I am writing at first in reply to Mr. Brent Mclean in his letter recently about segregation but I want to include Ms A. Ebanks and Mr. Thomas Jervis as well in reply to their comments to Mr. Brent Mclean’s letter in Cayman Net News.
Sir and madam, I can hardly fathom your hostile attitude to the Filipino race.
What have we done to you and to the rest of your people?
We work hard and serve your beloved Cayman with honesty and perseverance.
There isn’t any instance that we have discriminated you. You are the ones discriminating your own race. To bluntly say that, it’s because according to them the locals either don’t perform or they perform less. That didn’t come from us or from any expat but from your own people.
Your harsh judgment about us on the non-mix mentality is absolutely wrong. You need to take a full course of Filipino Values 101 to 105 to be able to understand the good nature of our people and our culture. You are the ones who have initiated a real segregation in this society not us.
A proof of that now is the banning of Filipinos to use the government owned basketball courts and maybe soon any government facility.
I pity you sir and madam because you have been so insecure of us. We do not mean to offend anyone by having Filipino organizations and activities. We just always come out united in any event. That’s one of our values that has been in our minds and hearts from the time we were born.
Mr. Mclean, you are wrong to say that we do not allow any race in the basketball courts and it’s not right to say that Filipinos ban Caymanians. We have always preserved a great deal of gratitude to our employers. There is no reason for us to ban Caymanians or any other race. Filipinos have been known to be hospitable and that means opening doors to anyone and to any race.
Come knock at our doors and you are served like masters in our homes. So you know, there has been no discrimination in the history of the Philippines. The discrimination only exists in the West and is true too in your country.
Ms A. Ebanks, we pray to the same God, the One who sees the truth. If you see Filipinos active in your church functions, there is only one explanation. That is because we want to help and serve in all honesty; not to anger anyone in your society.
Ms A. Ebanks, you are entitled to your own opinion. However, your judgment is wrong about the Filipino women. One of the values I can share with you is our being conservative.
There is what we call courtship in our culture. I do not know if that ever exists here. But the main point is, Filipinos love without a hidden agenda.
Mr. Thomas Jervis, in the Philippines we have always considered the family as the very important unit in the society. The family should always be together.
I cannot understand why in Cayman a worker has to fight for his/her rights to bring his or her dependent/s in this country. An immigration application to Australia / New Zealand / Canada and even in the US is considered a family immigration. It looks like Mr. Jervis, that you have a different view on the important unit of the society – the family.
Mr. McLean and Ms Ebanks, It was an honour for the Filipinos to be invited in the Batabano. We never expected there was a competition but Filipinos gave the best in the parade. Everybody saw that.
The intention was to help the Department of Tourism and nothing else. So, it’s not correct to say that we do not have intentions to integrate in your society.
If you consider the Filipino people a growing cancer in your society, then you have created a war against us.
You have become an anti-Filipino to a huge number of construction workers, labourers, nurses, accountants, auditors, tourists, cruise ship captains, cruise ship/cargo ship crews, servers, secretaries, teachers and a lot more. These are the people who have been a part of the backbone of your country’s businesses.
Please be aware sir and madam that this letter doesn’t just stay in Cayman. This goes all over the world. Cayman will be famous of its anti-Filipino nature.
We are afraid, that our government might just have to stamp our passports with ‘No Travel Allowed to Cayman Islands.’
We don’t want that to happen because Filipinos are good natured and we do not initiate war to any race or to any country.
Filipinos are here in peace with respect to any human race and especially to the Caymanians.
Juan de la Cruz
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