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http://www.mb.com.ph/thai-national-in-trouble-over-racist-remarks-against-ph/
Thai national in trouble over ‘racist’ remarks against PH
A Thai national living in the Philippines for over three years now is in hot water over “racist” remarks he made on social media regarding Filipinos and his host country.
The backlash by netizens on Kosin Prasertsri remarks has even pushed his employer to issue an official statement on May 3.
Read more at http://www.mb.com.ph/thai-national-in-trouble-over-racist-remarks-against-ph/#zYQP2H4JMFpFCWlp.99
Cognizant Technology Solutions Philippines, through its Facebook page, said it has already initiated internal interventions for Prasertsri to face the consequences of his actions.
As of this writing, Cognizant Philippines has yet to reply to Manila Bulletin queries on the issue at hand.
Prasertsri, who goes by the name Koko Narak on Facebook, posted remarks which many netizens found as racist and offensive to Filipinos.
Reports say that he used the Facebook community organization named ASEAN Community to bash Filipinos.
On February 16, he posted three photos taken inside a fitness center located in a mall at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig. He captioned the photos with “Look at slave slum low class Pignoy asks all their ancestors to eat for free”.
Prasertsri also described the Filipinos as “stupid creatures” and “useless people on earth” in separate Facebook comments.
In another Facebook comment, he voiced out his observation about the Philippines and Filipinos, who he repeatedly called “Pignoys”.
image: http://www.mb.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/narak.jpg
Photo screenshot courtesy of http://www.localpulse.net/
Photo screenshot courtesy of http://www.localpulse.net/
Also on February 16, Prasertsri felt “scared” to be medically checked up by a Filipino doctor. “May I have a check up with any doctors who are not from the medical school from the Philippines?”
According to Prasertsri, Filipinos are not fit to do corporate or administration jobs but as maids, calling them “toilet lickers”.
A Filipino fast food was also criticized by the Thai national.
image: http://www.mb.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/narak-2.jpg
Photo screenshot courtesy of http://www.localpulse.net/
Photo screenshot courtesy of http://www.localpulse.net/
In another screenshot which appeared to be one of Prasertsri’s Facebook post, he said: “If I were a Hitler, I would kill all Filipinos on this earth. Since it is a useless race on this world. No quality of population. Fuck, fuck, fuck and fuck producing babies to be street beggars, security guards holding guns. It is useless people on earth and waste the natural resources.”
The ASEAN Community confirmed that Prasertsri has extended his apology to the Filipinos.
Cool Buster website was able to copy the letter before the Thai national left the ASEAN Community in Facebook and turned his Facebook page’s setting to private, disabling the public to see his posts.
Below is the full apology letter or Prasertsri courtesy of Cool Buster:
To All Filipinos on this page!
This is my great sorrow to inform you that I am very sorry what I’ve done or posted the racist comments wheter on the Asean page or my personal facebook.
No matter the comments I have done are either from my intention or my playfullness. Kindly accept my apology.
At the first sight of my intention to join this page, I came across just to do the debate only. I didn’t mean to hurt your heart Filipinos. Surprisingly, mosts of my debates on the page hurt you because of my imaturity.
This is my sincere apology to all of you Filipinos.
What I would like to inform you is, I am not feeling scared of the post or the blog. But I am feeling scared of brokening all Filipinos’ heart here. Many comments that I posted on the page are kind of playful more than my intention to be racist to all Filipinos.
Back to the past, I had many Filipino friends in my school plus I had Filipinos teachers. I would like to let you guys know that I am not that kind of person as you see on the page. I am not trying to say I am good or perfect or make an excuse. But at least, I have many Filipino friends here. I have helped them their financial problem. Many of my friends had no milk to feed their children, no rental monthly, no electricity and no food. I am the one who had helped them with my heart. Bcos I know how they were feeling at that time. I used to be cheated as well. Plus, I always share my happiness to them buying snack, toy and etc to share with the children as I can handle. I am such a pityful person even I sometime have a negative prejudice on Filipinos.
I am not trying to request your sympatize to me but I am trying all dear Filipinos here to think of me in another way. I am very an approachable guy spending my life as Filipinos do, hanging out with friends at the cheap place, singing videoke like Filipinos, buying cloths from Changke. I hope you Filipinos will understand and accept my apology.
Feedback from my company, I have talked and discussed regarding the situation already and I got penalty what I had done. I am deserved it I know. Hope you guys kindly accept my apology since Filipinos are well known to be kind and friendly. Am I right? I might move from here to another branch abroad not in The Philippines anymore but I hope that you will welcome me whenever I come back. I wish I could be welcome from you guys Filipinos.
