Hate Letter against Filipinos, your thoughts... Options

[xquizit]

[EDIT] THIS IS A HOAX [/EDIT]

Wow, i just stumbled upon this today in another forum. I just wanted to hear your thoughts on it.

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This is a very disturbing open E-mail letter to all Filipinos around the world; specially here in North America!, from a man who has the power
to reach million of people. (he's a radio talk host)

Please read on..............

This is an open letter email by Art Bell, a radio talk show host in Nevada(more info in the email itself). Here is yet another person who has taken advantage of his power and privilege to use hateful words and racial stereotypes that breed further ignorance and intolerance in our society.

Art Bell is a talk radio host who has two shows that he broadcasts from his home in Nevada, that is rebroadcast by 400 stations across the country.

He's written 2 books. He lived in Okinawa, Japan for some years and had a radio program on the English station here. And, though it's hard to believe after reading the following letter from him, he actually has been to the Philippines (he's
traveled fairly extensively around the world).

Check out his website listed at the end to get a who's spreading this hateful ignorance. And letter is so degrading, I think it's really important that everybody read this and not attack him, but respond to him in a civilized manner because otherwise his thoughts will be reaffirmed. Understand that not everyone has a viewpoint like we do, and that this is an opinion of someone who hopefully can be changed only by civil actions. - May Munoz

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Filipinos.....*make me puke* (Art Bell)

As we've all come to notice, in the past few decades, Filipinos have begun to infest the United States like some sort of disease. Their extensive involvement in the U.S. Armed Forces is proof of the trashy kind of qualities all Filipinos tend to
exhibit on a regular basis. You can see this clearly by studying the attitudes and cultural Icons of most Filipino Americans.

Origins of Pinoys/Pinays:

Are they really Asian? Well we've come to accept the fact the Filipinos come from a part of the world known as South East Asia. But the term "Asia" is used in the
wrong way. You may notice that contemporary Filipino Americans try very hard
to associate themselves with groups that we know as Asian. I cannot count the number of times I have seen a 'Third World' Filipino try to connect themselves to the Chinese or Japanese people. There is no connection and here's why. The Philippines is a Third World country. Nothing respectable has EVER been
created by Filipino people during our entire human history. Young Filipino men in America have become obsessed with "import racing". They have an enormously perverted affection for Japanese cars. It's a common phenomenon. In their minds, these Filipinos somehow believe that they are Asian and that it somehow connects them to Japanese people and Japanese cars. They often take credit for the ingenuity of Japanese people and say how it's an "Asian thing". This term..."Asian thing" derived directly from African American slang "blackthang". "It's a black
thang." "It's an asian thang." You can see the connection. It's even funnier that, in Japan, Filipinos are heavily discriminated against. The only filipinos that can live successfully in Japan are the filipino prostitutes. But that's the case for most
Filipino people no matter where they live in the world. Now we've come down to his fact...and it is a fact.

Nothing in Filipino Culture can be seen as Asian. They have no architectural, artistic, or cultural influence which is in ANY way, asian. Thinking of the great countries in Asia such as Japan, Korea, and China there is no way you can possibly connect the Philippine Islands. This assault by filipino americans to
connect themselves with the great peoples of North East Asia is foul and disgusting. Try visiting a young filipino's web site too. You'll see something called the "Asian IRC Ring". It has to do with the chatrooms. The most horrible
thing about this is that these TRASHY people are trying to associate themselves with Asia again!! People in Asia don't act like, this at all. What we are seeing here is the natural Filipino in it's element with full access to technology and this is how they act! You will consistently see this behavior over and over again.

Another interesting thing is that these "thirdworld" people also frequent RC chatrooms such as .chinese .japan and .asian. They must believe that they are some how related racially or culturally to North Asians. But it's completely WRONG! There might have been some distant contact With China and even less with Japan during World War II, but these people are actually more closely related to african americans and Mexican americans.

Do the parents of these young filipinos know what's going on? Would they accept this? I believe that they would and do. This is the natural "Trash" element in filipinos manifesting itself. Nothing good has ever come from Philippines and I don't believe anything good ever will.

