Enough of the Pinoy Pride Already!

I do want to commend Sayaka Akimoto's being proud to be half-Filipino and I am endorsing her in this blog, well people ought to like the way they are.  However there is always the problem of the Pinoy pride which I wish to address to Filipino by race readers of this blog who might be stuck in Pinoy pride.  That is, it's a problem of Pinoys with all their, "Oh it's another of our countrymen, Pinoys are truly great."  Well it's nice to have Filipinos talents here and there but Filipinos should NEVER gloat about their being Filipino as the reason why these people succeed.  Let's think about it- the Pinoy pride thing isn't going to help the Philippines a bit!  Plus, this is the first time this blog has me writing something like this because some people I support here are actually half-Filipino or have worked with some Filipinos.  Don't forget Andy Lau's duet with Sharon Cuneta or Jacky Cheung's duet with Regine Velasquez.

I could commend the success of Regine Velasquez having her duet with Jacky Cheung or my favorite of Sharon Cuneta-Pangilinan with one of my favorite actors Andy Lau. However, they didn't succeed at the fact that they are Filipino.  They are hardworking and talented and NOT all Filipinos are talented.  I mean, if a Filipino gets rejected in a singing audition for having a bad voice, IT. IS. NOT. RACISM.  I know there are talented Pinoys but these people won't go anywhere without hard work.  Sadly many Filipinos are deluded about themselves just because one Filipino succeeds, they think that they can ride on him or her or that when they are rightly rejected, it is racism ignorning the fact that the rejects are not exclusively Filipino but rather unqualified people. There are brilliant Filipinos but there are also stupid ones.


After reading about Sayaka Akimoto's bold move of loving the fact she is a half-breed, there's been some meaningful exchange of comments about Pinoy Pride here from comrade UkiyaSeed.  I'll also post it here for meaningful comments from me.  I took a few of them to in order to be displayed:

Joshua Cuyos: It's annoying. As if Pinoys (what lowly Filipinos are called) think they're the most superior race in the world just because someone with Filipino blood makes it big outside of their country (ex. Charice Pempengco, Manny Pacquiao, Arnel Pineda of Journey, apl.de.ap of Black Eyed Peas, Jessica Sanchez, and, a more recent example, Megan Young. And have you noticed none of them are in fields for intellectual people like the scientific field? Oh, and you can even include any random Filipino who became famous 'cuz of, say, a Youtube video of them singing.). They become like parasites; instead of getting their own success, they stick to the success of others as if they exerted effort in attaining the success of that individual. For Sayaka's part, though, I commend her for her achievement. It's her achievement and hers alone, not by a bunch of moochers.

Asayf replies to Joshua Cuyos: You're a Filipino? Your reasoning is probably one of the reasons why the country is... yeah.  That's too much of a generalization. You seemingly claim your statements as universal truth that can apply to every Filipino (or Pinoy as you would say). I just can't see why it is wrong to be proud of your countrymen's achievements. I'm pretty sure Sayaka would be happy to see Filipinos being proud of her too, instead of being... ignored. 

Joshua Cuyos: While I agree with you that there is nothing wrong with being proud of a fellow countryman's achievements, what makes it annoying in the Philippine case is that Pinoys keep on bragging about the achievements of their own countrymen as if it's their own. What the hell is that? Stealing other's achievements? Sounds like plagiarism or copyright infringement to me... :P  Dig deeper, and you'll see... And again, I commend Sayaka for her achievements so far. But unlike those Pinoy Pridists that I despise, I won't say "Proud to be Pinoy" and the like 'cuz it sounds like ultranationalism to me. I won't trap myself in the same delusion that they are in (and speaking of delusions, I'd rather be in the Grand Delusion. :P). And it's also because it's her achievement and hers alone.

Pretty much, I really commend Joshua Cuyos a Filipino for standing up against the Pinoy Pride syndrome.  I would have my salutations to great Filipinos like Lea Salonga, Christian Bautista and Regine Velasquez but some Filipinos are really what I'd call wasted or wasting themselves.  One might consider that Rhodissa Montemayor while she appeared in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, that was her and not the whole Filipino people!  You might consider that it's prevalent in the Philippines to have Filipinos who are useless as every other useless person outside their own race.  For one, in fact just think of it that the situation might be similar to Americans gloating about the success of their fellow American and riding on him or the Chinese people will say, "Proud to be Chinese." because of the success of Lang Lang and Jackie Chan.  That's just wrong, plain wrong.  In fact, every person's success or failure is his or her very own and not attributed to one's race.  There are successful Filipinos, Chinese, Americans, Spanish, etc. and it has nothing to do with race!


In fact, it's very annoying to encounter the Philippines is also known for having people who do things at the last minute and the country is not disaster-prepared, full of people who want respect but don't even respect others, being habitually late, love for things praning or even make heroism out of bad gestures (Ex. Somebody even said that Atty. Vitaliano Aguirre should have not apologized to Miriam Defensor Santiago for his wrong actions.) or making heroes out of the WRONG PEOPLE (ex. Why in the world should Flor Contemplacion be a heroine?  She was a criminal and that whole film about her was most likely fabricated!) which goes from the people all the way up to its authorities.  Besides, you might want to consider that it's okay to be proud of Filipino achievers but for their countrymen to ride on their successes and think they are so great, is really just wrong, very wrong.  It just got me to face palm after somebody I knew who auditioned for a singing talent who got rejected for having a bad voice said, "Well we Pinoys are all great singers, why can't the judges see that?" and then they go with their overly whining about everything.