Never in my life have I ever come across a blog post as racist as this one written by supposedly “best-selling author and columnist” Chip Tsao of Hong Kong.
Entitled “The War at Home” and featured in the news blog, HK Online published yesterday, March 29, 2009, (but nowhere to be found now amidst calls for the editors to apologize together with the author) the write-up deals mainly on the Philippines’ opposition to China’s continued presence in the Spratlys” and his bitterly scathing remarks about the country which he calls a “nation of servants“.
Hong Kong’s author & award-winning columnist Chip Tsao: Philippines’ Public Enemy #1 for his racial slur on the country, “nation of servants”
He then related how he “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.”
I won’t want to say much about Chip Tsao’s article and let you, my dear readers react to his remarks. I am supposed to be sleeping now but after reading about it, I knew that I had to share it with you.
Although this post is not particularly about GenSan which this blog Bariles Republic is all about after all, still it pertains to the hundreds, no, make that thousands of OFW’s from Soccsksargen who are slaving it out not only in Hong Kong but all over the world, for the future of their families back home.
UPDATE: 4:30PM, March 30, 2009. As of this writing, Chip Tsao’s article on the “nation of servants” has been taken off the HK Online site but Bariles Republic has managed to save it. You can view and read it in its entirety by CLICKING HERE
UPDATE 2: HK Online Magazine has publicly apologized but Chip Tsao himself remained defiant and unapologetic. Below is a SCREEN SHOT of the article.
what he said was unacceptable.i am dissapointed thinking that we asians should be the ones for each other after having had experieenced discrimination from the west. but as the story goes, that stupid chineese foolishly commited a mistake against the the good people of the philippines. and i guess he has just started the fire, and we filipinos will finish what he has started. we may be small in their eyes but we’re everywhere and we strive in every corner of this world. i support the filipinos. let’s show them some muscles.
it is better to live in a nation of servants rather than to live in a nation of shabu chemist and triads
Chip Tsao, your nothing but a second hand china made plastic.
your such a loser.
And also in the way you right your article, I saw that, their will be a big possibilities that some of Chinese are all like you.
just remember you have no right no judge somebody and their country.
I guess that your mother did not teach you well and your teacher cause you don’t have a human discipline. your like an animal.
go back to school and learn about history and culture of other country and how to improve your self as a human being.
YOU BASTARD ANIMAL CHIP(CHEAP)..!..TSAO
Nice avel! i was not able to save the screenshot! yup, they deleted the article but they can no longer change the different reactions of thousands of people around the world.
The blogosphere already caught the fire. This issue alone brought a great traffic on My article “Philippines: A Nation Of Servants”. Nice job avel!lol
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This is chinese guy is ugly inside-out. Mr. Chip (Cheap) Tsao! you are a disgrace to your countrymen! Insecure son of a Bitch! Lick the hidden slumps of Hong Kong and Beijing! … YOU CANT HIDE IT. You act like some RACIST BRITON, BUt You are Not!
all he wrote in his article is not worth living..
-“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.”
-first is that we are not claiming sovereignty over this island because it is ours. you look for the recent maps of the philippines and you will see there and are not threatening china, we are just trying to protect what is ours.
-“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.”
-in fact this is not the reason why we are trying to get the islands. its a fallacy of false cause and false analogy and a good and a multi-awarding columnist know this. and besides this is not a cheap labor as you said. yes its true, we are nation of servants but a good servants to our bad masters. yes, its true that we are earning our butter and bread to our master but as a nations of bad masters, you dont flex your muscles at your good servants from whom you earn most of your good service. without them, you have no service.
-“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.”
-you are not a patriotic Chinese man anymore because you are trying to down your country. because of what you have writtenm the whole world now thinks that you chinese are very arrogant and very prejudice against other countries. SO who is more intelligent, you who is a best writer but a low personality or your domestic assistant but holds a degree in internat’l politics from one of the prestigious university of the philippines and with a good personality that offers a good service to his bad master?. No need to warn her because Filipinos not only wants money..they also want a respect from other people like their masters and as i have said earlier, Spratly does not belong to China. you are the one who is claiming it.
-“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.”
-ok, if they want war, we Filipinos are not running for them. we are brave not like you, you are back fighting philippines by writing an articles that is so rude and not true about the philippines. Why not end their employment and we will see who will suffer most, as i have said Filipinos can live without money but with a high self reliance and self respect. Unlike you chinese…Again your judgment to the Filipinos are Fallacies. How can you say that it will happen to the employment of Filipinos in your country?..
