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The Importance Of Discrimination In Communication

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“It’s because even though we speak in English, there are certain things na kahit fluent kayong pareho I mean kahit fluent siya because it’s in English right, mahirap pa rin siyang i-express and then of course in my part it’s yung Korean language so even if I know how to speak Korean iba pa rin kasi yung kung baga iba yung mother tongue niyo so there are ways… it somehow hinders your communication… it’s because of the language and then I think cultural differences as well of course meron silang sariling practice meron din naman tayong practice ng pinay but we try to meet halfway.”

“It’s because even though we speak in English, even though my husband is fluent in English, there are certain things that are hard for him to express and then of course in my part, it’s the same with the Korean language. So even if I know how to speak Korean, it’s still different because we have different mother tongues so it somehow hinders your communication. It’s …show more content…

It is a universal problem, that every race faces working and/or living on foreign soil. The discrimination and stereotype does not target Filipinos but the Southeast Asian race as a whole. The stereotype and discrimination towards Filipino women stemmed from the year the mail-order-bride industry was popular. According to Kathryn Lloyd, it is the mail-order-bride industry, which started the stereotype that Filipino women can be cheaply bought due to the fact that many women want to migrate to other countries for better opportunities. The mail-order-bride industry took advantage of the vulnerability of Filipino women and thereon, many Filipina became victims of these agencies. Lloyd also observed that there is an “abuse of the economic and power dynamic between the consumer and the product.” Also, Eviota was quoted in Lloyd’s journal where in she said

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