The problem with Filipinos
@MAMANG_MALDITO (48)
Philippines
November 25, 2008 8:14pm CST
In my intention to increase my earnings thru recruitment, i posted several invitations on my yahoo groups. I received few responses but all is to criticized my grammar. They even said cursed words to me. Most of the members of the site which i am promoting aside from my fellow filipino's are indians... and compare with them i know we, filipinos could speak more straight english for its known to be our second language. But i admire the attitudes of these indians. They never turn down their fellow country man with its grammar. Instead, they are encouraging and supporting each other to learn more about this language. The problem with some Filipinos is that they already forgotten that they are Filipino. This is one of the major problem here in the Philippines. After working in much develop country like Canada and USA, some Filipinos is overly acting like they are so great and already belongs to the elite part of society and even our government branded them as the modern day hero where in fact they are just our there busy whipping some foreign *ss.
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12 responses
@simpaulguy (310)
• Philippines
26 Nov 08
It is really true maldito, and is really happening nowadays. I don't know why most of the Filipino's have this kind of attitude. Instead of loving and helping others who need it the most, they tend to curse it instead and tell them some bad words. Thank God some of us here are not as bad as them. I just don't really understand them.
@MAMANG_MALDITO (48)
• Philippines
26 Nov 08
So far i haven't experience this in making money online community... Its just a proof that we are more broad in understanding and focus on much important things... to make money for our family.
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@roselynm1023 (950)
• Philippines
26 Nov 08
i can relate to this situation! some of filipinos who can speak "so" fluent English think that they are of greater value. It is not on how you speak of its on what you speak of. Another thing is its in the attitude that matters. When they die they cannot speak fluently with God.
don't mind them. just give them a smug!
to add on what i can bear is reading posts here that contains and so obvious spelling errors as well as mis constructed sentences. thats a flaw. anyway we cant blame them for that we are a world of different languages and interpretation.
be blessed.
@MAMANG_MALDITO (48)
• Philippines
26 Nov 08
I just wish we still have Rizal today to make them realized what they are doing to this country. :(
@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
26 Nov 08
Oh tell me about it, I have several discussions about those types. I have an aunt who does nothing but criticize everything about the Philippines. Acts as if she's better than the rest but she's nothing but a rotten person who put her back on the motherland she's rooted upon.
I think that's one thing that's bad about Filipinos. People can't wait to leave the country but when they come back instead of loving the country which nurtured them, they criticize everything as if they did something about it in the first place. Whew, these people really gets my nerves!
@MAMANG_MALDITO (48)
• Philippines
26 Nov 08
Yeah, a lot of Filipino's acting like that. I don't if its the influence of foreign culture or its just born natural for Filipinos. I have discussions with foreigners of various countries, i never experience being curse with my grammar with them just what i had today. Rotten! thanks for the term... sad to say, some Filipinos are really rotten.
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@jayden84 (1)
• United States
20 Dec 08
there are several factors about this change, i happen to know one:
when i was at costco and wanted a soda and had no change left, i asked one person for a buck and gave it to me with a smile. when i was in philippines i asked several people if they could spare me some change for a soda, some of them ignored me like i do not exist and some rudely dismissed me. i had to wait for my cousin to arrive with my money to get my soda.
it is in our nature to change when we experienced something better
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@yuna15 (2706)
• Philippines
27 Nov 08
Sadly most Filipinos are like this. Most of other Filipinos would badly criticize your English as if they don't make mistakes themselves. Some people forget that they are also Filipino that our native tounge is not English.
Especially if the person is an atenean or a La salle graduate. I'm not saying all of them are like that but I do know a lot of people from those schools who seem to be too "perfect" in speaking English.
As for myself, individually, I do criticize somebody else's but I never curse or say =not-so-good-things" I just stay silent or If I could talk to the person privately then I tell the person the mistake they made because sometimes if the grammar is wrong it might change the whole meaning of the sentence.
@MAMANG_MALDITO (48)
• Philippines
27 Nov 08
this is how we been raise by those who are ahead of us... a miserable path the we have go through... Sometime i hate being a Filipino, it really makes me feel hopeless. But this is all i am, and all i could ever be. I will do everything i could to chance this system.
@bubblyapple (2653)
• Philippines
26 Nov 08
I feel what you are trying to say. However, instead of looking at it in a negative light, maybe you could try to look at it as their way of trying to help you out. I don't mean to put your feelings down some more. I know that getting bad comments or curse words in your discussion is not only bad but not so complimenting as well. Still, if you're going to approach them with fire burning on your head, nothing could be achieved by this. It would just be an unending tirade of bad remarks.
