Your view on Tsip Chao's Article

The War At Home
http://hk-magazine.com/feature/war-home
March 27th, 2009

The Russians sank a Hong Kong freighter last month, killing the seven Chinese seamen on board. We can live with that—Lenin and Stalin were once the ideological mentors of all Chinese people. The Japanese planted a flag on Diàoyú Island. That’s no big problem—we Hong Kong Chinese love Japanese cartoons, Hello Kitty, and shopping in Shinjuku,
let alone our round-the-clock obsession with karaoke.

But hold on—even the Filipinos? Manila has just claimed sovereignty over the scattered rocks in the South China Sea called the Spratly Islands, complete with a blatant threat from its congress to send gunboats to the South China Sea to defend the islands from China if necessary. This is beyond reproach. The reason: there are more than 130,000 Filipina
maids working as $3,580-a-month cheap labor in Hong Kong. As a nation of servants, you don’t flex your muscles at your master, from whom you earn most of your bread and butter.

As a patriotic Chinese man, the news has made my blood boil. I summoned Louisa, my domestic assistant who holds a degree in international politics from the University of Manila, hung a map on the wall, and gave her a harsh lecture. I sternly warned her that if she wants her wages increased next year, she had better tell every one of her compatriots in Statue Square on Sunday that the entirety of the Spratly Islands belongs to China.

Grimly, I told her that if war breaks out between the Philippines and China, I would have to end her employment and send her straight home, because I would not risk the crime of treason for sponsoring an enemy of the
state by paying her to wash my toilet and clean my windows 16 hours a day. With that money, she would pay taxes to her government, and they would fund a navy to invade our motherland and deeply hurt my feelings.


Oh yes. The government of the Philippines would certainly be wrong if they think we Chinese are prepared to swallow their insult and sit back and lose a Falkland Islands War in the Far East. They may have Barack Obama and the hawkish American military behind them, but we have a hostage in each of our homes in the Mid-Levels or higher. Some of my friends told me they have already declared a state of emergency at home. Their maids have been made to shout “China, Madam/Sir” loudly whenever they hear the word “Spratly.” They say the indoctrination is working as
wonderfully as when we used to shout, “Long live Chairman Mao!” at the sight of a portrait of our Great Leader during the Cultural Revolution.

I’m not sure if that’s going a bit too far, at least for the time being.

What can you say about his article? Dapat bago siya nagsulat inisip muna na niya kung ano reaction ng mga Pinoy kapag nabasa ito. What if it's the other way around? Buti na lang at humingi siya ng apology at nagpakumbaba. Kahit papano I salute him for eating what he has written and swallowing his pride.

Yeah mabuhay ang mga Pilipino!!!
Swerte na lang niya kung may makuha pa silang mas sisipag at mas concerned na maid kesa sa Pinay.

boo tsip chao! nagjustify pa xa nung nagapologize e. sabi nya we're all servants of God naman daw. parang ewan lang. dumadami nang tumitira sa pinas. kawawa naman tayo. but at least we proved that our values are still intact, kahit ginaganun ganun tau ng ibang bansa, we did nothing to attack others' reputation. bilib parin ako sa pinoy, ang tatag.