Comments by "xXxSkyViperxXx" (@xXxSkyViperxXx) on "Asian Boss" channel.

  1. sadly, i dont think you'd ever find a channel willing to do that for our country. the spaniards have influenced a whole lot about our country, enough that it basically forms like the majority of the present known history curriculum of the philippines, mainly because the prehispanic period is so scarcely known due to it being undocumented or any sort of past documents being destroyed by abusive spanish friars. those 333 years under the spanish empire though has been so long that theres not much big exciting events that happen that are talked about there besides perhaps the periodic regional revolts for whatever reason and drama at the time. the amount of spanish-ness of our country is a bit less than latin america but given how aggressive the spanish empire was at promoting their spanish culture, let's just name a few prominent things the spanish have shaped us into. religion, influences to languages, architecture, folk music and instruments, folk dance, old paintings, province names, latin script for the language, american trading ties, ...hmm what else... colonial mentality maybe hahaha
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  2. american colonial history used english for mass education of the populace and current modern education also uses english as language of instruction. also since we know english, there are scenarios where what we want to express can be conveyed shorter and easier if we use english terms or tagalog terms instead
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  3. simple, cuz its easier. there are terms easier to explain in english and terms easier in tagalog. american colonial english education and modern english education have already taught most filipinos english so we can make use of it as simple as if its all one language continuum with tagalog
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  4.  @ikapuchino  im not sure about specific ones but i remember from my time in my university that theres an organization called Gawad Kalinga but im not sure if they specifically do any adoptions or sponsorships but maybe if you call or contact them from their fb page or something they can refer you to a reliable one. ive known some people who instead of having their own child, adopted some poor baby, or some families who just have an agreement with some poor street children and their families or some poor family from the provinces that they can stay at their houses and sponsor their education. ive had a classmate before who was technically adopted. her other older brother seems to also be adopted since the brother seemed like a white foreign guy so mustve been a product of those secret sex industry stuff that foreigner americans or europeans left
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  5. here in the philippines. we also use the 12 hour format rather than the 24 hour format. years ago i would have also called it army time before a belgian i talked to wondered about it and told me that army time for them was like without the ":" like 1900, 2400, 0500 sort of thing
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  6.  @haruzanfuucha  what does what taiwan's past government did in the past in the mainland have to do with the mainland china's current actions against its neighbors. whichever party that rules mainland china or taiwan wouldnt determine whos doing the claims and actions against everyone in the south seas. if the roles were reversed and kmt was in mainland and taiwan had prc, the same statement will still apply except i wouldve been saying the kmt government of mainland
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  7. "negra" is a spanish loanword into the filipino language that literally means "black"
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  8. they are filipinos too whether or not they are call center agents. most filipinos in business districts aren't even all call center agents even if you do commonly see them as one. if you really want a fair representation, it should be both the rich business districts, random streets of different cities within Manila, and maybe even the poorer districts. heck even the different provinces if you really want it fair.
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  9. lol this coming from someone named "Basketball For Life" hahaha. the main sport that people do love here is basketball and this is one people have stadiums and tv channels to watch for rather than any other sport but lol only basketball fans stick to their basketball philosophies which there you could see some stereotypic filipino basketball guys who do that but many like me dont care about that hahaha
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  10. disrespectful is defined differently in different cultures. they mentioned in the video about a chinese mainlander letting his kid pee on the side of the street. in some countries, a man peeing outside somewhere hidden is an ok thing. in Japan deep in the cities, of course, it would be unthinkable for them.
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  11. awhile ago here in manila, children outside in the streets sing christmas carols in front of homes and the nearby malls love to launch fireworks at night even though its not christmas or new years yet and awhile ago i also went to a nearby mall where the parking lot was made into a sort of a small carnival with a christmas outdoor animatronic show whatever thing. seems to be a new gimick they have this year here
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  12. Lance Arguelles its because we mesh the foreign language to our own as if the 2 languages are now one. this is why we can make verbs in filipino way but using the english root word.
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  13. we didnt take anything from malay. those words you may think that are from malay are just cognates rightly contained in the local filipino language. plus its not hindi, its only sanskrit. plus english words heard in normal conversations aren't officially in the language, only some are. also add nahuatl in that list as some also come from native mexican aztec words. chinese also more specifically hokkien and a little cantonese
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  14. they will all die through the next generations anyway
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  15. most countries' neighbors always hate each other because border friction is always bound to happen. usually its the non neighbors or the neighbor of the neighbor that is friends with a country because they are enemy of my enemy to the bordering country
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  16. lol haha even north korea and congo(kinshasa) has "democratic" in their name before People's republic yet everyone knows theyre far from the usual democracy people usually refer to
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  17. thats why filipino is in the call center industry, just like indians
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  18. it doesnt make any sense to disinclude filipinos with spanish last names. filipinos with spanish last names dont necessarily mean they have had any spanish admixture. governor general narciso claveria just ordered a colonial decree before to provide native filipinos without a family name to be provided with spanish family names from a catalog so the colonial government can keep consistent records. that or when they were baptized in the catholic church, the church gave them a christianized name if they did or did not have a family name before.
