Written by: seigfredtristan on November 8, 2009

If you arrived in this site for the sole intention of buying yourself a Filipina bride like what Alec Baldwin has announced on TV, I tell you right now, this site is a Filipino food blog. I am sorry to disappoint your careful Google-ing, I don’t have Filipinas for sale here.

If you are still reading then why don’t you go here first to read more about this site.

I would’ve wanted to shoo you away even more but I’m pretty sure you’ve seen this parked youtube video because I do not have any idea how to do a click-appear layer, so yes, you actually have a gift. Watch:

They are not for sale though. On the other hand, I think they are priceless. If you’re still reading this, I suggest you go to the Philippines instead, then fall in love with a Filipina. I assure you, aside from bad boyz with letter z shooting the traffic lights when it is red, the Philippines is a lovely place. Read here.

Now for those who are still in the crowd, the reason why this article has made its way to the front page is that some Filipinas have actually sold out. And sadly, most of the time it is without a price. They (again, meaning some Filipinas) decided to sell their being to a god that they themselves created. The scary thing is, they can actually get pregnant and bear babies who would most likely follow her self-made religion. Here are cases all over the world that we will sleuth-erize. Alrighty then, buckle up, start blowing the balloons so we can go up:

Case Number 1

I’ve seen soooooo many full-bloodied Filipinos who deny their roots, much more where they were born and raised. I’ve met a flat-nosed, Visayan accent English, with very brown skin and dyed blonde hair Filipina in L.A., and when I approached her in Tagalog, she rebuked me for calling her a Filipina (in Tagalog hahahaha). I was saddened by her outburst and angry at the same time so I swore in Tagalog at her. Read more…

Case Number 2

when i was in the philippines, it was quite rare that you’d hear filipinos proudly proclaiming they are chinese/spanish/filipino/godknowswhat.

its like no matter how tisoy or tisay they are, they will still proudly say that they are 100% filipino.

but thats not the case with some balikbayans that u meet on the flight to manila. most fil-ams will conveniently say they are of a chinese/spanish mix and mention filipino as an afterthought. as if they wanted to trump whatever ‘mix’ you might be.

this sh!t even happens on the net. theres another pinoy forum i frequent where this chick from texas with a nose as wide & flat as linagang saging and skin as dark as an ita say that she was… get this… “american by nationality, spanish/chinese/german/and a tiny bit filipino” Is she THAT deluded?

I guess she thought id be impressed with her litany of her multi-ethnic family tree. weird. it seems like the fuglier they are, the more intent they are to rewrite their gene pool. Read more…

Case number 3

This obviously intelligent and articulate young filipina is not the only one i have heard of who feels like this. i have encountered other filipinos who bewail and complain about the so-called problems of the philippines and the reputations filipino women and men have abroad. and who thus are ashamed of being filipino. when they are abroad they even go so far as to deny being a filipino and attempt to claim a new nationality. i have heard filipinos shun the identity of filipino or filipino-canadian or filipino-american—they now prefer to be canadian or american. this is self-hate due to others’ perceptions of philippine problems. Read more…

Case Number 4

Filipinos don’t love themselves. They ignore their identity. Filipinos hate their identity; Filipinos don’t like being Filipinos. Filipinos if given a chance would be American, Canadians, English, Japanese, Irish, Chinese, Koreans, and all other nationalities except being a Filipino. Read more…

If you are a Filipino, you would not wonder any further because I am pretty sure you’ve had at least heard of it if not experienced it. The more stories I hear of these, the louder I hear bells, the call to arms… and with my logic uninvolved, the warrior in me marches to a nearby banana and starts punching the juice out of its so punchable trunk. In some days I can finish 3 banana plants I tell you, monkeys cry.

Now what has that got to do with Filipino food? Aside from banana trees getting knocked down, Filipinos who grow up in this mindset tend to disregard their nationality, their culture, their Filipino cuisine. She would not want to eat bagoong (shrimp paste), she’s just mad at it for no reason. The poor Filipino soul who wasn’t raised by her mom under the lively Filipino culture end up learning more Vietnamese swear words than Filipino hi-hellos. The next generation that will be bred under these family trees would not even know what in the world Adobo is. Worse is, they wouldn’t even say they are Filipino anymore. The worse-er fact is, they are already existing. And they will eat your kids.

Where did this disease come from Tatay? That is by the way a Filipino word for father. Let’s ask Dr. E.J.R. David, a Filipino Psychologist and expert on on Ethnic Minority, Asian American, and Filipino American psychological issues about the cases that we sleuthed earlier:

According to the theories of Memmi (1965), Fanon (1965), and Freire (1970), a salient effect of colonization is the internalization of the inferior perception that is imposed on him/her by the colonizer. Such internalization may lead to feelings of inferiority about oneself and one’s ethnic or cultural group, and feelings of shame, embarrassment, or resentment about being a person of his/her ethnicity or culture.

Thank you Sir. That ladies and gentlemen may be the exact answer as to why case number 1 had those angry hormones. Let’s dig deeper to this kind of mentality. Dr. David?

David and Okazaki (2006a) conceptualized Colonial Mentality (CM) among Filipino Americans as a form of internalized oppression, characterized by a perception of ethnic or cultural inferiority that is believed to be a consequence of centuries of colonization under Spain and the U.S. It involves an automatic and uncritical rejection of anything Filipino and an automatic and uncritical preference for anything American.

And you thought colonial mentality is just buying un-Filipino stuff and thinking Chocnut is garbage? The strange thing is, colonization has been long gone and we actually had the balls to kick the Yanks out twenty years ago. Why would the product of a buried oppression still affect Filipinos? It’s as if a mysterious voice is whispering to your ear telling you that if you are not fair-skinned, you are ugly. Since when, asked Halle Berry. Colonial mentality is actually an automatic self-inflicting state of mind due to our history. A coercive slug that clings on to your brain telling you that you are half-white because if you are not, you darling, are a worthless brown manatee. Come to think of it, you haven’t sold yourself out by denying your culture, telling them you are not 100% Filipino, or by forgetting that other Filipinos exist. That treasonous monster in you was brought upon by centuries of oppression that’s why you’re acting like an idiot.

“…little by little they lost their old traditions, the mementos of their past; they gave up their writing, their songs, their poems, their laws in order to learn by rote other doctrines which they did not understand, another morality, another aesthetics different from those inspired by their climate and their manner of thinking…degrading themselves in their own eyes; they became ashamed of what was their own; they began to admire and praise whatever was foreign and incomprehensible; their spirit was dismayed and it surrendered to…this disgust of themselves”

– Jose Rizal from 100 years ago

You have to buy back that Filipina in you that sold out. Your being, your culture, you, it’s up for grabs… all you have to do is spend time, effort, will and pay with your soul to buy back what has been snatched from you. Guess what? You are actually starting to pay off by just being in this Filipino food website.  This is your kitchen anyway– MyFilipinoKitchen. And what better way to let your Filipina trickle back in you by rediscovering Filipino cooking. Start here. You can do it said Rob Schneider.

I was never near serious when I started to write about this with the title “Filipinas For Sale” but then things became too deep and sober that by the time you finish reading this sentence you are pregnant. Congratulations, you’re a mom and i’m a dad for the nth time.

Thank you very much to Dr. E.J.R. David for the wonderful project that he has been working on since 2002. Visit The Colonial Mentality Project.

And for you who actually looked for Filipinas for sale from a search engine and managed to read up to this point, you too, are pregnant.

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