Hey, i did a search for the keyword Philippines and it’s the WOW Philippines website occupying the top spot. Second is the CIA world factbook.. that org has about every information on every country. Do a search for any country and the CIA world factbook lands in the top 5 results.

Now, for the keyword Filipina, it’s the mail order bride site on the top. They even own the filipina.com domain. Can you say export-quality? :)

The results vary from server to server. You might be accessing the Google.com.ph database or Google might be dancing. Either way, I’d rather have WOW Philippines own the top ranking, than have CIAdotgov or Philippinesdotcom have it :)

Speaking of search engines, what’s your take on the msn search (beta)? MS is pouring in cash on R&D to catchup with google, do you think they are getting close with the msn search beta?

is there a somwhat stylish way of linking the two sites to my blog? like a small .gif to put in the sidebar or something?

hender, search engines love text, you can add colors na lang if you want? hehe

allan, msn search? remains to be seen. i’ve noticed their bot’s been overly active lately (been deep crawling one of the sites I help maintain) it always helps to optimize for multiple SEs, but Google is still king (by a longshot)….for now.

cmon guys, help spread the word..please!

Allan, here’s a good read: http://www.seochat.com/c/a/MSN-Optimization-Help/MSN-Search-Engine-Beta-Optimization-Techniques/

my groupmates and i once wrote a research paper on philippine tourism and the filipinas as mail-to-order brides…will look for it..

I guess apathy and Filipinos come together. I need a lesson in viral marketing.

marc, i’l link this article and those two you mentioned. Im sure it will work hehehe. My contrib!

I will definitely blog about this. Let me link you up. Or trackback.

I saw this link from Ramil Sagum’s blog

http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/05/filipina-in-cyberspace.html

here’s my contribution. found out through clair.

This is really a great initiative Marc! It’s nice to know this blogging thing does have its own altruistic uses. *LOL*

Maraming salamat din.

Thanks guys. Help spread the word more :)

Hi Marc, my attention has been called to the fact that you’re planning to make a site — 100sexiestpinays.com. Don’t you think this defeats the purpose of this campaign?

I was going to e-mail you personally instead of posting this as a comment here, but I couldn’t find a ‘Contact Me’ button or any of that sort, my apologies.

I would appreciate to continue this statement through e-mail as it would let me know how to proceed with an update on my blog regarding the fact that the first link now on Google for ‘Filipina’ is NewFilipina.Com.

Still a good cause, bro.

Erratum: Please replace the word ’statement’ in my last post to ‘conversation’. Thanks.

Hi Ergoe, I appreciate the candid comment. It does cast a shadow doesn’t it? I agree, I think I’m not worthy to be the messenger. I’ll be glad to pass the initiative on to someone whose motives are less “questionable” ;) for the greater good..

You can reach me at marc_at_macalua_dot_com :)

Thank you Marc! I have sent you an e-mail.

You got mail :)

new developments: http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/05/yan-ang-pinay.html

vonjobi, what can I say :) I’m impressed! Good luck to our endeavor..

Great Job marc… it’s working… it’s doing wonders already…

Here’s another one! Good luck.

Thanks Jardz, Beth. Hope the other big bloggers out there help in their own small way ;)

The google-bomb for Filipina pointing to the Gabriela website did not work. May I suggest a link with a little bit more hope such as the Filipino Librarian’s:
http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/05/filipina-in-cyberspace.html

Or even the Filipina Womens Network at
www.ffwn.org
which is the first non-sex result on Google.

Actually, I am voting for the Filipino Librarian. I think we can make it happen in a few weeks.

The Filipino Librarian’s page is already on page 3 of Google. It will surely be #1 if we all link to that page:

http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/05/filipina-in-cyberspace.html

right now for the keyword ‘Filipina”

I strongly support the movement, visit my site to believe. Ang galing na idea ito, CONGRATS! Will link you up ok lang?

From an anonymous comment to my entry” I AM A FILIPINA TEACHER ” where I advertized this crusade:

SOL, The CIA.gov website has country information on the Philippines. It is a useful website for people who want to do research on the country. When I was studying in Washington DC, it was the website that had the most complete reference information about our country which I needed for my country brief presentation.(Not even our own government has this comprehensive and updated a material.I know.I work for it).If you want to see the travel warnings,go to the state department’s website.

