In light of the Desperate Housewives controversy the past few weeks, I've been going through YouTube about the said scene and I stumbled into this editorial video by the AngryBlueSock.
Got to agree on something with what he said:
(1) Desperate Housewives should have been a bit more sensitive about this; and
(2) This is blown way out of proportion.
Like what my colleagues in my old job said, "It's a culture thing." Some Americans treat it as just a very simple comment, an opinion of a specific character on the show, maybe intended as a joke. (Hey, this is the country that is always making fun of their own president, but the president is not lashing out at this.) Filipinos, on the other hand, is race of a proud people and would do anything to protect the pride of the nation.
I understand that the Filipino community is only protecting the pride of the hard-working Filipino workers, especially the Filipino professionals who worked so hard to get where they are now. I am not saying that we, as a people, should not react to it, since this is our national pride we're talking about. However, we should take care about how we handle this situation.
It's not really about "why" we should react but "how" we should react. To Americans who make fun of their president all the time, a whole race reacting to a simple comment makes us look petty -- a person acting on petty things always appears to be weak and loses respect. Check the 48 Laws of Power (by Robert Greene) and you'll see what I mean.
So what am I saying? Simple. If you have to react but don't overdo it. We don't want another war just because of this.
Anyway, here's the video of AngryBlueSock:
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