A Nation of (caregivers)

We should be called a nation of carers, giving care to a wounded world. Here is PerryScope's take to a HK journalist's cheap shot at us:


“In August 2006, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo proclaimed, “We will be sending ‘super maids’,” when she announced the launching of a new training program for Filipino domestic workers. Today, out of approximately 3,500 Filipinos leaving each day for overseas jobs, about 70% are domestic workers. A few years ago, there were only 40,000 Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong. Today, there are 130,000. And it’s probably in this context that Tsao used the pejorative term, “nation of servants.”
In Europe, particularly England, a servant is called “Filipina.” Is it more acceptable for an Englishman to call his maid, a “Filipina,” than a Chinese man to call his maid, a “servant”?
But let’s not even deal with that because the real issue here is that the Philippine government is in the business of exporting domestic workers. Today, out of the 8.7 million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), a large number is employed as domestic workers."
Quoted from PerryScope, datedTue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:30 AM. perrydiaz@gmail.com
About Chip Tsao, HK-based journalist who called the country, “a nation of servants.”