I have noticed during these past few days that traffic to my blog has exponentially increased due to the fact that people who were searching for “The Awful Truth About Filipinos” on Google have landed on one of my many personal blog entries.
This has kept me wondering: what the hell is this “awful truth about Filipinos”? It definitely sounds like a title of some book, a documentary, or some nasty e-mail chain letter.
My last guess came in close. Upon further investigation, I found out that some ignorant outdated dude posted the deleted Slashdot comment that reproduced the infamous Art Bell e-mail chain letter hoax on this forum [notice the date that the forum member posted this outdated 2001 message].
The aforementioned essay rant called “The Awful Truth About Filipinos” was originally attributed to popular American radio personality, Art Bell. According to Wikipedia [because I’m too lazy to summarize stuff for you]:
The Philippine Daily Inquirer printed a letter found on a web page purportedly from Bell that made derogatory statements about Filipinos. This letter was subsequently demonstrated to be a hoax perpetrated upon Bell, who in fact had a publicly loving relationship with his Filipina wife and his previous wife Ramona who was also Filipina, and who often spoke openly about his admiration for the Filipino people on his radio show. Subsequently, the Philippine Daily Inquirer printed a retraction and apologized for printing the statement upon their verification of the hoax. This fraudulent act upon Bell still periodically results in serious threats to Bell when this material surfaces from time to time.
Please, just stop. Haven’t you even read Bob Ong’s essay regarding this? I am sick and tired of reading these types of articles and forum posts.
I hate the fact that Filipinos keep talking about how awful our country is. Please stop the hate and negativity.
I hate the fact that the most insecure strangers that I come across online are most of the time Filipinos. [i.e. They always start threads that go along the lines of “What Do You Think Of Filipinos?”. God, why are you all so insecure?!]
I hate the fact that Filipinos try to bring down their fellow Filipinos [see crab mentality].
I hate the fact that a lot of Filipinos are so ignorant. I lament the fact that many believe that “buying foreign products will kill our economy” or “speaking English is unpatriotic”.
Be open-minded.
We are living in a global economy, a global society–a global world where “nationalism isn’t bound by time or place. People from other nations migrate to create new nations, yet still remain essentially who they are,” as Patricia Evangelista has said in her award-winning speech.
I’ll end this by quoting more of Patricia’s words for those idiots who accuse me of being a traitor to my beloved country:
“Leaving sometimes isn’t a matter of choice. It’s coming back that is. The Hobbits of the shire traveled all over Middle-Earth, but they chose to come home, richer in every sense of the word. We call people like these balikbayans or the ‘returnees’ — those who followed their dream, yet choose to return and share their mature talents and good fortune.
“…I may take advantage of whatever opportunities come my way. But I will come home. A borderless world doesn’t preclude the idea of a home. I’m a Filipino, and I’ll always be one. It isn’t about just geography; it isn’t about boundaries. It’s about giving back to the country that shaped me.”
Narrow-minded fools.
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hay naku talaga ung mga ibang pinoy. kaya mahirap makipag kaibigan sa ibang pinoy lalo na dito.
pero san galing si artbell?
Posted 31 Aug 2007 at 3:45 am ¶I have also read Patricia’s speech. Actually, my Social Studies teacher read it out to me. It was very moving and when the teacher was reading the speech, all my classmates were silent (for once). I agree with her speech. One day, I might move to America but I will NEVER forget about the Philippines. Like Ninoy Aquino, I want to return here someday, to my beloved homeland.
And also, to quote a song: PINOY AKO, PINOY TAYOOOOO! (I love the Philippines.
Posted 31 Aug 2007 at 4:27 am ¶@lara: Taga-Nevada si Art Bell, but as I’ve mentioned above, he didn’t write that letter. It was eventually traced back to a UCSD student who used a library computer to post that hateful message.
And yeah, I hate crab mentality. Kahit dito–to think na sobrang konti ng mga Pilipino dito–meron parin, eh. 
@yellowcrayolacrayon: Hey, welcome to my blog!
Yeah, her speech was brilliant. I am greatly annoyed [and saddened] by the fact that many people are still narrow-minded, though. 
Posted 01 Sep 2007 at 5:32 pm ¶wow. ang galing. we both love the philippines
i think i’ll blog about this too. did i ever tell you that my dream is to become DOH secretary? yeah, it is. ‘di nga makapaniwala yung mga tao eh, ba’t daw DOH, hindi WHO. i can get mad at them, but i can also just take the higher road and think lowly of them. hahaha, yuck maling logic. you know what i mean. see you pam!
