[Steve_Seattle]

My girlfriend is Filipina, and grew up in a village with no electricity and no running water. She was basically raised by her grandparents, who got her a good education at a Catholic girls' school. She speaks and writes better English than most Americans, and spent much of her adult life teaching literature and writing at the college level.

But by her own admission, Filipinos like to live well, and will work hard enough to get a good job, but they are not "driven" and therefore rarely rise to the very top in intellectual or athletic pursuits. Culture matters.

[SeekAndFind]

Here is something very interesting I notice in the above names of contestants. I have lived and worked in the 6 countries around the world -— USA, Australia, Philippines, Taiwan, the Netherlands and Japan.

I KNOW Chinese names when I see one ( Heck, I speak the language ).

I notice that even in countries like Malaysia, the Philippines, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Sweden, Argentina not to mention the USA, the contestants are ETHNIC CHINESE.

Just look at the last names of the contestants for the Philippines and Malaysia as an example -— Adrian Reginald Sy, Deany Hendrick Cheng, Mikaela Angelina Uy, Farrell Eldrian Wu, Ma. Czarina Angela Lao, How Si Yu, Anzo Teh Zhao Yang, Khong Yi Kye, etc.

ALL OF THEM have CHINESE last names.