By the way, the CIA does these country reference pages for all countries, not just the Phils.

*** I trust this anonymous because I personally know him. Though he wants to remain anonymous because he works for the CIA.

Hi Teacher Sol, Rickey. I’ve posted comments to the items you pointed out on your blogs :)

Hello, Marc, I found your website through a link from another website(teacher sol’s blog)… and lo and behold i had a big smile when i saw your campaign! yeah! someone else is fighting for the image of Filipinos, Filipinas and the Philippines online! woohoo! i wanted to thank you for adding to this effort online. we need more pips(people) like you doing this online. i also wanted to let you know that i learned something new because of your blog—the googlebombing thingie.saw another post that you’re thinking of doing a web site on sexy pinays… there are tons of sites on sexy pinays—the porn sites… you know that you have a choice—continue with a campaign on improving the filipina image online—or contribute to the one-sided image about pinays as sexy and exploitable. i believe that is okay for men to admire filipina beauty—but what comes after that is crucial—is filipina feminine beauty for exploitation and domination? or do we go beyond that and acknowledge that with filipina beauty comes filipina strength….yup pinays are beautiful on the inside but they are also beautiful on the inside, they are strong and they are caring towards their families and their country… you have a choice to use your power on the internet in a noble way or a the opposite… if you choose the noble cause, and so far you have, i commend you and the work and wish you more power and love in your good works. contact me anytime. I am at your service.

love power peace joy to you, your family and your work

Perla

just added your google bombing technique as #8 in “increasing a fabulous filipina presence online… please go to: http://www.fabulousfilipinas.net/joinfabfilipinas.html….. this is great effort—you are terrific, Marc!

Hi MARC, Yan ang Pinay was the site of the week for Fabulous Filipinas movement where I am a member.

I found this message in my tag board by the administrator Perla Paredes Daly: “teacher sol: also you are responsible for linking fabulousfilipinas movement with the “yang ang pinay” movement. you joined both, and i find yours and then i found theirs through your blog!!”

WAY TO GO, MARC!

That’s The Pinay Movement Crapola
I read this from a Filipina Movement Webring
Quote : Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. : Unquote by Nathaniel Branden

However, it is a lot of shittolas because what is being propagated is a Filipino Class System, mostly mentality brahaha, just Bourgouise talk. (Them) The Filipino Intellectual Milleau distancing themselves from their viewed underclass The Filipino Mail order Brides, The Ladies Of the Nights and the Internet Modern Entertainers.

This is due to perceived class / morality issues like when someone types Filipina the mail order types, the entertainers pops up on the top 10 ranking on the search engines. Did you think, it is what it is, because there are hundreds of thousands of Filipinas registered on the Mail Order System, it has been placed many years so everyday when our sisters cruises the internet - types and searches for answers. Hey guess what? Don’t you think it will be high rank in the search engines on the keyword “Filipina”

On the Entertainment side - do not blame the Foreigners entirely for making the Filipina word a top ranker in the search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN, etc, etc. Think about it, your Filipino husbands, your Filipino brothers, your Filipino uncles, your Filipino cousins, your Filipino boyfriends must have some itches to scratch and must have gone one way or another to search for a Filipina Sex Word or whatever !!

My contention is : “chill”, most people I know in Canada knows Filipina not as whores, nightclub entertainers, barflies or cheap brides. Filipinas are known to be herder of shoes, suave braggers and dollar stores fanatics. I bet you when you put these words in the search engines, it doesn’t pops out loud because the realities of it is every nationalities have herders, braggers and fanatics.

Now why pick up on our underclass Filipina sisters who are just trying to put food in their table, any means necessary. Maybe they don’t have rich Daddies like you, but hey they are using something to better themselves that you might not approved of morally or just rubs hard againts your high class system values.

Seriously I would worry more about those horny Priests , and how they could get away with it. Or I would worry about you cheating on your Income Taxes because you don’t wanna pay 35% off your high gross income. Medium Gross Income. you get the point?

Come on give our underclass sisters. Don’t you have better or noble things to do than worry what would pop out when you type Filipinas. Wake up !! because what will come out is the Reality whether you approves or not.

