During the discussion in class we explored into the world of domestic labor's life through a clip from the movie The Black Girl, but I found it a little bit unbalanced if we only focus on how they are treated instead of viewing them in an multi-angle way--knowing how they behave, and why they are treated that way.
Very often foreign visitors with different races other than the domestic's are judged perceptually, and many of these discrimination are built based on the years of past observation of people. Why don't we take a look on two pieces of news which happened a few years ago in Hong Kong where Philippina housework helpers are very popular and compare their situations?
Case 1: The ma'am put the hot clothing iron on the maid's arm because she was unsatisfied with the maid's work. The maid was burnt and sent to the hospital, whereas she was fired and sent back to Philippine after police's investigation.
Case 2: When there was no one at home except for the maid and the baby, the maid was annoyed by the baby's crying when she was sitting on the sofa and watching TV. Therefore she put her toe into the baby's mouth to let the baby suck it and stop crying. The incident was discovered by the baby's parents when they saw it on the short cut camera at home.
These news are remembered by me deeply because I find that the conflict between two different class is growing more complex while the outcome is always the same--the maid is fired and kicked back to home. Sometimes it is the employers' fault, and sometimes it is the maid's. I would suggest that the only solution for the problem is respect and education. No matter what class or what race people are in, we are living on the global as human as a whole.
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