Hi everyone..I just wish to know if there is some truth to this..well, some of my friends who are now in U.S.A. have talked to us here in the Philippines about some racial problems. When she arrived at Manhattan, she was given a lot of assignments in her area..which she did not mind at all at first. But, there came a time..that she wanted to question herself on why other american nurses are'nt as busy as her..or she has to forego lunch and dinner just to see to it that she has done her duty well...compared to others..who can really smile around and rub elbows with other nurses. She is one of the best nurses we have here..and she can speak the English language well.
She went to the point of really pouring out herself to a friend she had and was there really a great flood of tears.
So..may I ask anyone? ..Who do you think really originated in this land of milk and honey? Aren't most of you now in the U.S. also were once from other nations too/? or maybe trace up your ancestors....I hope all nurses will protect nurses and love nurses..be they be black, white, red, yellow or brown. In this way, we stand up in our profession as One.
When you make a blanket statement about someone, ie all gays do this, all southerns think that, all fat people are lazy, all yankees are dumb, all men/women do such and such=====any blanket statement is wrong and prejudice...i personally find it very rude for others to speak another language in front of me but i try to ignore it [maybe i wish i was bilingual]
but we have to deal with the facts as they are...we have foreign nurses and we need each other...if they say a derogetory statement about country/americans you can correct them in a calm manner...and do not get into nurses station banter about 'them' see them as individuals....
I forgot about this poem that I wrote ten months ago! Thanks for the reminder of what I wrote. :)
Just stopped by to see what all the drama was about, and came to this conclusion at the end. I wrote this poem at the spur of a moment to post my sentiments towards prejudice in the world...nursing or any other walk of life:
Red and yellow
Black and white
All are precious in Jesus sight
No one is better than another
Mother, father, sister, brother
All come from one Creator
One day we'll know this to be fact
So it's best to join together as one
As for me...my love for mankind is never an act
Yes, I see your outer appearance
My eyes still have a little vision...so I'm able to see
it made me think of someone from another city i enjoy talking with at conferences.
he is blind from birth and works in the healthcare field. once i was walking and heard my name called, "can you show me where we are having lunch?"
i asked, "how did you recognize me?"
"i could tell you by your walk."
thanks spacenurse. i like the "i could tell you by your walk" statement a lot. that is a very powerful truth, too. very wise blindman! :)
it also reminds me of what jesus told his disciples: "they will know you by your walk" meaning if we walked the talk jesus taught and walked.
if we would each walk the talk, be ourselves at all times, improve on that which we recognize needs improving, encourage each other more, have each other's backs, and show respect and appreciation for each other, not only would the world be a better place, but hospital health personnel would benefit as well. :)
I've seen Phillipino/non-Phillipino tensions- usually because of a language barrier issue. As in the Phillipino nurses would speak in their language, which made the english speaking nurses uneasy about what was being said.
Hi, Im a Filipina, working in the UK and used to work in Singapore..Enweii, I would agree w/ this language barrier issue. Our co-Filipinos tend to speak their dialects (of w/c i cannot understand as well most of the tym and I wld feel offended)..and how much more for these other cultural backgrounds.. I f we could just be polite enuf not to speak our own language or whatever dialect it is, becuz its just really rude..
I rememberd my gradeschool teacher stressing this thought...never speak another language in front of those who cant understand it....
Also, all of us Filipinos r different the way we speak English cuz most hav an infulence of their own. May it be the cultural from the town where they come from(mind y, we have thousands of island..), education, upbringing, etc....
I work with many nurses and staff from all around the world for the past 2 years and have had NO problems with anyone (except for the nasty Charge RN of the OR who happens to be from South Carolina, America.
BUT, 3.5 yrs ago, when I was a "baby-nurse"(New grad), I was literally torn to shreds by a group of (sorry to way) Philipino nurses who made it CRYSTAL CLEAR that I was taking a nursing position AWAY from one of their "own" who wanted to transfer. Now, yes this could have happned to any race, but they messed me up. They were petty, spiteful, sabotauged my work (can you believe they put patients in jeapordy?!), and talked ALL NIGHT in Tagolog at the nurses station, in the break room, etc.. Yes I reported this eventually (At my "termination" meeting).
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Well, if these group of Filipinos have sabotaged u in many ways...dun feel to bad..it happens even way back home...and w/ those type of people, they wld do to it to us as well....I dunno, I love my color, Im not moving from race and from my history...I hate racism and all sorts of inequality..Im an Aquarian thats y maybe... BUT, i dun lyk Filipino communities... never joined one and will NEVER join one...i find the place to be an agar medium for gossiping and braggin abouts... we got wat we col Crab Mentality...
ILIANG,i understand how you are feeling. i'm a nurse from the philippines, 26 yrs old, married with two kids. my agency told me my probable date of arriving in florida will be by january or february next year. i'm kind of anxious and excited at the same time. i'm scared to be in a far away country, being away from family for the first time, dealing with new colleagues, working in a new environment, and so on and on. the sacrifices filipino nurses make are so great. it is not easy. we just want a better quality of life. so how's your life going there? is it fine so far? what is your advice for incoming nurses?
PIECE o' advice....Dun bring any pirated STUFFS!!!!!
We have that problem here on one unit where the staff try to maintain a Filipino only staff. No one else wants to work there, even agency staff after experiencing a shift there. They are getting written up left and right even by me!
Hey guys, I just read the whole thread and whew!... I just want to say, America is not the most racist country. Stories of racism are just isolated cases. I love America!!!
As a Filipino, I feel the need to correct how most of you spell. It's Philippines not Phillipines, Filipinos not Philiphino. :kiss
Calling to all Filipina nurses abroad: Don't speak in Tagalog if other foreign nurses are around. It's rude.
On me.... I would always scold our co-filipinos whenevr they r doing that....huh!! then they will start yellin back at me in their own dialect...GRRrrrrRRRRRRrrrrr......
I used to work in a place where the locals wld get a bonus and the foreigners wont..Considering you have the same job description and title. Its not in America. Ward Sisters who would use 'stupid' as a term for endearment and humiliate wokers in front of evrybody else if a hospital standard is not met. AGain its not in America. A place where a foreigner could get treated as worse as a trash and the mentality that u r ther in their country cuz uv got no food to eat back home lingers. A funny place i tried to comprehend but I gave up... Im not living a lyf anymore cuz i felt consumed of getting into the cycle of being hurt, rationalizing, getting even, rationalizing.... And it all happned outside America...
It happened in Asia..inflicted by my co-asians.. RACISM will jus always be ther...and sumbody mentioned it ryt..it has a personal element most of the tym..anybody can be afflicted at anytime...stop bein a cry baby and dun abuse, overuse and misuse the issue of racism and inequality...perhaps, we maybe jus getting too sensitve..or even paranoid..too scared to get uncomfy...
The heck!! I dun get affected too much...Anyway,what goes around, comes around....
A place where a foreigner could get treated as worse as a trash and the mentality that u r ther in their country cuz uv got no food to eat back home lingers. . RACISM will jus always be ther...and sumbody mentioned it ryt..it has a personal element most of the tym..anybody can be afflicted at anytime...stop bein a cry baby and dun abuse, overuse and misuse the issue of racism and inequality.....
I understand what you are getting at...it all starts with US as human beings relating to OTHER human beings...basically......good post Elnski. :)
MaryPush
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