First it was Terri Hatcher's character on Desparate Housewives asking if a doctor got his medical degree from the Philippines.
Now, this.....
BBC apology demanded for racist show
By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez INQUIRER.net First Posted 16:39:00 10/06/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) should apologize for airing a segment of a comedy show last month that was a "racist, humiliating, and disgusting" portrayal of a Filipina domestic helper, a lawmaker at the House of Representatives demanded Monday.
Akbayan partylist Representative Risa Hontiveros also asked the Department of Foreign Affairs to file a complaint against the British government so that the latter would "look into the issue and correct the sickening joke."
Hontiveros was referring to a skit shown on "Harry and Paul" aired on BBC on September 26 that was also posted on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL9KrTGx28E.
In the skit, a postman approached comedian Harry Enfield, who was agitated and was shouting at someone, and asked him what was going on. It turned out that the co-host Paul Whitehouse was seated on a chair on his lawn and beside him was a gyrating young girl in a grey uniform and an apron.
Harry then told the postman that he was shouting at his Filipino maid to do her job and get his friend Paul to mate with her.
He kept ordering the girl to gyrate and dance in front of Paul and even instructed her to "hump him." When an indifferent Paul stood up to go inside the house, Harry scolded the Filipina telling her to get out.
The scene ended with the postman sidling up to the Filipina and whispering to her as they walked off together.
"It was revolting. It was a disgusting and insensitive and racist attempt to satirize a scene of exploitation," Hontiveros said.
She added that the show "trivializes an act of abuse commonly experienced by Filipina workers abroad."
"This has to be corrected, otherwise, it would become easy for other media outfits to use Filipina workers abroad as an object of sexual ridicule. The media should be a partner against human trafficking and not an unwitting promoter of abuse because of insensitive and racist portrayals of women in trafficking," she said
-- Edited by Tora^2 at 18:38, 2008-10-06
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Yup, napakinggan ko ito sa balita ngayon. Maraming nagsasabing wala tayong sense of humor dahil nagrereklamo tayo sa kung pano irefer ang mga Pinoy, pero hindi nila alam na nakakabuwisit talaga ang portrayal sa atin.
If Paul Whitehouse, Harry Enfield, the wirters, directors and crew of that series do make it to old age, it would be Filipino nurses and caregivers who will be caring for them in the hospital or nursing home.
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as you can see,each country had different kinds of humour.For instance,SNL,Colbert or Jon Stewart where they knock-off their politicians whatever they want without getting in the front page the next day unlike sa atin na either laman ka ng dyaryo o ang dyaryo ang magiging laman mo.Freedom of expression and of the press,i'd say.We all know that we also knock-off other foreigners' shoes too like making fun to the Bumbays,Caucasians,Black or some of our native people(see some of our local comedies).At least,hindi sila nagrereklamo dahil siguro sila nanonood sa atin.Konti lang dito sa atin ang liberal-minded.I've seen some episodes of Harry and Paul through the web,and their jokes were notorious and straight-forward.I guess,that's what we call British humour(masyadong vulgar pati ang kanilang Queen walang ligtas sa comedy skits nila) but my concern is that we're facing ignorance on both sides.Deny or undeniable mistakes.One theory is that,some Brits doesn't know we're sensitive and conservative people unlike them,and some of us don't know much about Brit humour,hanggang Mr. Bean lang tayo.Lilipas din 'to just like the Desperate Housewives incident.
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There is a wide spectrum of irreverent British humor and we have been exposed to it on free tv. Other than Mr Bean, we have seen shows like the The Thin Blue Line (a Police Sitcom starring Rowan "Mr Bean" Atkinson), the Benny Hill Show ( a gag show on almost the same level as the blokes on Harry and Paul) and even the motoring magazine show Top Gear (TG host Jeremy Clarkson took as much flak for his commentary as the number of bombs that fell on London in WW2)
While we can easily dismiss the whole tirade as a knee-jerk reaction the way we dsimiss the sitcom as lowbrow crap, we cannot deny that it put Filipinos in a bad light even if it was made for a particular audience
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dyosko. we're just sensitive (i mean Filipinos in general). the next thing they should do is to stick to local shows na lang.
try nilang manood ng little britain or even mad tv.
meron pa po tayong dapat mas isipin tulad nang 51 peso per liter ng gas pa din na hindi na bumababa despite the 90 dollar per barrel.
if they're really watching foreign movies and tv shows, there are countless number of these things already. take family guy for example na palabas sa jacktv. maraming times nang napapagtripan ang filipina maid dun. what happened with that?
and that's brit comedy. Dyosko. Hardcore yung mga yun except that stupid Comedy Inc.
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I didn't catch the entire news segment, but I think the British govenrment already gave a statement that they won't be doing anything as they do not put a reign to such things. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I didn't catch the entire news segment, but I think the British govenrment already gave a statement that they won't be doing anything as they do not put a reign to such things. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
they kinda made hugas kamay which is not surprising and equally right. hopefully ganun din naman dapat dito sa pinas na may independence ang mga kung ano anong bagay.
anyhoo... nung pumapel ba si teri nun, yung american embassy ba nag apologize?
and nice strip L, though a Gaiman-Rowling tandem is also feasible. malapit na malapit sa punchline mo.
-- Edited by Fraggle Rock at 15:33, 2008-10-09
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The last I heard about this is that they already issued an apology in the newspapers, but the people who filed the complaint said that since it was done on television, so must the apology.
It is time for our local TV shows also issued some apology.Since way back 1970s,if i may recall,ginagawang katatawanan ang mga maids natin dito.Calling them dumb,stupid idiots na palaging hinahampas ng newspapers or something and still, we got no complaints.Wow labo......
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