스크랩 홍콩 컬럼니스트 칩 차오는 필리핀을 "Nation of servants"라고 불렀다. 2009.3.30

[국결하지말고편하게삽시다]

CHIP TSAO Discriminating Filipinos

The War At Home
by: Chip Tsao

The Russians sank a Hong Kong freighter last month, killing the seven Chinese seamen on board. We can live with that Lenin and Stalin were once the ideological mentors of all Chinese people. The Japanese planted a flag on Dioy Island.That’s no big problem we Hong Kong Chinese love Japanese cartoons, Hello Kitty, and shopping in Shinjuku, let alone our round-the-clock obsession with karaoke.

But hold on even the Filipinos? Manila has just claimed sovereignty over the scattered rocks in the South China Sea called the Spratly Islands, complete with a blatant threat from its congress to send gunboats to the South China Sea to defend the islands from China if necessary. This is beyond reproach. The reason: there are more than 130,000 Filipina maids working as $3,580-a-month cheap labor in Hong Kong. As a nation of servants, you don’t flex your muscles at your master, from whom you earn most of your bread and butter.

As a patriotic Chinese man, the news has made my blood boil. I summoned Louisa, my domestic assistant who holds a degree in international politics from the University of Manila, hung a map on the wall, and gave her a harsh lecture. I sternly warned her that if she wants her wages increased next year, she had better tell every one of her compatriots in Statue Square on Sunday that the entirety of the Spratly Islands belongs to China.

Grimly, I told her that if war breaks out between the Philippines and China, I would have to end her employment and send her straight home, because I would not risk the crime of treason for sponsoring an enemy of the state by paying her to wash my toilet and clean my windows 16 hours a day. With that money, she would pay taxes to her government, and they would fund a navy to invade our motherland and deeply hurt my feelings.

Oh yes. The government of the Philippines would certainly be wrong if they think we Chinese are prepared to swallow their insult and sit back and lose a Falkland Islands War in the Far East. They may have Barack Obama and the hawkish American military behind them, but we have a hostage in each of our homes in the Mid-Levels or higher. Some of my friends told me they have already declared a state of emergency at home. Their maids have been made to shout China, Madam/Sir loudly whenever they hear the word Spratly. They say the indoctrination is working as wonderfully as when we used to shout, Long live Chairman Mao! at the sight of a portrait of our Great Leader during the Cultural Revolution. Im not sure if thats going a bit too far, at least for the time being.

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홍콩의 보수논객 칩 차오는 필리핀을 공식적으로 "하인의 나라" 라고 불렀다.

이렇듯이 전세계적으로 필리핀을 하등하게 대함에도 이상하게 이 나라에만 filippinas들이 들어오면 바로 '다문화 특권층'이 되어 버린다.

 우물안 개구리 한국아이들은 전세계적으로 필리핀을 얼마나 열등하고 하등하게 인식하는지나 과연 알까???

참 이해가 안가는것이 이 나라 민중들은 항상 패자의 논리를 따르고 약자에게 이상한 프리미엄을 쥐어준다. 그래서 결국엔 자신 스스로가 바로 패자와 약자가 되어 버린다는것.

 지금의 다문화를 포함해서 이 사회의 근본적인 문제점은 사회 전반에 쫙 깔린 '패배주의'와 '냉소주의'를 씻어내는 것이다.

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