Week 13: The Filipino Political Self PDF

WEEK 13: THE POLITICAL SELF STRENGTHS OF THE FILIPINO CHARACTER 1. PAKIKIPAGKAPWA-TAO POLITICAL SELF - Filipino’s openness, helpfulness, and generosity - indiv...

WEEK 13: THE POLITICAL SELF STRENGTHS OF THE FILIPINO CHARACTER 1. PAKIKIPAGKAPWA-TAO POLITICAL SELF - Filipino’s openness, helpfulness, and generosity - individual’s identity and sense of belonging within a through the practice of bayanihan and hospitality community or country. - involves one’s engagement within the political sphere, 2. FAMILY ORIENTATION which encompasses one’s political beliefs, values, and - A genuine love for the family affiliations, as well as his or her understanding of - Giving honor and respect to parents and elders, societal structures and systems. care for the children, generosity toward kin, and personal sacrifices for the welfare of the family THE FILIPINO BASED ON THE 1987 CONSTITUTION - a citizen of the Philippines at the time of the adoption 3. JOY AND HUMOR of the Constitution - Cheerful and fun-loving, which are - father or mother are citizens of the Philippines demonstrated through various fiestas and social - born before January 17, 1973, of a Filipino mother, who gatherings elect Philippine citizenship upon reaching the age of - Always finding a reason to smile or laugh majority - Someone naturalized in accordance of the law 4. FLEXIBILITY, ADAPTABILITY, & CREATIVITY - Ability to overcome life’s challenges NATURAL-BORN FILIPINO - someone born in the - Tremendous in adjusting and adapting to any Philippines and with Filipino blood. circumstances - Can improvise and make use of whatever is at NATURALIZED FILIPINO - foreigner who has hand to create and produce undergone a judicial act that gave him or her the privileges of a Philippine citizen. 5. HARD WORK AND INDUSTRY - Willingness to take risks and work in other FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE FILIPINO countries CHARACTER 6. FAITH AND RELIGIOSITY 1. HOME ENVIRONMENT - Bahala na mindset, which serves as a - children are taught to value and give primary “kickstarter” or “pampalakas loob” to move him or importance to the family her into action 2. SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT 7. ABILITY TO SURVIVE - Depending on one another to survive - “matutong mamaluktot habang maikli pa ang kumot” 3. CULTURE AND LANGUAGE - Can endure, make do, and get by on so little - Openness to foreign elements with no basic while looking forward to the coming of better consciousness of Filipino’s cultural core days 4. HISTORY WEAKNESSES OF THE FILIPINO CHARACTER - The colonization of the Philippines was the culprit for the Filipino’s colonial mentality. 1. EXTREME PERSONALISM - Palakasan system 5. EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM - people get special treatment from “inside - Schools are highly authoritarian connections” - students are taught to be passive and to conform to authorities. 2. EXTREME FAMILY-CENTEREDNESS - Concern for the community and for the common 6. ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT good is less important - Filipinos are forced to work hard and take risks due to the economic situation of the Philippines. 3. LACK OF DISCIPLINE 7. POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT NINGAS COGON - a person starts with full - Government structures and systems are fraught enthusiasm and interest, but no sooner has with problems like corruption. it started that the enthusiasm and interest just as soon die down 8. MASS MEDIA - reinforces colonial mentality through FILIPINO TIME - arrive late or start late emphasizing the superiority of imported brands. 9. LEADERS AND ROLE MODELS - Filipinos have high respect for authorities.  4. PASSIVITY AND LACK OF INITIATIVE SELF-PRESENTATION - Because of the strong reliance on leaders and - behavior; conscious or unconscious efforts an the government, people do not feel the need to individual makes to create, modify, or maintain an initiate or contribute to the solution. impression of himself in the mind of others. 5. COLONIAL MENTALITY REASONS FOR ENGAGING: - Love for anything foreign Helps facilitate social interaction Enables individuals to attain material and social 6. KANYA-KANYA SYNDROME rewards - Extreme personalism and extreme family- Helps people privately construct desired centeredness identity - Being insensitive to the common good IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT 7. LACK OF SELF-ANALYSIS & SELF-REFLECTION - done by controlling or influencing how other people - “Madaling makalimot” or have a short memory perceptions about himself. - can involve strategic choices in clothing, grooming, DEMOCRACY body language, and verbal communication - government; supreme power is vested and exercised by the people directly or indirectly through a system of MAIN MOTIVES (MANAGE