Pitcher Tim Lincecum is a Fil-am...
By eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27562)
Philippines
November 5, 2010 3:03am CST
I am not so much for American sports, but the front page of a local daily sprawled the winning form of hurler Tim Lincecum of the San Francisco Giants. Well, I never heard of the name of this 25 year old hunk till today, when I grabbed a back issue of a newspaper in a fastfood lounge. And the reason why he is proudly being hailed is because he has Filipino blood, 1/2 of it actually. And his ancestors came from different provinces in the Philippines, one of it is Batangas. So, probably he is one of my long lost nephews
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@risk_taker20 (2096)
• Philippines
5 Nov 10
I never know that...but same I'm proud of him. Proud to be a Filipino.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
5 Nov 10
He looks ruggedly handsome in the photos but he is nicknamed Freak. The news story tells how he grieves for the demise of his grandpa, a trait that is very Filipino.
@mihopopcorn (248)
• Philippines
5 Nov 10
I just do not understand our penchant for looking for Filipino ancestry in people who make the news. Filipino this, filipino that...half filipino, 1/4 filipino, 1/32 filipino...whatever. I think it is so pathetic. For all you know, these people may not even find it a big deal to be filipino. Other nationalities do not give much of a buzz about these things considering that their "citizens" have done far greater things than filipino hybrids. We as a race, have truly gone so low as to "scrape the bottom of the barrel" and try to find the slightest shimmer of pride in things so trivial. Finding filipino identity in such trivial matters is just downright pathetic.
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
5 Nov 10
miho, no achievement is trivial enough, and a small stint in any field can surely warm the heart of a people. Belonging to a race is something to be happy about. The Chinese are proud of their heritage. And so are the Greeks, the Italians, the Americans. And so we must be proud of our Malay race, too. It is who we are. And when one of us makes it to the top, we must delight in it. We had, after all, added joy to the world. People hail their own because it is the way of the human race. So we rejoice when our team wins in a competition. We rejoice when our fellow Filipino brings glory to us as a people.
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@mihopopcorn (248)
• Philippines
5 Nov 10
The problem is that filipinos have not raised the bar of excellence. Your statement that no achievement is trivial enough is a good example of that. There ARE trivial acheivements and there are achivements worth being proud of. Now it of couse depends on your concept of quality. If you think ALL achievements are worth it, then that just reflects how you view quality. If you think that a media or sports personality having a drop of filipino blood in his/her veins is an achievement for filipinos as a race, then i think thst is just pathetic. That we should delight in any "filipino" who makes it to the top, should depend on what the achievement is. Besides, i don't see how being a sports celebrity embodies the concept of "filipino".
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
5 Nov 10
miho, I do not settle for anything substandard. I am one who tells students, when they come complaining about low grades, that perhaps their best was not good enough. But I also know that everyone has his own intelligence, and we acknowledge one's excellence according to his intelligence. I will give Pele an A for PE and Mozart for Music, but Bill Gates will be huffing and puffing on the first few minutes of a soccer game and would probably open his mouth agape why Mozart could pen the notes of a musical score on one hearing. But on computer technology, we salute him and are forever indebted to him for bringing the world together through micro chips.
miho, for a parent who has a special child, even smiling is achievement enough...
