tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370906785269759264.post4219949683679780187..comments2024-02-16T09:51:55.973-08:00Comments on Ask A Filipino!: To chew or not to Chua? To know or not to Nora?The Filipinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06411009013482740401noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370906785269759264.post-2363469263512863982012-07-22T19:27:21.921-07:002012-07-22T19:27:21.921-07:00Just came across this post, and it's a year an...Just came across this post, and it's a year and a half too late, but I would nonetheless like to chip in my comments. First, Katrina says that it's the Chinese and Indians who are more prosperous than Pinoys in her province; so whose fault is that? Remember natives always have the "home court advantage" when it comes to the owning businesses, buying real estate, tax rates etc. But why are the dayuhan who came here with nothing much now have prosperous lives? And the Chinese don't have the same privileges in China as they do in the Philippines? Boy, you gotta crawl out of your provincial cave and go visit Shanghai, Beijing and other Chinese metropolises to see what they enjoy over there. <br /><br />The blog owner himself is, like many dumbos, asking why some of the richest individuals are not the biggest taxpayers. And the answer to that is: net worth is not the same as taxable income for a particular year. If your reported earnings for a year is, say, P1 billion, you are going to definitely land on the top taxpayers list. Net worth, on the other hand, is an accumulation of your earnings and/or asset holdings in years past. They may be mostly cash, mostly real estate or stocks or other assets. It means you're rich, but either the earnings have been taxed already in prior years, or tax has not yet been paid because the land or other assets have not been sold yet (capital gains tax). Asset holdings = wealth, but it does not necesarily mean you should automatically belong to the top tax bracket. Lucio Tan can sit on his ass all year not earning anything, and he will still rank in the Top 5 richest year after year because he's already "made it."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370906785269759264.post-32386680215128478862011-04-18T14:44:04.799-07:002011-04-18T14:44:04.799-07:00She seems to distance herself from the flips as mu...She seems to distance herself from the flips as much as she can. You can tell in her interviews with Charlie Rose and on her recent interview with the WSJ together with her husband and her daughter. Just listen to her VERY CLOSELY when it comes to stuff about her own family background or she starts mentioning her parents & where they come from.<br />READ BETWEEN THE LINES.<br /><br />WSJ interview:<br />http://online.wsj.com/video/the-tiger-mother-speaks/99413184-BA3A-499A-83B1-842237940F47.html?KEYWORDS=amy+chua<br /><br />Charlie Rose interview:<br />http://www.hulu.com/watch/221163/charlie-rose-amy-chuaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370906785269759264.post-77436227555022230892011-01-20T18:15:38.137-08:002011-01-20T18:15:38.137-08:00why pinoy dads are superior: http://globalnation.i...why pinoy dads are superior: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/columns/columns/view/20110120-315575/Why-Pinoy-dads-are-superior-joke-lang#<br /><br />:Ddonvhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01344343170503814734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370906785269759264.post-46465232583030620422011-01-19T07:47:10.451-08:002011-01-19T07:47:10.451-08:00Dear Filipino,
I apologize if my article has caus...Dear Filipino,<br /><br />I apologize if my article has caused any harm to your Ask The Pilipino Blogs! or deepen the rift between a faction of the Chinese Filipino community and the mainstream Filipino people. I tried to be rational and objective on my assessment of the situation, but the feelings that the Filipino people was generally misaligned, degraded, and insulted by Chua in her essay on ‘Vengeful Majority’ which was supposedly excerpted from her book ‘World on Fire’ perhaps contributed to some emotional overtones in my article.<br /><br />As most of us have many good Chinese Filipino friends (actually one of mine is the nicest person ever), I tried to be careful in distinguishing the typical Chinese Filipino from Chua’s Chinese Filipino. Again, I’m sorry that the resentment was very noticeable, but I think it was justified. I appreciate your observations on her essay and totally agree with you. My article would have been better if I had thought about the same observations and included them in the write up. I also appreciate the comments made by some of your readers on this article. It seems that we may be unified in condemning an unreasonable accusation and generalization of the Filipino race. Wouldn’t it be nice if Amy Chua apologizes for the unsavory things she had written about the Filipino people – but I am not holding my breath right now.