would fund a navy to invade our motherland and deeply hurt my feelings.

Oh yes. The government of the Philippines would certainly be wrong if they think we Chinese are prepared to swallow their insult and sit back and lose a Falkland Islands War in the Far East. They may have Barack Obama and the hawkish American military behind them, but we have a hostage in each of our homes in the Mid-Levels or higher. Some of my friends told me they have already declared a state of emergency at home. Their maids have been made to shout “China, Madam/Sir” loudly whenever they hear the word “Spratly.” They say the indoctrination is working as wonderfully as when we used to shout, “Long live Chairman Mao!” at the sight of a portrait of our Great Leader during the Cultural Revolution. I’m not sure if that’s going a bit too far, at least for the time being.



--- this is really very awful but it is never new to us.. remember the Desperate Housewives issue? about the doctors? it is very sad to think that "minamaliit pala tayo ng ibang mga bansa" yet we are so eager to get out of this country not knowing that they see us in a bad way.. they see us as "cheap servants"
i don't know about this spartly islands issue but i know for afact that there are also other countries wanting to claim this like Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam..
--- if Mr. Chao os a patriot then so are we.. he should understand why we are recting this way.. there are also so many chinese living here in the Philippines and i hope he will think how they would feel..
--- what he did wasn't something other chinese would be proud of.. for sure.. i heard from the news that somany chinese-filipino and chinese people were offended..
--- ofw's abroad are doing a ver noble job so there is no reason for them to be insulted and so for the Filipino people..

lastly.. we can never please everybody.. if someone says a bad thing about us, we just have to prove them wrong! cheer up Filipinos.. :)