Filipinos Should be Proud of Our Culture
Proud to be Pinoy
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It is wrong to declare that we don't have a culture of our own. It is just covered or submerged with many foreign influences. The effect: It is now difficult for us to understand who we really are. To know our Filipino citizenship, we must take off lots of things in our mind and habit. It's like peeling an onion. In the process of peeling it you can't prevent that you will cry because there are so many painful changes.
Because of the influence of the foreigners, many of us were influenced: reverse ethnocentrism. We measure ourselves in a form of the foreigner's judgement. That's why in our view, we are always missing something. We always lose because we cannot top the western standards. Our view of ourselves were crushed. We looked to our culture so low compared to the others.
In our view, we looked like woe. Instead of loving our own, we instead dreamed of becoming and giving more importance to the foreign cultures. We sing songs every December the "Santa Claus is coming to town" and "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas" even though we don't have snow or chimneys in our houses.
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The sales of glutathione increases because many wants to become white. But they don't know, that it's easy to get skin cancers if you're removing the skin coloring of melanin that fights ultraviolet rays. From clips of the clothesline until to the plastic nose lifters, everyone rushed to looked like they have pointed noses.
Others even whiten their faces to look like their favorite Korean boy band. Others even put contact lenses so that they look like anime characters. But you can't figure your genes, a snub is a snub, that's what it is. Being a Filipino is not just a talk outside but it's inside you, everything we do to our body just results to everything in our will.
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Pinog Big Values
By: Ronald Molmisa
My girlfriend is Filipino and I'm white. I'm really jealous of how strong and large your communities and families seem to be. White culture doesn't really have that and it's really important in life. I hope it rubs off more in the Western world. I don't really feel any kind of white culture or bond like that.
Yeah right and we are proud of it. Soon you will be embracing such culture and be proud too :)
I believe evereyone can be proud of his culture. Culture is probably the main reason for people to travel an everyone's source of happiness. Unfortunately there are people in this world who believe that their culture is the only true culture and want to devaluate or destroy others. You should be proud of your culture.
I dont think there's such thing as true culture, it all depends on how we live our lives. Yeah right, our culture might be responsible in what we have become but its useless if we don't know how to live on it and be proud of it.
this is speech. will read it later. but i have seen its direction. are there many pinoys on steemit perhaps we can combine and do some trail or something! i am half pinoy but in ph
I'm interested. When I joined steemit, I invited all my officemates and 90% of them joined too. But unfortunately, they could not hold on to it due to the absence of rewards. You knew Filipinos are very particular with money due to the kind of life we have in the country.
I can't blame them because they are viewing steemit as an additional source of income and upon knowing that it's not that easy, they're gone.
yep understood. not only that. it may have been tough for them at the begining with the bulk of info and learning curve but i think they will find it easy to come back when busy.org begins as the interface is more familiar there and it is just steemit with better interface. as for earnings, one can only hope for the future and enjoy blogging for now