Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Cheap Chow
This weekend, news was shown about this journalist named Cheap Chow, errr... Chip Tsao who released an article about his views on the Spratly Ownership Issue between China and the Philippines. In the article, he called our country a "nation of servants".
This morning I was doing my morning routine of looking at news in inquirer and reading blogs of people and I saw a copy of the article posted in Gerry's blog (this guy has some interesting blog entries). The article has been taken down but you can read it at Gerry's.
This guys has written many "satire" articles which readers might call racists. This was actually at least the second time he has made racist remarks against Filipinos. The other one that I know of, also from the same publication, was made as an insult to Chinese made products. This was at the height of the poisoned milk controversy. You can read the full article here. In this article, he has made remarks of Pinoy nurses. Another article was about Western foreigners in China and how they are now not "fashionable" for HK women. You can read it from Friskodude's entry.
This guy just doesn't learn, doesn't he? I hope your Pinay maids are kind enough to not retaliate on your Cheap Chow, Mr. Tsao.
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A wake up call - and a good one.
This is yet one of those "well-known, solid figure doing other people wrong and getting away with a simple apology" scenarios (without even a pinch of sincerity in it too).
I found his article really offensive and all the negative and hurtful comments thrown at him were expected consequences of his actions.
Though he is to answer for those insulting words he chose to publish against Filipinos, I think it is unnecessary to excessively throw similar insulting comments towards his entire nation.
Yes, as citizens, we represent our country especially outside our borders. But it is a given that there will always be a black sheep among us but that rotten tomato should not bring down the entire nation's image with it.
For my kababayans, let's show our fury, defend our country especially our ofw's, but let's not stoop to "his" level by giving low remarks against his country. It might not only be him thinking that way about Filipinos. What we read from Mr Tsao is a wake up call. He made us aware of how others see our people. Instead of fighting back with words, let's show him what we're really made of by proving him wrong through our ACTIONS.
Where to start, I don't have a clue. Students taking up in demand courses yet ending up jobless after graduation, destruction of our natural resources (our country's prides and treasures), politicians going against each other rather than uniting to help develop the countrymen they serve, I could go on and on but then I would have to start another thread on this...or maybe I will.
/end of comment
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