-“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. ”
-oh correction. you are certainly wrong. We are the one who are prepared for your very insulting judgment to us Filipinos. And Barack Obama is not the reason why we are fighting for justice, its because we know what we are doing, we know what is right. So your true color came now..You are telling that they are hostages?, so you are telling also that chinese are kidnappers? you are teliing that chinese are very injustice because of what you are doing in your maids?….
i went to church yesterday noon a new priest presided the mass the reading was about an adulterer that the people wants to stone her to death then Jesus said: “anyone of you who has not sinned can cast the first stone,” then they all went away and then Jesus said: “THEN NEITHER I CAN’T CONDEMN YOU!!!…”
anyways sir Orman is right we don’t need to dwell on this “CHEAP” TSAO he is a negative person we need to surround ourselves with POSITIVE people so that we attract POSITIVE things!! so SMILE people don’t mind him because if you do he will win… 🙂
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Chip is writing in a very “British” style of black humour, he is making fun of himself as a Chinese person rather than writing anything damning about Philippine people. When I saw the news story on GMA today I was offended UNTIL I actually read the article and realized that is poking fun at the Hong Kong Chinese.
there’s no problem in being a nation of servants. A servant is an obedient, god-fearing person. Even Jesus Christ called himself a servant of people, right? What pissed me off with his article is the fact that he implied that we should bow down to the chinese, since he quoted “As a nation of servants, you don’t flex your muscles at your master, from whom you earn most of your bread and butter.” He also stated that he reprimanded his filipina maid bcoz of this issue. This type of outright idiocy of some people is making the world a bitter place. Even if this is a satirical comment, he still has a public image to maintain and a responsibility to his readers to provide a positive sentiment to whatever issues he might feel strongly about, especially in the midst of financial,political and emotional turmoil that most of us are facing right now. Therefore, we are not in a sound mind to treat something like this as a satire.
relax lang mga kabayan. personal nyang opinyon yan. he’s entitled to it. binasa ko ng dalawang beses ang article nya… nung una galit ako. eventually nahimasmasan ako. una, maraming positibong meaning ang salitang SERVANT. jesus christ even referred himself as such. pangalawa, san ba nanggagaling ang galit nya? halata namang insecure sya bilang tsino. eh ang liit nating bayan pinansin nya tayo? sino bang may katulong na pilipino? nanglait nga sya pero each time he needs household help, he always require a filipino. actually nanalo na tayo sa brouhaha na ito. nag-apologize na ang magazine mismo. hintayin nyo na lang na magresign yan eventually. so smile, kabayan, we are a beautiful nation. we sing better and we smell better.
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@Orman, ang ganda ganda mo! Miss HK-Phils. Amity Award ka! 🙂
was here…
taena nya!
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fernando poe jr is against chip tsao
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sarap nyang tirisin…*^%#*%^*%^ nya!
AWS! award-winning columnist ??? Dili bagay sa iyaha…
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Obviously this “talented and best selling author” is ignorant, unprofessional racist who doesn’t know what he’s tlking about. I think when he wrote this, he has a 49’C fever. This is so annoying. If he’s talented he should know that the last thing he would do is talk about the whole Filipino race in general like this…
Chip Tsao! Kumain ka na ba ng balot? Kelangan mo yun parekoy.
Your nothing to us. We have the best writers, newscasters and reporters. They ate balot. You are just someone writing for a living. You don’t know us at all.
Spratlys had been hours since the Magellan discovered the Philippines. Long way before you were born.
karma up for YOU! 😛
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huh? A Nation of Servants?.. i am nobody’s servant!!! i am an Accountant and a Registered Nurse. i dont clean windows, nor wipe his vomitous. He didnt bring food to my table. So how dare this arrogant “insik” says i am a servant. Look! Who brings in melamine-contaminated milk to the country? Who brings in bird-flu infected chickens? Who sold high lead content toys to the market? Who were in jail for the Shabu makers in Cebu? …. THE CHINESE!… Chip Tsao is a moron!
Well I could say he has no breed. He may have the highest education and graduated with honors, etc. but I pity him. He has no right to say that insulting words to our race. Well if that is just a joke for him, its a bad taste and demand an apology to the girl as well as to the millions filipinos. It just so happen that his country is rich. But the Philippines will rise above in God’s time. That’s why we should be carefull as well in our dealings with our own own “native fellowmen & foreigners”. It is indeed painfull to be descriminated. Isn’t it?
Satire or whatvere excuse there may be, fornicate thyself in thy rectal orifice, Chip Tsao. Cao ni ma!
