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i received this email from a friend yesterday. i think edlyn was the one who told me about this before.the first few paragraphs is my reply to my friend. nakakainis na nakakatawa kasi:
"i received this email before and my friend emailed mr.bell. he answered the mail (and many more emails like that) on his website stating that he couldn't have made that hate-letter because first of all, his wife is half-Filipina. she might've killed him if she finds out he did that. he also stated that the hate-mail was sent by one of the people who hates HIM. that it was actually a hate-letter for him; so that many people would hate him. it was a tactic.--yeah, i think that that was his reply.
whether or not the letter was made by him, the person who wrote that was obviously stupid and idiotic because first of all, he comes from a country without any culture AT ALL. (have you ever heard of the term american culture? if yes, what is that? modernism? yeah right.) they killed the original culture they had (think native americans---"indians," as we call them). second, he should've researched about the Philippines and that we are not blatantly associating ourselves with the Japanese. many Filipinos will react the same way on this issue: "Huh? Ganoon ba tayo? Parang ngayon ko lang narinig 'yun.". third, we are asians because we live IN ASIA, dammit! not only oriental people live in asia, dumbass. people from India live in asia, and technically, they're asians. and they're not oriental. people who bombed their country are asians (middle east asia), hahahahah!!! i can go on and on and on, and this email already contains some defenses.
think about it, as Filipinos, we know by heart that the content of this letter is not true.
diba noh? hehe. just some rantings from before... hope you don't mind."
eric amparo
wrote:
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From: Philip Israel Castillo
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 06:17:32 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [matsci2003] Filipino and proud! (this is a must-read. trust me ;))
Message: Hate Letter To Filipino's By Art Bell The
Most
stupid person on earth :P
Message: Hate Letter Against Filipinos
Please take time to read this, most especially the
bottom part,
PATRICIA EVANGELISTA's (19 year old Filipina)
speech that won in a
WORLD
competition in London.
This is a hate letter coming from a radio talk show
host Mr. Art
Bell
from Nevada. I dont consider myself as patriotic
but please read my
reply below in BOLD LETTERS and send this to as
many of your friends
as
possible
until it reaches him.
Subject: HATE LETTER
This is a very disturbing open E-mail letter to all
Filipinos around
the world; specially here in North America!, from a
man who has the
power
to reach millions of people. (he's a radio talk host)
Please read on..............
This is an open letter email by Art Bell, a radio talk
show host in
Nevada(more info in the email itself). Here is yet
another person
who has
taken; advantage of his power and privilege to use
hateful words and
racial stereotypes that breed further ignorance and
intolerance in
our
society.
Art Bell is a talk radio host who has two shows
that he broadcasts
from
his home in Nevada, that is rebroadcast by 400
stations across the
country.
He's written 2 books. He lived in Okinawa, Japan
for some years and
had
a radio program on the English station here. And,
though it's hard
to
believe after reading the following letter from him,
he actually has
been to the Philippines (he's traveled fairly
extensively around the
world).
Check out his website listed at the end to get a
glimpse at this
fool
who's spreading this hateful ignorance. And check
his wife as well.
This
letter is so degrading, I think it's really important
that everybody
read this and not attack him, but respond to him in
a civilized
manner
because otherwise his thoughts will be reaffirmed.
Understand that
not
everyone has a viewpoint like we do, and that this
is an opinion of
someone who hopefully can be changed only by
civil actions.
...............................................
Filipinos.....*make me puke* (Art Bell)
As we've all come to notice, in the past few
decades, Filipinos have
begun to infest the United States like some sort of
disease. Their
extensive involvement in the U.S. Armed Forces is
proof of the
trashy kind of
qualities all filipinos tend to exhibit on a regular
basis. You can
see
this clearly by studying the attitudes and cultural
Icons of most
Filipino Americans.
Origins of Pinoys/Pinays:
Are they really asian? Well we've come to accept
the fact the
filipinos
come from a part of the world known as South
East Asia. But the term
"Asia" is used in the wrong way. You may notice
that contemporary
Filipino Americans try very hard to associate
themselves with groups
that we
know as Asian. I cannot count the number of times
I have seen
a 'Third
World' Filipino try to connect themselves to the
chinese or Japanese
people. There is no connection and here's why.
