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There was a comment made on the ABC show "Desperate Housewives" that sparked controversey amongst Filipinos all over the US. Terry Hatcher made a comment regarding credentials, which ended with her contradicting the eligibilty of a person receiving their diploma from a medical school in the Philippnes. I don't know how that line was even aired on national television. I don't understand how someone could write that and allow it to be aired without thinking about the consequences and the negative feedback ABC would be getting. First, IT WAS JUST PLAIN OUT WRONG! The producer or writer's intention could be racial or bashing a third world country; I don't know. All I know is that, a great percentage of filipinos fill the nursing positions and other various medical professions. I would say there doing a pretty good job seeing as America is in high demand of their services. As a filipino myself, I found it very offensive because whatever his slander meant it was just not a credible assumption. It hurt. Check your resources, but more importanly "check your motives and thoughts" (Lauryn Hill).
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Hey Xavier, I just read your blog, and I am also appalled on what Terry Hatcher had said about filipinos. I myself am also a filipino, and I don't think that she was very well informed on the topic, and also I don't think she was in the right position to say such a thing. I know a lot of filipinos that are nurses, and they work very hard and are just as good as any other nurses out there. Hopefully this incident made her and other uninformed people realize how wrong the statement was.
hey Xavi,
I aggree that Terry Hatcher's comment was completely offensive and unneccessary. It just shows how far people are willing to go to entertain others, such as making racial joke. It's also sad that people are more aware of Terry Hatcher's comment then about the real news that happens in the world. So basically our media and entertaintment forms send negative messages and are most payed attention to, leaving most Americans like Terry Hatcher, uniformed.
While I do not agree what was said, I do feel that this is one reason why racism is getting out of hand. After reading this, I have a feeling that this might have just been a joke that the producers and writers wanted to put in. I have heard that getting you degrees in other countries is a lot more beneficial, and I think that the quote was really there to show that people should start to look at out of country PHD's as something more that what people are making them out to be.
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