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.

Racism is the issue and eating Cheap Chow

Some bloggers (I think that includes Manolo Quezon) wishes or recommends other bloggers to stop commenting against Chip Tsao's latest tirade against Filipinos. If you're still not familiar with this, check out what this chap wrote online. He wrote a disparaging article about Filipinos, in the context of our recent Archiepelagic Baselines Bill, which includes a part of the Spratlys Group of islands. What he said shows his racial bias.

I do understand where Manolo is coming from. Since Chip Tsao is not a popular columnist writer to begin with, he does not deserve our attention. The more we write about him, the more popular he becomes. Chip Tsao is a known instigator, a "shock jock", as what my friend and fellow blogger Ding Gagelonia said. What he did is what is called "pathological trap". He wants the issue discussed.

I know where they're coming from, although, I would probably say that our selectiveness in our attacks comes from our inate cultural biases. It's quite surprising that we threw brimstones and all against Pangandaman etal (that includes the recent social climber who made a Duty Free employee kneel down before him) who are all Filipinos, yet we are wont to attack this Cheap Chow? Are we now saying that only Filipinos are fair game online, not racist pigs such as this one? Do we now have double standards in justice?

Let us not discuss about the bill; just discuss the racial slur this lowly and pitiful writer of cheap stuff did.

Chip Tsao & Chinese Food

I love Chinese food. Ask me about it and I’ll tell you where to eat the best Chinese food and what to eat. And I know what’s a cheap chow or a good chow.

And it’s not just Chinese food that I love. I also respect and love their culture. Ever heard of the Tale of the Three Kingdoms? Or I Ching? Or Tao Te Ching? Or how about the entire biography of Chairman Mao? Read his poems, read how Chairman Mao and his Chinese Liberation Army swept the whole of China and made monumental history. That’s good chow. And I did’nt imagine myself reading such rubbish coming from a cheap journalist based in Hongkong. It’s just unthinkable reading such cheap chow coming from the eminent People’s Republic of China.

Poor Chip Tsao (pronounced “cheaap chowww”). He’s a Chinese journalist over at some indescript magazine in Hongkong and he, obviously, does not like Chinese food. What he loves are all things Japanese. When the Japanese planted their flag over at Diaoyu island, a known island of China, he was one of those who shouted “bansai”! He usually watches Japanese anime and thinks of himself as a Japanese superman.

He eats purely Japanese food, especially sashimi. And he loves being with Japanese women, the anime kind.

That’s probably the reason why BBC kicked him out. When the Japanese occupied that Chinese island, he was one of those went over the fence and declared Japanese rule over Hongkong and the mainland. Good that some magazines still want him to write for them, with some exceptions though—he cannot and is barred to write about Chinese food. He can’t write about good chow, only cheap chow.

And you know what? Chip Tsao can’t understand why Filipinos acted differently when Filipinos claimed those scattered rocks in the Spratlys island as their own. No. Chip Tsao simply can’t accept the reality that most Filipinos are still proud of their being Filipinos. Not his maid, says Chip Tsao. She’s with me for all these time, cleaning my toilets and is at my beck and call, all the time. The government of my Filipina just made an unthinkable thing—claiming some scattered rocks as their own off the South China sea.

It can’t be. Chip Tsao is not familiar with the term “national sovereignty” nor does he know about “national pride” and “nationalist spirit”. Chip Tsao does not know what’s “national territory” is all about. He just have a map in his house, with a big region which he calls “MAPHILINDO” or “ Hongkong, Republic of Japan”.

And I really can’t understand why his publishers still allow him to dish out such embarrassing articles. Maybe they don’t know what good writing or cheap writing is all about? Maybe they’re used to eating cheap chow over some hawker store in Hongkong that they consider Chip Tsao’s articles and columns “world-class”? As they say, when you eat cheap chow everyday, you’ll get to be Chip Tsao.

Chip Tsao as Chi-Tae

Chip Tsao (a Hongkong based journalist writing on some unknown publication) seems to be losing sleep nowadays over some scattered rocks on the disputed Spratlys islands. He was able to sleep soundly when the Japanese put their flag over at Diaoyu Island. That, to him, is okey. Chip Tsao is a Japanese spy, a lover of Japanese anime and a veritable lover even of Japanese slapstick and Japanese porno. For a Chinese like him, Japanese are superior race. He would probably even appreciate if his mother would change partners and partner with a Japanese fisherman. That's why BBC probably kicked his butt. He's Chinese yet he wants to change his race. Chip Tsao is a racial cross-dresser.

That's why Chip Tsao became incest when Filipinos raised their flag over what has been their islands and possessions since the days when Tsao was still house tsa'a. For one who has been with a Filipina assistant for quite some time, whom he treats as his veritable slave, Tsao must have thought that the race of his Filipina assistant will forever be subservient to foreign tastes. He is. He's a lover of everything Japanese, yet he's Chinese. And he wants even his assistants to be like him, a racial cross-dresser.

For Chip Tsao, a slave is a slave forever, just like him, a slave of everything Japanese. He would like Japan to even pin their flag on Hongkong soil or possibly pierce his behind with that Japanese stick. That's why BBC love to can his reports since most of them are rubbish and fit only for octogenarians to see.

It's inconceivable for Chip Tsao to think that his government, a known bully in the South China seas and an exporter of everything dangerous to humans, to have been humiliated by this slave race. He can't seem to buy that idea that Filipinos now, as he describes as those who clean his toilets, to now tell him, straight in his pimpled face " Up Yours!"

Maybe Chip Tsao fears that Filipinos would stop patronizing cheap Chinese products. Maybe Chip Tsao fears of becoming Chi-Tae, a classic comedic character every Filipino loves.

Chip Tsao is losing sleep nowadays. He's in a fit of envious frenzy. He's even near neurotic. For someone who can't do what he pleases under a pseudo-socialist regime, Chip Tsao should probably worry. When the Chinese government learns that he's a cross-dresser and a war-monger, he'll probably be tasked to clean those toilets in the Kalayaan islands.