It may be true that there are a lot of domestic helpers in HK, but this article was just below the belt. And to openly state that he was maltreating his maid.
To just say “this is what others think of us, and it’s the governments fault. We have no right to complain” makes you just as bad as him. Apathy kills.
who is he to describe our country like that??????? he may be award-winning but he is one heck of a racist person.
– hear! hear! giyera of the new generation..
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Chip Tsao is a well-talented writer but as we can see on his article, he’s making his own downfall.
It is very disturbing that a well-known person would say that without even thinking about what will be the outcome of it specifically to us Filipinos. This writer is a racist, ignorant and very unprofessional person.
Chip Tsao, you deserved a great punishment among us Filipinos. And if I were you, I should prepare for a public apology.
ang sarap suntukin ang mikha ng intsik na yan….
grabe syang makapagsabi na nation of servants ang pilipinas…..
eh yung bansa nga nila NATION WHERE ALL KINDS OF DISEASES CAME FROM
ang kapal ng mukha nya grabe……….
asar na asar ako nung mapanood ko yung balita……….
hindi ba nya naisip na kung walang pilipino walang hongkong ngayon…
eh di kung gusto nya ng away pumunta sya dito sa pilipinas at baka bangkay na syang umuwi sa mabaho mabantot na bansang CHINA..
at saka isa pa kung tayo nation of servants….
sila NATION OF UNRESPECTED FEELING MASTERS….
kung pwede lang me na pumunta ng hongkong pinasabog ko na yun….
eh di gera kung gera………….
if you want tsao a war between philippines and china i want you to know that we are not afraid about that…
not because of obama or anything….
but we know that GOD will help those who believe in his power…
and iwant to remind you that filipino respect those persons who know how to respect us also as a person….
you chip tsao you are f*** naku kung pwede lang…………hay……
makitid ang utak mo…………….
buti nga kay chip! gaba niya! he was discriminating na pud. :-/
On the other facet of the article…
I do not know if Chipipay Tsao’s view on the Spratlys issue is reflective of the official position of China on the matter of sovereignty over the said group of islands. But it should remind us (and the rest of the Spratly co-claimant countries) how we can be put in a very precarious position if a regional power opts to flex its muscles to gain leverage in an obviously very tight geo-political contest between several nations.
Magkina-unsa man, magkagiyera man vs. China, I want to get drafted! Bisag tirador lang akong dala. Maka-buta lang bisag usa ka singkit, ok na ko! 🙂
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He is so IGNORANCE and ARROGANCE! That STUPID GUY needs to be EDUCATED! It seems that he really knows Filipinos well, yes… most Filipinos in HK are DOMESTIC HELPER, but for your pet sake… DOMESTIC HELPER is NOBLE job! I’m CALLING all FILIPINOs in Hong Kong to BOYCOTT their jobs.. That IDIOT Chinese must learn his elementary lessons! He SHOULD APOLOGIZE to the Philippines. And for her maid, GIRL… you GO AWAY! You don’t need a TRASHY-MINDED boss like him!
This is a one sided article published by a narrow minded writer.
Well Mr. Chip Tsao, you called Philippines a “Land Of Servants” then a have to level to your standard & write this reply.Since Hongkong is part of China now you pick one of the list below which suit the title of your beloved country.
China:
– “The Land of Imitators & Cloners” (you guys sells 100% copy cat,crappy stuffs & the world’s best)
– “The Land Of Number 1 Human Rights Violators” (how many political activist & innocent people murdered by your government every year not including Tibet?)
– “The Land Of Number 1 Illegal Immigrant Exporter (you guys export thousands of container goods in the world including humans)
– “The Land Of Number 1 Top Secret Military Technology Stealers” (i though you guys are smart & has brain, why your government stealing technology from other country instead of making your own?)
– “The Land Of Child Laborer” (how many child laborer working inside your factories”)
before writing any degrading articles on your neighboring country pls. read the above list & you can shove it in your ass! you f**king chinks!
This is sad. The truth hurts…
The columnist was really thinking out loud what perhaps many foreigners think of us, as a nation. It’s sad. How can a nation whose economic policy is exporting skilled workers exert its sovereignty? sad sad.
Hmm Chip Tsao I’d rather say Cheap Tsao 🙂
what an ill mannered person you are -_-
is that what your Mother taught you?
NATIONS OF SERVANT…………………….Mr. HK Columnist…… at least masisipag ang mga pinoy! Even there is a global crisis…..PINOY parin ang namamayagpag around world. Mr. HK Columnist kaya mo ba ito itranslate…..kung hindi +++++++++++++++++ babatikusin ka ng mga PINOY to thae max!
