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Challenges in Forging A Filipino National Identity: Concepts of Heroes

The document discusses challenges to forging a Filipino national identity, including lack of unity among ethnic groups, lack of unifying symbols, the archipelagic nature of the country, and colonial policies that promoted inequality. It also outlines approaches to building national identity, such as studying history, using the national language, and enhancing nationalism. Additionally, it provides criteria for determining national heroes in the Philippines, which include having a concept of nation and struggling for freedom, contributing to a system of freedom and order, and thinking of future generations.

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Challenges in Forging A Filipino National Identity: Concepts of Heroes

The document discusses challenges to forging a Filipino national identity, including lack of unity among ethnic groups, lack of unifying symbols, the archipelagic nature of the country, and colonial policies that promoted inequality. It also outlines approaches to building national identity, such as studying history, using the national language, and enhancing nationalism. Additionally, it provides criteria for determining national heroes in the Philippines, which include having a concept of nation and struggling for freedom, contributing to a system of freedom and order, and thinking of future generations.

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Challenges in Forging a Filipino National Identity

First. Lack of unity, There are 37 major ethnic groups and hundreds of sub-groups. It implies divisiveness of the
population inasmuch as some dominant groups oppose adoption of a common national language or even agitate
for independence.

Second. Lack of unifying symbols. We need to have one which we can speak and write, and by which we can
connect “our inner selves to the realities of community life.” a native national name. “Philippines” or
“Filipinas” should be replaced for it symbolizes nothing but the country’s colonial experience and it can hardly
help in the making of our identity.

Third. The archipelagic nature of the country. ? For it can also be argued that the sea does not separate them but,
rather, it does unite them.

Fourth. Colonial policies.


1. The top 5.5% of all landowning families owns 44% of all the cultivable lands;
2. 15% of the richest families accounts for 52.5% of all the national income; and,
3. Only 60 to 100 political clans control all the elective positions at the national level.

The Trident Approach to Building a National Identity


 Study of the Past.
 Use of the national language
 Enhancement of Nationalism

Note: Education has a two-fold purpose: as a means for developing the person of the individual Filipino and as
a tool for building the national community.

Reference: http://www.ndcp.edu.ph/wp-content/uploads/publications/EPB_pobre_natl%20identity.pdf National


Defense College of the Philippines

Ten Modern ways to express Filipino Nationalism


 Respect the Philippine flag and value the Filipino identity
 Be a productive citizen
 Be aware of the issues in our country
 Stand proud for every Filipinos achievement
 Patronize and support our own products
 Preserve the Filipino culture
 Respect everyone and value our traditions
 Speak out our own language
 Remember and commemorate our heroes’ sacrifices for our country
 Love our family, our neighbour, and our compatriots

Luz Leanie M. Reyes, the contributor, is a Grade 8 teacher in Araling Panlipunan (AP) at  Nagpayong High
School, Pasig City, Philippines. reyes.luzleanie@yahoo.com.

Concepts of Heroes - https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/180016-fast-facts-filipino-national-hero-criteria-


heroes-day-philippines

Concepts of Heroes
Through Executive Order No. 75 issued on March 28, 1993, former president Fidel Ramos created the National
Heroes Commission, which is tasked to study and recommend national heroes to be recognized for their
character and contributions to the country. The commission was also tasked to evaluate, recommend, and come
up with the criteria to determine how a historical figure qualifies as a national hero.

The committee came up with the following criteria:


 Heroes are those who have a concept of nation, and aspire and struggle for the nation’s freedom
 Heroes define and contribute to a system or life of freedom and order for a nation
 Heroes contribute to the quality of life and destiny of a nation

Additional criteria were adopted by the Technical Committee of the National Heroes Committee on November
15, 1995:
 Heroes are part of the people’s expression
 Heroes think of the future, especially of the future generations
 The choice of heroes involves the entire process that made a particular person a hero

According to National Heroes Committee, heroes


 Have a concept of nation and aspire and struggle for a nation’s freedom
 Define and contribute to nations freedom, order,, quality of life and destiny
 Are part of the peoples expression
 Think of future generation

According to the criteria, national heroes:


 Have a concept of nation and thereafter aspire and struggle for the nation’s freedom
 Define and contribute to a system or life of freedom and order for a nation. Heroes are those who make
the nation’s constitution and laws
 Contribute to the quality of life and destiny of a nation
 Are part of the people’s expression
 Thinks of the future, especially the future generations
 The choice of a hero involves not only the recounting of an episode or events in history, but of the entire
process that made this particular person a hero

Contribution of Heroes to Nation Building


 Heroes insist on Education as the instrument for social progress.
 Ultimate means at nation-building is national identity.

Scott T Allison Ph.D.


Why We Need Heroes

5 Surprising Ways That Heroes Improve Our Lives


 Heroes produce a recently identified emotion called “elevation”
 Heroes heal our psychic wounds
 Heroes nourish our connections with other people
 Heroes show us how to transform our lives
 Heroes turn us into heroes ourselves
 We’re born to have heroes
 Heroes nurture us when we’re young 
 Heroes reveal our missing qualities
 Heroes save us when we’re in trouble
 Heroes pick us up when we’re down
 Heroes give us hope 
 Heroes validate our preferred moral worldview
 Heroes provide dramatic, entertaining stories
 Heroes solve problems
 Heroes deliver justice 

https://blog.richmond.edu/heroes/2013/05/17/10-reasons-why-we-need-heroes/
Scott T. Allison & George R. Goethals, Heroes, What They Do & Why We Need Them, 2011

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