The Philippines is a
Third
World country. Nothing respectable has EVER
been created by Filipino
people during our entire human history. Young
filipino men in
America
have become obsessed with "import racing". They
have an enormously
perverted affection for Japanese cars. It's a
common phenomenon. In
their
minds, these Filipinos somehow believe that they
are asian and that
it
somehow connects them to Japanese people and
japanese cars. They
often take
credit for the ingenuity of Japanese people and say
how it's
an "Asian
thing". This term..."Asian thing" derived directly
from African
American slang "black thang". "It's a black
thang." "It's an asian
thang."
You can see the connection. It's even funnier that,
in Japan,
Filipinos
are heavily discriminated against. The only filipinos
that can live
successfully in Japan are the filipino prostitutes.
But that's the
case
for most Filipino people no matter where they live
in the world. Now
we've come down to this fact...and it is a fact.
Nothing in Filipino Culture can be seen as Asian.
They have no architectural, artistic, or cultural
influence which is
in
ANY way, asian. Thinking of the great countries in
Asia such as
Japan,
Korea, and China there is no way you can possibly
connect the
Philippine Islands. This assault by filipino
americans to connect
themselves
with the great peoples of North East Asia is foul
and disgusting.
Try
visiting a young filipino's web site too.
You'll see something called the "Asian IRC Ring".
It has to do with
the
chatrooms. The most horrible thing about this is
that these TRASHY
people are trying to associate themselves with
Asia again!! People
in Asia
don't act like this at all. What we are seeing here
is the natural
Filipino in its element with full access to
technology and this is
how they
act! You will consistently see this behavior over
and over again.
Another interesting thing is that these "thirdworld"
people also
frequent RC chatrooms such as #chinese #japan
and #asian. They must
believe
that they are somehow related racially or culturally
to North
Asians.
But it's completely WRONG! There might have
been some distant
contact
With China and even less with Japan during World
War II, but these
people
are actually more closely related to african
americans and Mexican
americans.
Do the parents of these young filipinos know
what's going on? Would
they accept this? I believe that they would and do.
This is the
natural
"Trash" element in filipinos manifesting itself.
Nothing good has
ever
come from Philippines and I don't believe anything
good ever will.
Recognizing your Roots (A Message to Filipinos).
To all filipino
people:
Please recognize your ROOTS! You come from
the Third World! You
country
is a disgusting and filthy place. Most people there
live in poverty!
Your culture has MUCH MORE SPANISH
influence than chinese, and
absolutely
no JAPANESE influence whatsoever. People in
Japan and China, do not
act
like you. They do not constantly talk about sex
and they have a MUCH
HIGHER level of RESPECT for each other. There is
NO WAY that you can
connect yourself to Asia other than location.
Your culture and technological advancement does
not even come CLOSE
to
What Chinese, people have done in the past and
what Japanese and
Korean
people are doing now! Everything you do is
distinctly filipino. You
cannot take credit for Japanese cars, video games,
or Hentai! It's
not an
"asian thing" it's an "American thing". You have no
concept of
culture...no concept of asian ideas or asian
philosophy! Can you
demonstrate
how you use Confucianism or Taoism in you
everyday life?? You can't.
And
you will NEVER be able to.
I understand that you are trying to create an
identity for
yourselves
as young people... but it is NOT related to Asia.
Your Identity is
Filipino.
That's all you are. Just Filipino. Think about what
that means....
------------------------------------------
I find this funny, he is right in some ways where
we, as Filipinos
don't actually have an "Identity". I think this is due
to the
confusion of
our mixed races from Hispanic, Chinese, American
and Malay origins.
I
see it in malls, imagine young generations wearing
ski caps and ski
goggles in a tropical country, baggy low rise pants
like that of
African
Americans living in the Bronx of New York, not to
mention endless
whitening products being sold at department
stores and drug stores.
But his ignorance also blinds him from the other
truth. That while
we
may glorify Anime shows and Japanese Internet
gaming, he is not
aware
that a nameless Filipino may be responsible for
some technical
aspects of
some Japanese software. He is not aware of our
contribution to the
the
society in general .Technological advancements
that may have aided
post
war navigations and landing on the moon. That the
antibiotic
Erythromycin was discovered by Dr. Abelardo
Aguilar from Iloilo
creating the
brand "Ilosone".
Thomas Edison may have discovered the electric
light bulb and the
fluorescent lighting was thought up by Nikola
Tesla. But the
fluorescent
lamp we use today was invented by Agapito Flores
(a Cebuano named
Benigno
Flores of Bantayan Island, according to the
Philippine Daily
inquirer),
a Filipino scientist. Americans helped then-
Philippine leader Ramon
Magsaysay to develop it for worldwide commerce.
