Talk:Filipino Monkey

Hadn't heard of this term before, but found this reference to "philipino monkey" in a blog comment from 2004.

http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=24175&D=2004-01-12

• #11 For generating ethnic slurs, the Arabs are pretty good themselves. Spend four months bobbing around in the

Persian Gulf listening to endless chatter on the bridge to bridge radio. It was all: "Philipino Monkey," then "Arab Donkey" then back to "Philipino Monkey, banana banana." It got to some of the Philipino officers after a while, but for me it took on a rap like beat that passed the time. Posted by Super Hose 2004-1-12 9:39:57 AM

--Neighborhoodpalmreader (talk) 18:03, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

i am the monkey162.83.137.157 (talk) 19:48, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

filipino monkey is a racist derogitory term (not used by Filipino's)

A very large proportion of the worlds merchant sailors are made up of Filipinos (something over half I think) Filipino monkey is intended as am insult to these Filipino sailors, not the other way around It is likely that this title has come about due to a suspicion that such pranksters was a Filipino. Get a clue! 71.227.118.205 (talk) 13:37, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

I agree that it is unlikely that a Filipino would use this term. Certainly not imposssible,though.Pustelnik (talk) 22:44, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Iran Air Flight 655 in section "see also"

• The page Iran Air Flight 655, discuss a mistake of US navy that killed 290 passengers. In 2008 US-Iranian naval dispute,misunderstanding of US navy in distinguishing a radio prankster with Iranian ships could begin a war .Then mentioning the shot down of Iran Air Flight 655 in that section is relevant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alborz Fallah (talk • contribs) 20:46, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

If you're going to have a link to IA655, you need to have a sentence in the article explaining why it's there. If you include such a sentence, then kindly provide a citation that establishes that Filipino Monkey had something to do with IA655. If you cannot, then I'm going to delete the link as irrelevant. You might as well link to "WMD" on the grounds that a mistake about their existence in Iraq helped start a war. PRRfan (talk) 21:16, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

I agree with PRRfan. The link is extremely tenuous and should be removed unless it's relevance is clearly explained. Cheers, Pugget (talk) 22:14, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Origin

From personal knowledge I can verify the origin of this term. I was a radio operator at Jeddah Port in the 1980s. One of our Saudi operators was trying to contact a vessel, but kept doubling (when two persons accidentally transmit on the same channel at the same time, blocking both transmissions) with a Filipino operator on another vessel. He lost his temper and said "get off the channel you Filipini monkey" (sic). Many ships' operators are Filipino and many were listening on the calling channel. The Saudi operator was deluged with abuse by many vessels. (I should also say that our operator has a very deep distinctive voice). Every time he was on duty for the next few days, he was abused or fed misleading information. Whenever he aked who was abusing him, he got the response "this is the Filipino Monkey". We had to transfer him to a desk job. The term entered the local culture. It spread to international status with the first Gulf War. Needless to say, Filipino Monkey calls are kept very short to avoid direction-finding. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.71.37.60 (talk) 14:53, 24 July 2008 (UTC)