No Jasmine, hindi ka Pinoy

TALK SHOW
Fundy Soriano
People's Tonight

HINDI napuno ng American Idol na si Jasmine Trias ang Araneta Coliseum sa kanyang concert noong Sabado ng gabi. Maraming mga bakanteng upuan sa lower at upper boxes at maging sa bleacher. Ang ibig sabihin, hindi pa made ang Amerikanang singer.

"Mula ng mabasa ko ang mga kapalpakan ni Jasmine sa iyong kolum ay nawalan na ako ng gana sa kanya," ani Donna Arafiles ng Marikina City sa kanyang note sa amin, na iniwan sa mga guard ng PJI.

"Tama ka. Kaya lamang umuwi rito sa atin ang American girl na si Jasmine ay para maghanapbuhay at kumita ng milyones from her three commercials at isang concert.

"Misnomer din ang titulong Jasmine Trias: Fil-American Idol Live in Manila dahil hindi siya Fil-Am, kundi isang Amerikana, kahit dating Pinoy ang kanyang magulang dahil sa Hawaii siya ipinanganak. Hindi rin sa Manila ginawa ang kanyang concert, kundi sa Quezon City," pagpapatuloy ni Donna. Tama sana kung ang ginamit ay Metro Manila.

"Tama ka rin. Dapat bago magbalik sa Hawaii ang Kana na si Jasmine ay singilin siya ng BIR sa taxes na dapat niyang bayaran from her millions of pesos na kinita rito sa atin.

"In closing, may I congratulate you, Tito FS, dahil ikaw lang yata ang entertainment writer ang mayroong social relevance ang kolum. Hindi katulad ng ibang mga columnist na puro tsismis, away at kalandian ng mga artista ang alam isulat. Nasusuka na rin ako sa movie press na laging pinupuri ang mga show ng GMA-7 o ABS-CBN 2, na karamihan naman ay mediocre. Binabayaran ba ang mga kolumnistang ito para purihin ang mataas na reyting ng kanilang mga 'kliyente?'"

Donna, salamat sa iyong obserbasyon. Ayaw naming magkomento sa iyong huling katanungan dahil wala kaming ebidensiya na mayroong mga entertainment writer ang nasa payroll ng ilang network to sing hosannah to their programs.

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HINDI masasabing outstanding ang performance ng Kanang si Jasmine sa kanyang concert. Oo nga at hindi siya pumiyok, pero hirap na hirap siyang abutin ang ilang high notes.

Average lamang ang kanyang performance. Higit na mahusay sa kanya sina Lani Misalucha, Dulce, Regine Velasquez at maging si Dessa pagdating sa concert scene.

Sinikap ni Jasmine ang mag-Tagalog kahit siya hirap na hirap. Pero, mabilis ding mag-memorize ng ilang salitang Pinoy ang estrangherang ito.

"Nag-enjoy ba kayo?" simula niya. "Masaya ako na nandito kayo. This is like my second home next to Hawaii because my parents are from Cavite. Pinoy na Pinoy ako. This homecoming made me more proud of my Filipino heritage," litanya niya.

We beg to disagree, Miss American girl Jasmine. Hindi ka Pinoy katulad ng iyong ipinagmamalaki dahil kung totoo ang sinabi mo, sana ay nag-elect ka ng dual citizenship katulad ng 2004 World Pool champ na si Alex Pagulayan nang ikaw ay tumuntong dito sa aming bansa.

Sinasabi mo lang na ikaw ay Pinoy, dahil overwhelmed ka sa init ng pagtanggap sa iyo ng aking mga kababayan dito sa bansang pinagmulan ng iyong mga magulang

And also, rito sa Pilipinas ka lamang binigyan ng superstar status ng mga kumpanyang kumuha ng iyong paglilingkod bilang product endorser.

Maniniwala lamang kami na ikaw ay "Pinoy na Pinoy" kung magpa-file ka ng Filipino citizenship para ka kilalaning Filipino na, Amerikana pa.

Pero, hangga't hindi mo ito ginagawa, hindi tama ang tag sa iyo na ikaw ay isang Filipina-American.

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TALAGA yatang paurong ang ating local television, dahil maging ang pinakamagagaling na executives at writers ng GMA 7 ay walang nalalaman sa tamang conjugation. Patuloy nilang binabastardo ang wikang Filipino.

Katulad na lamang nitong bagong show ng GMA na Naks. Ang subtitle nito ay Nakakabilib at Kakaibang Show.

