Philippines Named as One of the Most Racist Countries in the World
Recent data from the World Value Survey shows that the Philippines is one of the most racist countries in the world.
This survey basically asked people what kinds of people they wouldn’t want to live near and then counted the amount of people who chose ‘people of a different race’ for each country. Apparently, societies, in which people wouldn’t want to live near other races are considered to be more racially intolerant.
Philippines Named as One of the Most Racist Countries in the World
The global social attitudes study claims that the most racially intolerant populations are all in the developing world, with Jordan and India in the top five.
While the country with the most racially intolerant people is Jordan, with 51.4% not wanting to live near another race, India is close behind with 43.5%. The Philippines lies in the 20 to 29.9% bracket along with other countries like Thailand, France, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Hong Kong; only below counties such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Vietnam, Indonesia, South Korea in the 30-39.% bracket.
The most racially tolerant countries are mostly Western countries, such as Britain, Canada, Australia and the U.S. In fact, only 3.8% of U.S. residents are reluctant to live near another race.
What are your thoughts on this? Are we Filipinos really that racist?
Para sigurado inalam ko muna sa dictionary ang kahulugan ng “racist” at sinasabi doon na ” discriminatory especially in the basis of race or religion”.Masasabi ko na totoo yun we cannot blame ourselves for that kasi nga hindi lang isang bansa ang sumakop sa atin. Nasakop tayo ng Spaniards, Americans Japanese, Malay etc. at duon tayo na mold sa mga ibat ibang kaugalian na hindi natin namamalayan na meron pala tayong ganoong attitude. Sad to say but its true. Minsan we look up to those who are rich and famous but not to those who were poor. Minsan mas gusto natin ang kulay na mas maputi kaysa sa ating natural na kulay. Natutuwa ako duon sa ibang mga bansa na mahal nila ang kanilang mga sariling wika. Hindi mo sila mapagsasalita ng ibang lenguahe. Sana tayo kahit marami na tayong natutunan sa mga nag impluwensiya sa atin ‘wag rin natin kalimutan ang sariling nating kultura at lenguahe
Di naman sa tinitira ko yung cred ng report pero….
Gusto ko malaman ilan yung respondents nila. Kasi minsan nakakatawa talaga yung number ng sample population nila eh, tapos andyan pa yung cross-section/demographics.
In layman terms:
Example, nagtanong ka lang ng 1,000 respondents, tapos may 200-290 na sumagot na ayaw nila may kapit bahay. So 290 = 29%. Tapos kung yung tinanong mo lang ay 1,000 tao sa Tondo, NCR or Mindanao, Di naman nya narerepresent yung buong country of 90 Million as 20-29% racist.
Mas bias pa yung result kung dun ka sa Zambales nagtanong which is under Chinese ‘harassment’.
Hindi sa tinitira ko yung results and implications, pero I just wanna know kung yung mga inaral ko na statistics and survey techniques for unbiased research eh inaapply ba talaga. ^_^
Yes, I believe that there is also racial discrimination in our country because even our own fellow filipino always using hurting words to other places in Philippines especially Tagalog region who properly living in Manila and they keep on saying that Visayas region people are clumsy tongue of speaking Tagalog. I don’t know why they always saying this infact that our country has different languages. Does the teachers in school taught a proper manner ,respect ,norms and values?
I really can’t believe I’m gonna involve myself in this dialogue. Eh, I’ll regret it some other time.
My whole argument is not with the topic in this article. No, it’s with how it is presented.
Just browsing about the comments below, it came to my mind as a citizen of the Philippines how easy we all draw away from “are Filipinos really that racist”. And let’s face it, yes, we Pinoys are very much fascinated with white skinned people. Yes, we do have biases against skin and race. And we blame our history, the international community blames our negative cultural habits, and some blame religion. But let’s look at the implications this has, not just to the Philippines but on the bigger scale: what about all the other countries above the Philippines?
I’m not saying that we should focus on condemning them, but is this dialogue heading into the direction of further accepting that “yes, Filipinos are racist” do you ask yourselves that in the process you too have passed a hasty generalization over all of us?
We are considered racists because we LOVE to poke fun at things: our government, our society, our religion, those around us, even one another at a personal level because we are a very very fun loving people. It’s just that, when there’s miscommunication and others get offended by our bad jokes, shit hits the fan. We Pinoys, are admittedly usually to blame because we let ourselves get out of hand.
However, there is a preconceived notion that “the world is against the Pinoy”- that there is a prejudice against us- we are the underdogs, and this notion is only further emphasized consciously or unconsciously by this article and this dialogue.
Now imagine this for all the other nations above the Philippines on this list: India, Jordan, Thailand, and the rest. What does that say about us as a community? It may seem like a wake up call from the stand point of some one in the international community, but it seems once again like another “attack” by the world on these specific countries that have been deemed “most racist”. We are pushing them out of what we call “international” -of what we call being “global”
As a citizen from a developing country trying to reach out in this dialogue, I think this whole article is just a war waiting to be fought with no winners on either side. Pinoys, like myself (well technically I’m Chinoy, it’s an ethnic terms here in the Philippines), we continue to feel this prejudice- this “discrimination” from an international community that wants us to change. Then the International community just continues on with this talk, trying to bash us into redefining ourselves, and the cycle of prejudice and counter prejudice continues- maybe even escalates. I don’t know, but I certainly care.
Furhtermore, this survey is flawed. It doesn’t even explain how it got it’s findings, what were the questions asked, did they even translate it (did they even translate it properly???), the list of survey points goes on.
I’m telling you, whoever came up with this article just wanted to force us into trash talking and bashing one another online.
I was taught that racism is not something natural in us as a race; IT’S TAUGHT. So please, if there’s something you want to do, don’t contribute to the clutter.
I offer 3 suggestions/challenges to take real action:
1) Start something revolutionary. I was introduced to the Tony Blair Face2Faith Foundation when I was in High School and it changed my perspective on other cultures because I actually got to talk to them. I got to realize how different we live across the world and religion is reflected differently for each of us.
2) Stop criticizing the Philippines with those one-liner “you’re doing it wrong” statements. Yes, you tell us what we’re doing wrong, but then open it up, HOW DO WE FIX IT? And in detail please since majority of you seem either smart enough or expert enough to know what to do and why it should work.
These one-liners just feed the “Pinoys vs World” mindset and it just adds more fuel for a fire that’s been burning long before any of us were alive.
3) Talk to us. We are human (I think we all have the capacity to think logically on the internet). Yes, progress will be slow. Yes, there are trolls among both sides of this dialogue. Yes, there is lots and lots of typing involved (unless mass-skype or snap-chat or something becomes an option). Yes, it will be very very difficult, but this is what’s called DIPLOMACY. It’s why we have not come to a post-apocalyptic world even with weapons of mass destruction to this very day.
We are exposed to different media, we live in different environments, and WE CANNOT READ EACH OTHERS MINDS. This is why we have to talk. And I’m quite sure if enough people listened to (not HEARD there’s a BIG DIFFERENCE) each other, we’d have a lot of problems fixed universally and not just on racism.
So here’s my two cents on this article. Maraming Salamat po!
This is the way of the West to say that they were not racist, not even before when in fact they are the origin of this illness.