Miss Universe 2013: Controversial Filipino DJ Slams Ariella Arida's Offensive Comments To Latinas
Controversial Filipino DJ Mo Twister condemns Philippines' bet to Miss Universe Ariella Arida's offensive "Latinas" remark. Mohan Gumatay who goes with the name Mo Twister, took to social media on Tuesday to comment on Arida's recent ABS CBN News Channel's (ANC) interview "Headstart" when host Karen Davila asked the beauty queen to address comments about her English communication skills.
When Davila quoted a twitter user saying, "Is this our Miss Universe? I think she's having a hard time speaking in English."
The 24-year-old Chemistry graduate responded by saying, "I'm aware of it, actually."
"You know, I've [gotten] a lot of trainings, especially on my communication skills. And I'm doing my best to really express myself, to convey a message to the people," she said.
Arida, who is now in Russia to prepare herself for the 62nd edition of the most prestigious beauty pageant of the world went on to bring up Latinas' English communication skills as MU hopefuls, the reason why Filipinos are very critical when it comes to contestants' use of English.
"Especially, you know, Latinas cannot even speak a sentence, right? I mean, a complete sentence in English... You know, I think, it's the Filipinos who are very critical about this," she said.
But even if she struggles with her communication skills, Miss Philippines is confident that she can deliver and doesn't need any translator if she advance to the Question & Answer portion of the pageant.
Mo Twister's Rant
After the "Latinas" comment, Gumatay posted the video clip in his Twitter account highlighting the "offensive" portion of the interview and posted: "I don't intend to bash on our Ms Philippines here but how the [expletive] is this not considered offensive toward Latinas?" he said.
"I mean, we ALWAYS get so sensitive when someone says anything about us Filipinos (see Dan Brown, Alec Baldwin, and every other time we screamed murder) yet our girl representing our country, in a legit interview regarding the competition, says Latinas can't put a sentence together in English.
"That would royally piss me off if I were of Latin descent. I'm pretty sure we would lose our minds if we heard an interview of a contestant saying 'Filipinos can't string a sentence together' and our Senator/Congressman would persona non grata that bitch immediately," said the DJ who is now based in New York.
"Quite certain that a few of the Latina contestants can cook up a few intelligible lines in English that would leave Ariella here dizzy in her heels. Best of luck to her in the competition. Now back to my NBA Fantasy Team," he added.