Recognizing your Roots (A Message to
Filipinos)

To all filipino people:
Please recognize your ROOTS! You come from the Third World! You country is a disgusting and filthy place. Most people there live in poverty! Your culture has MUCH MORE SPANISH influence than chinese, and absolutely no JAPANESE influence whatsoever. People in Japan and China, do not act like you. They do not
constantly talk about sex and they have a MUCH HIGHER level of RESPECT for each other. There is NO WAY that you can connect yourself to Asia other than location. Your culture and technological advancement does not even come CLOSE to What Chinese, people have done in the past and what Japanese and Korean people are doing now! Everything you do is distinctly filipino. You cannot take credit for Japanese cars, video games, or Hentai! It's not an "asian thing" it's,
an "American thing". You have no concept of culture...no concept of asian ideas or asian philosophy! Can you demonstrate how you use Confucianism or Taoism in you everyday life?? You can't. And you will NEVER be able to. I understand that you are trying to create an identity for yourselves as young people... but it is
NOT related to Asia.

Your Identity is Filipino. That's all you are.
Just Filipino. Think about what that means....

Sincerely,
Art

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For now, I'm speechless. I didn't even know that people had such ill feelings towards Filipinos. I have grown up in an environment where the only filipino folks I knew was my immediate family. Do people really see us this way?

[expoised]

no roxy, not everyone thinks of filipinos in that way.

he's just trying to downgrade your race, and he's stereotyping filipinos by the things he's noticed from the few filipino-amercans that he's observed.

every race will get their little "stereotypical" bashing. its sad.

don't be too affected by what that guy has to say.

[mirage]

They have an enormously perverted affection for Japanese cars.

this line is really retarded, a lot of WHITE PEOPLE uses Japanese cars too, why is he attacking filipinos with a reason about CAR??? That just doesn't fit in my opinion. And who cares what race you are in??? There are SO MANY filipinos in this world and he's probably just judging by one or two that he know of! And what's with that "Filipinos have begun to infest the United States like some sort of disease" thing? United States is a multi-culture country and a DISEASE? He seriously need to pick better words... And no, i don't feel anything different about filipinos, he's just a racist with a lot to learn and need to keep an open mind when he's traveling "fairly extensively around the world". If i get this letter in any wrong way, excuse me please.

[EddieV]

What trash, people these day can be so racist, its like, I dunno I don't even know what to say...

[mai_z]

this guy is crazy....very very few people think that way, and there are closeminded stupid people who think that way about every race.

'There is only one race, the human race'

[sammi rules you]

that's idiotic. he's trying to sound smart by saying the phillipines isn't in asia. wtf. O_O
what continent are the islands on then??

[whomps]

He's lived in Japan for how many years..? This guy is dumb, he thinks he knows Asian culture? He's not even Asian! Such a stupid piece of crap.. He has no reason to be against Filipinos.. GRR!

[yummy_delight]

i was speechless for a minute. but now i'm just MAD. where does he get off saying that shit about filipinos? HE'S NOT EVEN ASIAN. he's basing everything he says on stereotypes. we don't talk about sex all the time. we DO have enormous respect for one another. we get successful like most everyone else does, NOT through prostitution. all guys aren't obsessed with import racing. and he says we're not asian. IF YOU'RE SO SMART THEN WHERE THE HELL ARE WE FROM, DUMB SHIT? and we are NOT trashy. if anything, somebody who trashes and demeans other people's race is trashy.

"Your Identity is Filipino". DAMN RIGHT. and proud of it.

that man deserves to be kicked HARD in the crotch.

[T00000]

well he's a redneck in nevada who is probably dating a japanese woman... and i know this because my mom is japanese and they tend to be very racist against other asian cultures but especially filipino... so I can see where he's coming from but I definetly don't agree. Filipinos ARE asian too (I guess he doesn't know what that term means and he's just judging the words 'asian' by appearence) but I do know many very successful Filipinos and I also know that some of the most beautiful women in the world are Filipino.

[teenprincess]

That's horrible. I didn't think anyone thought of us like that. I dont even know wut to say. This letter is one of the most racist things i have ever heard

[nas]

My thoughts? It's too long to read and probably not even worth it. I've seen that floating around before... but eh just not worth my time. Who really cares about what some racist in Nevada thinks eh?

[xbernaa]

OMG! thats so..RUDE and MEAN!! Filipinos are just another culture like every other culture..most of the statements are NOT true....Most Filipinos arent perverts..(excluding the perverts..:]) heh..not every filipino is like that! thats just gibberish!! is that really how people look at flips? thats just pointless..thats just his opinion and i have my own opinions too.. whats this thing about the japanese cars..i never seen a "japanese car" in my life and im Filipino..and whats "asian thang" supposed to mean?? hah..i never heard of that..but hes not even filipino..so why does he care?

