Makati foreigner to be charged for violating quarantine rules, assaulting police

To say it mild, not really smart acting like this.
https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2020/4/27/Dasmarinas-Village-Makati-quarantine-arrest.html

 

stupid getting into a fight, but on the other hand, still pretty ridiculous that the cop demands the helper to wear a mask while watering the flowers, alone. thats the general problem with such rules in countries like this - people who otherwise dont get much to say enforce these rules to the last dot, without the slightest sense of proportion.

 

"Kano", as an abbreviation for "American", is a a somewhat respectful term of reference. ("Sir" or "madame" is the correct term of address, and they all know it.) If it's used generally for Europeans in appearance, it's probably due to a limited understanding of world geography. Most filipinos, including most high school and many college graduates, cannot even identify or locate islands of the Philippines. China, Japan, the USA are somewhere over the horizon. England, Germany etc. are probably part of the USA. But there are people with an ear for languages who can recognize different accents.

The term of address "joe", depending on the tone and your street smarts, is generally a racial slur. People who use it have a head full of color and other slur words, even for compatriots of other tribes. One encounters it seldom in Dumaguete and surroundings, simply because there are so many foreigners. It gets old hat. Mostly I have heard it during fiesta, from hayseeds come to town riding in the back of trucks.

 

I don't find the term "foreigner" demeaning. It is, after all, what we are here, and I can't think of another more accurate term to be honest.

What amuses me is when Filipinos (not all of course, but many) assume all us "foreigners" have the same likes, dislikes, interests etc, despite the fact that, as a "foreigner", we could be from any one of 194 different countries. It is a constant source of amusement to me (it doesn't annoy me, I just think it's quite funny) when I hear comments like:

"You should order this. Foreigners like it."
"Wow, you eat rice."
"Don't go there. You won't like it. Foreigners don't like it there."
"Go to this place. Foreigners go there."
"Have you ever tried Filipino food?"
"It's spicy. You won't be able to eat it."

 

Or you order rice but they serve you fries. The two words sound the same: cannot hear "f", s=z, and long i=short i. So they guess, Foreigner will want fries.

 

When you’re wearing something that stands out, or you’re really tall, and they call ahead on the walkie talkie. Not “table for the tall guy” or “table for the pink shirt”, but instead “table for the foreigner”.
In Taiwan they refer to you as ‘adogah’, ‘big nose’, rather than ‘gweilo’. Slightly less offensive.
Why is your foreign-ness the only thing about you that can be described or is worthy of description?

 

I don't mind the term foreigner. It's a quick way to refer to us. Even I have trouble knowing who is who, except being USA, Brit or Irish for example, but not so much for some European countries. I wasn't sure what nationality the guy is from this story above. I did guess Italian or Hungarian? But is surname is Spanish or Portuguese I think???