From Rodel Rodis: The Evil Filipina/Pinay Stereotype
Posted by: lorna in Filipina in the NewsI’m a guest of Rodel and Edna Rodis this week at their San Francisco home and at Rodel’s law offices. We’re busy preparing for the biennial gathering of Overseas Filipinos on October 9 to 11, 2009 in Cebu: the 6th Global Filipino Networking Convention. And yes, there will be a Filipina Women’s forum. All very exciting! Rodel is the founder of the Global Filipino Networking Convention (starting 2002). For the 6th Global, he is also the Organizing Committee’s chair.
Rodel Rodis was so disturbed by this CBS coverage that he decided to write about it for his “Telltale Signs” column, which appears at the Philippine News and is syndicated in several Filipino American publications.
Here is Rodel’s Telltale Signs column for this week.
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When ABC presented a demeaning image of Philippine-trained doctors in a “Desperate Housewives” episode (September 30, 2007), the Filipino community erupted in outrage and demanded an apology. Because Filipinos rarely appear on national TV, it was feared that the offending episode would cause Americans to view their Philippine-educated physicians in a negative light. That ABC episode is peanuts in terms of image and consequence compared to the depiction of Filipinos that CBS presented on January 31, 2009 in its CBS 48 Hours Mystery episode of “Conspiracy to Kill”.
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I’m always glad when people lash out and complain to networks about stereotypes. My husband also hates when they depict men as complete idiots incapable of doing anything in television commercials.
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On the other hand, the CBS report was based on facts which is not the case of ABC’s Desperate Housewives. This isn’t fiction nor a stereotyping of Filipinos. It was not a case of depicting Filipinos as murderers. These are unsolved murder cases that involved an evil woman who happened to be a Filipina.
Got here form the Plurk of BB. Where is Bebe GandangHari’s interview?
How often do stand-up artist make joke about people of Polish descent? The so called polac-jokes in which Polish immigrants are seen as stupid. Do Polish newspapers and politicians demande an international apology?
Or are only Philippine newspapers, citizens and politicians high-minded?
Instead of crying about such silly things, try working at the future of the Philippine children!
How many hatefull things are said by Philippine people about other races? Somethimes even about mixed children! Hypocritical such things are said in Tagalog, Cebuano or Waray so the targetted people do not know about it.
[as reported May 3, 2009]
Officials advised Filipinos living and working in the USA to “take precautionary measures” against the deadly “Swine Flu”
Independent officials advised Filipinos living and working in the USA to “take precautionary measures” to avoid being infected by the deadly H1N1 ’swine flu’ virus, which has spread to 38 countries.
There are more than 2,000,000 Filipinos in the USA, and fortunately, no reports of Filipinos being infected by the virus which has killed 176 people in Mexico which borders the southern USA.
Filipinos in the USA who develop flu like symptoms should immediately seek medical attention.
As a precautionary measure, Filipinos without health insurance are urged to enroll in the Filipino Health Plan before it’s too late by going on-line to http://www.FilipinoHealthPlan.com/enroll.html
Filipinos in the USA are also urged to constantly inquire for updates regarding H1N1 outbreaks in their local area.
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