Slovenian housemate’s racist remark stirs Outrage
Miha, one of the contestants of Big Brother Slovenia allegedly said something about Bruce when he was still inside the Slovenian Big Brother house.
He allegedly said that Bruce shouldn’t go to the jacuzzi because the water will turn brown again. Some say that it was just a joke and shouldn’t be taken seriously and that Miha is a just a tactless person. We’ll just have to see the clip with subtitles to really see whether it was a joke or not.
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April 28th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Jokes are scapegoats for indirect racism. Such a bad impression. *Tsk*
Tina was whole-heartedly accepted in the Philippines.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Uhmmnn, I am from the Philippines and I am so dissapointed with some of the slovenian housemates whom Bruce Quebral had encountered during his stay there. We have accepted Tina with our whole hearts and arms widely opened. We just feel so bad for that words of insensitivity from Miha. Beware of Karma my dear…
April 28th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
dont be too sensitive…
big brother slovenia has already reprimanded those two guys there’s no need to crucify them more in internet.
Racism also exists in the Philippines and i assure you i hear jokes against chinese, indians even to fellow filipinos like igorots, aetas and badjaos everyday.. kaya wag na magpakaplastic at magmalinis.
April 28th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
so what if bruce will take a dip at the jacuzzi?is the jacuzzi
exclusively for white people?racism also exists sometimes among members
of the family,isn’t it?its just a pain in the a** when bruce is
a person who is so nice and cool and he does nothing than smile
and still stay humble.miha is just insecure of bruce!obviously!
April 28th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
,it’s not very nice to hear those comments because Tina received warm relationship from
Filipino housemates,
,it seems that they treated us, like low people.., I don’t if it’s in their culture to
say things like that..
I didn’t like the treatment, and I’m very disappointed with the Slovenian housemates.
April 28th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
to Miha, yeah maybe its just a joke.. but jokes are HALF MEANT..
Tina was welcomed warmly here in the Philippines.. did they
hear any hurtful jokes from Filipinos?
Come on, be sensitive enough.. So what, if we’re not white skinned?
do you see yourselves as perfect people? Oh come on…
would you, miha, will be glad if i tell you that you look like a shark on that hair?
will you praise me, be gracious or celebrate upon hearing that joke of mine?
before saying anything, think 10 times first.. is it for the good or bad?
April 28th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
all i can say Slovenian housemates dont have good manners and right conduct.
April 29th, 2007 at 7:56 am
If you are brown, is it true that water becomes brown too? The answer is no, unless you are made of chocolates. What made the joke or remark offensive is the fact that by being brown bruce should not be allowed in the jacuzzi, that constitutes racism and descrimination. Being white or a caucasian does not entitle them exclusive use of certain facilities. This is what the old america was like. There were rest rooms and baths exclusive for whites and blacks were banned from using them and were also treated like second class citizens. What is worse is that HITLER believed in the same thing, the creation of an ARYAN race. This will go on and on and sadly it will never end.
April 29th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
I don’t see how any one in the Philippines can complain about Racism The Philippines is one of the most racist countries in the world.
How many of you shout things like Hey Joe at every white man you see or put on stupid American accents and say thing like hey f**k you man.
Please don’t say Hey Joe is not racist it is, you don’t shout it at Filipino’s it is shouted because of the colour of a persons skin, so it is rasist.
I am ashamed to be Filipino, I am married to a English man and the racist shouts every where we go in the Philippines is non-stop.
Filipino’s find it funny to call names to people just because of the colour of their skin, but as this shows they don’t like it back.
The stupid thing is them racist shouts by Filipinos what they think is so funny to shout is the reason this country is still third world, $93billion US Dollars a year in lost tourist and lost investment.
This is the amount tourist spend in Thailand every year and they go back to Thailand every year same could happen here but people don’t come back because of your racist shouts.
This is 4.5 trillion peso and works out at 64,285 peso a year for every person in the Philippines that could provide free schools and college for every child and free hospitals for every person in the Philippines country.
No one would die because they can’t afford treatment no one would need to be homeless or hungry.
April 29th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
to Miha and Pero…
both of you guys deserve the punishment given by big brother!
You should learn a lesson!
April 30th, 2007 at 10:34 am
declare war against micah and pero!!!!!!!
April 30th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
waaah!!take miha and pero off the big brother in slovenia!!they are so disrespectful!!while Tina is having a great time in philippines, and bruce in slovenia getting some racist remarks from miha and pero!!!that’s very unfair!!!
we loved tina so much!!and what is the exchange of our love for tina?!disrespect from the 2 HM’s of slovenia!?!
so disrespectful!!!
