Racist act and Humiliating Filipino Workers - a Joke or Insult?
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scattered brain / Category: News and Society, Personal The Harry and Paul comedy show owned by British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) came under fire from the Filipino community recently over a scene depicting a Filipina maid as a lap dancing sex tease. In the comedy show Harry Enfield orders a Filipina housemaid to dance lewdly to arouse Paul Whitehouse. How’s that again!!!
The comedy skit was shown last Sept 26th which generated outburst among Filipino workers and a diplomatic brouhaha in the UK and in the Philippines. No less than a member of Congress of the Philippines called it an outrage and insult to the Filipino people.
“Sorry the BBC is not under our control”, British Ambassador to the Philippines Peter Beckingham lamely dismissed the incident. What a bummer! Tell that to the marines!
This video posted by PNBKapamilya “Harry & Paul” (BBC) insults Filipino domestic helpers - no ifs, ands or buts about it!
Racism and humiliation happen all over the world.. Not only by British to Filipinos… or British to Americans… Americans to Filipinos.. etc! Is there a racist born every minute! Not in this day and age when people of every race, color or creed are supposed to be well informed and properly educated and should have learned its lesson from the horrors of Nazism, the Ku Klux Klan and other kinds of racism. Plain and simple, nobody has the right to insult anybody! Of course if someone wants to be a jerk, there is no stopping him/her. The type that smacks of gutter upbringing and lack of self esteem and honor - which explain the utter disregard even the total absence of moral values in such a person. How can one justify such insensitivity and disrespect which denigrates the mores, culture and dignity of women, cause disharmony and breeds hatred and discord among peoples of the world.
All forms of racism should be condemned. Racism has no place in today’s societies. In the same manner that “gutter humor” ostensibly disguised as a joke but inexorably depict women of different ethnicity in a bad light has no moral justification may used as an excuse for the faux pas.
Is it an insult or a plain British type of humor as BBC wants us to believe? What ya’ll think?
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Tags: Americans, BBC, British, British Broadcasting Corporation, Filipina Domestic Helpers, Filipina Maid, Filipinos, Harry and Paul, Harry Enfield, Insults, Paul Whitehouse, Philippines, Racism, Racist and Humiliating, United Kingdom
October 10th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Gosh! I wonder why they used Filipinos. Yeah, it could be racism but it could be also what some Filipinas do there. I also don’t know what to say really. I just know that some British people can be coldhearted and would insult people but I’ve also known some that are really nice.
October 11th, 2008 at 11:07 am
It could be both, some people are having silly time watching it over and over then probably it is just a joke–meaning they laugh over it because they knew it’s scripted, and to those with different views about moral judgment it’s gonna be a big question for airing such video.
Personally, I don’t felt like I am being humiliated by the fact that there are actually some people regardless of race doing it not because they wanted to entertain people, but rather make a living out of it.
I kept aside the word “racism” for that video, rather accept that as a “FACT” not for us Filipinos alone but for the entire race around the world.
I am dogmatically watching and listening for the truth.
Peace!