Judge not lest ye be judged.
Now, that's one catchy blog title.
On to the content then.
What's all the ruckus about the Desperate Housewives racial slur or with The daily show calling the former president a slut, come on, she's been called worse before. These shows are meant to be funny guys... who hasnt laughed at at one point or another when watching either show? Who hasnt laughed at stereotyped races before? Who here has not made fun of any minority? Who here has not laughed when our local comedians do stupid impressions of other people / races / personalities. People, people, people... these are COMEDY shows, they're funny... o well some people just never get it, or they just take things too literally I guess.
Back to my rather long rant... Dont deny it, there ARE sub-par medical schools (and facilities) here in the Philippines. I know of people that refuse to be treated at some of the lesser equipped medical facilities here, and yet, they get offended by that slur on D.H. Come on people... stop being so onion-skinned and face the truth, the Philippines isnt perfect. If we are being made fun of by other people, then it's because of our own doing. Are the Filipinos Perfect? far from it Im sorry to say...
Plus, when all of this is said and done... Im willing to bet some parts of my anatomy that the same people that got "outraged" by the Desperate Housewives slur... will probably buy pirated copies of that show from their friendly neighborhood pirates.
On another note... How come we dont see the heads of state of other countries (plus their citizens) go apeshit when our more "reputable" periodicals portray their leaders or their citizens as evil beings/creatures/-insert nasty description here-. Why? because maybe, just maybe, that they know that these things cant really hurt them.
If you want to make sure that slurs like the one on DH dont happen? maybe you can start with yourself, make you that you dont do it first. We dont live in a perfect world and everyone deserves to get shot at once in a while, and in our case, we have a -lot- of things that we deserve to get shot with.
3 comments:
What happened wasn't fair but I think the nursing exam leak had a lot to do with this. In that case of course the med schools had nothing to do with it really since it was the greedy commercial review centers and govt regulators in cahoots with them that caused the leak and the subsequent scandal. They are the real cause of the damage to the reputation of OFW nurses which all Filipino Americans are now paying for. If nothing is done, it will surely happen again, and maybe ABC won't apologize the next time.
As far as racist slurs are concerned, don't forget we also have a log in our own eye with Miriam Defensor Santiago calling China the inventor of corruption for all human civilization.
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