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

  1. Hana Gabrielle Bidon, visit other Asian countries and you have the same standards of "fair skin=beautiful". Like 9469832 said, it has nothing to do with colonialism. Asia already had a preexisting belief that fair skin meant you belonged to the aristocratic class, while dark skin meant you belonged to the lower class. It's actually worse in other countries. In the Philippines, morena is still considered beautiful. In countries like China, they won't even look at you if you have dark skin. Now if we're talking about the Filipino preference for higher-bridged noses on the other hand, then that is definitely colonially-influenced.
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  2. All Muslim countries eventually evolve into a copy of Saudi Arabia. The only one that has avoided it so far is Turkey, but it won't be long before they too become nothing but Arab clones.
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  3. Leaving your country to make money abroad or find better opportunities for your dreams doesn't mean you are turning your back on your culture or your nationality. You can live in another country and still be proud of your origins. Besides, most such migrants are dual citizens.
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  4. EVERYONE is racist in DOTA. LOL. The Chinese call Filipinos "Peenoise", "Pignoise", etc. and Indonesians, "Indogs". Just because you can't read Chinese characters doesn't mean they don't do it. lol
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  5. So that's why North Africa and the Middle East are such peaceful enlightened regions. Because they ban porn and actually enforce it. /sarcasm
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  6.  @1953lili  They're the ones who think that just because they're married, it's not rape anymore.
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  7. I'm okay with the law. As long as our trash politicians also legalize divorce. Imagine charging your husband/wife for infidelity, and then remaining married to them anyway afterwards. Not okay with the prison sentence though.
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  8. The legal age of marriage in the Philippines is and always has been 18. Child marriage is only a problem in the Autonomous Muslim region where the legal age of marriage is 15 for boys and onset of puberty for girls. This only applies for a minority that constitutes around 5% of the Philippines.
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  9. The Spanish influence is PART of our culture. You can't erase that. You want us to have a genocide to "purge" Spanish influence like what Cambodia or China did? No, thanks.
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  10.  @sundalongpatpat  That's what happens when a culture confuses patriarchy with religion. Religious laws are suddenly conveniently more favorable to men.
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  11. Cops kill drug suspects during gunfight. International Media: Duterte is so evil, the Philippines is a warzone! OMG! Meanwhile Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, HK, Singapore, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan executes drug suspects International Media: Top 10 tourists destinations!
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  12. @Fathi Rizqi Ananda In the Philippines, it's cringier to talk purely in any one language. Speak pure English or a foreign language and you're seen as pretentious or a wannabe. Speak pure "deep" Tagalog or any of the local languages and you're seen as an ultranationalist and also a wannabe. The Philippines is naturally multilingual anyway. With around 130 ethnic groups, we all speak different native languages. Add to that the fact that those native languages already have numerous Spanish words as well due to the 300 years of Spanish influence. So we're used to switching between two or more different languages depending on who we're talking to. Pretending like we only speak one language at a time is nonsensical when everyone knows and understands English anyway. We mix languages not so we sound "cooler", but because it's easier for both the speaker and the listener. After all, even in Bahasa, you use English words when there are no native equivalents. For example, tell me, what's the Indonesian word for "internet"? What about "computer"? It's the same concept. But we use entire phrases or sentences. Not just individual words. Lastly, Bahasa isn't pure. How many of your words are from Arabic? Dutch? Chinese? Sanskrit? Those are foreign languages, are they not? Even your first names are Arabic. Not exactly native, is it?
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  13.  @dayangmarikit6860  And? India's name is English. Indonesia's name is English. Malaysia's name is English and its flag is influenced by the flag of the US. Parts of India (Goa) still proudly display their mixed culture due to colonial influence. Indonesia and Malaysia are both extremely Muslim, very little of their original shamanism still survive. Only in some remote groups like the Toraja or the Dayak or the Papuans, who happen to be more likely to be Christian. They too are influenced heavily by foreigners. You'd be crazy if you think Indonesians or Malaysians were always Muslim. Islam was introduced to Southeast Asia at around the same time as Christianity. In the 14th to 15th centuries. We don't have to forget our precolonial past. But remembering them doesn't mean we need to forget our colonial past. They are all part of our history. They are what defines us today.
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  14.  shalom1948hellyeah  Right. I'm just close-minded because I don't accept how so many East Asians commit suicide over loneliness and overwork. It's just a cultural thing. I should just get over it. lol. I AM Asian, doofus. Why is everyone mentioning America?
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  15.  @InfinityEXviolin  No it isn't. It sounds like Singaporean English.
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  16. @Jon Snow Where did I say that was a great thing? LOL. It's an AWFUL thing. Indonesia will soon lose its own native culture and become just another Arab copycat like Brunei.
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  17. Kids don't really understand what it means yet. They don't have the emotional maturity to empathize.