Finally, once I post this apology to you. I will unlike on this page and never come back again. This is my sincere responsibility and I will handle all by myself everything I have done. Please do not drag my company Cognizant to be the victim or hostage for the situation since I love Cognizant so much. It is one of the best company here I have ever joined with. It is the company I join the longest among those companies when I was in Thailand.
I think I have clarified everything already to all Filipinos. Hope this apology will be notified you guys.
In January 2015, a Filipino nurse in Singapore was dismissed by his employer, Tan Tong Sek Hospital, over his various posts, which came as offensive to Singaporeans and religion, on different Social Media sites.
Read more at http://www.mb.com.ph/thai-national-in-trouble-over-racist-remarks-against-ph/#zYQP2H4JMFpFCWlp.99
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KB • 3 days ago
Hey.. I'd like to say that there are stupid ignorant people everywhere. Don't be upset or take it seriously from 1 person's remark. It's such ashamed for me to see a stupid, arrogant Thai acting like frog in your country. He clearly never travels or lives abroad before thinking Thailand is such a great country. But anyway, please don't take it as a racial/national issue. He doesn't represent Thailand, not a slightest bit. I can guarantee you that majority of Thai people don't look down on Filipinos based on my friend's experience living in Bkk. I'd say that there are idiots like this anywhere but Thailand probably got a lot since the education here is so lagging behind. As we're all ASEANers, we should help each other and grow together, not attack one another. There are people outside, many probably looking down on us as a whole. It matters more to show the world what we can accomplice. And it is more possible if we collaborate, not fight against each other.
I can imagine as ASEAN countries become closer, there surely are more of these negative attitudes throwing at each other just like what also happens with the EU. Before we probably didn't have so much interactions, people were less aware of the each other. Now it is quite different. Just hope the positive collaboration outweighs the negative aspects of becoming closer.
....Just a thought from a Thai.
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Darkk Angell KB • 2 days ago
Nicely said.
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al KB • 2 days ago
I agree with you, but, he still has to face the consequences of his actions...
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Dyoll Nhoj An-nup Celoso KB • 2 days ago
Agree with this man...
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Val Ang KB • 2 days ago
very well said man!
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Cristal Fernandez KB • 3 days ago
I am a Filipino and I agree with you. Let us not judge a nation based on just one person.
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Pete Higgins • 4 days ago
I am not Filipino, I am American. I have also been to Thailand. To me Thailand sucks. Don't ever meet up with me because I won't just give you southern hospitality but a trip to the hospital to let all those Filipino doctors try to put you back together.
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petervandever Pete Higgins • 3 days ago
I am also an American (born at Clark) much of what the guy said was true.... just the words he used was not the best. Most Americans here dont want a local doctor touching them. People go to Makati Medical so they can get US style treatment.
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BCon petervandever • 2 days ago
You're pathetic, being stuck in a place you hate.
I also have friends (pinoys) who hated the Philippines and they are now living in the US. But oh well, those people have money.
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petervandever BCon • 2 days ago
I come and go as I want. I pay taxes to bankroll this mess of a country.
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trash trash petervandever • a day ago
Kawawa ka na man. D mo lang alam, napakapanget mo. Kinamunmuhihian ka rin ng mga taong nagpapalibot sa iyo. Sa totoo lang, d ka naman kayang kapuotan ng mga pinoy dahil wala lahi namin yan. Mga taong tulad mo ay kinaaawaran. Walang halaga ang tagalog para sayu dahil walang halaga ang pagkakaibigan at pakikiramay sa ibang tao para sayo. Mas masahol ka pa sa hayop at malansang isda ka rin. Wala kaming magawa kung ayaw mong lumayas, wala din kaming magawa sa pangangamoy ng baho mo.
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ZaRa Opal petervandever • 2 days ago
Let's go man!!!
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Pete Higgins petervandever • 2 days ago
I am American and I don't have any problems with the Doctor's in Cebu or them touching my family or me.
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petervandever Pete Higgins • 2 days ago
You must be a man of great faith or not value life.
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Pete Higgins petervandever • 2 days ago
Faith has nothing to do with it. There are good and bad doctors in the states as well as here, or anywhere. It just take some time and effort to find the good ones.
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petervandever Pete Higgins • 2 days ago
You are one of those..... that think the Philippines is on the same level as the States..... I didn't drink the koolaid. I see the country for what it is and is not.
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Pete Higgins petervandever • a day ago
Maybe you should have tried the cool-aid. I think you are not much better than the Thai that made the bad remarks. You think you can say what ever you want and hide behind the Bill of Rights. That doesn't always work. If you say what you really feel there will be people hunting you. Then cry freedom of speech and see if it helps you.
