Monday, March 30, 2009

Chinese and Filipinos: Blood brothers

Do you know that the Chinese race and the Filipino race are blood brothers. A study made some time ago (2002) showed that, if we trace the ancestry of Filipinos, our DNA points to a tribe in Taiwan. That we can't really discount the possibility of us, Filipinos, being part Chinese.

Do you know that the very first settlers in these islands were Chinese and they consider Filipinos as their blood brothers? That, throughout Philippine history, we see Chinese settlers fighting hand-in-hand with their Pinoy brothers in those anti-colonial wars. These Chinese migrants played a very significant role in Philippine nation-building and many Filipinos treat these Chinese migrants as one of their own.

So accommodating these Filipinos were that they allowed their blood brothers, the Chinese, to ascend the opportunity ladder. We now have Chinese taipans and entrepreneurs at the top of the power pole, way ahead of their fellow Filipinos. Despite this, both races treat each other as equals.

Does Chip Tsao know that Hongkong used to play host to anti-colonialists, like Filipino revolutionary firebrands. That Hongkong was a traditional R&R place of Filipinos was usual topic in almost any Hongkong history book. Maybe Tsao is totally ignorant of his own country's history.

That's why its so painful to hear such racist slurs coming from a supposed blood brother, the Chinese, Chip Tsao. Oh, I'm sooo sorry. Chip Tsao is just being consistent.

Tsao already admitted he's not Chinese, but Japanese. Or, at the very least, a Chinese lover of everything anime.

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