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  18. It's ridiculous. In most other countries, they hate mixed-race people and don't consider them "true [insert nationality here]", and they tell us that's bad. Then when we Filipinos have mixed race contestants sometimes they yell at us and also tell us how it's bad that we accept mixed race people. What is it, really?
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  19.  @InfinityEXviolin  Half my family is Kiwi. I KNOW what Aussie sounds like. And not saying he isn't Australian, just that he sounds like a recent immigrant. Some of the words sound Australian, others sound like Chinese-accented English (Singlish or Hong Kong English, perhaps), especially the way he skips some of the "connecting" words (which is common in Singapore).
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  20. Yep. I find it telling how they don't mention that middle class and wealthy Filipinas ALSO marry foreign men quite frequently. Including members of my own family, and we're fairly middle class. As if they really want to push the narrative that we're just doing it for the money and desperation. Tapos yung comments puro mga racist na East Asians or self-hating na mga lalaki na hinahayaan lang nila.
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  21. The Philippines has a poverty problem, but that in no way makes it a "poor country".
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  22.  @yachishairclips2250  Every politician has those posters with their smiling faces plastered all over every available surface. Including in shantytowns like this one. They don't care about the irony, nor even the cleaning up after the elections are done.
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  23. China: *bans every other non-Chinese company that they can not control* Also China: Why are you banning our companies?! It's so unfair!
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  24.  @MrtavLadanSutra  As if Muslim countries don't already have instabilities and violence because of Islam's treatment of religious minorities.
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  25. LOL. Why in the world would you think this? Because a lot of it is in English? Idiot.
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  26. ​ @yuciehayashi266  I know. But what the hazardous material is in the hazardous material is irrelevant. The point is it's hazardous and they're also disposing of it into the environment without really even knowing what the consequences would be.
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  27. Not exactly. It's worse in some countries (especially Muslim ones) where LGBT people would be killed or jailed. The Philippines is relatively more accepting of LGBT people, despite issues like this sometimes. Even the very religious people simply ignore LGBT people, rather than confront them about it (like the answers of the two religious women in the interview).
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  28.  @agumualiuspumm1331  No by humanity, I mean family, personal relationships, having fun, empathy, not being so focused on career and money all the time.
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  29.  @asianprince8718  I don't think China will ever promote it. Learning English opens up your worldview. Makes you see the world as a whole. Which makes you less nationalistic. And Beijing doesn't want that. Taiwan on the other hand, has pretty good English skills.
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  30.  @mongolchiuud8931  50 Cent Party. They're all paid. The average Chinese person officially can not even watch Youtube, since it's banned by their glorious leader.
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  31.  @hermeslein6614  Mahiya ka naman. Ang pathetic mong pakinggan. EDIT: Judging from his other posts in the comment section, this guy is a 50cent party troll. He's not even Filipino. -_-
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  32. Civil law in Muslim regions in the Philippines are separate from the rest of the Philippines. They follow sharia to a limited extent (as long as it doesn't violate constitutional rights, and it's completely voluntary). Polygamy in Muslim Filipinos also requires permission from the first wife.
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  33. Nobody likes (mainland) China. Their relationship with all the other East and Southeast Asian nations have been characterized by war or threats of war and a lot of land-grabbing.
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  34. I'm happy with their responses. Dictators have no place in modern society.
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  35. @Joe A. 😂 We never confuse "w" with "v", ever. What we do confuse are "b" and "v", "p" and "f", and "th" and "d" or "t" in heavy Filipino accents. Because Tagalog does not have native f, v, and th sounds; whereas Indian languages have all those sounds and more. You can hear an example in the video when the guy says "PIFA" instead of "FIFA", or when they say "da" for "the". Neither do we say "pu-cent-uh". We say "peR-sent" (with a very clear rolled R). The difference between those is massive. And the reason is simple: because Indian English is based off BRITISH English, hence the Rs tend to disappear at the end of syllables (similar to Singaporean, Malaysian, and Hong Kong English). Meanwhile Philippine English is based off AMERICAN English, with a strong dose of Spanish pronunciation. Hence the Rs persist. Nor do we have a singsong cadence as in Indian, because our native Austronesian languages are not singsong (except perhaps Hiligaynon, though the cadence to that is more akin to Japanese). The stresses on words in Filipino are almost always on the second syllable of the word. Similar to Spanish (and in contrast to English, where it is usually on the first or third syllable). Nor do we have the closed vowels that Indians have (where it sounds like they speak through their teeth). Instead Filipino languages have very open vowels spoken with open mouths, again similar to Spanish. Or more accurately, to other Austronesian languages like Hawaiian, Malay, or Chamorro. I repeat, they sound nothing alike. You can find plenty of people speaking straight English with a true Filipino accent on Youtube. Try Mikey Bustos for example.