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petervandever Pete Higgins • 20 hours ago
Is kissing ass a requirement for residency here? I do not believe so. I will speak my mind here and in the States. I was raised to be straight up and tell it how it is.... No bullshitting allowed in our home.
The Philippines has some very serious problems and pretending they don't exist is not the answer.
Much of what the Thai said is true, he just didn't did not say it a way that could produce a discussion. He used the wrong words.
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Marquis Du Spade petervandever • 2 days ago
Why can't you go back to the US, sir?
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petervandever Marquis Du Spade • 2 days ago
Why would I go back? My home is here.
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ZaRa Opal Marquis Du Spade • 2 days ago
I am strongly agree. Why dont you just go to US?
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Cary Balin petervandever • 2 days ago
Do you agree with him that all Filipinos are "useless people on earth,"stupid." and are not fit for corporate work? :
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petervandever Cary Balin • 2 days ago
The last part is true. Most pinoys are not too bright. There is a reason it takes 3-4 pinoys to do the job of one American.
As I said, better words but I believe in free speech. Period.
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Paul Lorenzo petervandever • a day ago
Wow. I think if you come back here in the US you would not survive or be well off, because you are much less than american! You are using the leverage because you know that not all filipinos are given opportunities like your country does. You belong there exactly.
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petervandever Paul Lorenzo • a day ago
You lost me. You do realize the cost of living in the United States is lower than in the Philippines. Makati is not cheap.
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Cary Balin petervandever • 2 days ago
Unfortunately, I agree that many Pinoys are not too bright. But I wouldn't say "most," or "all," as that Thai guy did.
I have been to Thailand and I loved it there. I can't say if the people were bright or stupid, but they certainly were nice.
Peter, OOT, do you speak Filipino? Are you married to a Filipino? By the way, I saw your photographs and they are lovely.
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petervandever Cary Balin • 2 days ago
I am a Clark boy. Which of the 167 languages is "Filipino." I understand some tagalog. English is the Filipino's meal ticket.
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Cary Balin petervandever • 2 days ago
I don't know if you are being deliberately abrasive (perhaps I am not too bright), but what I meant to ask was if you spoke Tagalog or any Filipino dialect.
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petervandever Cary Balin • 2 days ago
I can BUT I hate Tagalog with a passion. What economical value does it have? Fill a form and you use English. Go to Court and they use English. Read a sign and it is in English. You have to speak it to get a job. Everything we do is in English but we tell people to speak tagalog....makes no sense.
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DarkHeart EvilSoul petervandever • 2 days ago
Maybe, because English is the universal language.. So why would you used your native language if the message that needed to be dissiminated is not only meant for the people living in a country or in that place?
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Cary Balin petervandever • 2 days ago
Perhaps for better communication? It's not like all Filipinos speak flawless English. As for its economic value, maybe you can use it for haggling/negotiating? LOL I better stop before I become proof that Pinoys are stupid.
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petervandever Cary Balin • 2 days ago
It is more important that Pinoys speak English that is Americans speak Tagalog.
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Cary Balin petervandever • 2 days ago
I won't disagree, but it won't be completely useless if you were an American living in the Philippines.
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petervandever Cary Balin • 2 days ago
You dont have to be too bright to walk your son to school across the street. Education is free here and they still wont go.
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Caye petervandever • a day ago
Hahaha, What?
You know it is very simple to understand Filipinos. I am one.
Some of us were born Poor by our Poor parents and its a Part of our Eco-System.
Its not our Fault if were born poor.
Most of us don't have the possibility to go to School because for us Family is more Important rather than our Education. Kids at their early Age decides to stay at Home and help their Parents, there is no enough Money anyway to go to School.
We help the household.
We do the Cooking.
We do the Laundry.
We do the Cleaning.
We also do the Babysitting for our younger siblings.
We have our Dreams, we have our Ambitions, We try...... but if there is no possibility given, why Force?
If given the Chance, many of us are grabbing it and many of us became Successful.
It is somehow bothering me that you people are Judging our Doctors in the Philippines.
We may not have the High Technology Equipment what you have because we are not be able to afford it, it does not mean that we are
not competent on helping People regarding their Health Problems.
It is very Strange that many Countries likes to Employ Filipinos.
Maybe because:
We are paid Cheaper.
Maybe It doesnt matter if they put us in a very Dangerous Job, because were just Filipinos?
Maybe they can just do whatever they want to us?
or maybe they knew that
We are giving not only our Effort but our Hearts in our Jobs for the Reason that there are People back home who needs Support from us, for them not walk on the same path that we did.
