Filipino Child Punished In Canada For Table Manners

[Josh0027]

this is not the usual BS that I heard of... sheesh... arts siya :P

[the_wildthing]

"Eats like a pig" she said, really? So pigs actually use a spoon and fork.

"I want them to eat correctly..."

Ma-research nga kung bakit yun lang ang "correct" way of eating... mukhang gumagawa lang ng kwento yan.

[tinky]

kung alam lang nila kung gaano mapapadali buhay nila pag gumamit sila ng kutsara,
baka pasalamatan pa nila yung bata

[city]

isolated case...are canadians pure in origin?...or did they just like filipinos migrated to the land?....di ba land grabber din sila?....just asking.....maybe beyond the point but still..i'm curious.

[GlennSter]

isolated case...are canadians pure in origin?...or did they just like filipinos migrated to the land?....di ba land grabber din sila?....just asking.....maybe beyond the point but still..i'm curious.

yep..as far as i know..tinaguriang melting pot din ito.

[empy]

isolated case...are canadians pure in origin?...or did they just like filipinos migrated to the land?....di ba land grabber din sila?....just asking.....maybe beyond the point but still..i'm curious.

most canadians are natives the same way americans are natives. they have been there a long long time, but can trace their ancestry elsewhere (most from europe)

[chieffy]

sasalaksakin ko lalamunan nya ng kutsara kung anak ko yung involved eh...yung malaking kutsarang kahoy na nakasabit sa dingding noon :devil:

isipin mo, anak mo ayaw nang kumain dahil sa walang kwentang bagay na iyan!!! nakakapag init ng ulo...

idemanda na nya dapat iyan!!!

[ILuvDetailing]

back to the topic, two words, french canadians!

bona petit

[FrankDrebin]

When I born, I Black,

When I grow up, I Black,

When I go in Sun, I Black,

When I scared, I Black,

When I sick, I Black,

And when I die, I still black...



And you White fellow,

When you born, you pink,

When you grow up, you White,

When you go in Sun, you Red,

When you cold, you blue,

When you scared, you yellow,

When you sick, you Green,

And when you die, you Gray...

And you calling me colored???

[Isuzoom]

French Mongrels!!!

[GasJunkie]

I prefer my mongrel stewed, what about you?





:drool:

[FrankDrebin]

I prefer my mongrel stewed, what about you?





:drool:

I prefer it cooked in an ol' Filipino way...Adobo! Don't you love its crispy bones! Hehehe.

[GasJunkie]

I prefer it cooked in an ol' Filipino way...Adobo! Don't you love its crispy bones! Hehehe.

With grilled asparagus or portobello mushroom = Major slurp.
I'd hit it with my wooden spoon and fork.




:drool:

[Isuzoom]

I want to eat my adobo mongrel kamayan.

[the_wildthing]

Here's a slightly reworded article: http://www.westislandchronicle.com/p...noArticle=6063

The only reason why they don't use spoons is most of their food can be picked up by forks. Pano mo naman gagamitan ng tinidor ang kanin na may sabaw?

[GlennSter]

let's not stoop down to their levels and be racists ourselves guys.

lets just hope na justice would be served to the kid and his family.

dami niyo pang side comments di naman nakakatulong.

[mazdamazda]

let's not stoop down to their levels and be racists ourselves guys.

lets just hope na justice would be served to the kid and his family.

dami niyo pang side comments di naman nakakatulong.

I agree...

We hate to be treated differently yet we resort to name calling as well.

[empy]

let's not stoop down to their levels and be racists ourselves guys.

lets just hope na justice would be served to the kid and his family.

dami niyo pang side comments di naman nakakatulong.

^ somebody with some sense

[Autobeat]

Nasa news (TV) na ito lately ah. Some protests were made locally sa labas ng Canadian embassy. I'm not certain if I heard it right, in the news yesterday, that our gov't has been calling the attention of Canada about it already? Also it seems that some of our local networks have been trying to call the school already in attempts to interview/get their side. Ano kaya feeling ngayon nung teacher and principal (kung umabot na sa kanila ang balita ng mga nangyayari na ito)?

[falken]

http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index....story_id=74812

RP overseas body raps Canadian school over ‘fork and spoon’
First posted 08:36pm (Mla time) May 05, 2006
By Veronica Uy
INQ7.net

(UPDATE) THE Commission on Filipinos Overseas on Friday decried the “racism and ethnocentricism” of a Roxboro town school in Montreal for chastising a seven-year-old Filipino-Canadian boy over table manners.

“Racism and ethnocentrism are an affront to human dignity and have no rightful place in any country in this modern day and age,” the government body which has Filipino immigrants abroad for its constituents said in a statement.

The commission said the principal of Ecole Lalande, Normand Bergeron, only revealed his ignorance of other cultures in punishing Luc Cagadoc, a grade two student who used a spoon and fork instead of a fork and knife during meals.

“It is not acceptable that just because the principal has never seen somebody eat with a spoon and fork at the same time, the eating technique should be called unintelligent,” the commission said, adding “for calling it unintelligent only shows an absence of exposure and/or insensitivity to other culture.”

“Cagadoc is no longer just any child with immigrant parents. He is any Canadian’s child, who could significantly contribute to the development of Canada,” the commission said.

Cagadoc was reportedly punished by his lunch monitor more than 10 times this year for his table behavior.

The commission said the punishment of isolating Cagadoc from the rest of his lunch mates and comparing his eating habits with that of a pig “is abusive and is a mockery of the vision that Canada shall be home to different races with great respect for each other.”

The Quebec Weekly News quoted Bergeron as saying it was Luc's eating technique combined with his table manners that was inappropriate.

"Like other children, he is frequently in situations where we have to intervene. It's normal, he's a child. He is in a period of learning," Bergeron had said on the paper.

But the commission stressed that teaching children to adapt the manners and etiquette of the host country must be done without “embarrassing and emotionally abusing the child to the point that he does not want to eat anymore.”

But the commission conceded that the school, the school principal, and the lunch monitor are “not representative” of the Canadian society.

It agreed with the observation of Canadian Ambassador to the Philippines Peter Sutherland that the “case is isolated and atypical.”

At the same time, the CFO noted, “it still remains of great concern that an educational institution that plays a major role in the formation of correct values and respect among children can tolerate child abuse, callousness, and insensitivity to the nuances of an ethnically and culturally diverse country.”

On the complaint filed against the school, the principal, and the lunchtime monitor before the school board, the commission “trusts” the Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys to “act fairly and decisively on this matter.”