Local discrmination?

**n2knee** · December 28th, 2007 02:46 AM

what a coincidence

. eto din ang topic namin ng kaibigan ko kagabi habang kami ay nag uusap sa phone. pahabaan ng ihi ang karaniwang ginagawa ng mga kapwa pinoy dito. kompitensya kong sinong may pinakamahal na luxury car, mamahaling bagay, etc. nakakatawa nga kasi karamihan naman sa kanila hirap sa pag-do-double job. ok lang na mag trabaho ang isang tao ng higit sa isa at bilhin ang kung anomang gusto, pero sana man lang hwag namang ipagyabang ito. yung iba pa nga sinasabi, pag galing ang sya sa ganitong (insert name of a particular province in the philippines) di sya mapagkakatiwalaan..:lol:

**KBR** · December 28th, 2007 03:20 AM

Originally Posted by jonski

Meron nangyari once last year sa London ako and meron lumapit sakin ang nagtatanong ng direction and tinanong ko sya kung Filipino ba sya tapos sumagot sya na " no, Cebuano ako"...hindi ko na sya pinansin at iniwanan ko na sya. I dont know kung tama ginawa ko.

sir, kahit ako din dito sa US na experience ko din yan. one time I asked someone kung ano nationality niya.. sabi sa akin "Hawaiian" (which dapat talaga American, kasi state ng America ang Hawaii) anywayz, yung pag alis ko, na bigla nalang ako nung narinig ko siyang mag Ilocano!! .. talagang "Feeling" ng loko! lolz!

Originally Posted by v6dreamer

Yan ang malaking problema sa kapwa natin pinoy local or abroad. I was in the U.S Navy for 21 yrs. and saw too many pinoy serving in the armed forces na walang unity kundi puro tsismis laban sa kapwa pinoy. I dont realy know what is the root cause for not being one as blood by blood, instead they push away that chances to get along each other since we are the few. In the civilian life too, much much worse.

wow! hindi ko alam yan ha! man, thats really bad! I too have some friends (even the older generations) that served in the Military and I havent heard anything like that. well, baka siguro hindi lahat ganon.

but then again, it is so true na once na nasa labas sila (civilian) wether if your in the Military or not, haaayy naku. ayan na ang yabangan.

Originally Posted by baludoy

it's been there for so long it's so anti-climactic

i lived in mindanao for almost 9 years and i've experienced this so-called discrimination time and again. but it never really bothered me because i'd manage to turn the tables around and let them laugh w/ me laughing at them. eh di lahat masaya

thats good, at least you never acted like a d!ck to them. Visayans are actually nice people compared to others. mas madaling matawa ang mga bisaya at madaling maki sama.

I know this since that I'm also part Visayan.. well my mother was from Mindanao and my dad was from Cebu, but I was born and raised in Pasay City, Manila.

anywayz, me growing up in Manila being part "bisaya" was also difficult ever since I was young. kasi sa Manila, once na malaman nila na Bisaya ka (or kahit na part bisaya ka) eh pag tatawanan at pag ti-tripan ka ng mga kaklase at mga kaibigan mo, which is really messed up in my opinion. biruin mo, kahit bata pa lang eh marunong na silang mang-hate sa kapwa. eh paano nalang pag tumanda na?

buti nalang hindi ako lumaki ng ganun, same as my whole family and relatives.. we never hate on other fellow kababayans based on their Dialect or Religion.

kaya dito sa amin (Bay Area), madami akong mga ka tropa na Tagalog, Bisaya, Ilocano at Kapampangan. I have so many friends out here since na marunong akong MAKISAMA.

aite, peace.

**b1rken5tock** · December 28th, 2007 04:51 AM

regionalization is very much alive....

actually, kahit sa baryo namin, kapag taga ibang baryo ka at iba ang punto mo e pinagtatawanan ka din...

as for the bisaya issue, dapat sisihin ang tv sa maling pagpoportray nila sa mga palabas...pati na sa sine..

**CVT** · December 28th, 2007 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by b1rken5tock

regionalization is very much alive....

as for the bisaya issue, dapat sisihin ang tv sa maling pagpoportray nila sa mga palabas...pati na sa sine..

Agree here.

Ang ating media ang nagpo-promote ng diskriminasyon sa ating bansa,- mulan noon, hangga ngayon...

5000:boom:

**juntzo** · December 28th, 2007 08:41 AM

i was born in manila, grew up in bicol, then moved to cavite and studied in manila. worked in the US and now have a business in the visayas! (yes i'm an old f*rt!)

i have close friends in all the places i've been and in my opinion, those who discriminates are usually the uneducated or the ones who didn't learn from their education! :peace:

**Chip** · December 28th, 2007 10:47 AM

Originally Posted by juntzo

those who discriminates are usually the uneducated or the ones who didn't learn from their education! :peace:

+1

Born in mindanao, grade school in cebu, high school in bacolod, college in manila and now based here. I was always the new kid in school who couldnt speak the local language and only english, and therefore, "mayabang". I learned quickly enough though.

Lahat ng insularism naramdaman ko, from the cebuanos making fun of ilonggos, to ilonggos making fun of cebuanos, to the people from luzon making fun of the people from vis-min (who, would actually band together when in manila and learn bisaya and ilonggo, funny no).