For them to have the Chance to go to School and try to make a Somebody out of a Nobody. Not all but some.
In any other country, there are people who are given Chances because they were Accepted.
There are also many who has no Interest on making something better for their Lives.
Its just a Matter of Choices And Chances.
So please Stop judging. Step on our Shoes.
Accept the Reality.
Your lucky for being who you are now.
I wish you every goodness in Life.
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rice m petervandever • 3 days ago
are Makati Med Doctors not a Filipino? go back to US if you can afford!
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petervandever rice m • 2 days ago
Most my doctors at MMC are American or Japanese..... how can I go "back" to America when I was born in Angeles City? (Clark)
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Disqus Guest petervandever • 2 days ago
Being born and raised in any place is not enough reason to stay in that place if you don't like it. And from your responses, I can only discern that you obviously feel disdain, to say the least, towards the Philippines, its culture and people. You say you are educated and you sound like you actually have money to go and live somewhere else. And yet, you chose to stay and invest in the country. I just wonder, why?
Only people with psychological problems would choose to stay in a place that disgusts them, and surrounded by people they don't like. So it makes me wonder why you're still in the Philippines. You're an American, and you obviously think America and everything American is way superior than anything remotely Filipino. So, why don't you just live and invest your money in America?
The Philippines has enough problems as it is, and it would be a win-win situation for everyone, especially for you if you just leave the country. Is the money that you earn in "despicable" Philippines with "filthy" Filipinos that good that you'd rather stay in the country which, reading how you describe it, is actually your personal hell? Or maybe you have masochistic tendencies that you actually enjoy being miserable everyday in "wretched" Philippines and "no-good" Filipinos? Please enlighten me, because I really can't understand why you are still in the Philippines when obviously you have no love for the country, the culture and the people.
And by the way, I will tell this to your face if I ever meet you in person, no matter how big you are.
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Darkk Angell Disqus Guest • 2 days ago
Perhaps this Angeles City-born-"American" is an illegitimate child born out of wedlock. That is why he/she has no other choice but to be in the Philippines. What a loser! Or he may be one of those pedophiles who despite hating the lousy conditions he/she is currently in cannot or doesn't want to leave because he/she is enjoying his/her pedophilic activities! Hey sicko!
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petervandever Disqus Guest • 2 days ago
Is love for the country needed to live somewhere? I disdain culture in general.... here, America or anywhere. Culture is the bedrock for poverty.
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Dong Jhong LanPor petervandever • 2 days ago
Get Lost!!! You don't like us Filipinos? Then we don't like you either!!! Wala kang delicadesa!!!!
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petervandever Dong Jhong LanPor • 2 days ago
That sounds very hospitable lol
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Disqus Guest petervandever • 2 days ago
That's sad. Because you're human and we can't live and evolve without culture. And you can only escape it if you go and live by yourself in a cave. Unless I'm mistaken in assuming that you are indeed human.
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petervandever Disqus Guest • 2 days ago
Why would you think I have disdain towards the country?
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Disqus Guest petervandever • 2 days ago
Have you read what you've written? You criticize everything, from the President, to doctors, the culture, and the people. I'm not saying that the Philippines or its culture and people are perfect. Far from it. But I have yet to see a positive comment from you regarding the country or its people. But I guess that would be too much since, and let me quote your reply to William Eberline somewhere in this thread... "Much of what he said was true...... I am in the country but love and
respect pinoys? No thanks. Guess what? The freedom of speech is still
alive.... I think...."
And you're asking me why I think you have disdain towards the country? Or by country, are you only referring to the landmass, the surrounding seas and its natural resources? What comprises the country anyway? Isn't it the culture and its people, which in your own words you have ZERO respect and no love?
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petervandever Disqus Guest • 2 days ago
I love the beaches and waterfalls.... that is why I stay.... not the people. I have a love/hate relationship with them. I don't need them to be happy.
I do not like the culture and no where is that a requirement that I do.
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Darkk Angell Disqus Guest • 2 days ago
There is NO such thing as a PERFECT culture. All cultures have its own imperfections no matter how small it may be. Even in advanced cultures there are some @ssholes in the mix. Perhaps you are one of those @ssholes but just happen to be living here.
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fords petervandever • 33 minutes ago
You are a Filipino too I guess. You just want some attention. You keep on saying that this place and that place is less habitable but still you opt to stay. Come and swim with me in the "filthy" Philippines - the way you see it. I love to do it only with you because you like it too.
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Khitz Flores petervandever • 2 days ago
yabang pa more....tae rin lumalabas sa pwet mo..LOL!
