After reading his (no need to mention the name) article degrading, for some reasons, the Philippine national language, I was hurt that I wanted to punch him off the country. He bashed my own language and treated it as a language of the street. To quote from his article posted in a known daily newspaper “ …It [Filipino] was the language of the streets: it was how you spoke to the tindera when you went to the tindahan, what you used to tell your katulong that you had an utos, and how you texted manong when you needed “sundo na.”… Filipino was a chore, like washing the dishes; it was not the language of learning. It was the language we used to speak to the people who washed our dishes”. To not love your country is tolerable but to publicly whack your own language is another story. As for his points, he wrote a municipal demeaning of points about Filipino culture (language is a part of Philippine culture). It’s further not just debasing the culture of language but humiliating all Filipinos in general.
Citing on his last sentence, he mentioned that he was thankful to his mother language- English. If he was in front of me now, out of the hot blood that runs through my veins at this point, I want to frankly ask him this question: “If English was really your mother language, how come that you were able to speak Filipino fluently? Why you were here in the Philippines if you don’t like the language here?” This person from a well-known college institution in the country, out of the allegory of his crushing points, to a large extent, simply did not know the proper and decent relaying and raising of his indecorous thoughts to everyone in public.
Then I reflected that he is “mahigit pa sa malansang isda”. I really can’t imagine what kind of brain he has to bash Filipino language. Was he not exposed to Jose Rizal’s teaching about native language? Maybe not for he is a foreign on his own land. Shame!
To write something negative in public especially when you are degrading someone else’s property, language, culture, etc. is something that would put yourself in danger. If you are going to post something publicly make sure that it is not demeaning. This is a lesson for all not just for him.
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Citing on his last sentence, he mentioned that he was thankful to his mother language- English. If he was in front of me now, out of the hot blood that runs through my veins at this point, I want to frankly ask him this question: “If English was really your mother language, how come that you were able to speak Filipino fluently? Why you were here in the Philippines if you don’t like the language here?” This person from a well-known college institution in the country, out of the allegory of his crushing points, to a large extent, simply did not know the proper and decent relaying and raising of his indecorous thoughts to everyone in public.
Then I reflected that he is “mahigit pa sa malansang isda”. I really can’t imagine what kind of brain he has to bash Filipino language. Was he not exposed to Jose Rizal’s teaching about native language? Maybe not for he is a foreign on his own land. Shame!
To write something negative in public especially when you are degrading someone else’s property, language, culture, etc. is something that would put yourself in danger. If you are going to post something publicly make sure that it is not demeaning. This is a lesson for all not just for him.
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