I remember in college when i was riding a taxi, tinatanong pa ng driver kung may airport samin, kung may tubig. WTF?! ano akala nya naka-kalabaw ako to go to school? LOL! Eto yung mga tao na di man lang nakalabas sa manila.

addendum:
This is what the now-defunct MBA tried to leverage, regionalism.

**6shooter** · December 28th, 2007 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by juntzo

i was born in manila, grew up in bicol, then moved to cavite and studied in manila. worked in the US and now have a business in the visayas! (yes i'm an old f*rt!)

i have close friends in all the places i've been and in my opinion, those who discriminates are usually the uneducated or the ones who didn't learn from their education! :peace:

Ibig niyo po sabihin na nag mga magaling nating kasama sa media ay mal edukado?

**n2knee** · December 28th, 2007 05:29 PM

ang napansin ko lang po, isa ang mga pinoy sa mga pinaka racist.

**redorange** · December 31st, 2007 02:26 AM

Originally Posted by Jun aka Pekto

Don't tell me Gil has been sleeping under a rock and only just now found out about this problem......

The problem's been around since I can remember.

If it was just the movie, then things can be forgiven. But, it's a lot worse than a mere slip of the tongue.

My wife is Visayan and I'm living that nightmare right now.

My Philippine heritage has been a love/hate (90/10?) thing. This just happens to fall under hate, joining the crab mentality part.

Add: That's also why I shun separate Fil-AM organizations based on dialect or province/region here in the US. It breeds this kind of behavior. Too many Pinoys make a big deal of their dialect/province or whatever college in the Philippines they graduated from..... They're not happy to be simply Pinoys....

I'm half Ilocano and half Tagalog(Bulacan) and I feel the discrimination from my full blooded Ilocano cousins during family get togethers. But I know what you mean about the FilAm organizations as my dad who is Ilocano was told by some groups that my dad was free to join as long as he didn't bring my mom, needless to say he told them to go to hell. But this regionalism is also the main reason that even though Pinoys are the second largest Asian group in the US we also have the least polical representation among the Asian community. Heck, the Japanese, Indians, and Koreans who we out number have more clout than we do.

Originally Posted by KBR

sir, kahit ako din dito sa US na experience ko din yan. one time I asked someone kung ano nationality niya.. sabi sa akin "Hawaiian" (which dapat talaga American, kasi state ng America ang Hawaii) anywayz, yung pag alis ko, na bigla nalang ako nung narinig ko siyang mag Ilocano!! .. talagang "Feeling" ng loko! lolz!

wow! hindi ko alam yan ha! man, thats really bad! I too have some friends (even the older generations) that served in the Military and I havent heard anything like that. well, baka siguro hindi lahat ganon.

but then again, it is so true na once na nasa labas sila (civilian) wether if your in the Military or not, haaayy naku. ayan na ang yabangan.

thats good, at least you never acted like a d!ck to them. Visayans are actually nice people compared to others. mas madaling matawa ang mga bisaya at madaling maki sama.

I know this since that I'm also part Visayan.. well my mother was from Mindanao and my dad was from Cebu, but I was born and raised in Pasay City, Manila.

anywayz, me growing up in Manila being part "bisaya" was also difficult ever since I was young. kasi sa Manila, once na malaman nila na Bisaya ka (or kahit na part bisaya ka) eh pag tatawanan at pag ti-tripan ka ng mga kaklase at mga kaibigan mo, which is really messed up in my opinion. biruin mo, kahit bata pa lang eh marunong na silang mang-hate sa kapwa. eh paano nalang pag tumanda na?

buti nalang hindi ako lumaki ng ganun, same as my whole family and relatives.. we never hate on other fellow kababayans based on their Dialect or Religion.

kaya dito sa amin (Bay Area), madami akong mga ka tropa na Tagalog, Bisaya, Ilocano at Kapampangan. I have so many friends out here since na marunong akong MAKISAMA.

aite, peace.

You have to understand the Filipino history in Hawaii as most of the early Filipinos there were from Ilocos and they were the one's working the pineapple plantation. It's was only later that Filipinos from other region arrived in Hawaii, it's also why the region with the largest presence there is Ilocos. I'm surprised he didn't say Ilocano when you asked because a lot still give that reply instead of saying Filipino. Others do consider themselves Hawaiian because they are 3rd or 4th generation born in Hawaii and speak only English and Ilocano. Just look at Brian Viloria when he fought in the Olympics for the US not once did he mention being Pinoy but he was always introduced as Hawaiian, it was only later on when he jumped on the Manny bandwagon did he acknowledge being Pinoy.

**Jun aka Pekto** · December 31st, 2007 03:28 AM

Originally Posted by redorange

I'm half Ilocano and half Tagalog(Bulacan) and I feel the discrimination from my full blooded Ilocano cousins during family get togethers. But I know what you mean about the FilAm organizations as my dad who is Ilocano was told by some groups that my dad was free to join as long as he didn't bring my mom, needless to say he told them to go to hell. But this regionalism is also the main reason that even though Pinoys are the second largest Asian group in the US we also have the least polical representation among the Asian community. Heck, the Japanese, Indians, and Koreans who we out number have more clout than we do.

Sigh....... I feel more at ease with the Vietnamese. Hmmm. Nice rhyme.