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To All the Filipino-bashers on this Board;

Please don’t judge Filipinos as you have absolutely no idea the culture of the Philippines and how we Filipinos have been raised to view others and most importantly how we have been raised to view ourselves.
First of all I want to address “colonial mentality”. Everyone is tossing around “colonial mentality” this “colonial mentality” that on this board and yet I doubt many know what it actually is.
In my opinion “colonial mentality” is when the colonized see themselves in the eyes of the colonizer. Where the colonizer hates the colonized and thus in turn, the colonized will also hate themselves. This is all a mind game. Many countries have been colonized by other countries, but only the European colonized countries have shown self destructive traits. So the real problem is white supremacy, not colonization. And as a Pilipino, I bealive the Pilipino people have one of the worst cases of colonial mentality AKA slave mentality.
Our country was colonized by the Spanish. Due to the cultural and religious rape of our nation, we now are divided. You have the Malays and other natives which together make up more than 98% of the Philippines and then you have the Spanish-Malay and Chinese-Malay mestizos (the offspring of the physical rape of the Philippines). You have the whiter Pilipinos in upper society (who rarely almost never intermarry with the pure malays) in upper society. Then you have the darker Malays and native peoples in the lower end of the social and economic ladder. It's no coincidence.
How did we get this awful mentality? As you know or should know our forefathers were brutally forced to convert to Christianity by the Spanish. We were forced to believe that our previous way of life was sinful. The Spanish conquistadors (meaning conquerors), wanted to civilize us "savages".
We were also forced to believe that white is good and black is bad. So the closer our skin color was to black, then the more susceptible we were to evil and sin. The closer you were to white, the better you were. They taught us that being white made you closer to God because of their fraudulent portrayal of Jesus as a white man. We started to believe that we were sinners because of what they have taught us. That is when the self-hatred started (consciously and unconsciously) and has stayed with us ever since.
The lies that were forced to us were passed on from generation to generation to generation. Unfortunately Pilipinos who go abroad take with them this mentality to their new places of migration (like the USA) and other Asians and other races judge us without knowing our history and where this mentality is coming from.
This mentality is still very, very alive today. The vast majority of us don't even notice it because we are so use to it. You see it everywhere. It has become "normal" to us. You have to understand that this mentality works subconsciously and subliminally. We were taught this mentality on the day we were born. It affects us from all aspects of life, economically, mentally, spiritually, sexually, morally, religiously, physically and emotionally. I blame all the Pilipino problems on colonization and us for not realizing it. Magellan may be dead, but his ghost lives on. Everyday we recreate our death.

TO PILIPINOS STILL IN DENIAL

DO YOU EVER NOTICE....

1. That most of the showbiz Pinoys are mestizo/mestiza?
2. That the showbiz Pinoys who are darker are used only in comical situations? They always get made fun of about their color? For example Jinky Oda, Whitney Tyson, etc.
3. That so many Pinoys use skin whitening products to become whiter?
4. There's an obsession to be white.
5. That all the rich Pinoys are mestizo/mestiza?
6. That most of the Pilipino politicians are mestizo/mestiza?.
7. That all the Philippines claims to be mestizo even when they themselves know very well that they are not. They look at themselves in the mirror, they see a Malay and yet they proclaim a mestizo/mestiza. If you don’t agree with me, ask yourself, do you consider yourself a mestizo/a? Now, if you do, what percent of you is actually Spanish or Chinese? (and be truthful, then when you don’t want to answer it because it is such a small percentage you will realize how we have been programmed to desire to be whiter).
8. That Pilipinos venerate mestizo-Mexican soap stars.
8. That the pictures of Jesus are of a white man? Just go into any Pilipino home and you will see a picture of a white blue eyed Jesus hanging on the wall.
9. That Pinoys are scared to get dark?
10. That all maids in the Philippines are dark native malays?
11. That you never see pictures of Asian or Black or Indian or Hispanic angels? Are there no Pilipino, Japanese, Indonesian or African, etc people in heaven?

My only hope is that this makes other Asians realise that we Filipinos don’t go out on purpose to be hateful against other Asians and most importantly that we don’t deliberately go out to be self-hating against ourselves. It is the way we were brought up, and the way some of us are still bringing our children up. Bad habits die slow. So just show your support and instead of ganging up against us, try to understand where we are coming from, that way our road to self-accepting instead of self-hating will be easier.
Truth and Understanding are the key Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 20:37:30 (PST)

Asian Dominatrix
That was so funny, made me smile. Yeah,I can't stand Asian women like that. I usually go out of my way to help fellow Asian Americans.
Ok people, lets stop the Filipno bashing already, its getting tiresome. If they want to look so ridiculous and pretend they ae Hispanic, let them. Its not like other Asian groups would miss them. Afterall, Phillipines aren't know for anything around the world, its not like they produce great electronics, entertaining movies, stylish fashion, host world events, etc.

So let them...lol ! Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 16:37:46 (PST)

Model Minority,

I remember reading something about that. But are you sure he was a student because I think I read that he wasn't one,but just there to use the computer. It also showed some of the letters he wrote and let me tell you, he couldn't spell for shit! LOL
Mr. Hann Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 15:20:06 (PST)

Are Philippines and Malays Mongoloid race?
If they are, how come they look different from the East Asian (Chinese, Japanes, Koreans, and Vietnamese) people?
Can anyone enlighten me on this?

Just curious Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 14:27:33 (PST)

We are the model minorities. Let me clarify my last comment when I say we have to stick together. It doesn't matter if you are Filipino like me or Chinese or Vietnamese or whatever. We have to stick together because we are all equals at all costs becaust other people are out to get us and that is what is important to know. Being Filipino myself I can personally say that the worst offenders are usually whites or latins and at times blacks. That has been my experience at least growing up on the East coast and going to college in New York. I get mad when I see this. I just needed to point it out. Asian Pride for life!
Model MinFilino, Spanish.....hahahhahahah Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 13:57:46 (PST)

((You go on with your bad self too. You Filipinas are Asian too, although not East Asian but nevertheless Asian.
Anyway, you wouldn't wanna be mistaken as Hispanics on the east coast here, they usually work for us Koreans and are mistaken as blacks,especially the Puerto Ricans and Domincians.

I like this Russian babe))

No, why don't you go on wit your bad self? ~_~ I never said that Filipinos are NOT Asians. What I said, if you were truly listening, was that when people ask us what nationality are we, we say "Filipino". We do not immediately say "Asian". What's the reason? We're accustomed to saying that because we *ARE* from the Philippines. The term "Asian" is such a general word and so sometimes we decide to be specific. So there.

Filipina Girl79 Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 12:47:21 (PST)

Well, calling Filipinos "Chinito" is wrong too because that means "little Chinese guy."
TSJ Eric@KristinKreuk.net Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 11:37:49 (PST)

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