As predicted, Filipinos were up in arms once again as a Miss Earth beauty contestant whose full name I don’t care to know mentioned a few truths about what she experienced in the hellhole called The Philippines.
I really don’t know why a beauty contest ironically called Miss Earth would hold its event in The Philippines when the country is not really Earth friendly and there are better places in the world to go to that have more class and common sense.
I am sure that the organizers brought them to what she called a “ridiculous TV show” where a guy like Willie Revillame would present them to an over-fawning audience. They would see the TV show with cheap women dancing, contestants being made to do stupid things and all sorts of tackiness. Of course, the term “ridiculous TV show” is just the straightforward way to describe what she saw. I don’t see anything wrong with that. Why couldn’t Filipinos accept the responsibility that they enabled those kinds of shows to flourish that is why the culture keeps deteriorating and those from normal societies just couldn’t help but point it out (to the chagrin of the stupid Filipinos who can’t handle the truth).
The country being dirty and noisy is also correct. I don’t see anything wrong with any person stating her honest and forthright views about what she sees. We practice freedom of expression and people should learn to respect people’s valid opinions.
The reactions of The Filipinos to the statement (IMHO her account was not hacked) captured in the screenshot on her FB page are very much predictable. They felt “hurt” and “insulted” by the “racist” foreigner that they lashed back with all their fingers’ mights angrily pounding away at the keyboard as their eyebrows furrowed and their chests got tighter.
Those reactions only show the world how weak Filipinos are as a people and how they lack class. Class is sometimes not in what you do, it is in what you NOT do. Strength of character is not seen in people who react and get “hurt” by every statement they have to give a hoot about but can be seen in those who can still keep their composure and either brush the statement aside or take it into consideration and not be flustered by it.
Why do the Germans not whine and go on emotional breakdowns when for the thousandth time, a Hollywood movie portrays them as Nazis? Why is it that when I tell a Canadian I couldn’t live in their country because there is too much snow, they just say they agree and can’t wait to retire so they can move to a tropical paradise? That is because they are sure of themselves and secure. Unlike the Pinoys who experience “tililing rampages” when beauty queens/actors say things about them. Being beholden to beauty pageants, beauty queens and showbiz is a sign that a person (or a society such as Pinoy society) is cheap and tacky.
When Alec Baldwin mentioned he would get a mail order bride from Russia and The Philippines, the latter was roused to anger with a Senator even challenging Baldwin to a fistfight. It shows that Filipinos are easily hurt and they value everything said by anyone in U.S. television. The Russians? They did not breathe a word about it, rendering Alec Baldwin irrelevant to them. The message sent by their silence is that they have better things to do, they are strong in character, they have class and to them Alec Baldwin is a nobody.
Remember when Claire Danes said that Manila was a “ghastly” city a decade or so ago? Filipino politicians immediately grandstanded and made her persona non grata and outraged citizens became overnight drama queens crying their hearts out. Why is it that after ten years Manila is still ghastly? What have those same politicians and “outraged citizens” done? Is it because all the people do is get hurt and react when truth is told and attack the messenger instead of being courageous enough to face the truth and solve the problem?
If people state unpleasant observations about The Philippines and they happen to be true, then don’t get hurt. Accept what is said and do something to change it. In order to change the perception of the world about The Philippines and Filipinos, then you have to change the realities upon which those perceptions are based. Trying to suppress the truth would not enable you to confront it and do something about it. You rather sweep the poop under the rug where it would rot and smell rather than acknowledging its existence so you can scoop it up, throw it outside and wash the floor with soap and water.
I believe Filipinos need to become normal like the citizens of most of the world’s other countries. This latest display of collective “kabakyaan” of The Filipino people has further pushed the image of The Filipino down into the abyss, making the world look lower and lower on a people who have failed to earn respect.
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