Chill !!

onmy first comment: i just wanna make an addendum: I am not singling any particular person, I am more or less referring to elitist people in general. Thanks

air miikay, I respect your opinion, even though I don’t necessarily share it. I would have quoted Edmund Burke but I dare not tread high ground. If “chilling” means to accept with finality the status quo, then I say no to your views.

Perception is reality. If the SERPs have any effect on the general perception of the world (and I know they do), then any initiative to shape that perception to a more noble and complete view is a noteworthy deed.

marc et all:

there is nothing in my post suggesting i am againts the movement or i am discouraging anyone to join, on the contrary i urge everyone to join because you got something good going there, if you read it without anger or prejudging it, i was just simply targeting the filipino elitist (some) who likes to take the high ground (easily) because of status and what irkes me the most is the elitist comparing themselves (sadly) to the compatriots who are in the low level of the totem pole or social heirarchy.

maybe it is not a contemplated reaction but being embarasses for being associated with the mail order brides, domestics

in my post i am just saying not on individual basis but on a general basis to chill. i meant it’s ok to uplift the word filipina, and that’s what i have been doing in my 10 blogs and websites but take caution to step on the toes of the filipinas who by status are not not class / caste / status friendly to the few elitists

that is the context of my post and i did it in satirical way because honestly i do not want to believe that a few elitist still exist.

i see it all the time, among friends specially the well off ones, the educated crowd, the professional ones. i see it everytime, i see it among my relations, but it’s real. it’s life

i am sure you have heard of talks among the low opinion of some filipino specially here abroad about the word domestics and mail order brides.

so in a way even tho it is unpopular to stand up for the people like our compatriots here overseas i do, i comment, i say what i think, i say what is compassionate. ok i hit nerves, step on toes of some elitist and those who have bias but i couldn’t just simply write all the time without raising the consciences, so that my crowd can see that the people they are embarassed to be associated with, or they are trying to distance themselves from

i am just saying we should all be all accounted for, the word filipina exists for all kinds of people, it is just right.

so i write, i ask question, so i post. but you know what? no bloogflooding could do better this, i have come into conclusion that we have come forward, a long ways, an example is this comment box, i applaud it because we filipinos have really embraced the intellegencia, we think, we listen we debate.

i am proud to have seen this progress, we as a community have evolved into civility. i have been blogging and doing websites, i have never seen this blog passion from any other nationalities.

i am proud to be a filipino, i will continue to support our community, even if my effort is minimal. i will question, i will post, i will comment

i thank you my brother for this forum, i wish there are more peple like you.

Amen :) It’s always healthy to question the status quo..I appreciate your efforts to help distill the true essence of the campaign. I guess it does go beyond changing perceptions online. It should go well beyond the mail order bride or domestic helper schema. The true perception-changing campaigns should be faught on the streets.

Feathers will be ruffled, true. Ahhhh….life :)

Add din natin ang Gabriela Women’s Party website sa links natin: http://www.gabrielaphilippines.net

captain, it’s only now that i grasped the essence of your campaign. i will help and spread the news..the sooner the better. i’ll write a Filipina keyword-rich article..fully optimized..taking note of kw prominence, density, and proximity…hehe…kidding aside, yeah..i will write one soon. Ü

Reah: optimized pala ah…cge I’ll monitor the SERPs, you better have a high PR site to latch onto and no I’m not volunteering the PR6s and PR5s we have on inventory :P

Hmn… SERP report, wala pa ba?

maybe when your country is healthy the search results will reflect that. You trying to TRICK the search engines into false results just perpetuates the truth that the Philipines are ripe for Kaos and tricks is all you have to barter with…..salamaat po

What a load of Garbage Lady

You preach woman’s rights and call all the women of your country in America Prostitutes

What is wrong with you

You have turned Pinay Power into a hateful biased message for everyone in the world to see. You are the most disqusting hate monger i have seen in a very long time.

Because you have plastered the internet with Filipinas who marry Americans are prostitutes now every time when ANYONE sees a Filipina the only thing they think is PROSTITUTE

PROSTITUTE speak for yourself lady

Great post, Marc. And yes that is demeaning. The whole mail-order bride idea is demeaning, and I think the cause is the American misconception that America is better and all the women of all the other countries want to marry Americans and move there.

Maybe some day America will STFU, and a search for “American” will result in “American mail order bride” websites.

