How can you show pride to filipino culture without being ethnocentric?
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How can you show pride to filipino culture without being ethnocentric?
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The Philippine cultural scene is as tumultuous as its politics so it is no surprise that for the Filipino, getting a grip on his own culture may be alienating.
The cultural scene today is such a mixed bag, including “beautification” of heritage town plazas with monstrous “multipurpose” structures where barrio beauty contests are held as the main cultural event of the annual fiesta. Usually crowned as Miss Barrio Beauty is the most Caucasian-looking among the contestants.
Noontime television shows entertain the entire nation, inspiring inmates of provincial jails to form their own dance troupes which out-dance the best Western pop dancers.
Is all that Western-influenced? Where is the Filipino-ness? Or could it be more Filipino than we think?
The often-repeated quote—that the Philippines had lived 350 years in the convent followed by 50 years in Hollywood—encapsulates the long history of the Filipino looking outward rather than inward, thinking what is “out there” is better than what is at home.
At home, generations of outward-looking Filipino architects, images of the Parthenon, the Pyramids, and the Great Wall in mind, insist on asking the question “Is there a Filipino architecture” without realizing that Filipino architecture has been staring them in their faces all this time.
Quickly vanishing
And also staring in our faces are our towns and cities, products of architecture, urban planning, government and socioeconomic systems, which are quickly vanishing physical manifestations of Philippine culture.
Why are they vanishing? The belief is that bigger is better, new is good, and old is bad—the rationale for demolishing outstanding old structures to be replaced by mediocre new ones.