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al petervandever • 2 days ago
Huh?
http://www.mb.com.ph/thai-national-in-trouble-over-racist-remarks-against-ph/
Thai national in trouble over ‘racist’ remarks against PH
A Thai national living in the Philippines for over three years now is in hot water over “racist” remarks he made on social media regarding Filipinos and his host country.
The backlash by netizens on Kosin Prasertsri remarks has even pushed his employer to issue an official statement on May 3.
Read more at http://www.mb.com.ph/thai-national-in-trouble-over-racist-remarks-against-ph/#zYQP2H4JMFpFCWlp.99
Cognizant Technology Solutions Philippines, through its Facebook page, said it has already initiated internal interventions for Prasertsri to face the consequences of his actions.
As of this writing, Cognizant Philippines has yet to reply to Manila Bulletin queries on the issue at hand.
Prasertsri, who goes by the name Koko Narak on Facebook, posted remarks which many netizens found as racist and offensive to Filipinos.
Reports say that he used the Facebook community organization named ASEAN Community to bash Filipinos.
On February 16, he posted three photos taken inside a fitness center located in a mall at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig. He captioned the photos with “Look at slave slum low class Pignoy asks all their ancestors to eat for free”.
Prasertsri also described the Filipinos as “stupid creatures” and “useless people on earth” in separate Facebook comments.
In another Facebook comment, he voiced out his observation about the Philippines and Filipinos, who he repeatedly called “Pignoys”.
image: http://www.mb.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/narak.jpg
Photo screenshot courtesy of http://www.localpulse.net/
Photo screenshot courtesy of http://www.localpulse.net/
Also on February 16, Prasertsri felt “scared” to be medically checked up by a Filipino doctor. “May I have a check up with any doctors who are not from the medical school from the Philippines?”
According to Prasertsri, Filipinos are not fit to do corporate or administration jobs but as maids, calling them “toilet lickers”.
A Filipino fast food was also criticized by the Thai national.
image: http://www.mb.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/narak-2.jpg
Photo screenshot courtesy of http://www.localpulse.net/
Photo screenshot courtesy of http://www.localpulse.net/
In another screenshot which appeared to be one of Prasertsri’s Facebook post, he said: “If I were a Hitler, I would kill all Filipinos on this earth. Since it is a useless race on this world. No quality of population. Fuck, fuck, fuck and fuck producing babies to be street beggars, security guards holding guns. It is useless people on earth and waste the natural resources.”
The ASEAN Community confirmed that Prasertsri has extended his apology to the Filipinos.
Cool Buster website was able to copy the letter before the Thai national left the ASEAN Community in Facebook and turned his Facebook page’s setting to private, disabling the public to see his posts.
Below is the full apology letter or Prasertsri courtesy of Cool Buster:
To All Filipinos on this page!
This is my great sorrow to inform you that I am very sorry what I’ve done or posted the racist comments wheter on the Asean page or my personal facebook.
No matter the comments I have done are either from my intention or my playfullness. Kindly accept my apology.
At the first sight of my intention to join this page, I came across just to do the debate only. I didn’t mean to hurt your heart Filipinos. Surprisingly, mosts of my debates on the page hurt you because of my imaturity.
This is my sincere apology to all of you Filipinos.
What I would like to inform you is, I am not feeling scared of the post or the blog. But I am feeling scared of brokening all Filipinos’ heart here. Many comments that I posted on the page are kind of playful more than my intention to be racist to all Filipinos.
Back to the past, I had many Filipino friends in my school plus I had Filipinos teachers. I would like to let you guys know that I am not that kind of person as you see on the page. I am not trying to say I am good or perfect or make an excuse. But at least, I have many Filipino friends here. I have helped them their financial problem. Many of my friends had no milk to feed their children, no rental monthly, no electricity and no food. I am the one who had helped them with my heart. Bcos I know how they were feeling at that time. I used to be cheated as well. Plus, I always share my happiness to them buying snack, toy and etc to share with the children as I can handle. I am such a pityful person even I sometime have a negative prejudice on Filipinos.
I am not trying to request your sympatize to me but I am trying all dear Filipinos here to think of me in another way. I am very an approachable guy spending my life as Filipinos do, hanging out with friends at the cheap place, singing videoke like Filipinos, buying cloths from Changke. I hope you Filipinos will understand and accept my apology.
Feedback from my company, I have talked and discussed regarding the situation already and I got penalty what I had done. I am deserved it I know. Hope you guys kindly accept my apology since Filipinos are well known to be kind and friendly. Am I right? I might move from here to another branch abroad not in The Philippines anymore but I hope that you will welcome me whenever I come back. I wish I could be welcome from you guys Filipinos.