(Sry- just not a fan of America so I might be a bit biased)

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To all the Filipinas , I feel so ashamed for being american . Being a american woman growing up in america . At times i feel ashamed couse i see how we have potraded others in other countries and i know some of the sterotypes have been wrong. I pray that all one day will be not so bad I know people say look they frm that country they most be a mail order bride when in fact it’s not true.

We are all prostitutes in one way or another.

Our website was first started back on December 31, 2003 as a Yahoo Group. The site started out as a dedication to the wife of the current owner. His loneliness for her on New Years Eve motivated him to start a Yahoo Group to dedicate how sexy and lovely she was while waiting for a extremely long frustrating process through the USA immigration process.

The Yahoo Group “Sexiest Filipinas” evolved into a dating and information site for Filipina and men from around the world. Many couples started their relationships with that Yahoo Group and many conversations occurred that helped many people to prepare and endure through a long visa process. Eventually, Yahoo and their narrow minded one-sided opinion saw the site as being an adult site because of the word “Sexiest”. The word “Sexiest” is meant to indicate how gorgeous the Filipina are and to attract men with the word to the Yahoo Group. Even now, most male members are attracted to the word and do realize that it is very true!

With the incredible demand from the men to be in that group and the ability to provide a better environment to communicate than the Yahoo group, this website was developed. We hope that you enjoy this dating website and we are sure that you will agree that the “Sexiest women in the world come from the Philippines“!!

www. sexiestfilipinas.com

P.S. I have a detailed log of events from the entire 3 year frustrating visa process. It can be very educational for those that are thinking of aquiring a US Visa or are in the process now. Please go to our website and email through our “Contact” page.

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i was searching through google and i found this great blog… i has some nice articles a great read…kudos keep it up and good bless to all ur endeavors especially blogging…

This is my contribution. This is awesome and I’m happy to do something positive to improve the image of my fellow Filipinas. I just started so I just have one blog in there but it’s a start. Please feel free to make positive/constructive critical comments.

pinayarmypa.blogspot.com

Happy 4th of July where ever you may be, right now I’m in the middle of nowhere in the Middle East and it’s just like any other dayl

Click on this one:
http://pinayarmypa.blogspot.com

Dear all,

Anybody who still have in their inbox the Filipino agriculture engineer who won the 1st prize competition in London for his amazing COCONET product, please add on in this feature so that MR. ART BELL SEE HOW GREAT FILIPINOS ARE. MAY GOD FORGIVE HIM FOR POOR JUDGMENT AGAINST FILIPINOS.

Subject: HATE LETTER AGAINST FILIPINOS Please Read this…

Hate Letter Against Filipinos

Please take time to read this, most especially the bottom part, PATRICIA EVANGELISTA’s (19 year old Filipina) speech that won in a WORLD competition in London.

This is a hate letter coming from a radio talk show host Mr. Art Bell from Nevada. I dont consider myself as patriotic but please read my reply below in BOLD LETTERS and send this to as many of your friends as possible

until it reaches him.

Subject: HATE LETTER

This is a very disturbing open E-mail letter to all Filipinos around the world; specially here in North America!, from a man who has the power to reach millions of people. (he’s a radio talk host)

Please read on…………..

This is an open letter email by Art Bell, a radio talk show host in Nevada(more info in the email itself). Here is yet another person who has taken; advantage of his power and privilege to use hateful words and racial stereotypes that breed further ignorance and intolerance in our society.

Art Bell is a talk radio host who has two shows that he broadcasts from his home in Nevada, that is rebroadcast by 400 stations across the country.

He’s written 2 books. He lived in Okinawa, Japan for some years and had a radio program on the English station here. And, though it’s hard to believe after reading the following letter from him, he actually has been to the Philippines (he’s traveled fairly extensively around the world).

Check out his website listed at the end to get a glimpse at this fool who’s spreading this hateful ignorance. And check his wife as well. This letter is so degrading, I think it’s really important that everybody read this and not attack him, but respond to him in a civilized manner because otherwise his thoughts will be reaffirmed. Understand that not everyone has a viewpoint like we do, and that this is an opinion of someone who hopefully can be changed only by civil actions.
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Filipinos…..*make me puke* (Art Bell)

As we’ve all come to notice, in the past few decades, Filipinos have begun to infest the United States like some sort of disease. Their extensive involvement in the U.S. Armed Forces is proof of the trashy kind of qualities all filipinos tend to exhibit on a regular basis. You can see this clearly by studying the attitudes and cultural Icons of most Filipino Americans.