Alin dito ang mali? Ang salitang "nakakabilib" ay binaboy na naman nila. Dahil walang salitang "nakakabilib" sa Filipino kundi "nakabibilib."

Ang hirap sa ibang mga scriptwriter sa telebisyon, patuloy na lumulutang ang kanilang mga katangahan pagdating na sa tamang pagbabanghay.

Hindi nila alam ang patakaran sa conjugation sa Filipino na ang prefix o unlapi ay hindi inuulit, kundi ang root word o salitang ugat.

Dahil ang salitang ugat ay "bilib" (Tinagalog na "believe"), kaya ito ang dapat na ulitin.

Katulad din ito ng salitang "siya" na sa tao lamang dapat gamitin at hindi sa object na walang buhay. Halimbawa: Siya ay maganda. Siya ay masungit. Siya ay matapang.

Kaya mali ang: "Siya ay mababa ang reyting" (na ang tinutukoy ay ang mababang reyting sa survey ng isang TV show). Ang tamang pangungusap ay, "Mababa ang reyting nito."

Ang hirap sa iba nating mga kababayan, kahit mali ang gamit ng isang salita, basta nauso, ginagaya ng marami. Hindi ba ito ay maliwanag na kabobohan at katangahan ng iba nating mga kababayan? Katulad na lamang nang babuyin ng local films at TV ang prefix na "kaka."

Hindi ba nauso ang mga salitang "'kakainis," "'kakasuya," at iba pa, samantalang ang tamang banghay ay "nakaiinis," at "nakasusuya?"

Para sa amin, there is no substitute sa tamang salita, lalo na sa tamang Filipino. Tigilan na naman ninyo ang pambababoy sa ating salita.

Kakabanas na, este, nakababanas na.

Tuesday, October 19, 2004
7:29:14 PM

http://www.journal.com.ph/news.asp?pid=1&s...ay=19&year=2004

hahaha suxs to be her, but at least she gots more talent than them lip syncing fools. plus i don't get why their making a fuss about her citizenship when there are other celebrities in there who gots US citizenship also

i agree.

You agree to the article, I think Jasmine does deserve this critism though. Since she is getting way to much publicity in the Philippines, even though she is an Hawaiian wannabe.

i agree to what shini is saying. it should be about talent and not race and not even that upbringing.

did she really say that she was not filipino? if so then she deserve the criticism but just cuz you lived in somewhere else don't make you not filipino, unless you dispise the culture and don't know crap about it.

She hid the fact that she was filipino. She said she was Spanish/chinese/filipino/and Hawaiian.

strictly no offense, i know how you feel about the instances made by fil in HI, but you can't blame her or just her. many filipinos today still believe they are spanish, though they're not and she grew up in hawaii and along with others filipino, chinese, japanese and white and others "kamaaina" childern of the land in hawaii meanning local born, that call herself hawaiian. that's ethnicity v. ethinic identity and for those who grew up other than their "native" land it's common psychologically.

and other is i don't really think that one have to show their "racial" and ethnicity just to show their pride. i mean there were other contestants and they don't go oww i'm irish let me dance river dancing. it's a new us, we are different we don't have to make it so much different between us just we have different races. you don't have to go filipino filipoino all over just cuz you filipino since it's not like a show for reppin you cult it's a competition of talent.

All Im saying is that she was ashamed to say that she was part filipino. And someone like tha doesn't deserve the publicity she is getting in the Philippines. I mean she really isn't that good of an singer to begin with. The only reason why she is famous there is because she all of an sudden proclaimed that she was proud to be filipina. I hope she doesn't overshadow local star filipina singers who are more talented then Jasmine.

well that might be true, but i don't think one should blame it racially other than the fact taht she has more media coverage n the past.

Even if there were some vacant seats in Araneta Coliseum ,Some of them were company sponsored .

whoa i think the writer was being too mean to jasmine.... i mean hey she did some bad things (well not bad as mean things but like things ppl dont agree with) and all and yeah i know i saw it when she said shes spanish/chinese/filipino, but hey shes still human and as we all know there is no pefect person. and i think she doesnt deserve this kind of criticism... no one does....

my 75 cents

at least she included filipino in there, i heard some filipinos in hawaii deny that their filipino and claims to be ilocanos or something

but she included it when she found out that her only fans left r the filipinos apart from hawaiians... before she was like spanish/chinese/filipino.... at least camille was proud hehehe on the 1st episode she mentioned about being born in manila and being a filipino and all

hahah im not surprised at all...wow

How about the winner of American idol?

Is she now famous?

