Comments by "Angry Kittens" (@AngryKittens) on "Asian Boss" channel.

  1. Meanwhile, in Muslim-majority countries, interfaith marriages are forbidden, unless the non-Muslim party converts to Islam.
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  2. There are three types of beauty among Filipinos: Mestiza, Morena, and Chinita. You can actually hear them discussing it in the video. Mestiza: Fair-skinned Spanish (or half-White) looks Morena: Dark-skinned native islander (or South Asian/half-Black) looks Chinita: (previously also called "Mestiza de Sangley"): Fair-skinned East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) looks Admittedly, they're not equally preferred. Mestiza is still by and large, the preferred look, due to the influence of Hollywood media. While Morena and Chinita are about even, but aren't that far down either. There are also stereotypes about them. Chinitas are seen as more submissive and delicate, Morenas are seen as more passionate and cheerful, while Mestizas are seen as more confident and sophisticated. Also, the same standards are applied to men: Mestizo, Moreno, and Chinito, except there are slight differences in preferences. For example, Chinitos are seen as more intellectual or richer, while Morenos are seen as more masculine and stronger. Mestizos are more or less in between those stereotypes.
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  3. I'd like to hear more opinions about this from Muslim WOMEN. The ones who oppose the ban seem to be mostly Muslim men.
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  4. Calling rido a "family feud" is an understatement. It's a war between different clans, where both families literally kill members of the other family in response to a perceived insult or crime. Including people who are not even involved in the original conflict, but are related. And it can originate even from an ordinary fight. It becomes a cycle of revenge killings. Sometimes the original reason is long forgotten. It's one of the oldest problems in Muslim areas in the Philippines. Using rido as a justification for child marriage is patching evil with another evil.
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  5. Have you never seen Anime? That's how you tell who the "kewl" guys are.
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  6. I kind of pity Korea, Japan, and even China for this. They have very strong economies. But at the cost of losing humanity.
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  7. "How much are women there?" I would have just slapped the guy.
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  8. Caste system, arranged marriages, cultural separation of men and women. This is the result.
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  9. We all know this entire episode is just to find a date for Kei. LOL
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  10. "I know cultures." "There's pizza here?! Shocking!!!!"
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  11. It's kinda like serial killers, which seems to be almost completely restricted to first world countries. It's a culture thing. TBF, it's not like the Philippines doesn't have gun violence either. Family revenge killings in particular, like the one that led to the Ampatuan Massacre, is particularly bloody. Hitmen are also a problem, also usually related to rich family conflicts. But random mass shootings are simply not culturally relevant.
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  12. The problem is not the law. The problem is NONE of us Filipinos trust the police or the politicians. They're some of the most corrupt and most incompetent in the world.
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  13. After the Minamata Disease tragedy, I can't believe so many people are supporting this.
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  14. It's a temporary sacrifice. Something western countries seem to have trouble understanding.
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  15. @Grace Lee And yet both Indonesia and the Philippines have far LESS per capita covid deaths than the US, Brazil, Italy, or other first world countries. Literally only a fraction. Yet international media are making it seem like the situation is so much worse. More than 720,000 people died of covid in the US alone, out of 330 million people. Compare that with 40,000 deaths from the Philippines out of 100 million. And 143,000 deaths in Indonesia out of 270 million.
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  16. Women from more equal cultures would find it very difficult to adapt to Arabic cultures. You'll always be seen as "lesser". I wouldn't have expected it to work from the get go.
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  17. China: *bans everything that doesn't bow to Beijing censors or insults the CCP for "security reasons" *US bans Chinese companies for potential security issues* China: *suprised píkǎqiū face*
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  18. The problem is religious. Child marriage is "traditional" in Muslim areas of the Philippines. But unknown virtually everywhere else in the islands.
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  19. 7:21 "Because China is friendly with all countries and everyone wants to be friends with China" Are they really that clueless about what their neighbors think of them?