<br /><br />Please continue your selfless efforts on your blog. You are doing a great service to the Filipino people, especially to the younger generations of Filipinos who grew up in foreign countries and long for more information on their ancestry’s country, traditions, history, and various issues touched by your blogs.PISST OFFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370906785269759264.post-19958594094482278422011-01-18T11:27:51.131-08:002011-01-18T11:27:51.131-08:00While I appreciate the comments, I think we all ha...While I appreciate the comments, I think we all have to be careful not to fall into the trap of "hating" (I'm using the word to encompass many other negative feelings) these so-called market-dominant Chinese. I agree many of them probably deserve some blame for any negativity coming from the ethnic Pinoys, but we all know many of them are also very conscientious, ethical and moral (some close friends come to mind), and I don't want my blog to contribute to a poisoned atmosphere between the two groups.<br /><br />Having thought longer about Chua's essay on "Vengeful Majorities," I now think she really unfairly elevated one incident -- the killing of her aunt by a lone individual -- to somehow be representative of any ethnicity-influenced tension between the Chinese and the ethnic Filipinos in the country. And even if I concede that there is some tension, I'm sure it is almost negligible and I do not believe such tension is in any way comparable to the other ethnic tensions she also mentioned in her essay: e.g., Croats vs. Serbs, Hutus vs. Tutsis, Jews vs. ethnic Russians, Chinese vs. ethnic Indonesians, etc. I mean, these tensions were much more violent and widespread, much more societally disruptive, and much, much more gruesome. Unlike the case involving her aunt, we're talking about riots, outright war and ethnic cleansing in these other examples she gave.<br /><br />Besides, let's reverse the roles in her aunt's case: If her aunt had been an ethnic Filipina who was killed by her Chinese driver because the latter couldn't take the abuse and enslavement anymore, the police would still be justified to put the same reason for the killing: "Revenge." In other words, it was revenge because of the aunt, not because the ethnic Filipino majority is somehow "vengeful."<br /><br />Admittedly, things can deteriorate if the market-dominant Chinese do not change their ways, and if they do not learn to exercise more compassion and/or exhibit some form of laudable and visible societal engagement. <br /><br />Like what the questioner alluded to in his long letter, they can start with taxes. I remember distinctly my reaction when I saw that the list of the biggest taxpayers did not match the list of the country's wealthiest individuals, which was of course dominated by the well-known Chinese tycoons. Why was that? Am I missing something here?The Filipinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06411009013482740401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370906785269759264.post-86305781690784257672011-01-18T10:32:59.629-08:002011-01-18T10:32:59.629-08:00I read some article that it is a memoir and not a ...I read some article that it is a memoir and not a help book. But she had a good way of becoming a bestseller - by antagonizing everyone. She should be thankful that she was born in the US and is enjoying a good life. <br /><br />Anyway, it's pretty ironic. Considering some of these Chinese or Filipino-Chinese live like kings at the expense of some poor Filipinos who probably don't have much choices/options in their lives, to tolerate being treated like slaves. It's so sad. <br /><br />In my province, it is the Chinese and some Indians("bumbay")who are the richer people, the local Pinoys are servants to these people. <br /><br />Why don't they just go back to China or wherever they came from? Oh wait, that's right, over there they probably won't have the same freedom and "privileges" that they enjoy in the Philippines...Katrinanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370906785269759264.post-90115242312117949262011-01-17T21:29:44.715-08:002011-01-17T21:29:44.715-08:00@PISST OFF~
Congrats on raising successful kids! ...@PISST OFF~<br /><br />Congrats on raising successful kids! And thanks for writing The Filipino about this topic.<br /><br />@Filipino~<br /><br />Way to go! I'm liking your blog more and more. You just need to post more often!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370906785269759264.post-70571557263572728392011-01-17T16:48:44.917-08:002011-01-17T16:48:44.917-08:00Great article by PISST OFF.Great article by PISST OFF.Tess Crescini (via FB)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4370906785269759264.post-91291518170866692642011-01-17T13:59:56.665-08:002011-01-17T13:59:56.665-08:00So it is true! I heard that Chinese considers Fil...So it is true! I heard that Chinese considers Filipinos second class citizens even in our own country. I thought it was just a rumor. lol. I also heard that when it comes to being rude nobody beats Chinese people. I guess that's true too. lmao.Tess Crescinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14398131014657837048noreply@blogger.com