I have read about this yesterday in other blog post and it made me seethed with rage and the need to get back at that guy by wishing him all the bad luck in the world can offer for insulting one of the greatest people in the world.
But after a minute, it got me thinking that if I do that, I will be just like him because like attracts like.
The best we could do is ignore him, get on with our lives and try to make our nation a better place by doing a days worth of honest work.
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HK Online deleted Chip Tsao’s post. They must have fully understood by now what they did. Now, I’m expecting a television coverage and newspaper published public apology from HK Online ad Chip Tsao.
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man thats sad…it’s even more degrading for our kababayans working as domestic helpers…Most of them are victims of underpay, abuse, overwork and now we have this issue…
It’s sad really. I hope someday, time will come, when we never send our compatriots as DH. Let’s see who the foreigners hire as their DH. I know there are other nationals who can do the job, but in my opinion, our Compatriots does a better job.
I’m smelling slavery on this one.
Oh fuck yeah! This is the start of war XD
very unethical! 🙁
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Bastos. Yun na lang talaga ang pumasok sa isip ko.
Although when I first read your email through the Mindanao Bloggers newsletter sir Avel, I don’t understand why you’re reacting such. “Nation of servants” kasi also has a brighter perspective, I thought.
It could also mean kasi we are people willing to serve every other nation. Servant leaders na pala ang nasa isip ko, haha.
I thought wrong interpretation lang on your part. However, when I read the article, t’was only then I understood your opinion. 🙂
Can I write a blog post about this Sir Vel? hehe. 🙂
@Bunsoi, go ahead Patrick. Make us proud. 🙂
How dare he is !!!
On the positive side, we Filipinos should strive hard to work and make our country self sufficient that no more ofw especially to work as as a domestic helper….That Filpinos someday will work overseas only as professional consultants or as a specialists in their respective fields…. May God bless us Filipinos…….
Chip Tsao is Dumb and Ignorant… and he thinks he’s a professional writer???
THIS WRITER IS A JOKE!
i am not all affected since i know how royal and civilized our race is… that chip tsao looks so nerd and he deserves his name… chip (CHEAP) ka cheapan!wish i were his servant, that should have been his last article!but on the second thought…. i would not stoop down to his level…. God forgives him, for he does not know what he is writing!
This is my favorite comments from there, read on:
“hey
Submitted by gabo_160 on Mon, 30/03/2009 – 09:16.
i think its not right that you insult philippines so i will insult china
well as you can see china have a melamine case which shows that china is very dirty
milk have melamine that so crazy it kills million baby yuck
china in water crisis threatens the stability and prosperity not only in People’s Republic of China but globally too, according to John McAlister from the film Aquabiotronics. According to the World Bank forecast, Mainland China has only a per-capita share of 2700 cubic meters per annum, one quarter of the world’s average
and chinese here in the philippines are selling fake products like cellphones,medicine and a whole lot more
you know your wrong you better think whats going on with your country first before you insults others”
read the link na Mr. Bariles! Thanks! His article was too much! Way way insulting and degrading! Sarap manapak!
pwede pala mag post ng comments dun. may war na dun! hahaha.
Sobra…another insult! Di ko ma open ang link Mr. Bariles 🙁
worst! this is a downfall for them!
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The Filipinos may somehow have their lapses. I could name a few but what I could not take as a lapse is to be treated as a slumdog.
This man is simply having one superiority syndrome like other nationalities who belittle the underprivileged nations like ours. He may be a renowned writer but he is quite poor in integrity and character as a person and as a columnist.
A columnist by all cause must consider both sides and must separate his personal opinions from facts. Degrading others through writing is simply too immature and irresponsible. His words are no different from the ones who are not educated at all. In short, full of words, but short in wisdom.
But like what other Filipino politician said, this must be an eye opener for us. This Spratlys’ issue is only one of the things we have to stand for as nation. We must however stand for everything: poverty, corruption, greed, and other ill-causing action which put the country at a more dismal and discouraging state.
I wish while our politicians strongly argue on the statement of this HK columnist, they too shall be proactive in fighting and addressing bigger issues of the country.
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WTF…eh ano sila? nation of druglords? LOL 😆
Your post could better be well appreciated if you made this author’s words in bold letters so we could share your rants and raves.
grabe, alam ba niya mga pinagsasabi niya sa articles niya? (annoyed)
Grabe naman po ito. Hahay. Extremely insensitive and defaming description to tag PH as this. 🙁
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