Philippines: Island of Monkeys
By Mae
@junmae (1586)
Philippines
October 2, 2009 11:28pm CST
I cant believe there are really such people who are so mean and very discriminating. We welcome every foreign nationals here in our country and we are very hospitable compare to other country. Have you heard the what Koreans had said to us in Twitter? I just got received a text message about how they call all of us as monkeys. They are happy on whats happening with us and wish that the rain wont stop because so that we get drowned because monkeys cant swim and they laughed! Isnt so annoying that we welcome all the Koreans here and some of us teaches them to speak english but they didnt even give a minimum salary? But as Filipino we badly needed a job so we accept it. Most of all, we are now suffering from the aftermath of typhoon Ondoy and they were just laughing at us? We are so kind to them and we just dont deserved them!!!!!!!1
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17 responses
@2timothy (794)
• Philippines
3 Oct 09
Only a racist would respond to a racist's comment. What a person says cannot represent the whole unless officially designated. It's not their president or ambassador who spoke such things, no need to be mindful of the nonsensical talk of one uneducated misinformed street kid.
@lrglara (1334)
• Philippines
3 Oct 09
So true! i think most of us are just misinformed. whoever made the comment, is entitled to his/her own opinion. we also have our own connotation and generalizations, good or bad, about other nations, but we can't all blame them for what one person did. We just all have to be mindful of what we have to say, how we say it and what the consequences of our actions are.
@wookieekyut (673)
• Philippines
3 Oct 09
they hire filipinos to teach them english and that means we are better. now, if we are monkeys, then what are they? lesser species?
@rsa101 (38166)
• Philippines
7 Oct 09
I am pretty sure this are just one isolated case and I guess we cannot file a protest for this case since it is a matter of web related text and it is not something like what happened to HK journalist that wrote an article about us that was offending to many Filipinos for that we can easily file a diplomatic protest but I think it would be hard for us to identify and exactly pinpoint who said it as it is in a social networking sites which does not reveal the true identity of the person.
@shibham (16977)
• India
19 Nov 09
hi, kumutsa ka?
i am well known about the hospilaties of phillipinoes. i have lots of online friend from this country. last week i started a discusiion about my arrival in your door step and got some enthusiastic responses from phillipinoes which made me happy enough. soo i am thinking to visit phillipines next year to meet my friends.
let them aside. who cares. similarly one mylotter started a discusiion about it where someone said her same. let them to go to hell. rubbish sound from them. feel free with us. salamat
shibham.
@shhheila (1845)
• Philippines
10 Oct 09
i read of that before the photo on the account was yu bin from the wonder girls. i think he or she is using celebrity names and photos... duh... i hope that person will go to hell. but i was thinking of something why that person says monkey see, monkey do, maybe because philippine tv was remaking korean dramas... i dont know, my opinion.
@theonehush (959)
• Philippines
19 Nov 09
maybe they're the monkeys.. the fled from korea to go here in the philippines.. so might be escaping something in korea.. lol :D cant even speak english right.. as far as i see it, we're more superior compared to them.. they're just good in numbers and math and even Chinese people are better than them.. but as far as their speech is concerned, i cant understand a thing that they're saying.. :D
@lampar (7584)
• United States
6 Oct 09
I personally will not think about it after read the stupid twit. He is probably is a jobless Korean or uneducated gangster trying to 'shock' and 'awe' Filipino in twitters. Just laugh it off; waste of time to get angry with a punk in Korea. End of story. 
@Tantrums (945)
• Philippines
3 Oct 09
I was not that offended by those degrading comment by an ignorant and arrogant Korean... The only thing that's pissing me off is most of us is acting like what he/she did... Funny thing happened in our area when I checked our local news, three Baguio guys beat up six Korean guys because of the slanderous comment made... See what's happening? The Korean guys didn't do anything and three of my country men beat them up for a silly comment made by one Korean... Tsk tsk tsk.
@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
3 Oct 09
hello Junmae,I tried to track down the similar discussion so that i can post the link but failed..oh, wait a minute i download it as a picture. i believe that account was closed. it's hard to believe that such person can do such thing. i don't thikn it's fake as few responders claim in similar discussions because she had a lot of followers in her twitter account. too bad she made that mistake.
. but i guess we should moved on since they're good koreans in the Philippines too.
@lovelyn_medrano (3070)
• Philippines
3 Oct 09
Actually I don't know about that. My husband is working in Korea and I don't hear any bad things about Koreans from him. We cannot generalize them. I cannot give any comment as well for now because I haven't seen that thing yet. Can you send me the link?
@irissiavodka (7)
• Philippines
3 Oct 09
is this real? because i read from my friend's post in facebook that a korean posted something like this in his/her twitter. i wonder how that korean came up with that judgment.
@Craicha (801)
•
4 Oct 09
lol...even koreans go abraod to learned english..there english is still bad....and they might write it wrong they might said.." the monkeys will going to PH" or " we the monkeys will go visit PH coz people there are beautiful and teach us good english and still we speak bad engish"
@Jhaszy (234)
• Philippines
3 Oct 09
well if this is true,how do we call them?i seldom go to the big city,but last time i went there its like everywhere i turn i can see koreans,cant help thinking,am i still in philippines?are we being invaded by koreans.Although i remember i was mistakenly ask if iwas a korean when i was in Malaysia,and since i dont want many questions i nod..but now after hearing this!i regret the day i nod to that person..but what to do,theyre being here gives job to us filipino,and even help our economy..so what shall we do about it?
@ladyella (145)
• Philippines
4 Oct 09
it's really heartbreaking that some people could laugh at other people's misfortunes. that girl is the real monkey. but hey, let us not generalize the comment to all koreans because there are a lot of them who are great and are friends with filipinos. screw the girl, not the whole korean population. ^^
@aseretdd (13730)
• Philippines
3 Oct 09
I responded to a discussion about that two days ago... and am image of the twit message was also posted... i went as far as checking the twitter account but it was already suspended... i think there are people who are using the name of celebrities to reak havoc in the internet... and they use calamities like Ondoy to further their bad intentions...
Well, in my case... i think we should just ignore them... the more we show that we are affected by their words... they more that they are happy... so in my case... this is the last discussion about this topic that i will respond to...
@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
3 Oct 09
Hi junmae, if I recall right, I commented about a discussion a few months back about Korean telenovelas on Philippine soap time. I received a reprimand from a fellow Filipino defending the Koreans. What else can I say?
@danitykane (3183)
• Philippines
3 Oct 09
Well it is crazy to think that they were able to make fun out of it. It is so cruel and mean that many people suffered and in pain with that situation and then they were there laughing all about it. I actually saw that myself on twitter. An email regarding that matter was spreading among offices here in Makati City. We don't deserve such treatment after all. Every individual of every nation needs to respected. More importantly I don't want to argue with her because I saw her photo on twitter...and oh boy I don't wanna go to the monkey issue..LOL..:) Proud to be Pinoy! Peace Y'all!
