After weeks of contain my temper, and as a student mastered in Public Speaking at Florida School for the Deaf, it was time for talkback. A rebuttal, if you please. Yet I fear I would get backlash from this woman (as it happen everyday in the Philippines), I wrote this while ago:

Dear Ma’am President of Philippine Federation of the Deaf:

While you said:

expatrate mean to us is a citizen of one country leave for overseas then back to his/her native land.

Wrong. Read this encyclopedia below. There are expatriate in the Philippines which made up of 3%. Based on America Citizen Aboard, 105,000 Americans made Philippines as their permanent home. Expat is not the same as “Missionary” or “Visitor.” Get it?

Be careful what your organization, PFD, said next time. You need to 1) overhaul your website, 2) elect spokesperson who make one voice, and 3) inform Deaf Filipino people of what happen in 2005 SEC fine for PFD failure to file Annual Report. Until you present me your Bylaws and come clean, I would make financial grant to your organization for work your organization try to accomplish.

Now, am longest Deaf American expatriate living (2/28/2007) outside Manila. Who said I am going back? It is very oblivious, that you have negative attitude on me, which I do not accept that. Shame on you.

D. Ricky Carlson, Writer and Businessman
deafsmart@gmail.com
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“Be careful . . ., it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.”
The Garden of Eden, Ernest Hemingway