April 30th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Hi I’m Jason from the Philippines.
What Mikha and Pero said may only be a joke, but i still think it’s rude for them to
say that to a houseguest and not to mention, on national television where other races
might be watching.
Thank you to Big Brother of Slovenia who respected Bruce and our country.
Chow!
May 1st, 2007 at 12:47 am
I don’t see how any one in the Philippines can complain about Racism The Philippines is one of the most racist countries in the world.
How many of you shout things like Hey Joe at every white man you see or put on stupid American accents and say thing like hey f**k you man.
Please don’t say Hey Joe is not racist it is, you don’t shout it at Filipino’s it is shouted because of the colour of a persons skin, so it is rasist.
I am ashamed to be Filipino, I am married to a English man and the racist shouts every where we go in the Philippines is non-stop.
Filipino’s find it funny to call names to people just because of the colour of their skin, but as this shows they don’t like it back.
The stupid thing is them racist shouts by Filipinos what they think is so funny to shout is the reason this country is still third world, $93billion US Dollars a year in lost tourist and lost investment.
This is the amount tourist spend in Thailand every year and they go back to Thailand every year same could happen here but people don’t come back because of your racist shouts.
This is 4.5 trillion peso and works out at 64,285 peso a year for every person in the Philippines that could provide free schools and college for every child and free hospitals for every person in the Philippines country.
No one would die because they can’t afford treatment no one would need to be homeless or hungry.
Comment by Sue — April 29, 2007 #
***to whom it may concern! philippines was discovered by magellan in the year 1521 and since then naging alipin tayo ng kastila for couple hundred years, then the americans, and the japanese. dont say that philippines is the most racist country in the world because filipino is the most hospitable country in the world and thats a fact!!! the term “hey Joe” or “Joe” came from the root word G.I.Joe which means american soldier in case you dont know, just like “kano” from the root word amerikano about the accent thing. when your saying slang ba do you think sino ba naiinsulto? dont tell me na yung mga kano its the person saying it! maybe because of lack of education, how can you say it that its a stupid accent if the person saying it couldnt even know how to spell it. if your ashamed to be a filipino then dont act as filipino act as some kind of bigshot foreigner, about the stat? its people like you who make it worst, instead of saying good things about the philippines you make it look worst. where the hell is your patriotism?
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:32 am
what the heck is sue babbling about?! filipinos? racist?! ha! dats a laugh. just because people call someone a JOE doesnt mean they are discriminating them already! do u even know what discriminating is?! discriminating is treating someone to be inferior. heck it seems to me filipinos tend to embrace all kind of race! may it be caucasian, asian, mideteranian, black, white any! people is still 3rd world not because we discriminate people but instead because we have one lousy government!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! being told that ur color makes the water dirty is discriminating but calling someone joe is not! what so bad about being joe anyway?! its similar only to john doE
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:12 pm
I agree with sue, Filipinos are among the racist people in the world. How? Oh well,
most of them prefer to mingle with white Americans or Australians whom they think are handsome or what. I still have
to see a Flip mingle with Indians, Pakistanis or Iranians. They’re also fond of making
racist remarks like “bombay or 5-6 (referring to indians),” or “mabahong kili2x (referring
perhaps to Iranians or what”…
Or how about in the local scene? How many God-stricken Tagalogs have discriminated against
fellow Pinoys calling them “probinsiyano” or “matigas ang dila”.. They think that they speak
better English; they think of themselves at par with Americans.. My gosh, look at yourselves at the
mirror before you do that.
Miha’s remark was just an isolated comment blown into proportion by the usual emotional and demanding Filipino.
May 12th, 2007 at 6:30 am
everyone in the world is a racist at a certain extent. the Chinese dislike Pinoys, Japs hate Koreans, the Whites think
they’re better than the Blacks, Italians think they’re better than Chinese… i see joe’s point. but what they said is still
disrespectful. and they gotta face the consequence.
