Mother's Day 2009
Comedienne and TV actress Candy Pangilinan has been declared “personal non grata" in Baguio City for unsavory remarks she made during last week’s celebration of Mother’s Day at a show in SM-Baguio.A resolution approved by the city council said the declaration was intended to “educate Ms. Candy Pangilinan and others like her" who are “racist, unmindful, insensitive, sarcastic, careless and irresponsible" in issuing such offensive remarks.The resolution was supported by a letter from Sheryl Phoebe Comiles Duque, who said she witnessed the comedienne yell during the show, “akala nyo Igorot ako, hindi ako Igorot, tao po ako! (Do you think I’m an Igorot, I’m not an Igorot, I’m human.") It was said that she repeated and yelled this twice.
An Igorot wearing an Igorot Costume riding a home-made wooden bike.
(I think they have a yearly event on wooden bicycle contest somewhere in the Cordillera which became a culture to the people in these particular place.)
Why is it that an artist came all the way up to a city mostly dominated by igorots and is located inside the igorot region just to shout infront of the igorot people a negative remark about them twice. She is saying in her remark that igorots are not human. Why? What is she thinking? This will definitely cause pain in the hearts of igorot people. This TV actress is discriminating the igorots. So government officials in Baguio City mostly igorots is banning Ms. Candy Pangilinan from setting foot in the city ever again. I think that's what "personal non grata" means- to ban.
She is a disgrace to the Filipino people. I am thankful she is not that famous or else it would become a very big issue and may attract fellow filipino people to be discriminate the igorot filipino.
It's Unlawful To Discriminate...
What I can only say is that, personally I hate people who discriminates people who has done nothing wrong. We may have different cultures and color of skin but it is proven that we are just human beings. We are all the same. We think, eat, talk and sleep. Try watching movies from different countries that is translated in English or your lanuage and you can see or understand that regardless of skin color or culture, we are all thesame as human beings and that I guarantee you will not be an ignorant anymore. Well, I have watched korean, japanese, indian, french, english, spanish, latin, german, russian, chinese, etc. movies and I can say that we are all the same.
Look at USA today, they elected a black as their president. Formerly, blacks are being discriminated by the white people or seen as a low race. But now, having a black won the presidential election, it shows that many Americans have forgotten racial discrimination. This will be a good sign to the world to show that regardless of race-American, Asian, Australian, African, Middle East or European, we are all equal as human beings and have equal rights. USA President Barack Hussein Obama I think is Indonesian and Kenyan but he is an American citizen. What if you are a chinese, middle east, russian, indian, german, australian, filipino, etc. and you became an American citizen. You can run for president and win- this is what America today shows. Everyone is welcome regardless of race. I hope that racial discrimination will be gone forever.
We can be anyone we want....
I think there are famous igorot actors today. They are Marky Cielo who passed away in December 2008 and Paulo Lingbanan Avelino. They are both from mountain province. They have many fans from all over Philippines. Marky Cielo was the only winner of the GMA Star Struck survivor contest on which it was a contest to choose who will become a Philippine actor/actress. Paulo on the next GMA Star Struck contest I think was 6th or 7th placer but GMA channel still hires him to act in many TV shows.
Goodbye Marky Cielo
Handsome Igorot
Paulo Lingbanan Avelino
So Candy's lack of knowledge and ignorance or negative thoughts must be the reason why she is now banned from entering Baguio City. A famous Filipino saying, "Maraming namamatay sa maling akala- There are many who die because of the wrong thought".
I love the candies and to share it with my boyfriend in a speciall time. Actually when he buy viagra we share not only our candies but a great time together. I really love it!!! for me the candy are very delicous.
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