Finally, once I post this apology to you. I will unlike on this page and never come back again. This is my sincere responsibility and I will handle all by myself everything I have done. Please do not drag my company Cognizant to be the victim or hostage for the situation since I love Cognizant so much. It is one of the best company here I have ever joined with. It is the company I join the longest among those companies when I was in Thailand.
I think I have clarified everything already to all Filipinos. Hope this apology will be notified you guys.
In January 2015, a Filipino nurse in Singapore was dismissed by his employer, Tan Tong Sek Hospital, over his various posts, which came as offensive to Singaporeans and religion, on different Social Media sites.
Read more at http://www.mb.com.ph/thai-national-in-trouble-over-racist-remarks-against-ph/#zYQP2H4JMFpFCWlp.99
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KB • 3 days ago
Hey.. I'd like to say that there are stupid ignorant people everywhere. Don't be upset or take it seriously from 1 person's remark. It's such ashamed for me to see a stupid, arrogant Thai acting like frog in your country. He clearly never travels or lives abroad before thinking Thailand is such a great country. But anyway, please don't take it as a racial/national issue. He doesn't represent Thailand, not a slightest bit. I can guarantee you that majority of Thai people don't look down on Filipinos based on my friend's experience living in Bkk. I'd say that there are idiots like this anywhere but Thailand probably got a lot since the education here is so lagging behind. As we're all ASEANers, we should help each other and grow together, not attack one another. There are people outside, many probably looking down on us as a whole. It matters more to show the world what we can accomplice. And it is more possible if we collaborate, not fight against each other.
I can imagine as ASEAN countries become closer, there surely are more of these negative attitudes throwing at each other just like what also happens with the EU. Before we probably didn't have so much interactions, people were less aware of the each other. Now it is quite different. Just hope the positive collaboration outweighs the negative aspects of becoming closer.
....Just a thought from a Thai.
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Darkk Angell KB • 2 days ago
Nicely said.
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al KB • 2 days ago
I agree with you, but, he still has to face the consequences of his actions...
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Dyoll Nhoj An-nup Celoso KB • 2 days ago
Agree with this man...
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Val Ang KB • 2 days ago
very well said man!
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Cristal Fernandez KB • 3 days ago
I am a Filipino and I agree with you. Let us not judge a nation based on just one person.
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Pete Higgins • 4 days ago
I am not Filipino, I am American. I have also been to Thailand. To me Thailand sucks. Don't ever meet up with me because I won't just give you southern hospitality but a trip to the hospital to let all those Filipino doctors try to put you back together.
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petervandever Pete Higgins • 3 days ago
I am also an American (born at Clark) much of what the guy said was true.... just the words he used was not the best. Most Americans here dont want a local doctor touching them. People go to Makati Medical so they can get US style treatment.
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BCon petervandever • 2 days ago
You're pathetic, being stuck in a place you hate.
I also have friends (pinoys) who hated the Philippines and they are now living in the US. But oh well, those people have money.
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petervandever BCon • 2 days ago
I come and go as I want. I pay taxes to bankroll this mess of a country.
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trash trash petervandever • a day ago
Kawawa ka na man. D mo lang alam, napakapanget mo. Kinamunmuhihian ka rin ng mga taong nagpapalibot sa iyo. Sa totoo lang, d ka naman kayang kapuotan ng mga pinoy dahil wala lahi namin yan. Mga taong tulad mo ay kinaaawaran. Walang halaga ang tagalog para sayu dahil walang halaga ang pagkakaibigan at pakikiramay sa ibang tao para sayo. Mas masahol ka pa sa hayop at malansang isda ka rin. Wala kaming magawa kung ayaw mong lumayas, wala din kaming magawa sa pangangamoy ng baho mo.
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ZaRa Opal petervandever • 2 days ago
Let's go man!!!
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Pete Higgins petervandever • 2 days ago
I am American and I don't have any problems with the Doctor's in Cebu or them touching my family or me.
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petervandever Pete Higgins • 2 days ago
You must be a man of great faith or not value life.
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Pete Higgins petervandever • 2 days ago
Faith has nothing to do with it. There are good and bad doctors in the states as well as here, or anywhere. It just take some time and effort to find the good ones.
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petervandever Pete Higgins • 2 days ago
You are one of those..... that think the Philippines is on the same level as the States..... I didn't drink the koolaid. I see the country for what it is and is not.
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Pete Higgins petervandever • a day ago
Maybe you should have tried the cool-aid. I think you are not much better than the Thai that made the bad remarks. You think you can say what ever you want and hide behind the Bill of Rights. That doesn't always work. If you say what you really feel there will be people hunting you. Then cry freedom of speech and see if it helps you.
