i was doing my usual blog-hopping today when i came across this very interesting blog called PostSecret. the premise is very simple, readers are invited to send in and contirubute their secret.
Each secret can be a regret, hope, experience, unseen kindness, belief, fear, betrayal, desire, feeling, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before.
i spent fifteen minutes going through all the postcards that have been sent, this one's one of my favorites.
in this day and age, there are still people who want the easy way. i am not passing judgment against the person who sent this one. it's just an observation that i think, maybe people think that because they're white, they get a free pass on anything they want to do.or maybe they could get away with something because of their skin color. or they get a 'special privilege' because of it.
as a friend of mine once said, filipinos outside the philippines will always be second-class citizens in their chosen countries. indeed, we can only feel like first-class citizens in our home countries. but why do thousands of people dream of leaving the philippines every single day? is it their dream to be second-class citizens somewhere else?
maybe. maybe not.
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
what's your deepest, darket secret?
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3 comments:
very interesting post.
this may seem weird but i'm going to compare what you just wrote to an old episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
there was a time when the characters confronted Buffy about being "the slayer" and that she didn't earn it. it just so happened that she was born as the slayer. it doesn't make her special than the others nor does it give her more privileges than the others.
you don't earn your skin color or race, it just so happened that you were born that way. i hope i somehow made sense.
have a good day! ;-)
but remember, filipinos can also be second class citizens in their own countries in other ways:
one - service people from waiters to security guards to even airport officials tend to be -- scratch that, always are -- nicer and gracious to white people than they are to fellow filipinos. you may remember this brouhaha about a bar in greenbelt where a security guard blatantly said something like 'only white people can come here' to a filipino who was probably less than elegantly dressed.
second - probably 80 percent of filipinos are second class citizens to the other 20 percent. the society is so divided between the haves and have-nots, it's sickening. it shows in the little things -- rich kids are the teachers' pets, the school pagent favorites; conyo speakers kids get better attention and service, etc.
i guess that's why some filipinos choose to be second class citizens in other countries. it's easier to accept the fact that you're a second class citizen because of something you can never be, than because of something you can never have.
leche, what happened to my grammar? i meant to say filipinos can also be second class citizens in their own country, singular...
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