Dear mouse,
The apology did not come from Chip Tsao himself but from the publisher and the editors of the Hong Kong magazine which published the article the War at Home that called the Philippines, a nation of servants and China as its master since it provides the bread and butter.
Following calls from Manila for an apology, the Hong Kong based-magazine that ran a column demeaning the Philippines as a country of “slaves” has said sorry for the “politically incorrect column.”
Asia City Publishing House, HK Magazine’s publisher, with office at 301 Hollywood Centre, 233 Hollywood Road in Hong Kong, issued the statement three days after the controversial column came out.
“The publisher and editors of HK Magazine wish to apologize unreservedly for any offense that may have been caused by Chip Tsao’s column dated March 27,” the statement read.
Actually,the publisher and editors did not apologize because of the request of Philippine authorities who
according to the news downplayed the maid-country remark. The DFA people did not know what to do until the bloggers and commenters showed them how.
Politicians have read the outrage and they thought this is a good opportunity to ride on the issue.
IMHO, WHAT PREVAILED THE PUBLISHER AND EDITORS TO WITHDRAW THE ARTICLE AND OFFERED APOLOGIES ARE THEIR WIVES AND HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS. WHO’S GONNA CLEAN THE TOILET, WHO’S GONNA CLEAN THE OVEN, WHO’S GONNA WASH THE DISHES AND CLOTHES? The house is going to stink. And Chip Tsao can not use the magazine to clean the mess.
Their houses will be invaded…not by the Philippine military but by the cockroaches. ngggi.
The Ca t
yea, whatever happens.. chip tsao SUCKS.
This chicken-brained Chip Tsao should face the Equal Oppurtunities Commission of the Hong Kong SAR Government. Let us see if the HK Government will give safe haven for people who are not only mud-leveled people but insect-infested brains too.
Waiyo lah!
each has its own opinion.. chip tsao has opined what he wrote but not by the magazine where it was written.. that’s the reason the publisher withdrew the article and apologized.. chinese in the philippines were treated very well in fact they were given the opportunity to prosper.. on the other hand many filipinos were treated badly in china and hongkong.. since this is only the opinion of chip tsao, it is best to direct the outrage to mr chip tsao and his family alone.. be very careful now mr tsao.. we are watching you.. hehehe.
We only have one life to live so we have to be sure that the legacy will leave in our family, workplace and even in our country will be remembered. And “YOU” yes “YOU” am sure you know who you are, will be remembered in the Philippines, in every city, in every streets, in every household and in every hearts of Mighty OFW’s who worked really hard, left their families here just to take care of you with all their hearts and soul.
I hope this event will never happen again we Filipino “work hard” in every thing that we do and we deserve to be treated right and with respects.
From my heart may God Bless you! Yes “YOU”
ipakidnap kaya natin sa mga Abu?
how dare you calling my country as “country of servants” and that your china as our “master”. Damn You for saying that.
Mr. Tsao is a dork..a disgrace for us.
ang CHIP mo naman TSAO!!!!
I was there during the SAR problem, and the only ones who were all so brave to face this plaque in your country were the Pinays who work there.
Hey CHIP…why don’t you go to the Grand Hyatt in Hongkong side and check who is permanently housed at the Penthouse of this hotel. He is a businessman (i cannot tell you the name) like Bill Gates, in the computer business. Guess who is his wife. She is a Pinay from Iloilo… a fashion model. And guess what also…. he has these two Pinay nurses, they are not domestic helpers, they are private Neo Natal nurses, taking care of the infant of this businessman. These two nurses has their own private room at the hotel and both of them hold an APEC ID so that when they come and go to Hongkong, they are going thru the VIP/Diplomat section. Likewise, check the entertainers of the Five star hotels in Hongkong side. They are Pinoys, and they are much far more better entertainers than the Hongkong chinese who pretends to know how to sing and entertain.
What is the MORAL of the story?? Pinoys/Pinays who come to the former colony is more educated than you.
Ang Chip mo talaga TSAO!!!
well as a patriotic filipino, i have to defend my country. i think mr. tsao doesn’t even know the word professionalism. in today’s modern world of thinking, he has no place on earth. his thinking maybe has been influenced by the herbal medicines most chinese take. even for the last thought, i was thinking of asian countries as one and as together in global campaign of equality. well, to my suyrprise, this stupid chineese acted as if he is God, as if China has all the right in the world to claim the spratly Island as theirs as if Chineese has a higher class in society. i think he went to the wrong school. he seemed very tactless and insensitive and arrogant and STUPID! His values are impossible for a columnist.
filipinos who have been working hard in abroad, i call them heroes. their hardships and sacrifices should be appreciated as an initiative to survive (a basic instinct of every human being) and not to be insulted. we equally have the right to be respected as anybody should be.
