Racism was something i thought was over years ago even before a black became the President of the world’s powerful country, but i guess i was half sleeping to consider that “a thing of the past.” Usually, those topics does not successfully aggravates me for i am a believer of democracy and freedom of speech. But there will be times when you feel sick swallowing such a bitter pill.
A week ago I read a post from a friend spitting fire with a racist writer in one of her journals. I even thought it was cool and very well said or written. Strong and direct. Then she emailed me a site about another writer discriminating the Call Center Agents this time and questioning the reason why jobs are being moved in Manila (in particular) when we can’t hardly speak good English (according to that air head). To make the plot thicker, few days back I’ve spoken to another member of the “Asian Are Lower Than Us” club, blaming me for the global financial crisis and the unending issue of unemployment rate.
So here goes my not so patient hands:
1. Filipinos are everywhere and anywhere in the world. Our services are sought after because of our passion to our jobs, skills and dedication.
2. Companies would rather spend a dollar getting a Filipino to work with them overseas because profit is GUARANTEED than to spend a penny getting a local who’s INCOMPETENT.
3. If you believe that Filipinos are stupid and don’t deserve the job, then i will boldly say that your BUSINESSMAN are bunch of morons entrusting their fortunes all for nothing. Now tell me who’s dumber?
4. People have different accents just in case you came from Mars white skunk! Yours may sound just as someone who’s constipated but that makes you and your people unique and so are we as Filipinos.
5. Understanding and hearing are two entirely different things just in case you never heard of “Dictionary “. While Telecommunications has improved a great deal over the centuries, there’s still a so called technical problems or bad connection that’s making us hard to hear the other person on the line.
Bear in mind that a person who’s stress and angry can have an oversight on some things. This frustrations are being carried over through our body language and even voice. Sometimes what seems to be a major problem of yours, say on your computer?, is actually something so simple as inhaling and exhaling. You call people who’s half the world away to question their technical skills and mocked them with their accent, then yell, curse and discriminate them to the best of your knowledge and ability, only to find out that you failed to plug your PC (just as the same as you failed to plug your brain perhaps). No computer not even the brand new ones will work without electric power just so you know.
At the end of the day, I will still stand before my flag and my people with my head up. I guess i’d rather go with a bad accent… than a BRAIN FART!
* Purposely withheld the site of that racist skunk in this post to stop any traffic on her DUMP SITE.
