Suppose we see a fan page in Facebook, or a survey site in the internet that compares the best things in the world we support in life. The survey site or the fan page asks the people to vote which they like the best. Of course people from around the globe will give an opinion regarding that matter only referring to at least the two given choices. And with this, there is something we can deduce and notice from reading comments on these web pages, and it is the Filipino involvement on every page. I can observe the redundancy of the out of the blue topics like Pacquiao, Charice, Jabawockeez and even Adobo being blurted out on unrelated topics and formal forums. Even as a Filipino I sometimes tend to become embarrassed in witnessing the over reaction of Filipinos on a single world achievement, that causes Philippines in general to be in bad terms world wide, eventually resulting to the creation of anti Filipino internet websites and forums. With this I say, too much Filipino pride has sent our country to shame rather than to fame.
When these annoying comments and world spreading of news happens in a split second, people over the world gets pissed off because of the too much pride Filipino has. Consequently, people all over the world start to hate the certain subject we love. And when they do, Filipino sees this as racial discrimination.
According to the website antipinoy.com whenever someone like Manny pacquiao succeeds abroad, Filipinos will once again brag about false and underserved Filipino pride basking in the glory, talent and strengths of which they never had. All these achievements are individually done, such as, you can only say such expressions as “Filipino pride” when an achievement is meant for everyone collectively. The reaction of this kind of people like the author of the article on the said site states that we should not make it an excuse of having a countryman with such talent by saying “Filipino pride”.
Actually when we go to websites like Facebook or Youtube that has other nations making a world wide impact you can never find someone saying “Chinese pride” or “French pride” as if it seems that we are the only one saying such expression. A nation’s pride should come from the progression of the country with our own joint efforts.
There is nothing wrong about being a proud Filipino. In fact, everyone should be proud, as other nations are with their own country. Otherwise, nations would see us ridiculous to adapt so much western culture and succumb to it. However being proud should not be integrated by saying “Filipino pride”, or “Filipino talent” to unrelated subjects like boxing or modernized singing and dance. People just see this annoying and pure arrogance. The world does not care if Manny, Pineda, or Charice are Filipinos, what they care about is the history they make on the world they choose to live on.
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