Filipinos in The 21st Century
Filipinos in The 21st Century
Filipinos in The 21st Century
do not even know how to play those games because of the penetration of high-tech consoles like Play Station Portable, Play Station, and Computers. Likewise, social changes like Jejemons contribute to the loss of identity. It made a big role to the hindrance of the original culture by changing the spelling and pronunciation of such words. Just like the balagtasan is toppled by the evolving fliptop. It just exemplifies the effect of the loss of the Filipino culture because the changing needs of the people and the advancement of technology in the world. Aside from that, the changes of culture or the way of life for the past years contribute to the change of attitude of the younger generation of Filipinos. Just like for example, many children are now brat and too much obsessed with the material things. Some of them do not speak Filipino that much and are always speaking in English. And some parents do not train them or show them the right attitude of a Filipino and just going their own way without even considering the fact that their culture is passed from generation to generation. Furthermore, because of the advancement of technology like the existence of cellular phones changed the ways of courting a lady nowadays. Unlike before, the man or someone who would like to court a lady would need to go the house of the lady and make harana in the middle of the night. The person who courts must service the family of the woman by fetching water and making firewood etc. Also the person who courts must go to the house of the lady asks for the permission of the parents of the lady to court her. But now, the person who courts will just text and message each other through social networking sites without their parents knowing. They will just see each other in school and just after days or so they will be in a relationship. This is a paradigm of a constant change of attitude and values of Filipino. Moreover, the spirit of patriotism is gone because of pop-cultures. Many Filipinos do not even care about their country because they are fond to go in trend. They lose their distinctiveness of being respectful, patriotic and nationalistic because of going into the trend. They always set aside the culture and go to what is eminent. Just like for example, the Philippine movie industry and music is being toppled by international films and music. Most of them prefer to watch and hear the international acts rather than having a pure Filipino show. Indeed, we, Filipinos have changed as time passes by. We have changed significantly that affected our culture and values. We have evidently changed the essence of being Filipino a Filipino who has the abilities and attitudes that our ancestors lived in. Maybe time passes and we need to change but that change in our way of life should not affect the Filipino Spirit on us. We should use those changes as a part of the advancement of teaching and nourishing our own culture. I, as a Filipino should take all this changes as a challenge on implementing a new way of preserving and nourishing of our dying culture.
But before I end, I will leave questions for you to answer. You as a Filipino how would you take all this changes and advancements to preserve and nourish our culture with all the technologies that has been evolving and the pop-cultures that exists everywhere? You as a Filipino how would you react on this? This I stress for you to answer and find out in yourself the true meaning of a Filipino today.