A few weeks ago, a popular Korean actress, Lee Da Hae, appeared on a KBS talk show where she was asked to imitate different accents. This included the American English accent and the British English accent. One of the hosts suddenly asked her to imitate the Filipino English accent.
This is where she made the most horrible mistake.
She imitated it in a way that infuriated the Filipinos--including me. Watch the video below and see why. We Filipinos DO NOT talk like that. We are a talented and educated bunch who had learned to speak English in schools since we were young. Although English may not be our first language, we understand and can speak English.
Lee Da Hae needs to learn her lesson that what she did was very rude. This little video clip has just tainted her popularity here in the Philippines.
Congratulations, Ms. Lee Da Hae, you no longer have a fan base here. You might not have heard about Claire Danes' rude comments about the Philippines years ago when she visited to film "Brokedown
Palace".
"Danes was quoted in Vogue as saying that Manila was a "ghastly and weird city."[1] She further remarked in Premiere that the city "smelled of cockroaches, with rats all over and that there is no sewage system and the people do not have anything — no arms, no legs, no eyes."" (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokedown_Palace#Controversy)
Since then, Danes' popularity has gone down the drain.
You see what happens when you are rude to other people?
Please feel free to share your thoughts about this.
It's ugly when people make fun of other people, but unfortunately there's plenty out there.
ReplyDelete( I cant' imagine if she depicted MY accent, LOL ;)
I'm sure she didn't mean to be offensive. I'm sorry it was taken that way though.
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