Comments on: Who’s heard of Henry Enfield? http://casaveneracion.com/whos-heard-of-henry-enfield/ The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home. Sun, 27 May 2012 12:36:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Keyser Soze http://casaveneracion.com/whos-heard-of-henry-enfield/comment-page-1/#comment-30551 Keyser Soze Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:04:04 +0000 http://houseonahill.net/?p=5804#comment-30551 The way I see it, if you belong to the same group of people you are making fun of, then the greater the chance of you of getting away with it. Does it work all the time? Of course not, just ask Malu Fernandez. However, Rex Navarette or Eat Bulaga seem to be doing just fine. If you have two separate scenarios: a Filipino making fun of a Filipino and a Brit making fun of a Filipino, without question, the latter will get more scrutiny. And where do you get that kind of a scenario? Overseas. As for Filipino shows making fun of Indians and Chinese, I think it would benefit them to organize themselves and protest accordingly just like we do. That way these shows would know what is tolerable or not for these nationalities. If they don't bother to complain, does that mean we Filipinos are too sensitive? I don't think so. As they say, to each his own. Besides, as stereotypes go, a motorcycle riding Indian merchant is pretty tame compared to a Filipina sex slave. The way I see it, if you belong to the same group of people you are making fun of, then the greater the chance of you of getting away with it. Does it work all the time? Of course not, just ask Malu Fernandez. However, Rex Navarette or Eat Bulaga seem to be doing just fine. If you have two separate scenarios: a Filipino making fun of a Filipino and a Brit making fun of a Filipino, without question, the latter will get more scrutiny. And where do you get that kind of a scenario? Overseas.

As for Filipino shows making fun of Indians and Chinese, I think it would benefit them to organize themselves and protest accordingly just like we do. That way these shows would know what is tolerable or not for these nationalities. If they don’t bother to complain, does that mean we Filipinos are too sensitive? I don’t think so. As they say, to each his own. Besides, as stereotypes go, a motorcycle riding Indian merchant is pretty tame compared to a Filipina sex slave.

]]> By: Connie Veneracion http://casaveneracion.com/whos-heard-of-henry-enfield/comment-page-1/#comment-30005 Connie Veneracion Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:55:14 +0000 http://houseonahill.net/?p=5804#comment-30005 "part of me thinks that they're really in the business of encouraging people to go abroad" Well, that puts them in direct partnership with the government. The Arroyo administration does not deny that labor export is its most important economic strategy. “part of me thinks that they’re really in the business of encouraging people to go abroad”

Well, that puts them in direct partnership with the government. The Arroyo administration does not deny that labor export is its most important economic strategy.

]]> By: unsentpostcards http://casaveneracion.com/whos-heard-of-henry-enfield/comment-page-1/#comment-30001 unsentpostcards Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:49:24 +0000 http://houseonahill.net/?p=5804#comment-30001 malaki pakinabang nila sa ofws. they generate money directly from viewer subscriptions versus the local viewers -- direcho sa bulsa, so-to-speak. and remittances ofws send are generally spent on the way-beyond-necessity products they advertise. (they make money off of product placements.) kaya, kabig na sila ibang bansa, kabig pa sila sa pilipinas. hello, perpetual cash flow generators. part of me thinks that they're really in the business of encouraging people to go abroad (hello future welders of canada) via a) their crappy shows (which are essentially designed to destroy our national EQ with those tearjerker, over-recycled storylines) and b) sensationalized news casting (which are essentially designed to viewers *more* dissatisfied with the government). perhaps their underlying mission is: to have at least one ofw per family? but with this global economic crisis, maybe we should be worrying of the potential exodus of ofws back to the philippines if its true that the worst is yet to come. /rant. malaki pakinabang nila sa ofws. they generate money directly from viewer subscriptions versus the local viewers — direcho sa bulsa, so-to-speak. and remittances ofws send are generally spent on the way-beyond-necessity products they advertise. (they make money off of product placements.) kaya, kabig na sila ibang bansa, kabig pa sila sa pilipinas. hello, perpetual cash flow generators.

part of me thinks that they’re really in the business of encouraging people to go abroad (hello future welders of canada) via a) their crappy shows (which are essentially designed to destroy our national EQ with those tearjerker, over-recycled storylines) and b) sensationalized news casting (which are essentially designed to viewers *more* dissatisfied with the government).

perhaps their underlying mission is: to have at least one ofw per family?

but with this global economic crisis, maybe we should be worrying of the potential exodus of ofws back to the philippines if its true that the worst is yet to come.

/rant.

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