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  20. So much racism and misconceptions in the comments, I doubt many of them even watched the video. A lot of it borne from their own cultural lenses that view women as just wives. First off, the Philippines is THE most gender equal country in Asia. Higher than developed Asian countries like South Korea or Japan, higher even than first world western countries like the US. We have the highest number of women in senior management positions, top 10 in terms of the highest number of female CEOs, and we've had two female presidents. The simple fact that women here are treated far more equally is the exact reason why they can choose to marry a foreigner with no social repercussions. Filipinas marry foreigners because they CAN. Whereas in your countries, doing so would be viewed with derision or shame. It's a reflection of your own cultural biases that you laugh at us. 1. Filipina women genuinely find most foreigners attractive. The same reason that someone might find a Filipina beautiful, is the same reason Filipinas might find foreign men attractive. The same is true for Filipino men and foreign women, as well as for Filipino LGBT people and foreign LGBT people. Our beauty standards tend to go for the different, rather than the similar. We universally find mixed people beautiful, it's why a large number of our celebrities are mixed, far more than most other countries. See 11:16 2. Financial security. It's funny how people find this weird, when the vast majority of people also marry for this reason. The Philippines is a developing country. If a man can provide a better life, he'll always have an advantage over someone who can't. Practicality. It's PART of the reason, but not THE reason. See 10:14 3. The trade-off is the cultural differences. As I've already mentioned, Filipina women are used to being equal. We are family-oriented which a lot of foreigners mistake as being submissive. We're not. And a huge fear into entering mixed marriages is that they might end up being mistreated. See 7:17 and 8:05 There are exceptions of course. And they're obvious. Mostly when the age and attractiveness gap is wide. But that happens in any country.
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  21.  @osorionegao  I think he's Chinese-Australian. Probably wasn't born in Australia.
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  22. This is why it confuses me when other Asian "purists" criticize the Philippines for using too many Spanish and English words. Then point to Japanese as an example of a "pure" Asian language. They don't seem to realize that there are TONS of loanwords in Japanese, because the loanwords in Japanese sound Japanese, even when they aren't.
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  23.  @oooooo3820  Actually no. Economic development has nothing to do with it. Despite what this video makes it look like, child marriage is NOT common at all in the Philippines. The average marrying age of Filipinos is 27 for women, and 29 for men. The legal age of marriage in almost all of the Philippines is 18. Marriage below that age is illegal. Arranged marriages is also non-traditional and virtually unknown (unlike neighboring countries). You don't seem to realize that the Philippines is around 90-95% Christian/secular, and is pretty high (higher than most first world countries) in terms of gender equality. The problem only exists among Muslim minorities in the Muslim Autonomous regions in the far south, which are composed of regions with some special laws and exemptions based on Shariah. Originally meant to give them more rights given that the rest of the Philippines is overwhelmingly Christian. Some have used these laws to legalize arranged marriages and child marriages, because they believe that these are "traditional" in Islam.
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  24. Because you sound pretentious if you speak in pure Filipino, you mostly only do it for poetic emphasis. I mean seriously, would you call a chair a "salumpuwet" (literally "ass-catcher")? Most Asian countries do this as well. Asian Boss has done episodes about it in Japan and India.
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  25. Yep. It's illegal to put up campaign posters too, and very expensive. Costing millions of pesos. But they still do it, because winning means so much money.
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  26.  @magicflour  LOL. I'm talking about covid DEATHS not rates of infection in the general population. If you're in a hospital, you are 100% tested because of protocol. Thus the rate of covid deaths are accurate even in countries which do not have the capacity to test everyone. So explain to me exactly how the Philippines is touted by magazines like Bloomberg as the "most dangerous country" to be in during the pandemic? When literally only a fraction of people have died from it compared to the the average western country? And in comparison to other ASEAN nations like Indonesia or Thailand, the vaccination rate is roughly the same, as is the mortality rate and the infection rate. Mostly because western countries hogged all the vaccine supplies. Why are we "the worst"? I've read Bloomberg's article trying to explain why, and it still stinks of international media ignorance to me. The kind of secondhand international journalism that made it seem like the Philippines was a warzone these past few decades. The writers who singlehandedly s**ts on our tourism industry and foreign investments every year by painting a completely false image of the Philippines. Reminds me of that Global Finance magazine which ranked the Philippines as the "most dangerous country in the world", BELOW Yemen which is literally in the middle of a civil war. And their rationale? Apparently because the Philippines has more volcanoes, typhoons, and earthquakes. What kind of logic is that? And you, whom I presume is also a Filipino, believe them more than what you see with your own eyes?