Mr.Tsao, you started the fire, and we filipinos will finish that siege. we are everywhere and we strive in every corner of this world. what you said will be remembered by every filipino. the fight is not yet over.
The issue raised by Chip Tsao isn’t just about disputes in Spratly… I guess there is deeper reason behind this. He took it too personal. So let’s make it personal. He started the war, so bring it on. The war isn’t about China vs. Philippines but Chip Tsao alone vs. Filipinos. Feel our rage Chip Tsao!
ipinakita ko nga dito sa mga chekwa dito yung artikel, sabi lang nila IDIOT kasi naman daw talaga yang swangit na yan e pati sila din naman daw tinitira din hehehe.
eto nga e pinagsisisigawan ko sila dito konting mali sigaw kagad ako kaya ayun nagtanong tuloy yung isa sabi ba naman “madam ah yu menopowsing la? ngeeeek bastos.
edwar,
i did not know that there is such an agency there. thanks for the info.
nevermind,
agree with you,
randy,
walang pangbayad.
chineseboy,
even his own people despised him because he is more of a british follower. he got his education in UK.
frat,
mas magaling kumanta ang pinoy di ba.
supergulaman,
right you are. may be he’s insecure seeing hongkongers being dependent on filipino domestic helpers for their everyday lives.
they can not go to work if nobody babysits their children.
lee,
tinitira sila niyan eh.
hehehe menowpausing. sarap sampalin. hehehe
I hope the bandits will kidnap him and cut his head, no one will save him i guess everyone will feast if its him, rootless person will die in pain and his one of those, im so ashame of him. even my chinese friends are against his opinion, hes a hypocrite and ill mannered racist who needs to learn good moral and right conducts… hes opinion is base on spratly island and hes even including the people living in that island. i dont see any connection with that… hes one of the nation’s most hated person….
Cheap Tsao!
I’m just wondering how did you became a writer w/ that kind of brain?
You’re a real moro!
If you go to mainland China, you will find a lot of Filipino there teaching English to your fellow Chinese.
Takot ako para sa Pinay na house assistant niya!
since he first threw the insults i’ll just throw some back… Tsao you spit all around the house making us clean up your saliva… you leave your dirty underware for us to wash…your linens never lasts for more than a day it stinks cause you only bath 3 times a week…do i have to elaborate? just remember this we may be slaves but we’re clean, take a bath twice a day, brush our teeth, wear clean clothes, well mannered and speak english with understanding …so much for the writter
peste!pinaburan pa ng HK mag c sip sip sip tsao!..
Satire is only used particularly if and only if someone is Aggravated by somebody else!!!!!!!
that moron tsao is looking for a fight!..
he cannot prove what he has said!.
peste pasalitain mo yan ng english..pulos kalabaw inglis alm niiiyan!..pe-te!..
papuntahin niyo yan dito sa bicol at papalamunin ko ang bunganga niya ng sili at susutsutin ko ng sili ang puwit nyang gagong yan!..
humanda xa!
how rude that person is! este HAYOP yang Yan!..
That moron (Chip Tsao) said so much
unpalatable remarks about the Philippines, perhaps he don’t know that
here also in America his fellow chinese
countrymen are also doing the cheapest
and exploited labor by their own people
especially the newcomers. They deliver
chinese food even with the most extreme weather here, they speak very
funny english and their cooks are I think the filthiest, they spit and smoke
while they’re cooking no wonder they
got the SARS virus. I don’t go to Chinese restaurants anymore. If Chip Tsao happens to go to the Philippines, I wish my fellow Filipinos will catch him
and make him answer for what he did.
This idiot doesn’t deserve to become a
columnsit, he has a very shallow brain, maybe that’s what he got from eating
chinese food. What an antagonistic and
racist this person is, before he watches
other people, why won’t he look back and watch his own people, he thought his ass is much cleaner than ours.
F##k Chip Tsao, let him clean his ass first before he watches other people.