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  19. the interviewer is making an effort to speak purer tagalog while avoiding some spanish loanwords though she still adds in a bit so she is speaking filipino but the one being interviewed also dips into english so the interviewer eventually does too. normally, filipinos at least around metro manila will speak filipino(tagalog) which usually has frequent mixture of old colonial spanish loanwords in most every sentence and ever since american colonial times, filipinos also love to frequently codeswitch with english sentences and terms while speaking in filipino/tagalog. we basically colloquially call this combination of filipino(tagalog) and english as "taglish". Taglish is very common and is the normal casual informal language in many parts of the country especially at the capital in metro manila. also, it seems the one being interviewed is not used to speaking english all the time so he makes some mistakes in his english. this usually is just a sign that reveals his cultural upbringing or socioeconomic background since usually the upper middle to upper class are very proficient and natural at english while the more populous lower middle class masses usually prefer filipino(tagalog) or other local languages more while keeping english as a close second language since it is required in most areas of philippine society. this telling background makes sense for him since he is someone who is campaigning to help the lower classes which he probably more identifies with
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  20. lol yes, its not a exclusive japanese thing. just some silly western belief to just label everything that comes from japan as some sort of japanese method or even calling it an "art" just cuz its from japan. in different parts of asia like in my country, japan is no exotic than your next door neighbor or ur neighbor down the block. people gotta stop treating japanese like its such a special place
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  21. hey if she wins something or anything in the filipino name, any old common pinoy in the street will say something positive about it regardless if they know this person's foreign ancestry or any other detail about it at all
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  22.  @newtype5005  @ChefCaffy no actually its because if you notice where the country of origin the maids usually come from. they're mostly from the philippines, indonesia, or myanmar, of which they all also have a maid culture. I wager the maid culture to also be present in other southeast asian countries. I'm from the philippines and it's normal among the upper middle and upper class to have a maid, u might even call it a status symbol here. the upper class has always recruited domestic workers from the lower classes (if female) to be maidservant-caretakers (katulong/kasambahay/yaya), or laundrywomen (labandera) and (if male) to be family drivers (drayber/tsuper), security guards (guwardiya/bantay), gardeners (hardinero), pool cleaners. its customary among the upper class to always have a maid and some upper middle class families too. my family has one and we used to have many more years ago when i was younger and my family was richer. we recruit them either through an agency or through networking as in someone we know like a past maid knew a friend or family from the provinces thats willing to work in the capital or city. what we call as yaya/katulong/kasambahay work most their whole lives living under the master's roof with all domestic housework responsibilities from cooking, cleaning, laundry, feeding pets, caring for children, sometimes even tutoring children, fetching children from school, most everything in the west one would think a mother would do, hence it does not make sense to me when someone mentions my "mother's cooking" since in my childhood it was never normal for my parents to cook. the maids always sleep in their own room, usually near the kitchen or laundry area. in my old house when my family was richer, they had their own little house with each room having 2 maids living in there. the kitchen in an upper class house also usually has another room connected to it where maids dine at instead of the master's table. this whole practice has spanned for centuries probably, since we have records in precolonial times of slaves/ indentured servants who were kind of doing the same thing. in modern times, we just exported these to hong kong and singapore or wherever overseas filipino workers find work at. thats why they are hush hush about it and a bit fewer. also, as someone who is ethnically a chinese filipino, i get how the people of hong kong and singapore got to adapting the culture and i know china also has. i myself have distant relatives in hong kong...
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  23. asian names? bro do you even know what names do normal filipinos use. its gonna surprise you the names aren't gonna sound or fit in your classification of "asian names". most english names themselves have hebrew or generally foreign roots as a result of foreign influence or outright rule. what do you think filipinos use when theyve been ruled by europeans and americans for more than three centuries
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  24. dont assume guys. already got triggered when he didnt say anything about colonialism but only expressed his sudden realization of our linguistic behavior.
