Boy: Use AMALAYER in a sentence.
Girl: Hoy, nagsasabi ako ng totoo! Tingin mo AMALAYER? Hindi ako sinungaling!
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Ah, the folly of youth.
Girl: Hoy, nagsasabi ako ng totoo! Tingin mo AMALAYER? Hindi ako sinungaling!
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Ah, the folly of youth.
Ah, the folly of stressed / low-paid security guards.
Ah, the folly of our colonial mentality.
Ah, the folly of equating the acquisition of college education with having ethics.
Ah, the folly of misplaced anger aka displacement much?
(Displacement operates in the mind unconsciously and involves emotions, ideas, or wishes being transferred from their original object to a more acceptable substitute...Displacement can act in a chain-reaction, with people unwittingly becoming both victims and perpetrators of displacement. For example, a man is angry with his boss, but he cannot express this so he hits his wife. The wife hits one of the children, possibly disguising this as punishment (rationalization)).
Ah, bless and curse citizen paparazzis, for we'd have nothing to talk about without their ever-ready phone cam recordings of regular people humiliating fellow regular people and themselves.
Out of the hundreds of people who gets poked, pushed, shouted at by security guards at LRT/MRT stations everyday - including security guards inside malls - why did this female passenger take offense at whatever the female security did to her which the latter - after being scandalously humiliated by the former - already apologized for?
Lessons we could learn from the AMALAYER incident:
1 Just because it's on TV doesn't mean it's right. Just because it's on TV doesn't mean it should be emulated.
I honestly wonder what show / TV - movie character this girl in the vid thinks she is in? Who is she imitating?
Jersey Shore much? a rapper?
What TV shows does she watch?
2 Usually, over-the-top anger that is not equal to its cause has a reason that isn't what it's claiming to be.
Is the girl angry for the security guard's rudeness?
The guard has apologized.
Yet the girl won't let the incident go.
Maybe it's not at the guard she's angry at.
The same way it was not the LRT personnel I was angry at for giving me an incorrect card when I bought one at UN Ave a year ago, yet I didn't let the incident go and insisted that they change it or refund me the money.
I shouted and insisted that they made a mistake when I learned later on it was I who made the error and that my anger was not at the incorrect card but my destination - it was school.
But it was the card that was there at the time I felt I had reason to be angry and the LRT personnel was an easy target.
Whatever the guard did or said was an emotional trigger the girl probably has yet to confront on her own - or maybe she's just rude who knows?
3 Education is not equal to ethics.
It's not the girl's fault for equating having an education with -----
actually she didn't connect it with anything.
She just dropped that information like a bomb after feeling slighted.
But who hasn't dropped the education card in arguments with people who some feel is "less" than them. We've all done it. We've all learned it, duh. We've been taught were better with education than with none. Who hasn't heard that education is the most precious thing a parent could give a child?
The issue is not education. The issue is feeling higher than anyone and/or thinking that someone is lesser than them - education is simply a convenient excuse the same way money, cars, authority and popularity is.
The question is, people who feel high have been made to feel small and so they keep people feeling small so they can continue feeling high themselves - the girl is right -- she is returning the favor. The guard made her feel small. But someone else before the guard already did this and she is displacing that feeling onto someone easier to shout at / be angry with.
We've all done it. Just because we have done it though doesn't mean we continually should. Now that we know, now that we are aware of it, now we can see its futility and un-necessity - why would we continually do it?
4 Poor English grammar or diction is no reason to bully someone.
But here we are trending AMALAYER because it was pronounced that way. Because we have been similarly taught - laughed at even - for our wrong pronunciation.
e.g.
Colonel -- I mispronounced as Kolonel.
Combing -- I mispronounced KOM-BING.
I wasn't bullied because of my pronunciation, it was because I didn't stand up for my self, but you get my drift.
Who hasnt mispronounced English words? If you haven't, you're not a Filipino.
5 Just because you're speaking in English is no reason to bully someone
But for us who have been taught to speak ONLY English lest pay P1.00 for every Tagalog word spoken during English class or English week, now it's payback!
Unless English is the language you naturally speak at home, you probably won't see the reason to use your English language as a badge of pride.
But if you feel it would get your point across -- NOTE: You speak English not to be understood but to impress - impressing someone is your point, then GO!
It's a free country -- DO WACHAWANT!
Just don't expect to be liked, though your English skills would probably be admired.
Miresa Regacho 
My Name Is Mavi:) 
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