Origins of Pinoys/Pinays:

Are they really asian? Well we’ve come to accept the fact the filipinos come from a part of the world known as South East Asia. But the term “Asia” is used in the wrong way. You may notice that contemporary Filipino Americans try very hard to associate themselves with groups that we know as Asian. I cannot count the number of times I have seen a ‘Third World’ Filipino try to connect themselves to the chinese or Japanese people. There is no connection and here’s why. The Philippines is a Third World country. Nothing respectable has EVER been created by Filipino people during our entire human history. Young filipino men in America have become obsessed with “import racing”. They have an enormously perverted affection for Japanese cars. It’s a common phenomenon. In their minds, these Filipinos somehow believe that they are asian and that it somehow connects them to Japanese people and japanese cars. They often take credit for the ingenuity of Japanese people and say how it’s an ” Asian thing”. This term…”Asian thing” derived directly from African American slang “black thang”. “It’s a black thang.” “It’s an asian thang.”

You can see the connection. It’s even funnier that, in Japan, Filipinos are heavily discriminated against. The only filipinos that can live successfully in Japan are the filipino prostitutes. But that’s the case for most Filipino people no matter where they live in the world. Now we’ve come down to this fact…and it is a fact.

Nothing in Filipino Culture can be seen as Asian.

They have no architectural, artistic, or cultural influence which is in ANY way, asian. Thinking of the great countries in Asia such as Japan, Korea, and China there is no way you can possibly connect the Philippine Islands. This assault by filipino americans to connect themselves with the great peoples of North East Asia is foul and disgusting. Try visiting a young filipino’s web site too.

You’ll see something called the “Asian IRC Ring”. It has to do with the chatrooms. The most horrible thing about this is that these TRASHY people are trying to associate themselves with Asia again!! People in Asia don’t act like this at all. What we are seeing here is the natural Filipino in its element with full access to technology and this is how they act! You will consistently see this behavior over and over again.

Another interesting thing is that these “thirdworld” people also frequent RC chatrooms such as ..chinese ..japan and ..asian. They must believe that they are somehow related racially or culturally to North Asians. But it’s completely WRONG! There might have been some distant contact With China and even less with Japan during World War II, but these people are actually more closely related to african americans and Mexican americans.

Do the parents of these young filipinos know what’s going on? Would they accept this? I believe that they would and do. This is the natural “Trash” element in filipinos manifesting itself. Nothing good has ever come from Philippines and I don’t believe anything good ever will.

Recognizing your Roots (A Message to Filipinos). To all filipino people:
Please recognize your ROOTS! You come from the Third World! You country is a disgusting and filthy place. Most people there live in poverty! Your culture has MUCH MORE SPANISH influence than chinese, and absolutely no JAPANESE influence whatsoever. People in Japan and China, do not act like you. They do not constantly talk about sex and they have a MUCH HIGHER level of RESPECT for each other. There is NO WAY that you can connect yourself to Asia other than location.

Your culture and technological advancement does no! t even come CLOSE to What Chinese, people have done in the past and what Japanese and Korean people are doing now! Everything you do is distinctly filipino. You cannot take credit for Japanese cars, video games, or Hentai! It’s not an “asian thing” it’s an “American thing”. You have no concept of culture…no concept of asian ideas or asian philosophy! Can you demonstrate how you use Confucianism or Taoism in you everyday life?? You can’t. And you will NEVER be able to.

I understand that you are trying to create an identity for yourselves as young people… but it is NOT related to Asia. Your Identity is Filipino.
That’s all you are. Just Filipino. Think about what that means….

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I find this funny, he is right in some ways where we, as Filipinos don’t actually have an “Identity”. I think this is due to the confusion of our mixed races from Hispanic, Chinese, American and Malay origins. I see it in malls, imagine young generations wearing ski caps and ski goggles in a tropical country, baggy low rise pants like that of African Americans living in the Bronx of New York, not to mention endless whitening products being sold at department stores and drug stores.

