0:00 [Music] there's a hong kong actress her name's francesca wong she recently gave a public apology for portraying a filipino maid in a recent tv role so she filipino faced herself she filipino faced herself she put on brown face how do you feel about this that's brown as a brown man how do you feel about these chinese brown facers because as a yellow face i think it's 100 okay because he's a yellow fan i think it's not okay at all i don't think you should do any brown face as a pale face i don't think i don't know am i japanese is it a good impression that's i want to see so here's the thing usually like my my feeling is 100 based on just how the performance right here or like or what the reason or what the
0:50 context so i'll just let you guys see it first oh there's video all right oh there is video so here she is getting ready for the roll is the tropic thunder of the philippines it's tropic thunder robert downey jr killed this wait this is a hong kong movie it's a it's a hong kong tv show yeah yeah yeah genius is it what is it a is it a drama oh it's a drama they paint her face look at my mom watch this bruh oh she's supposed to be crazy it's a horror movie it might be i don't know oh so she's supposed to be like a crazy maid yeah it's just filipino i just realized what she was doing what is she doing by the way she's browning her legs yeah and also
1:40 why doesn't the makeup artist do this like is this a low budget she's method acting and they're making her do everything herself she's filipino but the um but the crazy thing is she's talking in a filipino accent in this moment that's that's what i thought she was her best accent like let's listen to it what is it she says chinese sounds like singaporean yeah she's south singaporean or malaysian or something it sounds like she's trying to do this i didn't think she was trying at that point i didn't either know i didn't think she was trying to i thought that was shoes i thought that was a chinese accent that's what i thought so people are getting mad at her oh yeah the network apologized and everything all the white people are mad though huh i think all the uh all the neck shark commenters are mad here here's a photo of the uh thing that's a cute dog is it a filipino family
2:30 no it's not a filipino family it's like she's just the healthiest true there's a ton of filipinos in hong kong yeah there's a ton of filipino actors in hong kong when i went to hong kong there's like a ████ ton of filipinos that just chill on at the park on sunday they're just like so you're trying to say they have no jobs you it was one of the days of the week i was like why is there so many ████ filipinos and apparently like it's like a thing like like they miss the philippines or something and then they just like they like to go to the park together and just ████ chill and then like have a picnic and ████ i was like that's some community ████ that's tight yeah they should act that's i think that's like there's so many there's so many things about like what people are mad at there's a number of things some of them that it's just
3:20 unnecessary yeah because like there's so many things especially nowadays so this actress in particular already kind of looks more filipino like just her eyes you know everything like she doesn't need to darken herself right she that's kind of unnecessary to make yourself i know right because what's weird is that is it filipino like they could be pale like a geisha in a ████ dark dark exactly it could be all there's a huge color spectrum but what they're going for and what what is harmful to the filipino community out there is they're they're purposefully making her look as low-class filipino as possible especially with the mates though there's a lot of weird ████ with the maids and how they live which i understand is because the first time i went to singapore um you see it everywhere yeah i didn't know that it was like this was like a long long time ago it was like 2005 my first time going to singapore and then uh
4:10 i think that was the time i went too yeah the dude was like the guy that was hosting me he was this indian guy really great dude um and he had a great sense of like a very dark humor and he was just like he goes you never seen filipinos in singapore have you and i was like no i haven't why and he goes what do you think they do out here and i was like i don't know they're nurses like they are back where i'm from and he goes try again i was like um i don't know their respiratory tech he goes close he goes if it's a guy he's definitely in construction if it's a girl probably a hooker and i was like wow are you ████ serious and then like he took me around and that is what i saw wow and i was like holy ████ so no nurses no i mean there are but like this like i also forgot that i totally didn't know the stereotype for filipinos would be different every country there is oh
5:00 because generally it's not a nurse was a worldwide thing i know so did i and it's no it's no surprise the country's poor so they're going to try to take work wherever they can get it and you know because japanese is pretty much pervert or anime maker all over the world it's kind of consistent anime so i don't have to joe's speaking on behalf of all the japanese people yeah i don't face the same discrimination because it's either oh i love ████ pokemon or they're like man you probably like weird technical porn you know like that's the kind of thing like that's the spectrum and they're right both ways yourself isn't at the top of the list too no i think we eat it but not we're not the man you know they never assume that you're the chef they always go oh you like to eat it huh yeah oh you like to eat sushi huh and i think in the 90s it was you know karate