You mean Fantasia, her album is out already and so is Diana Degarmo's album.

Ay. naku, putang ina naman!

Biglaan ko na lang natandaan ang isang rightwinger nagngangalang Michelle Malkin, na ipinanganak sa Philadelphia.

By the way is Fantasia that famous now?

She never mentioned she was Fiipino on American idol. Even if she didn't say that she wasn't, she still nevor mentioned it.

I'm glad she isn't getting the response that she expected in the Philippines. She only started to marketing herself as being Filipino in the Philippines once she noticed how much money she could make over there once it was evident that she wasn't realy that good. I remember watching TV Patrol with my Dad and they were blowing her up, all proud that another Filipino made it on such a grand stage only to get embarrassed when the b!tch doesn't even mention that she's filipino. I don't get it combatmedic, I know not all, but why do so many Hawaiian Filipinos deny what they are. Cool, your hawaiin... but say that your Hawaiian Filipino! I remember being at work and everyone was talking about American idol, "ooh that hawaiian girl with the flower in her hair" You know when white people think they're thinking of beautifull Hawaiian women they're probably realy envisioning Filipinas?!

Fuken sellouts

That is what you call. Marketing strategy

So that makes it right

I really have no problems with Jasmine, i thik shes comfortable with her ethnicity and is not ashamed of it kahit noon pa, it just so happen that she is hawaiian at heart..home is where the heart is right?..

I think its camille velasco who got the Filipino Closet Syndrome..

Camille was theone who first told that she was a filipina...

in other words she's a sellout



I think it's the other way around

^lol... no, mulawin got it right, i hate camille... she never even mentioned on american idol that she was flip... (lol read some posts: she did?) haha... at least jasmine said something bout liking the theme song to song filipino soap opera...

and camille can't sing as well as jasmine can.

lol

the whole pacific islander thing i pretty gay though.

she did tell that she was a filipino.... first few episodes of ai when they present themselves in a video before singing, camille said tha she was born in manila, the philippines and moved to usa blah blah blah

Ewan ko lang kung tama ang sapantaha ko ha.. pero di ba media lang naman ang nangangalandakan na Fil-Am si Jasmine... siguro talagang mabait lang yong bata kaya nakisakay na lang... kesa naman mangsupalpal sya na hindi sya Fil-Am eh kayrami nga ng Pinoy na sumuporta sa kanya... ewan ko lang... pero tama rin naman na hindi nga sya ganoon kapursigidong umamin na Pinoy sya! eh laking Amerika na yon eh!

Yeah while Jasmine was busy telling everybody that she is Hawaiian and has Hawaiian pride.

see this is like my situation. when people ask me where i'm from i say from teh state of hawaii because there's wehre i currently reside, but born and raised in manila philippines. and then all people remember, especially if you're from places like colorado where tehre's hardly any filipinos, is hawaii. and people think that it's cool to call non native hawaiian hawaiian, like you call anybody from colorado, coloradoans. and that just sticks. even though you say oh i'm not hawaiian, they'd always use it cuz you from hawaii. when i comes to trias's demise, the truth is she was raised over there, so phi might be her home but she grwe up in hawaii and when i comes to identifying closer then she'd say she's proud to be hawaiian (from hawaii, not native) like some fil americans would be like yeah reppin california and californians and the west side and $hit. and there's nothing wrong with that. you are filipino but you don't have to rep your race all the time putting it on peoples face, and push it to people's face because most of the time it's not racial, it's more cultural and in her place she rlates more to the place she grew up in hawaii cuz that's all she knows and knows best.

She said she was half-filipino when in fact her parents were both natives of the Philippines..she claims o be 1/4 irish, 1/4 spanish but i dont se her mom as half-spanish anyway..

kawawa naman pala si camille, na-deadma na dahil kay jasmine....

naalala ko tuloy si halo-halo, sig nya si camille diba?

iunno... sometimes it's even better that they don't say anything.. i remember candian idol... mikey bustos was all 'oh, i'm a proud filipino, and i'm putting azns on the map.. yea, reppin the asian community' damn that was gay..

^^Why would it be gay to say that?

Yes why is that gay to say that. You know what though Lalaine who is way more popular in America then Jasmine, didn't even get an half the recognition that Jasmine got in the Pinas. Plus Lalaine was proud to say she was filipina in the Disney Channel.
The reason why Jasmine went to the Philippines was because her support and popularity in America is decreasing. In 4 years I wouldn't be suprised if she was all together forgotten. While Lalaine is supposed to be doing an movie here in America.