#A damaged culture james fallows how to

#A damaged culture james fallows how to

This is the challenge to all Filipino artists вЂ“ how to give our art and culture a distinctive Filipino face, and with it unite a fractured nation in its quest for justice and a better life. I watched it with the вЂњshock of recognitionвЂќ вЂ“ a folk ritual dance transformed into Filipino modern dance, and destined to be a classic. Leonor Orosa Goquingco extracted the martial movements of the Ifugao war dance and transformed it into вЂњIfugao Suite.вЂќ It was stirring. We give our art an infrangible identity, an intrinsic and perhaps lasting longevity achieved not by flag waving or drum beating. When Nick Joaquin uses Filipino superstitions in his short stories, and when I synthesize the Filipino reality in my novels, what we are doing is endowing our work with a distinctive Filipino patina and timbre, recognizable for its unique particularity and understood as well for its universality. Their building takes centuries and they are formed not only by geography and a societyвЂ™s own culture, but also by the interaction with other cultures, and almost always, as a colonized people, by the response to colonialism.Д¬reative writers, deeply rooted in their native soil and its past, transform folktales and myths into literature. So then, what is Greece without Homer, England without Shakespeare, Spain without Cervantes, and the Philippines without Rizal вЂ“ men not with swords but with pens? The soul of the German nation, he said, was shaped by artists вЂ“ Goethe the novelist, Schiller the poet, and Beethoven, the composer. We were having a discussion on nationalism, and I observed that some nations were the creation of military leaders вЂ“ Kemal Ataturk of Turkey, Garibaldi of Italy, and Bismarck of Germany. dissertation was on the new nations of Africa. Klaus Zeller came to Manila as West GermanyвЂ™s ambassador. New York: McGraw-Hill.In the early 1980s, in the last years of the Marcos dictatorship, Dr. Sociology A Brief Introduction (8th Edition ed.). If everybody would work for a better Philippines P hilippines (meaning stable economy, commendable values system, and unwavering faith on future success), as what functionalists and interactionists (Schaefer, 2009) say, then it will never be too late for the Philippines to mend its damaged culture.ДЇallows, J. And this shall come first in the support of local products, events, traditions, etc. As a Lasallian, I must imbibe the idea of nationalism and relive the true Philippine culture by putting trust back to what I know our country can do and can be. And that is because, in the interactionist perspective (Schaefer, 2009), we are becoming hopeless with our own capabilities, and the capabilities of our government. Since we are now considered to be a developing country, it is inevitable for us to be dependent on the developed ones. And in the conflict perspective (Schaefer, 2009), this may be viewed as simply an effect of social classes. It is simply saying, leaving behind the colonial mentality. We have somehow forgotten that in order to achieve stability or, more specifically, economic success, we should work together towards that and not the economic success of another country. The Filipinos are dependent on the countries we are allied with, especially the United States. And that is the attitude of the people towards their own country. In the functionalist perspective (Schaefer, 2009), one essential part of the society is dysfunctional. Thus, we lost the focus on what we already have and what we could make out of those resources. We were blinded bl inded by what the other countries have. We were influenced by too many external cultures. It may not be as a whole, but the identity of Philippine culture has been lost for a long time now. I agree with what James Fallows (1987) had said in his article оЂЂthat culture can make a naturally rich country poorоЂЃ because that is how the Philippine culture is now. Cybelle Yao INTSOCI- C31 A Damaged Culture By James Fallows (Reaction Paper)