@MAMANG_MALDITO (48)
• Philippines
26 Nov 08
I know and i am open for correction but it is totally different from cursing and making fun out of a mans work. I don't they are trying to help and if you are a Filipino, you know exactly what i mean.
@celestial052506 (2914)
• Philippines
26 Nov 08
Hi mamang Maldito, hahahaha!! I hope you did not live up to your name!! JOke!!!Anyway, I agree with you. I have seen lots of that here in our country. They are very quick to label and criticize whatever they will see from others. Instead of helping their fellow Filipinos, they keep on backbiting them. Crab mentality as what others termed. Instead of helping our fellow Filipinos, we are dragging them down. We don't want to see them succeed. And like what you said, when they go to other countries like USA and Canada, they feel like they already owned the world.. hahaha they are very proud when they come home as balikbayan but their work is just wiping the butt of people in the nursing homes. Well, I could say, there are also few who are good. I just wish that our kababayans would think it through before salvaging their country men.. Just relax,,. they will reap their consequence.. I know how you feel.
@MAMANG_MALDITO (48)
• Philippines
27 Nov 08
yeah and i know that in every action theres an equal reaction... Karma exist, that is something they must realized.
@rosdimy (3926)
• Malaysia
26 Nov 08
The problem with Filipinos is not related to Filipinos alone. There are many Malaysians regardless of race who tend to forget their origins. They would criticise other Malaysians on almost any excuse. They are what as the Malays say it like the peanut which has forgotten its skin.
Do not be disheartened with their criticism. Use them as a guide or motivation to improve yourself. At least they are pointing at your weaknesses rather than laughing behind your back.
@MAMANG_MALDITO (48)
• Philippines
26 Nov 08
I am working with Malaysian company, i could say that compare with Filipino's, Malaysian are more nationalistic for i been in Malaysia last year and all i could see is Malaysian flags every where and Billboards of your leaders. Here in the Philippines you can only see our old flags waving on public schools and government agencies. Billboards? We also have that but whats being displayed are huge pictures men and women wearing almost nothing, endorsing products.
@lovelyvelle (639)
•
19 Dec 08
I understand what you are talking about, that's very true about some filipinos. It's a shame they think they are better than everybody else just because they had been to other countries. Instead of being ashamed of themselves, they tried to pretend and forgot where they came from and criticized their homeland where they grow up. But really some of them are just using the foreigners so they can have a better life than what they used to have in the Philippines.
@stevelvis (394)
• Philippines
2 Feb 09
That's one of the real problem of most Filipinos who think that being articulate in English language measures one's intelligence. Look at the japanese technology, most of them doesn't use English in their manuals or talking to the general public, but see how successful they are.
We are a country of colonial mentality because we sponsor too much of American products and civilization. We have looked upon the Americans as superior when it comes to fashion, food and lifestyle.
It's really sad because even our government officials especially in court hearings, media interviews and other ways of communication to the public are in English language. Why? They think that speaking in English is more formal? Or more impressive?
There are many great Filipino thinkers and champions in sports who are not so good in English who are now famous. Don't mind those people who spend their time looking for faults at others' grammars because I believe it's the only thing they are good at.
@eynjel05 (444)
• Philippines
26 Nov 08
I am a Filipina. And I agree that some Filipinos have that kind of attitude. But then not all of us are like that. Maybe they are just proud that they knew how to speak and write in English language that they tend to forgot that they are still Filipino and they should not humiliate other people beacuse it's grammar is incorrect. But then again, not all Filipinos are like that.:-)
@hibiscus_mel (719)
• United States
26 Nov 08
I hope you won't mind them. People from all sorts of life would always encounter such things. A lot of us filipinos get concern with our grammar because we grow up in an environment who thinks English is a language we must master when we too have our own language and dialects too. Come to think of it even primary english speakers wouldn't mind your grammar because they too have their own imperfections about it. Well, just keep on writing and you will develop your grammar sooner than you would have thought. Most important thing is you are able to deliver the message, you are able to communicate with other people. It's not them whose gonna earn more, it's you.;-)
@MAMANG_MALDITO (48)
• Philippines
27 Nov 08
Thats what i am trying to raise to this guy but he really want newbies like me to get out of the business.