Posted 02 Sep 2007 at 11:55 am ¶hay naku nagulat ako nung ni click ko crab mentality tas ang definition nya ay patungkol sa pilipino. kalungkot.
Posted 02 Sep 2007 at 3:37 pm ¶I’ve placed a link to your most recent entry (The Awful Truth About Filipinos) on my blog’s last post. I hope you don’t mind. It’s just that I was feeling particularly patriotic last night and I happen to have come across your post and Julie’s. I want to be mad, but I’m more sad, really…
Kudos to those who still believe in the Philippines.
Posted 02 Sep 2007 at 8:27 pm ¶FUCK FLIPS! go to hell they arent asian and Dattebayo rules!
Posted 02 Oct 2007 at 8:30 am ¶Dattewhat? Sorry, unintelligible gibberish is not tolerated here. So are websites that illegally distribute anime episodes over the web.
Also, please back up your claim that Filipinos aren’t Asian. I don’t blame you though, for you might as well be some dumb American trash who has never heard of other countries because he’s too busy sitting on his ass, waiting for his welfare check while Filipinos pay their taxes for them. Clean up your dirty mouth, as well. Thanks for commenting, though. At least I got your IP address.
Posted 02 Oct 2007 at 9:23 am ¶I resent filipinos they are bad at everything they do and don’t care. I’ve never had good customer service from one. They have weird personalities and are ugly and rude. I know I live among them
Posted 06 May 2008 at 6:00 pm ¶Chris,
While I would thank you for going through all the trouble of leaving a comment, I would like you to know that not all Filipinos are, in your own words, bad at everything they do, don’t care, have weird personalities, ugly, or rude. While you may live among them–yes, I see that you live in Hawaii and there are many Filipinos over there–please keep in mind that the same thing goes for any group of people from any race or nationality. While there’s a ton of stupid, lazy, half-assed Americans, I won’t go around Google and type “i hate americans” (note: you typed “i hate filipinos” on Google, so you landed on my blog) and go and comment on blogs that say otherwise. First of all, that is not an honorable thing to do, and most importantly, it would not be right to place an entire nation under a single negative label.
Yes, I have encountered dumb, ugly, rude Filipinos as much as I have encountered dumb, ugly, and rude African-Americans, Native Americans, European-Americans, and Asian-Americans.
You mentioned that you “never had good customer service from them”, but you know what? There is always going to be that dumb, ugly, and rude sales clerk, whether that person is Filipino, black, white, red, yellow, brown, or polka-dot. It just isn’t right that you’re labeling an entire nation just because of a one-dimensional experience (i.e., a retail experience). Just because the Filipino sales clerks in Hawaii gave you poor customer service doesn’t mean that ALL Filipinos are “dumb, ugly, or rude”. I’ve encountered a bunch of white chicks and dudes who are dumber than algae. I’ve topped ALL my English and literature courses in my university, easily beating Americans in their own language. I’ve encountered several American students in my own university who do not even know how to write research papers properly, who don’t know what rational numbers are, don’t even know how to do Scientific Notation, and I especially hate how they do not even utilize proper grammar in their conversations. However, do I go around and comment on blogs and tell them that ALL Americans are idiots? What you just did, my friend, is a logical fallacy. C’mon, you ought to be “smart” enough to know that by now.
Posted 06 May 2008 at 7:15 pm ¶Filipinos are open minded. They try to be any other race but Filipino.
Some examples below.
Dress, talk, and act like black people. (My black friends think this is both sad and funny)
They’re Hawaiian, Chinese, Half Something, etc…etc. Are there any full Filipinos out there?
Posted 17 May 2008 at 1:40 am ¶No, I honestly don’t think that there are. I have to admit that Filipinos have a pretty messed up ethnic identity. The Philippines is a melting pot of cultures due to the strong influences of the country’s colonizers. Filipinos don’t even look very much like each other, and it is rather difficult to distinguish them from other Asians or Pacific Islanders.
However, if you compare this, yet again, to how the United States is also a melting pot of cultures, you’ll understand. Who is purely American? Isn’t everyone here also half-something?–Scottish-Irish, German, African-American, Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, Caribbean, and all that? Are there any “full Americans” out there? Maybe we could argue that the Native American Indian settlers are the only “full Americans”, but even they originally came from Asia.
I have to agree with you about Filipinos who act like they’re black. “Fliggas” [or “fliggaz”], as how people call them. Other people act like they’re black, though: white people [”wigga”], Chinese people [”chigga”], Latinos, etc. And besides, only the insecure idiots do that–not all Filipinos do.
Posted 27 May 2008 at 10:01 pm ¶Never marry a filipino!!! they rob from you!!!!
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