Racist chinese author slams Filipinos over Spratlys

I woke up today feeling good. Summer has certainly arrived and I could feel the slight sting of the sun at early morning. The skies are clear. Birds are chirping. My neighbor is lazily watering her wonderful begonias. I flipped my laptop open, sipping on a cup of coffee, and logged in my Facebook account. Wham bam! One post of a former TV colleague caught my attention:

HOW DARE THIS BRAINLESS MONGOLOID!! -

HE'S A SHAME TO BBC ---
HE SHOULD BE MADE TO APOLOGIZE!!!

I hit on the link that came with the post and a page from HK-magazine.com quickly made my day sour. The article on the page is entitled The War At Home and it was written by a certain Chip Tsao, a former BBC reporter, who now writes books and maintains columns in a number of magazines and newspapers in his native Hong Kong. Basically he is slamming the Philippines for laying claim over the Spratly Islands and even went as far as insulting the thousands of Filipina household workers who toil in Chinese homes.

In effect, he's saying that it's quite fine if superpowers like Russia and Japan are bullying them like when the former Reds sank a Hong Kong freighter and killed seven Chinese seafarers or when the Japs flew the rising sun flag over Diaoyu Island. But when Filipinos start flexing its muscle by claiming sovereignty over Spratlys, it's a different thing altogether?

Why do yu have to say that Mr. Tsao? Because we send scores of our own women to clean your stinking shit? Because our piers are flooded by cheap knockoffs and useless knick-knacks that your factories churn out in millions? Because we lag so far in terms of economic progress and international influence?

You call the Philippines a nation of servants and yet your own women trade flesh the world over, in tolerant Dubai, in European capitals and even in mighty United States. That is statistics, not hearsay. Our wives, daughters and sisters work their asses off in Hong Kong for what? For measly $500! You benefit from the cheap labor and still have the gall to insult the very same hands that make your miserable lives bearable.

And what about the Chinese men who are frequently rounded-up in drug busts not only in the Philippines but in every other country with a sizable Chinese population? What's up with that? Is China a country of drug pushers? And hey, you even rob your own people with their precious childhood years when you drag toddlers to sports boot camps and have them do ridiculous leg splits and aerial acrobatics.

I am not an expert in the issue of Spratlys and I really couldn't care less who gets to lay claim over those damn islands for good. What I care about is the dignity of my fellow Filipinos who are working decent jobs abroad. Why drag them to a prickly international debate? Your logic is so screwed up and you even dare call yourself a patriot.

Here's a news flash for you, Mr. Tsao: a true patriot acts to defend his nation's pride but not in the expense of another.

What are you so proud about? That your people invented firecrackers? That you recently hosted the world's biggest sports spectacle? That you number to a billion and could even simulate an earthquake if you jump all together? That your culture is well-represented in Hollywood movies? That you call your country the Middle Kingdom? Bullcrap!

Mr. Tsao, you should be ashamed of yourself and apologize to us Filipinos.

On second thought, we really don't need your apology coz we might have a hard time understanding your words...you know, with your Chinese tongue and all. Oh, don't be coy...you know what I mean. You Chinese assholes speak horrible English!

Yes, I am not a patriot coz I defended my country's pride by belittling another. Well, who ever said I was?! Har har har! You ruined an otherwise perfect day so you deserve my wrath! Now I couldn't hear the birds chirping, the sun is scorching hot and my neighbor just stopped watering her flowers to invite her lover in while the poor husband works in the office. Now she's having her own flower watered. Yikes...

To the binoculars!

(Photos courtesy of HK-magazine.com, Anamericanfirst.com and Slog.thestranger.com)