Is Not Fun in the Philippines

Credited to Flippish.com

There is a foreigner becomes a viral because of their sarcastic remark about the slogan of Department of Tourism. He made a new version of it and they putted in their t-shirt the statement “Is not fun in the Philippines” and it has a continuation in another t-shirt with a statement of “Because there is too much corruption”. These statements made many netizens furious.  

Filipino people are known for being patience. But if there are foreigners insulting us or saying any bad words, we lose our temper; we become reactionary. Why? Because it is hard to face the reality; the truth hurts. Or they don’t want to be insulted by other nationality? But if both Filipinos are insulting each other, it is just okay. Like when the book author Dan Brown described Manila as a gate of hell in one of his book because of its bad image. Poverty and prostitution are rampant here. Some Filipino people got hurt although the novel is just a fiction. Even MMDA Chairman Francisco Tolentino reacted and he wrote a letter condemning Dan Brown because of his negative description about Manila. But in reality, does Manila is a clean city or not?

There is also an incident that a Holywood actress gave a bad comment about the Philippines. She said that places in our country were so dirty and with unpleasant odor. Recently, there is also a blogger posted in her blog that she hates Filipino foods because its unusual taste. She wondered why other foreigners like it. 

Every time when we hear these kind of remarks from foreigners, our initial reaction would be violent. It seems that we want to slap their faces. But we can’t do that, all we have to do is retaliate them by throwing them thrash talk. We felt so badly. If they are looking for trouble we will give it to them. 

By the way, what’s the reaction of the DOT to their twisted slogan? They are trying to make a good image about our country, but there are some foreigners who want to give a shame to their campaign. But on the other side, we don’t blame them if this is what they are thinking about our country. But they don’t have a right to put any negative statement in their t-shirt against us. The Filipino people already knew that there are many corruptions here, especially in the government. For sure, their country has also problems that they need to resolve. Philippines is still a beautiful country, although it is true that sometimes it is not fun here. Therefore, there is no perfect country in this world!