Chip Tsao! You are a legitimate ASSHOLE! People like you make this world a miserable place to live! Learn to comb your hair first you Stupid Moron! Go back to you mother’s womb! Who gave you the Fucking right to insult the Filipinos! We are not the government! Those maids you are referring are human beings just like you! You may have the upper edge in life but that doesn’t give you the right to insult those who are not so privileged! Hey Arroyo what are you doing? Why are you letting this person insult the Filipino people? I am so pissed with this asshole! The government must respond to this! Too much corruption is the root reason why our nation is so poor and why people like Chip Tsao can easily throw humiliating statements against us! He try do this to nations like Japan or Germany and let’s see what faith befalls this Stupid, Moronic, Nerd!
Tangnang Gobyerno to INUTIL! Walang ngipin isang Chip Tsao nagagawang insultuhin buong bayan! Arroyo aba gumising ka! Wala ka silbi sobrang abala mo sa kung anu-anung walang kwentang bagay! Asikasuhin mo ito!
THIS MAN IS A FREAK FROM HELL
Let’s cut-off his balls!!! YEAH! First of all, I would suggest that every bar or restaurant in Hongkong that said magazine is circulated just trashed or use it as toilet paper(No, that would be too much) just bin it every God**** issue of the said magazine since they approved the article. See how they’re sponsors or advertisers would react. HAHAHAHAHA!!! Secondly, See first suggestion. Its just F***king out of order, YOU Chip Tsao should know better! You are responsible to tell stuff honestly as they come not what comes out of your F***king a**hole! Because you think you were doing a patriotic thing at the expense of other peoples dignity being degraded haphazardly as if Spartly Islands were some kind crowning achievement for the motherland which in some articles you wrote before you favored colonial rule of hongkong. You better come up of an apology, I’m afraid there are people who live day by day only with thier dignity.
This asshole doesn’t know his country’s history and doesn’t even know math and statistics! Hong Kong was not developed by China it was the Brits who did! The first slaves where them! Chip Tsao’s ancestors! And there are 10 times more Chinese people who are living below the poverty line compared to us Filipinos! Corruption in China is also 10 times greater! they are the only country that allows the use of Melamine in their milks killing innocent children! Hey Chip Tsao look on your own country first before throwing brainless statements on other nations! Remember Chip Tsao Japan in size is a small country but they successfully beaten and conquered China, always remember history can repeat itself and if that happens I’m gonna kick your sorry ass to the moon!
mga chekwa talga,, porket nalaman lng kcng may oil sa spratlys, gs2 na nila agawin ng buo! well in fact, napakalayo ng china sa spratlys..mas maiintindihan ko pa kung ang malaysia ang magiging kaagaw natin jan..
after i’ve read his article, kumulo tlga dugo ko!!!
grrrrrr…
The worst way to deal with this whole Chip Tsao thing is to respond to his racism with the same. He made sweeping generalizations about Filipinos working abroad, and I’ve looked at a lot of blogs and the comments people made in them, and what is so glaringly noticeable is how a lot have responded by throwing back racial slurs against the Chinese. Chip Tsao was not writing about every Chinese person’s perception of their Filipino employees. His article was a personal opinion, and one that is satirical.
What we can all agree on, however, is that his attempt at satire fell flat; he came across as very small-minded and ignorant — and as some people have said, exceedingly insecure. But I bet the whole point of him writing that article was to generate the exact outraged response that Filipinos have given in a bid for attention. The best way to deal with this is to just acknowledge it as what it is, a poorly-written, attention-grubbing attempt.
Let’s not disparage the rest of our Chinese brethren. This behavior is not helpful in any way, and will only spark a war in words — or worse — between the offended parties. Who would seriously want that to happen? If we want to “defend our country” and “show patriotism”, let’s do it by not stooping to Chip Tsao’s level of pettiness. Let’s all be civilized human beings here. Let’s all just continue with doing our jobs well, wherever we Filipinos are in the world… now won’t that be the most dignified response to all this?
I’d rather be called “a servant” than be called a “a chemist who makes shabu”, this CHEAP Chao is a total Ahole who couldn’t look for anything to rant about… MR. CHEAP CHAO, why don’t go look around your own backyard and write about how f*cking disgusting, ignorant, arrogant, and lazy you are and can’t even wipe your own a*s(IT’S TRUE, THEY NEVER WIPE THEIR ASS)… You demand respect but you can’t even respect the people who work their fingers to the bone, they never has anything to do with your political sh*t. (moderated).