That the personal
physician of former U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton is
Eleanor "Connie"
Concepcion
Mariano, a Filipina doctor who was the youngest
captain in the US
Navy. A
Filipino writer Jose Rizal could read and write at
age 2, and grew
up
to speak more than 20 languages, includind Latin,
Greek, German,
French
and Chinese.
Or that a Filipino genius was responsible for the
near hiatus in the
PENTAGON and White House nearly infiltrationg
their closely guarded
secrets with the "ILOVEYOU" bug. Nuisance
maybe, but still one heck
of a
'beautiful mind'...not to be underestimated.
The list goes on and on, but who cares right?
Certainly not Mr. Art
Bell...Boy, I'm not surprised.
Perhaps Art Bell does not know that although we
consider ourselves
ASIAN because we are strategically located in the
Southeast asian
region of
which our nearest neighbors are Malays, ASIA
does not mean only
Chinese
and Japanese race of people. Then maybe it is his
connotation that
"Asia" meant only our economically successful,
paler brothers and he
considers Malays such as Thais, Malaysians,
Indonesians, and
ourselves as a
"Third World" race. Then it is "his" ignonimity that
would make a
civilized person of whatever race puke. Imagine
literally connecting
Chinese,
Koreans and Japanese to the Philippine Islands
which is archipelagos
away from the countries he has mentioned. I also
wonder where he got
the
impression that we aspire to be Japanese( ???)
Hispanics maybe but
not
the Japanese. But even Hispanics today do not
mind sharing their
"surnames" to their Asian brothers who they have
colonized for 3
centuries.
Another sad reality that although most Filipinos
working overseas
are
domestic helpers and prostitutes, who does he
think educates the
toddlers of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and
Tokyo? Parents of these
countries
rarely have time spent with their children, leaving
them to their
Filipino nannies. And with regard to prostitution.
Filipinos are not
the
only ones working as one. I HARDLY SEE
FILIPINOS STARRING IN PORN
MOVIES.
THERE MIGHT BE A FEW FILIPINOS WE
HAVEN'T SEEN , BUT MOST ARE FROM
MR.
ART BELL'S RACE.
He also mentioned that we have no concept of
culture..no concept of
asian ideas or asian philosophy. How can we
demonstrate Confucianism
or
Taoism in a Christian nation? IS HE INFORMED
THAT THE PHILIPPINES IS
THE
ONLY PREDOMINANTLY CHRISTIAN/CATHOLIC
NATION IN ASIA?! YOU HAVE TO
USE
COMMON SENSE IN A LOT OF THINGS
SOMETIMES...
We do not need to create an identity for ourselves.
We are who we
are.
Our identity stems from the anonymity we live in
this world. How we
contribute silently towards the progress of the
world and not just
one
country. Although the Filipino blood may be tainted
with malice,
corruption, poverty and prostitution, it is not a
perfect race...
But so are the
others. Maybe Mr. Art Bell needs to think about
this.
WE MAY NOT BE PERFECT MR. BELL BUT AT
LEAST WE STILL HAVE VALUES.
FOR
ONE THING WE DON'T PUT OUR AGING
PARENTS IN NURSING HOMES BECAUSE
"THEY'RE SIMPLY OLD AND WORTHLESS". WE
DONT HAVE AS MUCH NUMBERS OF
SINGLE
MOTHERS WHO GET PREGNANT IN THEIR
VERY EARLY TEENS AND EVENTUALLY
BECOME
PARASITES OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR
YEARS AND YEARS.
YES...WE CAME TO YOUR COUNTRY TO
WORK, TO EARN DECENT MONEY (HALF OF
WHICH BY THE WAY GOES TO TAXES
BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY SOCIAL
PARASITES
FROM YOUR RACE).AND BY THE WAY, MOST
EDUCATED PEOPLE THAT I WORK
WITH
DON'T COME FROM YOUR RACE... THEY'RE
ACTUALLY IMMIGRANTS TOO. AND
THOSE
EDUCATED ONES DO NOT ACT LIKE YOU DO,
PERHAPS BECAUSE THEY'VE REALLY
BEEN WELL EDUCATED..AFTER ALL THAT'S
SAID... WHO IS THE IGNORANT
ONCE
AGAIN?!
