Another display of racial prejudice against the Filipinos was recently committed by Chip Tsao , a Chinese columnist, when he wrote a satirical article in HK Magazine degrading and humiliating the Filipino race yet again.
Tsao stirred an outburst of rage among Filipinos all over the world (especially OFWs) by writing that the Philippines’ claims on the disputed Spratly Islands were completely silly, ungrateful, not to mention ambitious in the face of Beijing’s claims on the same territory.
He wrote, “As a nation of servants, you don’t flex your muscles at your master, from whom you earn most of your bread and butter”. And he added to say that he warned his own house help, who is apparently a Filipina, that in order to earn a raise, she should tell her fellow inferior citizens that the Spratlys belong to China.
More than 100,000 Filipinos work in the southern Chinese city of Hong Kong, mostly as low-paid domestic helpers. Despite Tsao already issuing a public apology saying that he didn’t mean anything demeaning by his remark since all of us humans are really servants of God, the Filipinos in Hong Kong are united to hold a rally in protest of this article. And he has already been banned from entering the Philippines.
As a journalist/columnist he should not be saying all those racist remarks in public, let alone publish it. Being a professional and a public figure, he should be able to exercise objectivity and responsible journalism by keeping his racist remarks and judgments to himself. If his exposure to the Filipinos as a people is only limited to the domestic workers in Hong Kong, then it’s totally absurd of him to generalize the whole Filipino race as a nation servants!
Racism sucks!
Tsao stirred an outburst of rage among Filipinos all over the world (especially OFWs) by writing that the Philippines’ claims on the disputed Spratly Islands were completely silly, ungrateful, not to mention ambitious in the face of Beijing’s claims on the same territory.
He wrote, “As a nation of servants, you don’t flex your muscles at your master, from whom you earn most of your bread and butter”. And he added to say that he warned his own house help, who is apparently a Filipina, that in order to earn a raise, she should tell her fellow inferior citizens that the Spratlys belong to China.
More than 100,000 Filipinos work in the southern Chinese city of Hong Kong, mostly as low-paid domestic helpers. Despite Tsao already issuing a public apology saying that he didn’t mean anything demeaning by his remark since all of us humans are really servants of God, the Filipinos in Hong Kong are united to hold a rally in protest of this article. And he has already been banned from entering the Philippines.
As a journalist/columnist he should not be saying all those racist remarks in public, let alone publish it. Being a professional and a public figure, he should be able to exercise objectivity and responsible journalism by keeping his racist remarks and judgments to himself. If his exposure to the Filipinos as a people is only limited to the domestic workers in Hong Kong, then it’s totally absurd of him to generalize the whole Filipino race as a nation servants!
Racism sucks!
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