May 14th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Filipinos are one of the most racist people (if the most) in the world. It’s part of our Hispanized blood. Check out the Mexicans and you will know what I’m saying. Look at the pips from Manila, they keep looking down on “probinsyanos”. Look at those in Zambales. They look down on the Aetas. Heck, city vs. city is common. Try Bacolod and Iloilo. Both are great cities yet both of them try to out do each other. Bacolod will most likely say it’s better economically but Iloilo has a higher GDP. Honestly, Iloilo still has a lead. To all Bacolod pips, it’s the cold hard facts. Because I’ve noticed that SOME Bacolodenos are prideful. Now I’m just biased. But technically, we have only 2 million foreigners arriving in the country because of our racist culture. And we are NOT the MOST hospitable people in the world because that is just a statement made by ANOTHER FILIPINO. A lot of countries claim they are the most hospitable
May 16th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
This is really dumb, You cant generalize all Filipinos are racists, and I am of Indian origin and got a filipina wife, and I got family there and all are so nice to me. Yes, some filipinos call Indians as 5-6, the fact is that indians are not a race but a nationality of many races in it. We got people in north east of india that look racially same as Filipinos, they are called nagas and mizos. You can google them on the internet and find more details of those provinces, they look just same as Philippines.
August 8th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Get Real Racist Bigot Foreigners! As if Filipinos are the only racist people. Racism exists everywhere IN THE WORLD. Whatever race you are! Ban the Internet Trolls dammit!
December 13th, 2008 at 4:42 am
I appologize in the name of all Slovenians. Racizm is really not appropriate. I was in PH 1 month ago. Nice experience. Didn’t exerience any racism. I would pay double sometimes if I didn’t have Pinoy friends with me. But one thing troubled me the most is that Pinoys are not sincere people. They say they don’t want to hurt others by telling the truth, but this is so disrespectful.
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:45 am
“Sue Says:
April 29th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
I don’t see how any one in the Philippines can complain about Racism The Philippines is one of the most racist countries in the world.
How many of you shout things like Hey Joe at every white man you see or put on stupid American accents and say thing like hey f**k you man.
Please don’t say Hey Joe is not racist it is, you don’t shout it at Filipino’s it is shouted because of the colour of a persons skin, so it is rasist.
I am ashamed to be Filipino, I am married to a English man and the racist shouts every where we go in the Philippines is non-stop.
Filipino’s find it funny to call names to people just because of the colour of their skin, but as this shows they don’t like it back.
The stupid thing is them racist shouts by Filipinos what they think is so funny to shout is the reason this country is still third world, $93billion US Dollars a year in lost tourist and lost investment.
This is the amount tourist spend in Thailand every year and they go back to Thailand every year same could happen here but people don’t come back because of your racist shouts.
This is 4.5 trillion peso and works out at 64,285 peso a year for every person in the Philippines that could provide free schools and college for every child and free hospitals for every person in the Philippines country.
No one would die because they can’t afford treatment no one would need to be homeless or hungry.”
Wow, such profound words on issues so trivial.. The Philippines is one of the most racist countries in the world bla bla bla.. Guess what, in many societies, racism is always present. Your claim of the Philippines being the most racist place on earth is by the very nature a racist claim. An act of self-racism towards your own people and nation. Well done, well done indeed. Good thing that your Englishman-in-shining-armor came to you and saved the day.
Whites get shouted at with “Hey Joe!” and Filipinos putting on “stupid American accents”, according to your claims.. So what? Big deal. It is true that this happens but your claim of “Hey Joe!” being shouted out loud like a sound file played on full repeat is just the most ridiculous unfounded claim I have ever heard. And Filipinos impersonating Americanisms is due to its status of being an American cultural bastion in Asia and its American colonial past. We don’t do it for a laugh and Philippine English is certainly phonologically 99 percent similar to American English. Native Filipino Anglophiles will have American accents so please think twice before you lambast them with accusations of putting on “stupid American accents”.
Western tourists not coming back to the Philippines because they were being greeted with Hey Joes while they gladly go back to Thailand?? Wow. Seriously, are you for real? That’s the most bogus accusation ever. It’s more likely that Western tourists don’t go back for OTHER reasons – the Muslim and Communist insurgencies perhaps, or the kidnap-for-ransom gangs that target foreigners are credible reasons. And for your information, the Philippines is probably where Westerners and white-skinned people get treated very well the most. Yes there is racism involved, called “colonial mentality” – whereby fair-skinned people are treated like kings and dark-skinned folks are treated like dirt, thanks to 400 years of Spanish colonial rule.
And you are ashamed of being Filipino? Oh did I not tell you about the other complex Filipinos suffer from, besides colonial mentality? It’s the inferiority complex – whereby Filipinos are ashamed of being who they are, being a Filipino. So please enough with your wild exaggerations. You bring shame to the Filipino nation.
September 24th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
The reason why we call Americans “Joe” because Americans calls Filipinos “Flips”