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21
Oct

evolving Filipina identity online

Category: awareness, community, mail order bride, nationalism, stereotypes, trafficking, web | 3 Comments

What is the difference that I see between websites about Filipinas and websites for and by Filipinas? 
I have friends and made friends with those who have published and/or used both types of sites above. So this is a matter-of-fact examination with no judgment and I invite you readers to comment.
Websites about Filipinas  
These days, and [...]

7
Oct

Feeding The Beast

Category: awareness, deprogramming, feminism, mail order bride, petitions, stereotypes, trafficking, video, web | 1 Comment

I’m sensitive about the whole Filipina cybertyping already. There is a web link below to an online petition to BBC because of the comedy, Harry and Paul, that airs this clip about a Filipina housemaid in Britain:

Recap: The main character is shouting at the character of the Filipina housemaid, already twisting and wriggling, to dance more and [...]

10
Sep

Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.

Category: Uncategorized, awareness, deprogramming, feminism, nationalism, politics, stereotypes, voting | 1 Comment

It’s hard to remember or believe, but there was a time that Philippine or American women couldn’t vote at all. There was also a time in America that when women went to the polls that they were harassed and threatened so that they’d be discouraged from exercising their right as citizens.
Today, most of us women [...]

21
Aug

Western Men & Filipina Spouses poll

Category: mail order bride, stereotypes, trafficking | Leave a Comment

As is my usual habit, being the filipina anti-cybertyping advocate that I am, I was surfing around doing research for SEO on the keyword of “filipina” on google and found this poll and discussion on Western Men & Filipina Spouses Age Difference posted by Michael Rose.
It was funny, enraging, outrageous, honest, fair, unfair, loving, hateful, jaded, smart and [...]

13
Aug

Do Stereotypes Have Power Over You?

Category: awareness, deprogramming, nationalism, stereotypes | Leave a Comment

Are you Ashamed to be a Filipina? You’ve been disempowered then. So take back your power, already!

I am glad to know that there are many, many Filipinos who are proud of being who they are. There is a little thrill within me when I see this in the Mother Land (Inang Bayan) and abroad. Filipino [...]

22
Jul

Shape the Filipina Image Campaign by FWN

Category: nationalism, stereotypes, who is... | Leave a Comment

Filipino Women’s Network or FWN has come up with the Shape the Filipina Image Campaign
A recent Google search of “Filipina” yielded 3,770,000 results, a high majority were links to Filipina dating sites, matchmaking, “bar” and “sexy” girls and personal ads.  These sites have defined Filipina women in the U.S.  Perpetuation of this “popular image” is [...]

21
Jul

filipina cybertyping

Category: *background, awareness, deprogramming, stereotypes | Leave a Comment

cybertyping. a process by which the internet creates a racialized stereotype, false image or cybermyth through search engine results, web advertising and existing web sites on that race or ethnicity. 

filipina cybertyping is articulated when one does a search on “filipina” through search engines such as a google and yahoo and those results show mostly [...]