Comments on: Why Desperate Housewives picked on Philippine medical schools

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By: rhodora

rhodora — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:49:46 +0000

Ay, Anna, don’t worry - I also tend to be that way sometimes. Di maiwasan minsan di ba? I think it’s a natural tendency to stereotype.

By: annamanila

annamanila — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:43:27 +0000

Guilty! Of scrutinizing diplomas hanging on medical clinic walls. Guilty of saying: ‘wow, up grad pala si doc.’

(Sometimes) guilty too of discriminating against races. of stereotyping. of pigeonholing people.

Guilty as charged.

So how do i indict others?

By: rhodora

rhodora — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:25:54 +0000

Hi, Rowena! Kaya nga - no big deal talaga. I just wonder why people are making a big fuss out of it, even those in Congress. Hay naku.

By: Rowena

Rowena — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:47:19 +0000

Hi Rhodora, same sentiments here. As I’ve shared in other blogs, am not affected though am DH regular viewer. We have the same reasons, the Recto diploma mills, the nursing board exam’s scandal, etc…Even my hubby’s siblings in the States who are in the same profession are just laughing it off. No big deal really…

By: rhodora

rhodora — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:21:50 +0000

True, Kyels. Each country has its a different system of education that is why we have these international licensure examinations for professionals to make sure they come up to the standards of the country where they intend to work.

“but perhaps people are looking at Asians in a very derogatory perspective?!”

I believe each race is guilty of having derogatory perspective of other races. Whites call those not of their kind as “colored”. Colored people call the whites ‘yankees’ in offensive contexts. The Spaniards used to refer to Filipinos as lazy, Filipinos called the Japanese ’sakang’ or bow legged… and so on.

And no matter how much the global community strive to be one and united, I think it’s not easy to truly get rid of racism.

By: rhodora

rhodora — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:57:09 +0000

Hi, Eric!

What is that oral defamation suit for? Don’t the members of the Fil-Am community know that Filipinos really eat dog meat?

Kaya nga, e - DH is just a show! But if that racial slur was done, say - in US Congress, ah, that’s another story. I will be the first one to cry foul!

Gosh, that’s scary - Filipino surgeons and anesthesiologists playing mahjong overnight and performing major surgeries the next morning!

By: rhodora

rhodora — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:46:46 +0000

Like you, I never made any comments on any of the threads discussing this DH issue, Kongkong. But I felt I just need to say my own piece, hence, this entry.

Kasi when we get offended, we immediately want to ambush the attacker, di ba? But shouldn’t we think first - why we are being attacked?

Besides, DH is just a show, for God’s sake.

By: Kyels

Kyels — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:19:39 +0000

I am not a fan of Desperate Housewives but I heard about this issue; actually, they should not have assumed that all doctors and nurses educated in the Philippines are bad or the medical schools are not up to par with theirs. Every country has a different system when educating their students. Maybe I’m not making sense out of this but perhaps people are looking at Asians in a very derogatory perspective?!

By: eric aka senor enrique

eric aka senor enrique — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:29:24 +0000

I remember when some members of the Fil-Am community lambasted Howard Stern for telling the whole world that Filipinos eat dogs. I believe that they even went to the extent of filing a defamation suit against that shock jock.

Anyway, I admire Marc Cherry, writer and creator of DH, for having developed a twisted take on life in an American suburbia, but that was all DH is about — a funny twisted sitcom.

Medical schools abound in Central America and the Caribbean in which many American students go to when rejected by the medical schools in the States. And the Filipino community is justified for crying foul. Nonetheless, I doubt it very much if the writing team meant it as a malicious racial slur when they wrote that line (for that particular character to utter) about the medical school in the Philippines.

However, what I am most concerned about are the Filipino surgeons and anesthesiologists I’ve met in the States who are addicted to mahjong and would play hours on end without any sleep and then perform major operations the following morning.

Also, the Filipinos in the States ought to “unite” more and form a formidable political power base so as to advance the general interests of the Filipinos as a whole in the more appropriate arena — Washington.