What my articles are trying to accomplish is to challenge those anti-Filipino remarks that degrade our race, like this one: “Crimes happen only in the Philippines! And are committed only by Filipinos!”

Such comments are completely racist and untrue. We need to defend ourselves.

It is like saying that “black peoples are evil because of the diabolical color of their skin.” If blacks defend themselves, that is only the right thing to do.

I have repeated many times in my articles and in some of my comments that we should correct our mistakes and punish the violators. But to degrade our race, because of those flaws, is very wrong.

What would an American feel if someone says that the U.S. is “the world’s capital of thefts” because it has one of the biggest numbers of thieves in the world (more than 2 million arrested thieves each year — according to FBI)? He would just swallow it?

Some Americans react fiercely when they and their nation are criticized. And they charge the critics as envious, terrorists, communists, etc.

This article wants to prove to anti-Filipinos that what they are saying about Americans are not all true, like their claims that there are no gossips, cheating, corruption, crimes, and other wrongdoings in the U.S.

This is not an attempt to embarrass or destroy the image of the U.S. because the facts presented come from the Americans themselves. The U.S. is the greatest country on earth, and so it is totally useless to challenge it.

There is also no hypocrisy on our part because we Filipinos know that there are crimes, wrongdoings, and other flaws committed by us.

I am not also defending the flaws that we commit. What my articles are trying to accomplish is to challenge those anti-Filipino remarks that degrade our race, like this one: “Crimes happen only in the Philippines! And are committed only by Filipinos!”

Such comments are completely racist and untrue. We need to defend ourselves.

It is like saying that “black peoples are evil because of the diabolical color of their skin.” If blacks defend themselves, that is only the right thing to do.

♥gianelle♥