JUST AN OLD NOTE I POSTED ON MY FB AROUND JULY...
I AM FILIPINA AND PROUD OF IT!
In my Literature class we were asked to read our handouts about filipino women...I was actually reading The Filipino women by Carmen Guerrero Nakpil,a very powerful essay indeed..A s i was surfing the net i saw this vid in utube,an interview with the famous actor Alec Baldwin...And i felt i had to step up and make a CLEAR POINT!Im not mad or anything cz for me WE ARE THE ONES WHO DICTATES OUR OWN REPUTATION.But i dnt blame these filipina women in the said sites,i blame the CORRUPT GOVERNMENT!
Alec Baldwin’s joke about getting a Filipino mail-order bride provoked a sharp response in the Philippines, with one senator saying that the “30 Rock” star faces violence if he ever visits.
Baldwin, 51, who is divorced with a teenage daughter, said in a May 12 interview on “The Late Show” with David Letterman that he would love to have more children.
The Emmy-winning actor quipped that he was “thinking about getting a Filipino mail-order bride at this point … or a Russian one.”
MY POINT!
Okay, Alec Baldwin is probably not aware that we have a law banning Mail Order Marriages that facilitating or arranging a marriage between a Filipina and a foreigner has been prohibited under Republic Act 6955 or the Anti-Mail-Order Bride Law of 1990. The law “declare(s) as unlawful the practice of matching Filipino women for marriage to foreign nationals on a mail order basis and other similar practices, including the advertisement, publication, printing or distribution of brochures, fliers, and other propaganda materials in furtherance thereof and providing penalty therefore.”
Joking about mail-order brides... is trivializing human smuggling, NOT A GOOD JOKE!
SO What makes me proud to be a Filipino? That I know how to value things that need to be valued… being Pinoy enables me to respect people without looking down on their heritage.Filipinos are a tough breed. We can go through crises that would have Western societies at a standstill and still meet each other for coffee the next day.Filipina women especially,one of her good qualities=her unquenchable optimism...and Because I love passionately, and I think that comes from being Filipino.
The thing is, Alec Baldwin is not alone in stereotyping Filipinas . The Filipina has been stereotyped as “mail order brides” for so long . An information campaign should consistently be disseminated. The government must implement the law prohibiting the violation of Filipino women, and should look after distressed Filipinas who have suffered abuses in the hands of foreign spouses.
xoxo QUEENBEE
