1.3(pt.3) "HUMANITIES" IN FILIPINO CONCEPT Flashcards
Process by which one becomes a human being.
Pagpapakatao
The student would discover and realize their?
Own identity as a Filipino
The worldwide values, and beliefs systems, knowledge, skills and practices, core principles and ideas shared by a society.
Cultural Identity
Sine qua non
Essential condition
It is a sine qua non for becoming active in the world, a source of social empowerment
Cultural Identity
Had our own cultural identity
Pre-colonial period (Before 1500s)
Our identity destroyed by colonizers: Westernization of Filipino Culture making us alienated from our own. The first objective of a colonizing power is to erase the cultural memory of the conquered people in order to supplant it with the culture of the colonizers.
Colonial Period (1500-1950)
Making us alienated from our own
Westernization of Filipino Culture
First objective of colonizing power
Supplant it with the culture of the colonizers
Reclamation, affirmation and definition or of our own terms
Post-Colonial Period (1950 onwards)
Forms of alienation caused by Westernization of Filipino Culture
- Alienation from Community
- Alienation from Our Source of Cultural Energy
- Alienation from Our Race
- Alienation from the Indigenous
- Alienation from the Land
- Alienation from Being Filipino
- Alienation from Sustainable Living
Alienation from Our Sources of Cultural Energy:
Thinking in Borrowed Forms and the Economics of Dependency
Alienation from Our Race:
The Doña Victorina Syndrome
Alienation from the Indigenous:
Denigrating the Local
Recommendations for Developing a Filipino and Humanistic Perspective
- Heightening social consciousness and sense of responsibility to the nation.
- Promoting people participation, local genius, and cultural diversify.
- Promoting the local but thinking national or global: human communities, not the state, are the ultimate actors in the deveopment process
- Integrating the arts to social and cultural phenomena as lucid mirrors of social consciousness.