5:50 right you know karate but like now you're wearing your ghee under that yeah yeah so it is like super offensive to filipinos i think all around the world that's not a good look if you're gonna feature a filipino in the show like that's the thing they gotta do like and they're making her go that far to like be as like oh let's make her look like the bottom of the barrel like culturally hong kong director he goes she's not dark enough go back there get more i don't believe you man i don't believe you know something about you don't scream filipino yet should have a filipino accent in the movie or the yeah she has like this ████ whack one it's like was it the one that she was oh dude pretty much actually nest long yeah she has a really long apology but basically she's just saying i sincerely apologize and to
6:40 anyone that was negatively affected by it and you know now we know rock the the show is called barack oh karma with a show name like that always on that j channel on those uh drama like uh yeah the rama's like c drama they always got some weird ████ names yeah like the english translation is always like what the ████ did your did your parents used to watch jay channel growing up yeah this is one like but they're always like the period piece ones yeah yeah yeah like the ████ kung fu soap operas yeah yeah but it's about the drama it's like it would be like uh between like two generals but it's really about the the drama and ████ i'm like what the ████ are they gonna fight yeah my mom's like it's not about that it's about the love she's always whispering when she says it too you know what's funny though to play to play devil's advocate in this whole thing the uh a double standard about this by the way filipino's super mad about it right philippines super mad about it
7:30 she's made herself darker than every filipino actor that the philippines actually makes actors because the skin color is definitely the philippines itself also views lighter-skinned filipinos as like superior in entertainment is is philippines even like um like you know yeah latin country you know how they have the hottest spanish-looking women and then like and even in their own soap operas like the native mexican or latin women or the maids or whatever yeah they're not like they're always like super light skinned like the ████ family guy page yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's like some colonial brainwashing yeah it's a little bit weird that like is it is it is it that or that's just what's what's happening you don't mean so like so for example right like the latin stuff
8:20 it is true even if you see like who's who's like in politics who the rich people are they're all more anglo-looking people like it's a more reflection of real life rather than bad intentions exactly and in like so like if you're gonna make a story about what's happening in hong kong like there are filipino laborers right oh hundred percent is it that hard to find a filipino actor no it's that's that's the thing too is there's there's actors already in hong kong that are filipino that could have done it i don't know if they but also she did a sorry job i think if she crushed it you want me to show you the only part where i think she crushed it yeah let's see it she um it's a non-speaking scene it actually is when she's doing a break dancing that's the part she kills it she's breaking she's good she does karaoke ████
9:10 and she shines she kills oh my god it's this uh shot right here where um thank you because right when he saw it he knew oh what is it look at this smile that she has on the camera that is 100 percent the ████ authentic genuine filipino that's gilbert alone right there that's the same ████ i didn't like it right the one that one asian kid yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah like filipino the minute they make them do like some ████ stereotypical like weird face or you they'd hit the gong i don't know if she's trying to do it but that's that's i feel like filipinos ████ invented this that's why she looks like she's being racist i gotta put a hand light right here oh because of the teeth thing yeah i don't know i mean filipinos they have like that funny face that they they put their
10:01 head down they go [Laughter] you know it's like a thing and i'm like if she meant to do that then she gets a one out of ten you know i still think i still think it is an interesting thing whenever filipinos are mad about like oh making a person that dark like but in their old exactly in their own country there's such a clear distinction look how many products are for skin whitening yeah you know like as soon as you get an agent they're like well you got to get lighter i'm too dark to be a ████ filipino actor like it's crazy how white you have to be you know we had a filipino guy in our editing team byron and he was light as a geisha and and and ironically he's in japan right now studying to be a geisha no he's teaching he's in japan right now
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