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  27.  Sandeep Singh  Sure. If your definition of "success" is how long they stay together. You'll have even more success if you keep your wife under lock and key like some people do. My definition of a successful marriage is happiness of BOTH people in the relationship. And you rarely ever get that in arranged marriages. It would be fine if the "arranged marriages" we're talking about were more like arranged matchmaking between adults, where both the men and women decide if they want to get married or find someone else. But it's not. Usually all the decision lies with the parents. Sometimes the parents are literally selling the bride. Hence the deep problems in South Asian (and Middle Eastern) culture. You treat women like they are things to be bartered. To be appraised based on age, looks, and caste, and even horoscopes, like they were livestock.
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  28. Tips: Don't ask about North Korea. Pretend they don't have an accent. Interviewer: BREAKS ALL THE RULES IN THE FIRST TWO QUESTIONS lel
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  29. "I'm really shocked how your government isn't doing anything about it." That's because the Philippine correspondent is lying. We all received supplies from the government. The "rioters" were arrested because they were congregating in public. Not because of what they were saying, plenty of people have asked for help without violating the quarantine. The way she twists the truth makes me angry.
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  30. When I do my normal everyday roll-around in San Francisco's hills, I come home looking like a big brown porcupine from all the human poop and AIDS needles I've accumulated on my person. And then my next door neighbor knocks on my door and threatens to release my sex tapes to the internet if I don't buy 3 kilos of cocaine from him. It's getting too much that I've already had 13 abortions. This needs to stop. We need a dictator to save us.
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  31. False. It's just empirically worse in some countries, not just "noticeable". Like in the Middle East with the kafala system and the domestic maid abuse. That is rare everywhere else. As for the claim of it being "everywhere", in certain countries, no, it doesn't exist at all. In the Philippines for example, foreign workers are treated BETTER than the native workforce, with usually higher salaries and treated with respect.
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  32.  @Kookie-zc3gt  Still, it's a very unsavory custom. What's wrong with a single working woman in India? Forcing her to marry to be "financially" stable is idiotic. Especially when she didn't even know the man she was marrying was living in poverty worse than her original circumstances, because she literally didn't even know him prior to the marriage. It's barbaric.
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  33.  @BeastChaeng  Yes. A blood feud is a better translation. Clan war is another.
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  34. YangSunWoo I'm guessing you're unaware that owning a certain amount of drugs is an automatic death penalty in China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and North Korea. No excuses, no bargaining. If you're caught with a certain amount of drugs, you're put to death. Doesn't matter if you're a dealer or an addict. So tell me, why weren't you screaming about morality and ethics decades ago? The Philippines is actually the exception, since it does not have a death penalty law. Despite what you hear in sensationalized news in international sources, drug addicts ARE put into rehab in the Philippines when caught, not executed. In the early parts of Duterte's presidency, 1.3 million addicts voluntarily put themselves up for rehab. Those 1.3 million are still alive. There is no standing order to kill drug addicts, although there is an unspoken resolve to shoot dealers if they fight back. And no one is really complaining about that. The vast majority of deaths in the drug war you hear about are extrajudicial killings, not cop killings. Assassinations by unknown suspects. Which means you can't exactly blame the government for them. Most of these deaths are of drug addicts and small-time dealers, which make it very likely that these were done by the drug organizations to silence potential witnesses, NOT by cops. Because it simply makes no sense why cops would kill potential informants, like what the international journalists and opposition leaders are claiming.