But his ignorance also blinds him from the other truth. That while we may glorify Anime shows and Japanese Internet gaming, he is not aware that a nameless Filipino may be responsible for some technical aspects of some Japanese software. He is not aware of our contribution to the the society in general .Technological advancements that may have aided post war navigations and landing on the moon. That the antibiotic Erythromycin was discovered by Dr. Abelardo Aguilar from Iloilo creating the brand “Ilosone”.

Thomas Edison may have discovered the electric light bulb and the fluorescent lighting was thought up by Nikola Tesla. But the fluorescent lamp we use today was invented by Agapito Flores (a Cebuano named Benigno Flores of Bantayan Island, according to the Philippine Daily inquirer), a Filipino scientist. Americans helped then-Philippine leader Ramon Magsaysay to develop it for worldwide commerce. That the personal physician of former U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton is Eleanor “Connie” Concepcion Mariano, a Filipina doctor who was the youngest captain in the US Navy. A Filipino writer Jose Rizal could read and write at age 2, and grew up to speak more than 20 languages, includind Latin, Greek, German, French and Chinese.

Or that a Filipino genius was responsible for the near hiatus in the PENTAGON and White House nearly infiltrationg their closely guarded secrets with the “ILOVEYOU” bug. Nuisance maybe, but still one heck of a ‘beautiful mind’…not to be underestimated.

The list goes on and on, but who cares right? Certainly not Mr. Art Bell…Boy, I’m not surprised.

Perhaps Art Bell does not know that although we consider ourselves ASIAN because we are strategically located in the Southeast asian region of which our nearest neighbors are Malays, ASIA does not mean only Chinese and Japanese race of people. Then maybe it is his connotation that “Asia” meant only our economically successful, paler brothers and he considers Malays such as Thais, Malaysians, Indonesians, and ourselves as a “Third World” race. Then it is “his” ignonimity that would make a civilized person of whatever race puke. Imagine literally connecting Chinese, Koreans and Japanese to the Philippine Islands which is archipelagos away from the countries he has mentioned. I also wonder where he got the impression that we aspire to be Japanese( ???) Hispanics maybe but not the Japanese. But even Hispanics today do not mind sharing their “surnames” to their Asian brothers who they have colonized for 3 centuries.

Another sad reality that although most Filipinos working overseas are domestic helpers and prostitutes, who does he think educates the toddlers of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Tokyo? Parents of these countries rarely have time spent with their children, leaving them to their Filipino nannies. And with regard to prostitution. Filipinos are not the only ones working as one. I HARDLY SEE FILIPINOS STARRING IN PORN MOVIES. THERE MIGHT BE A FEW FILIPINOS WE HAVEN’T SEEN , BUT MOST ARE FROM MR. ART BELL’S RACE.

He also mentioned that we have no concept of culture..no concept of asian ideas or asian philosophy. How can we demonstrate Confucianism or Taoism in a Christian nation? IS HE INFORMED THAT THE PHILIPPINES IS THE ONLY PREDOMINANTLY CHRISTIAN/CATHOLIC NATION IN ASIA?! YOU HAVE TO USE COMMON SENSE IN A LOT OF THINGS SOMETIMES…

We do not need to create an identity for ourselves. We are who we are. Our identity stems from the anonymity we live in this world. How we contribute silently towards the progress of the world and not just one country. Although the Filipino blood may be tainted with malice, corruption, poverty and prostitution, it is not a perfect race… But so are the others. Maybe Mr. Art Bell needs to think about this.

WE MAY NOT BE PERFECT MR. BELL BUT AT LEAST WE STILL HAVE VALUES. FOR ONE THING WE DON’T PUT OUR AGING PARENTS IN NURSING HOMES BECAUSE “THEY’RE SIMPLY OLD AND WORTHLESS”. WE DONT HAVE AS MUCH NUMBERS OF SINGLE MOTHERS WHO GET PREGNANT IN THEIR VERY EARLY TEENS AND EVENTUALLY BECOME PARASITES OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR YEARS AND YEARS.