=====================================
=============
Pinay wins it big in London
By Alfred Yuson
The Philippine Star 05/16/2004
Patricia Evangelista, a 19-year- old, Mass
Communications sophomore
of
University of the Philippines (UP)-Diliman, did the
country proud
Friday night by besting 59 other student
contestants from 37
countries in
the 2004 International Public Speaking competition
conducted by the
English Speaking Union (ESU) in London.
She triumphed over a field of exactly 60 speakers
from all over the
English-speaking world, including the United
States, United Kingdom
and
Australia, reported Maranan.
The board of judges' decision was unanimous,
according to contest
chairman Brian Hanharan of the British
broadcasting Corp. (BBC).
PATRICIA'S SHORT SPEECH WORTH
READING....
---------------------------------------------------------
BLONDE AND BLUE EYES
When I was little, I wanted what many Filipino
children all over the
country wanted. I wanted to be blond, blue-eyed,
and white.
I thought -- if I just wished hard enough and was
good enough, I'd
wake
upon Christmas morning with snow outside my
window and freckles
across
my nose!
More than four centuries under western domination
does that to you.
I
have sixteen cousins. In a couple of years, there
will just be five
of
us left in the Philippines, the rest will have gone
abroad in search
of
"greener pastures." It's not just an anomaly; it's a
trend; the
Filipino diaspora. Today, about eight million
Filipinos are
scattered around
the world.
There are those who disapprove of Filipinos who
choose to leave. I
used
to. Maybe this is a natural reaction of someone
who was left behind,
smiling for family pictures that get emptier with
each succeeding
year.
Desertion, I called it. My country is a land that has
perpetually
fought for the freedom to be itself. Our heroes
offered their lives
in the
struggle against the Spanish, the Japanese, the
Americans. To pack
up
and deny that identity is tantamount to spitting on
that sacrifice.
Or is it? I don't think so, not anymore. True, there
is no denying
this
phenomenon, aided by the fact that what was once
the other side of
the
world is now a twelve-hour plane ride away. But
this is a borderless
world, where no individual can claim to be purely
from where he is
now.
My mother is of Chinese descent, my father is a
quarter Spanish, and
I
call myself a pure Filipino-a hybrid of sorts
resulting from a
combination of cultures.
Each square mile anywhere in the world is made
up of people of
different ethnicities, with national identities and
individual
personalities.
because of this, each square mile is already a
microcosm of the
world.
In as much as this blessed spot that is England is
the world, so is
my
neighborhood back home.
Seen this way, the Filipino Diaspora, or any sort of
dispersal of
populations, is not as ominous as so many claim.
It must be
understood. I
come from a Third World country, one that is still
trying mightily
to get
back on its feet after many years of dictatorship.
But we shall make
it, given more time. Especially now, when we have
thousands of eager
young minds who graduate from college every
year. They have skills.
They
need jobs. We cannot absorb them all.
A borderless world presents a bigger opportunity,
yet one that is
not
so much abandonment but an extension of
identity . Even as we take,
we
give back. We are the 40,000 skilled nurses who
support the UK's
National Health Service. We are the quarter-of-a-
million seafarers
manning
most of the world's commercial ships. We are your
software engineers
in
Ireland, your construction workers in the Middle
East, your doctors
and
caregivers in North America, and, your musical
artists in London's
West
End.
Nationalism isn't bound by time or place. People
from other nations
migrate to create new nations, yet still remain
essentially who they
are.
British society is itself an example of a multi-
cultural nation, a
melting pot of races, religions, arts and cultures.
We are, indeed,
in a
borderless world!
Leaving sometimes isn't a matter of choice. It's
coming back that
is.
The Hobbits of the shire travelled all over Middle-
Earth, but they
chose
to come home, richer in every sense of the word.
We call people like
these balikbayans or the 'returnees' -- those who
followed their
dream,
yet choose to return and share their mature talents
and good
fortune.
In a few years, I may take advantage of whatever
opportunities come
my
way. But I will come home. A borderless world
doesn't preclude the
idea
of a home. I'm a Filipino, and I'll always be one. It
isn't about
just
geography; it isn't about boundaries. It's about
giving back to the
country that shaped me.
And that's going to be more important to me than
seeing snow outside
my
windows on a bright Christmas morning.
Mabuhay and Thank you.
So, be proud, you are a Filipino,...and not like Mr.
Art Bell.
Please
do send this to as many person as you can until it
reaches him.
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