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It is unfair to the Filipino artist.
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The speaker says that something done to, or expected of, a Filipino artist is not fair. The sentence is a clear objection, but it does not explain what the unfair treatment involves or who is responsible.
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- The Bamboo Gods Project, reproducing Hammy Sotto’s 1977 Philippines Daily Express interview
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