Philippines Wants Apology For Desperate Housewives Racial Slur

The Philippine government is to ask for an excuse from the producers of the hit US television series "Desperate Housewives" for a cultural slur against Filipino doctors, the Philippine Daily Inquirer said on its web site Wednesday.

The certified cited a new episode where actress Teri Hatcher, who plays Susan Mayer, requested whether the person be there to her during a health discussion "can I verify those diplomas because I want to build positive that they're not from some med school in the Philippines."

Requested if the government would look for an excuse from the producers of the show, and ABC television network that takes it, executive secretary Eduardo Ermita said: "Yes, I feel we should, on behalf of our Filipino experts."

"On the face, we can seem at it as a cultural insult. We are looked down upon too a lot, believing the number of our medical experts in the US," the Inquirer quoted Ermita says.
Ermita similarly petitioned to civil society groups and extra Filipino organizations in the US to "call the interest" of the show producers, and Hatcher, to the "racial slur."

Filipino ambassador in Los Angeles Mary Jo Bernardo Aragon wrote a letter of protest to the ABC network saying that Filipino medicinal employees were in demand all over the world.

"The US identify the students of Philippine medicinal and nursing schools and in common, does not necessitate additional schooling in the US for Filipino healthcare experts," she added.

Aragon also said several Americans go to the Philippines for medicinal examines that they cannot manage to pay for at home, the foreign department said in a report.