YES…WE CAME TO YOUR COUNTRY TO WORK, TO EARN DECENT MONEY (HALF OF WHICH BY THE WAY GOES TO TAXES BECAUSE THERE’S SO MANY SOCIAL PARASITES FROM YOUR RACE).AND BY THE WAY, MOST EDUCATED PEOPLE THAT I WORK WITH DON’T COME FROM YOUR RACE… THEY’RE ACTUALLY IMMIGRANTS TOO. AND THOSE EDUCATED ONES DO NOT ACT LIKE YOU DO, PERHAPS BECAUSE THEY’VE REALLY BEEN WELL EDUCATED..AFTER ALL THAT’S SAID… WHO IS THE IGNORANT ONCE AGAIN?!
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Pinay wins it big in London

By Alfred Yuson

The Philippine Star 05/16/2004

Patricia Evangelista, a 19-year- old, Mass Communications sophomore of University of the Philippines (UP)-Diliman, did the country proud Friday night by besting 59 other student contestants from 37 countries in the 2004 International Public Speaking competition conducted by the English Speaking Union (ESU) in London.

She triumphed over a field of exactly 60 speakers from all over the English-speaking world, including the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, reported Maranan.

The board of judges’ decision was unanimous, according to contest chairman Brian Hanharan of the British broadcasting Corp. (BBC).

PATRICIA’S SHORT SPEECH WORTH READING….

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BLONDE AND BLUE EYES

When I was little, I wanted what many Filipino children all over the country wanted. I wanted to be blond, blue-eyed, and white.

I thought — if I just wished hard enough and was good enough, I’d wake upon Christmas morning with snow outside my window and freckles across my nose!

More than four centuries under western domination does that to you. I have sixteen cousins. In a couple of years, there will just be five of us left in the Philippines, the rest will have gone abroad in search of “greener pastures.” It’s not just an anomaly; it’s a trend; the Filipino diaspora. Today, about eight million Filipinos are scattered around the world.

There are those who disapprove of Filipinos who choose to leave. I used to. Maybe this is a natural reaction of someone who was left behind, smiling for family pictures that get emptier with each succeeding year. Desertion, I called it. My country is a land that has perpetually fought for the freedom to be itself. Our heroes offered their lives in the struggle against the Spanish, the Japanese, the Americans. To pack up and deny that identity is tantamount to spitting on that sacrifice.

Or is it? I don’t think so, not anymore. True, there is no denying this phenomenon, aided by the fact that what was once the other side of the world is now a twelve-hour plane ride away. But this is a borderless world, where no individual can claim to be purely from where he is now. My mother is of Chinese descent, my father is a quarter Spanish, and I call myself a pure Filipino-a hybrid of sorts resulting from a combination of cultures.

Each square mile anywhere in the world is made up of people of different ethnicities, with national identities and individual personalities. because of this, each square mile is already a microcosm of the world. In as much as this blessed spot that is England is the world, so is my neighborhood back home.

Seen this way! , the Filipino Diaspora, or any sort of dispersal of populations, is not as ominous as so many claim. It must be understood. I come from a Third World country, one that is still trying mightily to get back on its feet after many years of dictatorship. But we shall make it, given more time. Especially now, when we have thousands of eager young minds who graduate from college every year. They have skills. They need jobs. We cannot absorb them all.

A borderless world presents a bigger opportunity, yet one that is not so much abandonment but an extension of identity . Even as we take, we give back. We are the 40,000 skilled nurses who support the UK’s National Health Service. We are the quarter-of-a-million seafarers manning most of the world’s commercial ships. We are your software engineers in Ireland, your construction workers in the Middle East, your doctors and caregivers in North America, and, your musical artists in London’s West End.

Nationalism isn’t bound by time or place. People from other nations migrate to create new nations, yet still remain essentially who they are. British society is itself an example of a multi-cultural nation, a melting pot of races, religions, arts and cultures. We are, indeed, in a borderless world!

Leaving sometimes isn’t a matter of choice. It’s coming back that is. The Hobbits of the shire travelled all over Middle-Earth, but they chose to come home, richer in every sense of the word. We call people like these balikbayans or the ‘returnees’ — those who followed their dream, yet choose to return and share their mature talents and good fortune.

In a few years, I may take advantage of whatever opportunities come my way. But I will come home. A borderless world doesn’t preclude the idea of a home. I’m a Filipino, and I’ll always be one. It isn’t about just geography; it isn’t about boundaries. It’s about giving back to the country that shaped me.

And that’s going to be more important to me than seeing snow outside my windows on a bright Christmas morning.

