Here's to You, Jude Cross (the idiot formerly known as Judas dela Cruz)
I have had the (at times dubious) pleasure (let's not call it privilege) of meeting both IRL and in cyberspace citizens of other countries who were once Filipino citizens, both locally and on my foreign travels, and not a few times had I engaged such people in conversation.
Not exactly great conversation.
I have a pet peeve about some of these people -- despite the fact that they are no longer Filipinos, they continue to hem and haw about how rotten the social and political systems are in this country, how idiotic are the people of these islands, and how hopeless are country was, is, and will be, world without end, amen.
I always hear from these people, or from people who intend to emulate them, this statement:
My answer to them has never changed. It's this:
Yes, friends, I detest such people, they who have the gall to profess that they are better Filipinos than we who have decided to stay and try to make a difference, even as they have willingly shed -- rather, stripped themselves off! -- their Filipino identity in favor of some country or other. I despise such people, they who encourage the rottenness we who have stayed are trying to fight (as witness, for instance, the latest elections), by trumpeting all the hurdles we are up against and blurbing it up as "ang Pinoy nga naman."
I might readily forgive unwarranted criticisms made by a foreigner of non-Filipino descent than those of a foreigner who was formerly a Filipino immigrant -- one is likely ignorant of the history and culture of our islands, while the other is likely spouting these criticisms to blurb up the fact that he is no longer a Filipino (perhaps a means to assuage a sense of shame that he was once a Filipino?)... in much more colorful terms, agin-agin ti okin-amana, nagkukunwari ang puta.
I might even go as far as to suggest that the fellow should get industrial-strength bleaching, ala-Michael Jackson, if one feels that being kayumanggi is something shameful.
I would likewise not shirk from suggesting to the fellow to get the Gattaca treatments, to conceal that that his DNA contains blood from the 7,100 islands.
Then again, I might suggest neither. Such people are to my mind useless lumps of carbon, taking up space and air, not worth paying any attention to. They've left; so what? Fuck them; we're still here.
The changes in our Las Islas Filipinas will not be because of the opinions of those who have left and watch from afar in their comfortable foreign homes -- change will be because of the efforts of we who have stayed here despite the hardships we face from day to day.
Pinoy ako. Ikaw? Tanginamo.
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12 had something to say about it:
I think I know who are you referring to. There's no use debating with them. As I had said in a comment in that blog, mahirap gisingin ang mga nagtutulug-tulugan.
Or, to be more blunt, ang langaw kahit nakatuntong sa kalabaw....
thank you.
i too, raise a middle finger to all of you who love taking potshots from the balcony.
put up or shut up.
you've lost the right to make your former homeland the subject of your armchair exercises in government.
what does IRL mean?
in real life, nashman.
Thankfully, I haven't met any such people and, hopefully, I won't ever meet such people. I agree with your sentiments, though I wouldn't use such colorful language. :)
They vote with their because that's where their brains are
And the worst thing, Jester, is these what you call "Judases" will someday come home because they know that their 401(k) pensions will not pay for their nursing house bills. So, they will buy up our elegant houses, loll in our beautiful beaches, gorge on our fresh produce, and hire our pretty nurses and caregivers. After all those abuses heaped on our country. Fuck!
i don't normally use colorful language, eugene, but sometimes it brings the point more forcefully across than drawing-room talk.
mb, i wouldn't necessarily presume that they have brains, as in the organ used for cognitive thought; i'd lean more to the likelihood that any neural matter they have is amphibian (you know, selfish and self-preservation-oriented, no concept of others, service, and higher concepts). i'm inclined to believe that they are the meisters of the hobbesian "brutish" concept.
shaman, let them come and enjoy their hard-earned wealth here before they kick the bucket. we welcome tourist-foreigners, why not them? let's take their money, but we don't need to listen to them bellyache from the bleachers, not being part of the action.
Amen.
I recall a friend telling me, "With all those actors and actresses running for office -- no wonder hindi umuunlad ang Pilipinas. (I don't entirely disagree with this, but I don't agree with it either.)
blahblah
Sana naman maging maayos na [ang Pilipinas]."
My response?
If Philippine conditions were to improve, it would be no thanks to you.
Having lived abroad for more than 2 years, I've had my fair share of meeting stupid Filipinos who think they're "all that" just because they work in a trendy shoe store. And what is funny is they try to hide their identities as much as they can. But in reality, how rotten they are in the inside is reflected on their faces -- not to generalize or anything -- but they're fugly as hell!
Sorry, got to read this just now.
I don't get those kind of people AT ALL. They think they have the right to complain when they've turned their back on the country, on the Filipinos.
I wonder who the person you're referring to is...although it's generally true.
PS: I even stumbled upon a blog of a 16-year-old (oops, he's now 17) kid who ass-kiss Latvia, and blogs about how he hates the Philippines. His username is blondelover, which is a dead giveaway on how...ewan...this kid is. His email is Oklahoma_My_State@yahoo.com (yeah, I'm too mad at him to use an email obfuscator, so I hope he gets spammed badly). Nationality: Latvian. Current residence: Philippines but I'd rather be in Latvia
I asked him, "What have you done to make things better in our country anyway?" It didn't take a genius to know that the answer is a big, fat, resounding NONE. Oh yeah, he did something. He took that post down recently. Hmpf. He couldn't handle the heat.
I hate it because he's still here in the Philippines, but he's acting as if he's not. Kung makapagsalita siya, parang di siya Pinoy (except for the numerous errors in spelling, grammar, and diction). Isama na ang mga taong tulad nila sa Jude Cross na yan!
lamo sayang di kita kilala personally, kasi kelangan kitang bigyan ng isang malupit na APIR.
btw, pwede ba gamitin to: Pinoy ako. Ikaw? Tanginamo. bilang tagline ko? haha
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