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  36.  @callietowers7515  Jaya. Also in terms of pageants, Venus Raj isn't pale-skinned.
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  37.  @LingLing-ot8je  Then why are you invading us and treating us as your "rightful" vassals? Just because we're Asian does not make us Chinese.
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  38.  @realera5252  Maharlika is an Indian name. Not exactly ridding ourselves of "foreign influence", is it? If you have to change it, change it to something Filipino. Something that represents the entire country, instead of just yet another Tagalog-Sanskrit name.
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  39. @RM MyAnimus, funny because this "colorism" thing is actually more prevalent in Asian countries that have never been colonized (China, Japan, Korea). Where do you think those skin whitening products come from in the first place? Don't blame it on the white man. Blame it on ancient native discrimination of people with darker skin.
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  40. It's even more relevant because black slavery didn't exist in the Philippines (or most of the Spanish Empire) either.
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  41. "What about his accent?" "Apu doesn't sound like me", while sounding exactly like Apu.
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  42. There is actually a majority public support for sex ed. The only problem is the Catholic Church and the evangelicals oppose it, and they're powerful with politicians.
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  43.  @minim6981  Kind of my point. Ancient Filipino societies don't have words for "chair", because it wasn't a traditional furniture. People simply sat on woven mats like in pre-colonial Japan. The closest is "upuan" ("lingkuranan" in Bisaya), which just means "place for sitting".
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  44.  @JanSuing  FB, IG, and Twitter are banned in China. LOL
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  45.  @daphnebaje251  Exactly. They probably think parental consent is equivalent to the child giving consent.
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  46.  @player1enjoyer  I'm not comparing it to western countries. I'm saying the way western countries perceive our circumstances is blatantly false. They could report accurately on problems like the drug war, or the insurgencies in Bangsamoro, or the poverty problem in NCR slums, or the Delta variant surge in the last few months. But they don't. They never have. Within the last few decades, the image international media paints of the Philippines focused solely on the ARMM insurgencies and the Manila slums (specifically Tondo. ALWAYS Tondo). That has resulted in this weird image of the Philippines in other countries as this war-torn country filled with poor people eating pagpag. I'm sure YOU have experienced that as well. Then Duterte arrived. And our international image shifted to being apparently a totalitarian regime with rivers of blood running down the streets, where everyone is apparently a misogynist or some other nonsense. I've actually had a couple foreign friends ask me if we were "safe." Because they thought the Philippines had turned into another North Korea. Can't you see how crazy that is? And then these past two years. Global Finance labeled us the "Most Dangerous Country in the World". Again bear in mind that other countries included in their list are in the middle of a civil war (including cartel drug wars far worse than the Philippines) or have homicide rates literally six times higher than the Philippines. Then Bloomberg piled on and labeled us the "Most Dangerous Country to be in during the Pandemic." Which again is hilarious, given that our covid death rate is dwarfed by the hundreds of thousands of deaths in pretty much most major western country. And our vaccination rate is on par with other middle income countries (like other ASEAN nations) who had problems securing adequate vaccine supplies. And you call that "Reality"? I'm not saying we're the safest country in the world or that our covid problems are minor. But we are NOT and never have been the "worst". Yet time and time again, they keep saying that about us. And it infuriates me. To use your own analogy: international media SAYS our house is burning down and everyone inside are screaming and burning alive. Meanwhile I'm IN the house, reading a book. A small house, sure. Not very well-made with a lot of problems. But as far as I can tell, I'm not on fire. It's called SENSATIONALISM. And I for one, am tired as f*** of hearing it.
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  47.  @gothicangel160  Try going to Spain or Latin America, because yes it's used there too. It's the same usage in the Philippines. You may not be aware that the word is NOT English. It's originally Spanish and it literally just means "black", with no negative connotations. The word only became racist when it entered the English language through the white slaveowners in the American south. Even the pronunciation is different. Americans pronounce it as "Nee-grow" or "Nee-grah". In Spanish, it is pronounced "Neh-groh" or "Neh-grah".
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  48.  @christinea.a.a  You think the glamorized version in Netflix with a cast from rich elite families (half of them American) is an accurate representation of arranged marriages in India? LOL. Do you also watch Shahs of Sunset to learn about life in Iran? Or Keeping Up with the Kardashians to learn about traditional Armenian families?
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  49. And yet you can't erase the reality that even if the police "ignore" it, it is still ILLEGAL, because your Muslim clerics have way too much power in a supposedly secular democracy.
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  50.  @kant.68  Singaporeans, Filipinos, Jamaicans, Canadians, Australians, Kiwis, etc. are all aware of their specific English accents. Why not Indians? It fascinates me how Indians seem to be either insulted or puzzled when you mention their accent.
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