Speech About Filipino Curse Words

Good afternoon my dear classmates. My name is Danielle Beltrano and I am here to talk about this problem, which I guess I 'm the only one aware of, it 's about considering Filipino curse words "cheap". Can I see hands of people who curse or as say bad words? I won 't be a hypocrite and say that I don 't because, let 's be honest here, we all have cussed for once in our life, right? I use it as an expression for every situation I am in. I use it when I 'm happy, excited, sad, mad, frightened and hungry. Even when I was little and still don 't know what the "P" word means, I 'd still say it. But only in my head because if I get caught, I might get grounded or worse, killed. Now, let me see hands of those who curse in Tagalog or in their own dialect. I am tri-lingual when cursing. I can curse in English, Tagalog, and even Bicolano. I see other people judge me whenever I say these words. They would stare at me as if they 've seen a murder happened right in front of them. I sometimes wonder why they associate would cursing with being uneducated, tacky, and a total cheapskate when in fact they 're just words not used in what it was originally used for, hurting other feelings. I hope for the next few minutes you would have an

Also, cursing in Tagalog makes you illiterate and uneducated for some reason. Majority would rather say B than P because it sounds foreign and foreign stuff means you 're above everyone else. We have become a nation where something that is imported from the western part of the world is more important than what we originally have. Though English is only our second language, we patronize it more than our own. If you know English, you 're intelligent and worthy of everyone 's respect. So if you curse in ONLY English, you 're someone who should be praised and adored. You 're sosyal and can 't mingle with us, the common people who cuss in Tagalog. If cursing in my own language means I 'm cheap, so be it. It’s