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  35. That doesn't make it right.
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  36. Isn't it widespread AND traditional throughout Asia and South America? It's partly to care for parents, partly to reduce unnecessary spending in anticipation of getting married. In the Philippines, everyone I know lived with their parents when they were single (if they worked nearby). Because living on your own doubles the cost of living. Triple, even, since you also have to send a portion of your income to help your elderly parents for groceries and stuff. They only moved out once they got married (usually late 20s to early 30s). And in most cases, they still lived very close to their parents (usually the women's parents). In more than a few cases, they just build another house within the family land, basically turning it into a compound. Though most kids do have a period of independence during college. Because they usually went and lived in a city temporarily for school. But almost everyone comes back to the family house. Unless they got married early, or they got a job soon after graduating in the cities. Still, a lot of them end up moving back to their hometowns when they reach their 40s or 50s, for the simple reason that their parents are becoming too old to live on their own. And it allows them to spend time with their grandkids, and vice versa, before it's too late. Most also want their kids to grow up in the same environment that they did. Since cities are not exactly ideal for raising kids. I personally prefer the living with the parents arrangement. It allows you to spend far more time with them as they grow older. I shudder to think of the nursing home culture in the west. Seeing your kids like twice a year, if you're lucky, and then you die.
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  37. Sounds nothing like the Indian accent.
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  38.  @yiyu3382  Your actions do not match your words. You keep claiming you want to help us and have our best interests. But you keep invading our territories. EVERY SINGLE ASIAN COUNTRY has a border dispute with China. Not even mentioning Tibet and Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia whom you invaded. Or your continuing suppression of Taiwan.
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  39. Um. Most countries in the world are multilingual. From birth. Most Africans for example, have French as their second language.
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  40. Do the same walkthroughs in other cities.
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  41.  @BeastChaeng  I just realized what the exact translation for it is: Vendetta. It contributes quite a bit to as to why most of the Autonomous Muslim regions of the Philippines gets pretty much zero tourism or visitors from other areas of the Philippines. And why they remain the poorest regions in the country.
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  42.  @fakyu9346  Age of legal marriage in the Philippines is 18. The average age of marriage in the Philippines is 27 for women, 29 for men. Child marriage is a problem only among Muslim Filipinos who live in an autonomous region that have their own special laws (based on the Shariah) that allow them to marry children below the age of 18. In everywhere else in the Philippines, marriage below the age of 18 is illegal. Hence why this new law was passed to remove the "religious exemptions" used by some Muslim Filipinos to continue practicing child marriage. To give you more context, the Philippines is 95% Christian/Secular, 5% Muslim.
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  43. So why do you force Tagalog on us who are NOT native Tagalog speakers? That's hypocritical. So many other native Filipino languages are dying because NCR only cares about Tagalog. Nothing else.
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  44. Hey. They prioritized blasphemy too! Blasphemy is a 5-year prison sentence in Indonesia. Weird thing though, is that it only applies to Islam. You can say all the bad things you want about everyone else, but say one bad thing about Islam and it's off to jail!
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  45.  @dallymoo7816  It's funny because she didn't think there would be MODERN amenities in Thailand. Was she shocked there were cars and skyscrapers too? Like jeez. Half the tourists coming to Southeast Asia seem to be expecting mud huts and spears or somthing and complain about places being "westernized" when they see people with smartphones, or in this case... pizza. Like hello. It's 2019.
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  46. Because negro is not offensive in other languages. Youtube is not only for Americans.
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  47. Why would we study a language from an isolationist country that closes itself off from the world? Even Youtube is not normally accessible from the mainland without a VPN.
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  48. Both are considered acceptable in Muslim cultures in the Philippines. These are ARRANGED marriages.
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  49. Let me get this straight, BOTH male and female cops ran away, and they're just blaming the women?!
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  50. LMFAO. Also notice that he had his arms around TWO girls.
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