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petervandever Pete Higgins • 20 hours ago
Is kissing ass a requirement for residency here? I do not believe so. I will speak my mind here and in the States. I was raised to be straight up and tell it how it is.... No bullshitting allowed in our home.
The Philippines has some very serious problems and pretending they don't exist is not the answer.
Much of what the Thai said is true, he just didn't did not say it a way that could produce a discussion. He used the wrong words.
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Marquis Du Spade petervandever • 2 days ago
Why can't you go back to the US, sir?
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petervandever Marquis Du Spade • 2 days ago
Why would I go back? My home is here.
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ZaRa Opal Marquis Du Spade • 2 days ago
I am strongly agree. Why dont you just go to US?
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Cary Balin petervandever • 2 days ago
Do you agree with him that all Filipinos are "useless people on earth,"stupid." and are not fit for corporate work? :
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petervandever Cary Balin • 2 days ago
The last part is true. Most pinoys are not too bright. There is a reason it takes 3-4 pinoys to do the job of one American.
As I said, better words but I believe in free speech. Period.
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Paul Lorenzo petervandever • a day ago
Wow. I think if you come back here in the US you would not survive or be well off, because you are much less than american! You are using the leverage because you know that not all filipinos are given opportunities like your country does. You belong there exactly.
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petervandever Paul Lorenzo • a day ago
You lost me. You do realize the cost of living in the United States is lower than in the Philippines. Makati is not cheap.
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Cary Balin petervandever • 2 days ago
Unfortunately, I agree that many Pinoys are not too bright. But I wouldn't say "most," or "all," as that Thai guy did.
I have been to Thailand and I loved it there. I can't say if the people were bright or stupid, but they certainly were nice.
Peter, OOT, do you speak Filipino? Are you married to a Filipino? By the way, I saw your photographs and they are lovely.
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petervandever Cary Balin • 2 days ago
I am a Clark boy. Which of the 167 languages is "Filipino." I understand some tagalog. English is the Filipino's meal ticket.
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Cary Balin petervandever • 2 days ago
I don't know if you are being deliberately abrasive (perhaps I am not too bright), but what I meant to ask was if you spoke Tagalog or any Filipino dialect.
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petervandever Cary Balin • 2 days ago
I can BUT I hate Tagalog with a passion. What economical value does it have? Fill a form and you use English. Go to Court and they use English. Read a sign and it is in English. You have to speak it to get a job. Everything we do is in English but we tell people to speak tagalog....makes no sense.
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DarkHeart EvilSoul petervandever • 2 days ago
Maybe, because English is the universal language.. So why would you used your native language if the message that needed to be dissiminated is not only meant for the people living in a country or in that place?
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Cary Balin petervandever • 2 days ago
Perhaps for better communication? It's not like all Filipinos speak flawless English. As for its economic value, maybe you can use it for haggling/negotiating? LOL I better stop before I become proof that Pinoys are stupid.
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petervandever Cary Balin • 2 days ago
It is more important that Pinoys speak English that is Americans speak Tagalog.
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Cary Balin petervandever • 2 days ago
I won't disagree, but it won't be completely useless if you were an American living in the Philippines.
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petervandever Cary Balin • 2 days ago
You dont have to be too bright to walk your son to school across the street. Education is free here and they still wont go.
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Caye petervandever • a day ago
Hahaha, What?
You know it is very simple to understand Filipinos. I am one.
Some of us were born Poor by our Poor parents and its a Part of our Eco-System.
Its not our Fault if were born poor.
Most of us don't have the possibility to go to School because for us Family is more Important rather than our Education. Kids at their early Age decides to stay at Home and help their Parents, there is no enough Money anyway to go to School.
We help the household.
We do the Cooking.
We do the Laundry.
We do the Cleaning.
We also do the Babysitting for our younger siblings.
We have our Dreams, we have our Ambitions, We try...... but if there is no possibility given, why Force?
If given the Chance, many of us are grabbing it and many of us became Successful.
It is somehow bothering me that you people are Judging our Doctors in the Philippines.
We may not have the High Technology Equipment what you have because we are not be able to afford it, it does not mean that we are
not competent on helping People regarding their Health Problems.
It is very Strange that many Countries likes to Employ Filipinos.
Maybe because:
We are paid Cheaper.
Maybe It doesnt matter if they put us in a very Dangerous Job, because were just Filipinos?
Maybe they can just do whatever they want to us?
or maybe they knew that
We are giving not only our Effort but our Hearts in our Jobs for the Reason that there are People back home who needs Support from us, for them not walk on the same path that we did.