[dafunnybunny]

damn this guy who wrote this needs to die! we should all go find him and kill him.

[NatiMarie]

That person is so ignorant. It's horrible how these ...people can pass out their hateful messages on air and such.

It's truly disgusting and it saddens me to see that racism/discrimination continues to happen. Sadly, I've also come across racial occurences.

One instance was whilst I was reading this e-mail I got about Vanity Fair article on the Dame Edna section, I decided to investigate to see if that given article was true or not. I went to my local library and searched through some of the Vanity Fair editions and I came across the article. I was...shocked. A person had asked for advice to which language they should take...

Vanity Fair, Vanities page, February 2003, page 116

Dear Dame Edna,

I would very much like to learn a foreign language, preferably French or Italian, but every time I mention this, people tell me to learn Spanish instead. They say, "Everyone is going to be speaking Spanish in 10 years.' George W. Bush speaks Spanish." Could this be true? Are we all going to have to speak Spanish? -- Torn Romantic, Palm Beach

This is the thoughtless response:

Dearn Torn,

Forget Spanish. There's nothing in that language worth reading except Don Quixote, and a quick listen to the CD of Man of La Mancha will take care of that. There was a poet named Garcia Lorca, but I'd leave him on the intellectual back burner if I were you. As for everyone's speaking it, what twaddle! Who speaks it that you are really desperate to talk to? The help? Your leaf blower? Study French or German, where there are at least a few books worth reading, or, if you're American, try English.

^ Saddens me to say that this is true.

Reading the e-mail you just posted up...it's clearly amazing how that Art guy could have lived his life for such a long time behind the curtain of cognitive content.

The only filipinos that can live successfully in Japan are the filipino prostitutes.

What the heck? For someone who has written two books, he sure has the mentality of a 1-year old. He has no knowledge about things whatsoever.

[s0pnayish]

Wow. I dunno what to say. I'm just speechless. It makes me mad just reading what this guy has to say about Filipinos. Everything he says is just completely wrong. Where does he get the idea where we try to associate ourselves as Japanese or Chinese? I have not yet one person in my life who have thought that. I dunno. I'm just so mad and shocked, that I really don't know what to say...

[Danny]

someone give me a gun so i can shoot him ...

[xquizit]

Ok, now now. I wasn't trying to spur more hate. We can't murder the man! We should just egg his house.

[magnificentmike]

ha, yeah i already replied to this topic on clique, but yeah we should egg, t.p., and tag his house.

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i never saw the website, but oh well, ill google..

[DaTru KataLYST]

is this the same idea as whats going around for tommy hilfiger? Check your sources next time before you post stuff, just because it was on another forum doesn't mean it's true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bell

http://www.who2.com/artbell.html

it's a hoax e-mail guys....stop being so gullible.

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[njgurl412]

oh man thats soo wrong..... im mad now [Your culture has MUCH MORE SPANISH influence than chinese, and absolutely no JAPANESE influence whatsoever] does this guy know the history of the Philippines..... hello as most people know the philippines is named after the spinish king.... king Philip.... and he sent spinish men to cheeck out asia and they went to the Philippines...so the thats why many tagalong words are closely related to spanish.....this guy is soo stupid he should look at the history of the philippines before writting anything.

[NatiMarie]

is this the same idea as whats going around for tommy hilfiger? Check your sources next time before you post stuff, just because it was on another forum doesn't mean it's true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bell

http://www.who2.com/artbell.html

it's a hoax e-mail guys....stop being so gullible.

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Ouch.
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[Saeglopur]

... what'd it say, anyway?






Famous Filipinos, hmm? Watch out. I'm going to be the Rennasiance Woman of Entertainment!

[xPartyGrlDx]

jeez. wtf is wrong with him? seriously. i am soo mad at this guy. us filipinos are gonna kick his arse or at least sue him. this guy is totally racist & should be kicked off his show.

is this the same idea as whats going around for tommy hilfiger? Check your sources next time before you post stuff, just because it was on another forum doesn't mean it's true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bell

http://www.who2.com/artbell.html

it's a hoax e-mail guys....stop being so gullible.

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WAIT SO YOU MEAN HE DID NOT SAY THAT? ah. sorry for ranting on . but if someone says something like that...

[waccoon]

http://www.who2.com/artbell.html
Stop hating.
These email spoofs have been around forever.

[mirage]

well, but then, whoever REALLY wrote that letter still implied to the fillipinos... so that person might not be famous, but it's still the same thing...