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  25. the domestic maid culture in Singapore and Hong Kong started precisely because we in the Philippines were exporting our Yaya maids
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  26. being hikikomori isnt actually too far from your usual stay at home computer person with the added some people still do work or go to school so still seems normal for people though besides that, just at home
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  27. coolsunshinebro -the spanish last names came because 2 centuries ago spain declared a royal decree to sell and give out a catalog selection of spanish family names for native filipinos without a last name to have one for increased integration with spain and proper governmental records. -the "original Filipinos" that u mention as "almost extinct" is actually not true as the austronesian prehispanic native filipinos that the spanish colonizers first met are still very much alive and numerous as can be seen in the video with ur most average looking majority filipino looking like ur normal austronesian with just some people with little bits of chinese and spanish characteristics. at least if ur referring to australian aborigine/melanesian related peoples like the aeta negrito people who used to have come before the austronesian majority of the land then those are now a minority people since centuries ago even before spanish colonizers came but they are in no way becoming extinct lol. it is also a bit over exaggerated just as a side note that most filipinos have spanish blood. compared to the hispanic americas, there were considerably lesser spaniards who came to the philippines so only a few affected bits of the population mostly because most spaniards that were sent here or came here were washed out spaniards who just wanted a new prosperous life than their less than ideal lives before as can be seen in rizal's noli me tangere. -Sequence of arrivals in the philippines: Melanesian related aeta negrito>native austronesian filipino>malaysian/indonesian nobles/traders/pirates, chinese traders/pirates, japanese pirates/traders > Spanish conquistadors > british indian soldiers invade manila > american troops > philippine republic > influx of many koreans and some iranians
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  28. SS acting polite to not hurt someone is also done in neighboring countries of japan albeit it gets toned down the farther the country is from japan and east asia in general. in my country in southeast asia, some do this and try to find a sentence phrasing to make it sound better although its not a common thing to do. only sometimes. i suppose in japan, its a common established behavior
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  29. lol if only you know how chinese and japanese elderly big wigs see and treat these things, you'd know if either side allowed a compromise to view such things, extra exaggerated propaganda from any side would be added more to subconsciously add more shame to the reputation of the other party so they'd be seen the conscientious ideological victor.
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  30. filipino spaghetti feels very casual party food. thats why its served in fast food lol. anything served in fast food isnt gonna be quite seen as very good by anyone besides just being casual food
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  31. Molly Dores officially speaking, the country doesnt do divorce due to respecting the catholic canon law but there are of course always other ways to separate. in filipino society, annulment is pretty much what filipinos popularly know to be able to separate and have always used it. in church terms, this is called the declaration of nullity. certain conditions need to apply first before legal marital separation can occur. if a person was not of the right mind of some sort of mental psychological problem before marrying, then one could be considered by the church that the marriage didnt really happen because one of the spouse's mental state is questioned. if the person got the mental condition after marriage though, then that is included in the promise of marriage that in sickness and in health you will go through with this person. of course, that doesn't mean you have to live with this crazed spouse. you can live separate ways as if not married but legally and canonically speaking, you are still married.
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  32. Molly Dores im not catholic but thats how life normally is here. people just resort to annulment or divorce in another country if they so wanted to. muslims though are allowed divorce in the circumstances of their religion. some non catholic churches too might allow marriages under their church to divorce but the catholic church does not consider that binding because of the view that sure canon law is only for the catholics but what the catholic church sees as part of divine law is for all other christians too. the inclined idea is that people have a pegged mindset to be serious about marriage and to resolve it together especially locked with children because they are chained with no choice of freely abandoning it. but of course certain scenarios that you describe are considered to justify declaring the nullity.
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  33. 白の丸 lol we chinese-filipino are bad at chinese, we learn mandarin at school like the same level as i think grade school in china. we forget or dont know the right tones too. and some would just do hokkien than bother with mandarin which most are pretty clueless about too. we'd rather do english and filipino or whichever regional language they live in
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  34. doesnt make any sense that someone whos willing to work as a maid has a maid at her own home lol. having your own maid in the philippines is something the upper and upper middle class has... and you won't find any of them ever stooping to that work because they themselves are the ones who sometimes underpay these people...
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  35.  @sahayeda5220  yes, the practice in the philippines started out among the upper class and we just exported it to other countries where overseas filipino workers offer their services. growing up in an upper or upper middle class family in the philippines means you almost always have at least one maidservant-caretaker. all responsibilities that are attributed to a mother in the west is something that a maidservant does here for you if you grew up in an upper or upper middle class family...
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  36. this is a very old issue started ever since marcos's time. i dont think it will change any time soon since all the uncertainties, problems, and arguments about it are still there. this term is a very old precolonial noble class term which obviously highlights the elite. in some languages, it also sounds like similar words that i think meant toilet or something dirty. and the economic, cultural, societal cost of changing identity with a very established philippines, pilipinas, pinoy, filipinas, filipino term is quite high. only few support this, usually those who aim to wipe clean and forget all the recent centuries' history...