Mabuhay and Thank you.

So, be proud, you are a Filipino,…and not like Mr. Art Bell. Please do send this to as many person as you can until it reaches him.

“Nothing is impossible with God” Luke
“Call to me, and I will answer you and I will tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know” Jeremiah 33:3
“You did not choose Me, but I chose you. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name” John 15:16

I found your site from listening to Art Bell tonight. He told of this letter going around that is attributed to him. He also said it was a terrible letter and that he did not write it, nor does he have any bad feelings about the Fillipino people. He feels very bad that his name has been associated with this. I have been listening to Art Bell for many years and not one time has he ever said anything bad about anyone. Art Bell is a humble and caring person who will continue to look until he finds something good in everyone.

Hi Marc,

I’m an info science student and have recently been doing an independent study on SEO. I’m a GABNet member and am trying to apply what I’ve been learning to our site. Here I am checking who is linked to us and I found the Filipina Librarian (my favorite blog) and then your post and campaign! I’m so inspired! The response is very interesting.

If you have any SEO strategies for non profits like GABRIELA Network then I’d love to check it out. Of course this campaign is an amazing effort!

Salamat! As a Filipina and a GABRIELA Network member!

Hi Becca, please consider joining the SEO Philippines :) if there’s anything I can help you with, my mobile number’s on the sidebar. Welcome to SEO!

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Behavioral Sciences students of the University of the
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as a blogger. We have posted a questionnaire-’Blog’
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The link is:
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Thank you. Please help! God bLess.

You’re not liking Filipina dating sites? We are what we are. The Philippines is over populated with mostly women. There is a very high poverty level and Filipino do not treat their women very well. So what it adds up to is so many filipina want out! The desire to leave and the fact they are the most beautiful women in the world and treat their men better than any other culture of women. That make the Filipina very desirable to most men around the world.
I am in the US and immigrated my wife and her 2 kids to the US last year. We have had a daughter that was born last year as well. It took 3 years to get her here. It is a cruel prcoess to wait. Many websites like mine introduce the Filipina to the rest of the world and try best to advise them and the men interested on what and how to do the process.
I have been to the Philippines 6 times and now have family there. The Philippine Government made the internet what it is. The many Porn sites and distasteful wife selling sites are from the culture that the government has allowed to happen to make the Filipina so desperate to leave. The poverty and lack of jobs, the corruption and lack of help, the men leaving the women pregnant and jobless because they don’t want to be responsible for the extra mouths to feed!
By trying to push sites lower inn ranking on keywords may work, but you may hurt sites like mine that will help Filipina find what they want in a more desirable manner.

Yo! First time here. Glad to know there’s a site like this. Will be dropping again soon.

Filipina and the PHILIPPINES

http://nuevaecija.clsu-edu.net

Not meaning to offend anyone, but I am an american that did indeed come to the Philippines via a “Mail Order Bride” site. I found the woman of my dreams. Rather than target the sites, it would be better to help start a cultural movement to attack the under lying problem, POVERTY. Lots of these women are looking for a way out, the only way they can. The foreigner is the usually the only path out. As was explanied to me also by many filipinas during 10+ visits, in addition to financial security, it’s the way that most foreigners from the West treat their ladies also. I don’t think I need to elaborate on the treatment the average pilipino delves on his woman (women).
You can’t fault the women for wanting to do better.
Fix the disease, not the symptom.

In all honesty, I love the philippines. You are a great people with a great nation. If you would unite and over come the obvious problems, no asian nation could compare.

dan

http://www.heartofphilippines.com

I’m tryin to compete too with the said keyword against mail order brides ….my project newmaria.com is doin good with filipina designers and filipina bloggers kws’ only.

THE HATE SPEECH OF ART BELL AGAINST FILIPINO IS NOTHING BUT A HOAX!

Check the link above and learn for yourself.

As a Filipina Canadian, I am completely behind your cause to redirect Google’s “Filipina” search results. I actually started my own blog in order to promote a diverse Filipina perspective on the WEB http://bamboo-blitz.blogspot.com/
In response to the PRO mail-order bride/online dating posts, marrying a foreigner is NOT the only way Filipinas can seek better opportunities for themselves overseas. Instead of promoting mail-order weddings as a ticket to freedom from poverty, we should be empowering these women through education.