{"id":13357,"date":"2014-06-03T17:42:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T09:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13357"},"modified":"2014-06-03T17:42:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T09:42:11","slug":"dfa-on-racist-hong-kong-textbook-no-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/03\/dfa-on-racist-hong-kong-textbook-no-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA on racist Hong Kong textbook: \u2018No comment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13358\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/textbook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13358\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/textbook-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of the textbook depicting Filipinos as domestic helpers. \/ Photo from Tom Grundy's official blog. (Hongwrong.com) \" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/textbook-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/textbook.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of the textbook depicting Filipinos as domestic helpers. \/ Photo from Tom Grundy&#8217;s official blog. (Hongwrong.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) have chosen to remain silent when asked whether they have plans of requesting to change the Hong Kong school textbook which depicted Filipinos as domestic helpers.<\/p>\n<p>The textbook, which went viral after Blogger Tom Grundy posted in his Hongwrong.com blog, showcased a sketch of a dark-skinned woman saying, \u201c\u201cI am Filipino. I am a domestic helper in Hong Kong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were also sketches of other nationalities in the textbook but held no discriminating content.<\/p>\n<p>A white man was drawn saying, \u201cI am British. I am an English teacher,\u201d a light-skinned woman saying, \u201cI am Japanese. I have a sushi restaurant in Hong Kong,\u201d and a dark-skinned boy saying, \u201cI am Indian. I study in an international school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blogger Tom Grundy said in his blog, \u201cIn case you were wondering about your destiny in Hong Kong, a primary school textbook is here to enlighten you with this fun \u2018fill-in-the-blank\u2019 task [titled] \u2018racial harmony\u2019!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DFA Spokesperson Charles Jose chose not to give any comment on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he cited the growing demand for Filipinos all over the world saying that, \u201cin this age of globalization, Filipinos are everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Records of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) showed that around 970,000 of the 1.4 million overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) deployed in 2012 rehired workers.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong also belongs to the list of the most popular destinations for OFWS, ranking fourth, with 131,000 OFWs working there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are needed and welcome in where they can contribute,\u201d Jose added.<\/p>\n<p><em> With reports from Matikas Santos<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) have chosen to remain silent when asked whether they have plans of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[4532,4533,4531],"class_list":["post-13357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-discriminating-filipino","tag-domestic-helpers","tag-hongkong-textbook","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}