Charice Pempengco outshines Susan Boyle
Susan Boyle, the “Britain’s Got Talent” phenom, is obviously talented. I specially liked how she shut up the people who rolled their eyes or made faces when she said she wanted to be a singer like Elaine Page. She epitomizes the TRUTH that within each of us is a God-given gift–whether it is singing, sports, business, whatever. It is just up to us to get past our individual wounds and self-erected imaginary walls to reach out and polish that GIFT.
With that said, I have to say that, without a doubt, Charice Pempengco of the Philippines is a better talent.
While Susan Boyle had the advantage of playing before a crowd that is very willing to embrace talent regardless of appearance, Charice had a harder road to hoe and a tougher climb to make–she was rejected by her own people due to her appearance despite her obvious superiority to local (professional and amateur) talent. Charice Pempengco only became recognized in the Philippines because somebody posted her video on YouTube as a lark and it led to her bookings on the Elen De Generes show and Oprah. Before rocketing to international fame, she suffered in relative obscurity in the Philippines despite many singing contests (her best placement, third place at “Little Big Star” after coming back from termination after the first round). It is so so sad that “native” Filipinos only learn to begin to appreciate themselves when someone else (outside of their culture) shows appreciation for one of their own. Charice is the “stone that the builders rejected” that became the cornerstone of a global appreciation for true talent regardless of appearance and pigmentation. She suffers what many talented “native” (as many Filipino signs and menu items describe non-mestizo/non-Chinese Filipinos) people face daily–lack of appreciation due to the sad persistence of the alien Mestizo culture that plagues the Philippines and cements its status as a sad Third World country. Indeed, almost all its top models are mestizo/mestiza. Skin whitening is a multibillion peso industry. A country that fails to love itself will inevitablly fail to lift itself out of poverty.
It is also particularly lamentable that Filipinos don’t recognize the link between mestizo culture and poverty as judged by the many impoverished Latino cultures of Mexico, Central America and South America.
This post gives appreciation to both Susan Boyle and Charice but it does serve to shine a light on the powerful repressive force that SELF-HATE and MENTAL COLONIALISM effects on people’s ability to make it in their own countries. Yet another reason why people flee the Philippines to migrate to ‘greener pastures.”
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