For them to have the Chance to go to School and try to make a Somebody out of a Nobody. Not all but some.
In any other country, there are people who are given Chances because they were Accepted.
There are also many who has no Interest on making something better for their Lives.
Its just a Matter of Choices And Chances.
So please Stop judging. Step on our Shoes.
Accept the Reality.
Your lucky for being who you are now.
I wish you every goodness in Life.
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rice m petervandever • 3 days ago
are Makati Med Doctors not a Filipino? go back to US if you can afford!
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petervandever rice m • 2 days ago
Most my doctors at MMC are American or Japanese..... how can I go "back" to America when I was born in Angeles City? (Clark)
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Disqus Guest petervandever • 2 days ago
Being born and raised in any place is not enough reason to stay in that place if you don't like it. And from your responses, I can only discern that you obviously feel disdain, to say the least, towards the Philippines, its culture and people. You say you are educated and you sound like you actually have money to go and live somewhere else. And yet, you chose to stay and invest in the country. I just wonder, why?
Only people with psychological problems would choose to stay in a place that disgusts them, and surrounded by people they don't like. So it makes me wonder why you're still in the Philippines. You're an American, and you obviously think America and everything American is way superior than anything remotely Filipino. So, why don't you just live and invest your money in America?
The Philippines has enough problems as it is, and it would be a win-win situation for everyone, especially for you if you just leave the country. Is the money that you earn in "despicable" Philippines with "filthy" Filipinos that good that you'd rather stay in the country which, reading how you describe it, is actually your personal hell? Or maybe you have masochistic tendencies that you actually enjoy being miserable everyday in "wretched" Philippines and "no-good" Filipinos? Please enlighten me, because I really can't understand why you are still in the Philippines when obviously you have no love for the country, the culture and the people.
And by the way, I will tell this to your face if I ever meet you in person, no matter how big you are.
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Darkk Angell Disqus Guest • 2 days ago
Perhaps this Angeles City-born-"American" is an illegitimate child born out of wedlock. That is why he/she has no other choice but to be in the Philippines. What a loser! Or he may be one of those pedophiles who despite hating the lousy conditions he/she is currently in cannot or doesn't want to leave because he/she is enjoying his/her pedophilic activities! Hey sicko!
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petervandever Disqus Guest • 2 days ago
Is love for the country needed to live somewhere? I disdain culture in general.... here, America or anywhere. Culture is the bedrock for poverty.
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Dong Jhong LanPor petervandever • 2 days ago
Get Lost!!! You don't like us Filipinos? Then we don't like you either!!! Wala kang delicadesa!!!!
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petervandever Dong Jhong LanPor • 2 days ago
That sounds very hospitable lol
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Disqus Guest petervandever • 2 days ago
That's sad. Because you're human and we can't live and evolve without culture. And you can only escape it if you go and live by yourself in a cave. Unless I'm mistaken in assuming that you are indeed human.
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petervandever Disqus Guest • 2 days ago
Why would you think I have disdain towards the country?
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Disqus Guest petervandever • 2 days ago
Have you read what you've written? You criticize everything, from the President, to doctors, the culture, and the people. I'm not saying that the Philippines or its culture and people are perfect. Far from it. But I have yet to see a positive comment from you regarding the country or its people. But I guess that would be too much since, and let me quote your reply to William Eberline somewhere in this thread... "Much of what he said was true...... I am in the country but love and
respect pinoys? No thanks. Guess what? The freedom of speech is still
alive.... I think...."
And you're asking me why I think you have disdain towards the country? Or by country, are you only referring to the landmass, the surrounding seas and its natural resources? What comprises the country anyway? Isn't it the culture and its people, which in your own words you have ZERO respect and no love?
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petervandever Disqus Guest • 2 days ago
I love the beaches and waterfalls.... that is why I stay.... not the people. I have a love/hate relationship with them. I don't need them to be happy.
I do not like the culture and no where is that a requirement that I do.
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Darkk Angell Disqus Guest • 2 days ago
There is NO such thing as a PERFECT culture. All cultures have its own imperfections no matter how small it may be. Even in advanced cultures there are some @ssholes in the mix. Perhaps you are one of those @ssholes but just happen to be living here.
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fords petervandever • 33 minutes ago
You are a Filipino too I guess. You just want some attention. You keep on saying that this place and that place is less habitable but still you opt to stay. Come and swim with me in the "filthy" Philippines - the way you see it. I love to do it only with you because you like it too.
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Khitz Flores petervandever • 2 days ago
yabang pa more....tae rin lumalabas sa pwet mo..LOL!
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al petervandever • 2 days ago
Huh?