Mr. Chip Tsao should work as a comedian. He’s so funny he’ll have Jay Leno running scared. The small percentage of Filipinos working as helpers in HK doesn’t comprise the entire Philippine population for him to call this country a nation of servants. He’s brain must be the same size as his eyes he couldn’t see how dreadful it must be for helpers to be working for pricks like him.
Is Mr. Tsao human? If so, from what dynasty is he? He calls himself master and as such requires his empolyee to work 16 hrs. just to clean his toilet at a measly sum that he can only afford. His place must be stinking so bad.
I just wonder is HK lacking in talented writers that publishers of that magazine content themselves with the likes of Mr. Tsao who could be dangerously sick and disturbed. Since he has delusions of being knowledgeable and is so adamant in sharing his ‘crap’ to his helper, maybe he can touch on the subject of the many contributions his country of origin has given the world. As patriotic as he claim he is then he should swear to patronize only goods that are made in China, like toys and milk, among others.
The only reason Mr. Chip Tsao is making all that cheap shots is that he wanted to be famous and be somebody. But posting his picture won’t help. It just makes the readers want to puke.
Mr Chip Tsao, you have insulted all the hard working filipinos all over the world. Yes, we will work even the most lowest paying job because we are not as arrogant as you, and we do our best to help each other. When I was a child, my father worked two jobs and he worked overseas for many years just so that his family can have a better start to life, and because of his hard work, I can say we now have a much better life. We may not be rich like you, we can’t afford to pay foreigners as our maid, but we are content and happy. And our hearts are generous and understanding because we know and remember where we came from. So, please for people who think that they are above others, remember just because you have money does not give you the right to degrade others.
this defamatory and irresponsible remarks from Ho Tsao (bad smelling in cantonese) only reflects his total ignorance about the philippines and all global filipinos. He must go back to school where he studied and refresh his mind about geography and values education. Poor guy! He is educated but not learned! Work is work no matter what…only when you earn without stepping one’s foot and hurting other peoples’ feelings. To all “global filipinos”, goodluck, May God bless everyone of us and let’s pray for our country too….
Tsao, you don’t learned appropriately as what your English Teacher wanted you to be. You are IDIOT-CATED, surely you don’t have units in humanities or values education or flanker in the said subjects.
It was proven when you explain that “there’s nothing wrong with the word servant, like civil servant”. It’s not the mere word SERVANT that boils our blood, its the thought of your message.
You are a disgrace to good and truly educated Chinese…
Spratly??? Which country is much nearer to Spratly?. . . . China or Philippines?… Whichever is nearer has the technical and lawful right. Who occupied first is not the issue because the owner would never squat his own property.
Chip Tsao, you have no right to say that Philippines is a nation of “servants” because most of these “servants” speaks English better compared to all the Chinese in the world, they can go anywhere in the world, even in the US and European countries, without these “servants” you can’t earn money as nobody will take care of your children, even your olds. Some of these “servants” are also professionals, a degree holder. Lastly, there are many Filipinos who are professionals that can go to other countries. Before you comment plz think first, ok !
You’re so LC (Lan C) !
Chip Tsao, you are so chip and LC (Lan C). I think you have nothing to right on ur column but it doesn’t mean that you have the right to say that Philippines, a nation of “servants”, ‘coz these “servants” who takes care the children and even olds of the Chinese in Hongkong. Most of these “servants” speaks English better compared to all the Chinese in this world, they can go anywhere in the world, in the US, even in the European countries, not only to work as “servants” but also as professionals. Filipinos have many talents and very flexible. Next time, before you comment on anything plz think hundred times, ok? You are a professional, you must act as one, unless you don’t use what you hv learned from the CHIP school where you graduated, ok ? BE PROFESSIONAL AND PEOPLE WILL RESPECT YOU !
mga kabayan wag naman natin i generalize mga intsik madami din matino, wake up call talaga yan sa atin, pero dapat bayaran ni cheap chow mga sinabi nya panlalait sa mga pinoy, dahil sa hirap ng buhay sa pinas bunga ng korupsyon madami talaga lumalabas ng bansa for survival, kaya dapat din magbayad mga liders na ito, gma,fg,doj sec,garci,esperon,joc joc,nograles,at madami pa may araw din kayo!