Letter to Philippines President Duterte about Brouhaha over use of 'Pu... ina'...
September 10, 2016
...then again after deeper contemplation on the well intended thought to stand up for the dignity of the United States Presidency as a whole, I decided to hold off.
Writing a letter to President Duterte over his use of the expression involving the semantics of 'putang...', well the term might be a constantly shifting context and the weight of severity shifts from moment to moment, how it said, when it was said, and so forth, then, how it is translated, which, there have been varied media reports as to the verbatim equivalency in English, whereat right there attests that it might have been a bad choice of words, but, it might not be so bad that it is cataclysmic to world relations after all.
There are expressions that political office holders here in he U.S. have used to describe world leaders anywhere east of the Atlantic or west of the Pacific, which in the culture that those comments were about, were like total crushing blows to dignity of them and their families, yet the leaders happily met a couple of days later, for similar reasons as what when on here recently perhaps, that what was said, was not said with years of study of the culture in hindsight where there was a deliberate intention to spitefully offend.
At this time, HCN only asks for two boons, the first is, that the story not keep getting repeated by press here in the U.S. with translations that correspond to the 'world's oldest profession', various animals and so forth, as, if it keeps getting repeated, then it is as if you are making the same fault or worse; if you wish to put the story in the spotlight, you can make your point, work around the described problem, and use words such as 'expletive'.
So this letter that was considered would have asked for a warm and sincere apology from the Philippines President to the U.S. President, and possibly to elucidate that what was said was not to be taken as hurtful, rather an expression in the course of conversation or whatever his stance is or was. Advisors to both leaders have already gotten involved, and one more letter might only skim the surface of what has already been thoughtfully reviewed. The leaders have recently met whilst vagaries of a summit in the Asian region, and it has been determined that austere letter writing on the matter to be inappropriate at this time.
The second boon we ask for, in closing, is to realize that large amounts of illegal drug dealing, trading, trafficking and summarily facilitating illegal substance, and 'intoxicants especially which are harmful', the latter recognized worldwide as about at the the pith of the issue of narcotic use, indeed affects the United States, as those drugs can make their way into our borders, and in turn, it is a set of United States law enforcement challenges to rid the problem. Concurrently, we look at the historical aspect of the doors that have been opened to immigrants from the Philippines seeking relief from hardship. Over the course of centuries, events between aspects of populations in the Philippines and in America might not have been perfect, referencing for example questions alluding to perceived limitations on immigration, but there are ongoing relations between the two nations, more than enough to strive to keep positive relations, and pertinent to the case of the international drug trouble and quagmire, aspects of drug problems in the Philippines and any nation in the world is also partly our problem especially in that it could or affect us, the U.S.
Writing a letter to President Duterte over his use of the expression involving the semantics of 'putang...', well the term might be a constantly shifting context and the weight of severity shifts from moment to moment, how it said, when it was said, and so forth, then, how it is translated, which, there have been varied media reports as to the verbatim equivalency in English, whereat right there attests that it might have been a bad choice of words, but, it might not be so bad that it is cataclysmic to world relations after all.
There are expressions that political office holders here in he U.S. have used to describe world leaders anywhere east of the Atlantic or west of the Pacific, which in the culture that those comments were about, were like total crushing blows to dignity of them and their families, yet the leaders happily met a couple of days later, for similar reasons as what when on here recently perhaps, that what was said, was not said with years of study of the culture in hindsight where there was a deliberate intention to spitefully offend.
At this time, HCN only asks for two boons, the first is, that the story not keep getting repeated by press here in the U.S. with translations that correspond to the 'world's oldest profession', various animals and so forth, as, if it keeps getting repeated, then it is as if you are making the same fault or worse; if you wish to put the story in the spotlight, you can make your point, work around the described problem, and use words such as 'expletive'.
So this letter that was considered would have asked for a warm and sincere apology from the Philippines President to the U.S. President, and possibly to elucidate that what was said was not to be taken as hurtful, rather an expression in the course of conversation or whatever his stance is or was. Advisors to both leaders have already gotten involved, and one more letter might only skim the surface of what has already been thoughtfully reviewed. The leaders have recently met whilst vagaries of a summit in the Asian region, and it has been determined that austere letter writing on the matter to be inappropriate at this time.
The second boon we ask for, in closing, is to realize that large amounts of illegal drug dealing, trading, trafficking and summarily facilitating illegal substance, and 'intoxicants especially which are harmful', the latter recognized worldwide as about at the the pith of the issue of narcotic use, indeed affects the United States, as those drugs can make their way into our borders, and in turn, it is a set of United States law enforcement challenges to rid the problem. Concurrently, we look at the historical aspect of the doors that have been opened to immigrants from the Philippines seeking relief from hardship. Over the course of centuries, events between aspects of populations in the Philippines and in America might not have been perfect, referencing for example questions alluding to perceived limitations on immigration, but there are ongoing relations between the two nations, more than enough to strive to keep positive relations, and pertinent to the case of the international drug trouble and quagmire, aspects of drug problems in the Philippines and any nation in the world is also partly our problem especially in that it could or affect us, the U.S.
Posted by HCN.
