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JoeAmPhilippine Tribes and that Aquino Fellow
I remember as a kid going to my town’s “Harvest Festival”, generally held the last week of August, just before we packed off for a new school year, which in the U.S. starts in early September. The festival was great fun. They’d block off Main Street in town and the carnival people would come in … Continue reading
Where can I get a big-ass Chinese hat around here?
I muse about my disappearing act here. It is natural to want to explain why I took some time away from the keyboard. But I resist doing that and therein we have the subject of this blog. It is common to the human condition, and to Filipinos for sure, to want others to see us … Continue reading
Impeach Philip Squared!
This commentary is follow-on from the previous article about America’s failure to elect Jessica Sanchez as their idol. Jessica has become a Filipino idol and her loss in the American Idol competition was a crushing defeat for the Philippine Nation. Filipinos wept openly at the unfairness of it all. They place this heartbreaking loss right … Continue reading
Jessica Sanchez and Racial Profiling
Congratulations to Jessica Sanchez on her marvelous achievement, beating 69,998 other contestants to reach the final stage at American Idol. One guy topped her in the wild and woolly 132 million vote final contest, and so let’s also extend our congratulations to Phillip Phillips. A lot of Filipinos are upset that Jessica Sanchez did not … Continue reading
Laughing in the Philippines
Filipinos have a sense of humor appropriate to their social condition. That would be earthy rather than nuanced. “Huh? Nice going, Crazy Joe, confusing us in the very first sentence.” By earthy, I mean Filipinos “get” sex jokes and ridicule because sex is very popular here and ridicule is an art. But take a stab … Continue reading
The Society of Honor by Joe America 