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  37. i must note though for other filipinos out there, you dont have to be dark skinned nor any color skinned to be filipino.... contrary to what that girl said at 7:14
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  38. how about Singlish from singapore. aw you cant understand them on the phone
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  39. domestic helpers, maids, drivers, gardeners in Singapore and Hong kong just imported the maid culture from the Philippines and Indonesia because the upper class of Philippines and Indonesia have long always had maids, drivers, gardeners doing the domestic house work
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  40. its legit though... when i was younger, there was a guy maybe in his teen years that my tutor hired that works to supposedly sit and guard at the guardhouse and i remember him saying that hes only paid like around equivalent to 40-50 USD per like maybe a month or half the month. I live in the philippines
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  41. In the Philippines, virtually every upper class family and some upper middle class family have maids/helpers. we call them as "yaya". my family used to even have a separate little house in our property where they stay and these days every condo in the philippines is structured so that there is a room by the kitchen where maid/helpers stay...
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  42. yep its also normal and even customary in the philippines among the upper and upper middle class to hire maids, we just started exporting them there cuz they heard they could get paid more there through different currency conversion and higher minimum wage norms even if u guys dont think its that much. i say this because i myself have distant local relatives in hong kong since im from the chinese filipino community where its very very common to have a maid or even a family driver and if ur rich enough, a security guard or pool cleaner or gardener... or if ur one of the billionaire families or noble political families, personal bodyguards...
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  43.  @eundongpark1672  most philippine languages have borrowed a lot of Spanish words centuries ago. if ur sure its an asian language and it sounds like it has a lot of spanish words (and ur not mistaking these to be portuguese), its most likely a language from the philippines which is more commonly filipino (tagalog), or sometimes bisaya (cebuano), or many other major regional philippine language
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  44.  @eundongpark1672  filipinos also love to codeswitch and mix in english while speaking local languages so u might also hear english mixed in when u overhear filipinos so if its tagalog mixed with english, we call it as "taglish" so to someone who is not normally familiar with taglish, it may sound like you're hearing an asian language with spanish and english phrases and expressions being mixed in
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  45. lol both have a history with big centrisms. its why americentrism and eurocentrism are observed and found more often than other centrisms. eurocentrism started first than americentrism and its probable that americentrism was inherited or developed in reaction to eurocentrism. of course i know that the imperial system was inherited from the british empire and thats probably not the only thing they inherited. it does not matter if you think its medieval or where or who it exactly came from. to be honest, we here find the day/month/year business weird and complicated on our end. the problem is when people show off their norms to others and dont respect other societies' norms even by just being close-minded to such trivial societal differences. you keep saying you dont have anything against them but it clearly looks like you are sounding off some sort of inferiority feelings lol as if you guys have some sort of low self-esteem identity problems that need to be arrogant to others just to feel better. the americans are of course self-centered in themselves. they always talk about their own country's problems as if other people on the internet are supposed to care or as if their issues are so vital that the world will stop functioning. they refuse to show other international units and constantly name places in their country like their states so familiarly and without (,USA) beside expecting everyone to understand instantly, just to serve their american viewers and neglect their international audiences. but in all that, you dont have to stoop to their level and add to their arrogance.
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  46. Officially and in practice in more formal schools, most classes are taught in english except for subjects such as filipino, civics/geography/history/society (which is a combined class), and classes about good values which is also called guidance. Many teachers though can slip or just frequently teach in taglish but in more formal prestigious schools, many teachers teach in straight english or straight filipino though they can let loose some taglish too at times. If there's a foreign exchange student in class, the teachers in prestigious universities try as much as possible to speak in straight english though some teachers get carried away and go about in taglish. If you want to find taglish in writing, this is commonly done while chatting on social media sites like facebook or twitter or even in youtube comments here.
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  47. thats how we evolve our language lol. this is how we did it with spanish in before english lol. its why filipino languages have a lot of spanish loanwords because we just use them instead. now we do this too with english.
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  48. in the philippines, some kids get their teeth done at around preteen to teenage years so its all nice but i doubt anyone else ever bothers to notice what the state of people's teeth are. i'd think its something most wouldnt care about nor notice.
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  49. AldreRosario because people here in the philippines have been accustomed to using it as the formal language used in school and work especially when colonial filipinos used to revere the spanish language as the high class language in the spanish colonial times so when the americans took over as the next colonial masters, the high class popular language shifted from spanish to english especially when americans established a load of schools and boosted education programs in their time
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  50. why dont asian boss interview other poor people of other asian country too. why always cover life of the poor in philippines when there are plenty other poorer neighboring asian countries.
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