IMPRESSION OF representations, usually involving periodically held free OTHERS) elections INSTRUMENTAL - to gain rewards and KEY ELEMENTS: increase one’s self-esteem Rule by the people through free and fair elections and other forms of participations EXPRESSIVE - attempts to be in control of The use of the Constitution to limit government one’s personal behavior and identity by law Freedom, quality, and dignity of an individual STRATEGIES WEEK 14: THE DIGITAL SELF SELF PROMOTION - a person actively says things or takes action to show his competence to other people SOCIAL WORLD: Western Influenced Society - 3 domains: Family, School, Neighborhood INGRATIATION - a person tries to win the - Emergence of the Internet: 4th domain: ONLINE approval or acceptance of others LIFE EXEMPLIFICATION - strategic self-sacrifice DIGITAL SELF - also known as online identity INTIMIDATION - showing off authority, - used to describe a person’s representation of himself power, or the potential to punish on the Internet. - different social media platforms: a person can SUPPLICATION - a person exploits his construct a controlled projection that impacts how other weaknesses or shortcomings to receive people perceive him help or benefit - not only about sharing a person’s life online - what is acceptable and impressive to other people IMPACTS OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS TO THE SELF whom a person want to get approval from. - Internet could highly affect how teenagers form their CHARACTERISTICS (ZHAO, 2005) identities: seek for outside affirmation from friends and strangers through different social media platforms Oriented inward Narrative in nature - give an amplified feeling of invisibility which can have Retractable a great influence on how they perceive themselves Multipliable - current generation doesn’t know how to differentiate SOCIAL SELF their real-time identity and online identity: see as - An individual’s belief of how other people perceive him identical - create a social identity to achieve a perceived belongingness to a certain group. - Technology / Internet: makes it more difficult for - a person can define his sense of being based on other teenagers to form an identity since it creates more people’s validation. versions of the “self” than before DIGIPHRENIA (DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF) PRIVATE ONLINE PROFILE - experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. ADVANTAGES - e sort of multiple instances of you operating simultaneously and in parallel Control over viewers Protected from scammers and bashers APP-DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR - individual relies heavily on digital applications for DISADVANTAGES communication, productivity, entertainment, and other functionalities Very limited network Very low engagement WHAT MAKES PEOPLE SO ADDICTED TO THE Do not get to meet interesting people INTERNET? Will not help grow a business (for entrepreneurs) - ONE CANNOT NOT COMMUNICATE: Social networks break the barriers of distance and time INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY by allowing people to communicate anytime and - Develops over the course of a person’s life anywhere; expanded the possibilities of sharing - May include aspects of a person’s life that he has no and playing identities control over - Emphasis on the individual BOUNDARIES OF ONLINE SELF - Created through differences in personal characteristic PRIVATE SELF SOCIAL IDENTITY - Mental events in a person’s life that are - A person’s sense of who he is based on group inherently unobservable to others or only within membership his network of connections - Group as an important source of pride and self-esteem PUBLIC SELF - Emphasis on what a person has in common with the - Behaviors that are open to the observations of members of the group other people - Created based on similarities with others - Within the entire internet GENDER IDENTITY SOCIAL PROFILES - world has truly been transformed by the Internet, - digital representations of individuals on different online especially on this platforms, capturing various aspects of their identity, interests, and activities. SEX - provide users with a space to share information about - based on the biological make up of a person, which themselves and engage with others. can be identified as male or female. PUBLIC ONLINE PROFILE GENDER (JUDITH BUTLER) - product of discourse, interactions, and social ADVANTAGES: processes Facilitates open communication STEREOTYPE Allows posting and open discussion of ideas - fixed, over generalized belief about a particular group Provides an opportunity to widen business or class of people” (Cardwell, 2014) contacts Targets a wide audience Improves business reputation (for Ex: Women are not as capable as men in technical entrepreneurs) fields. Helps expand market research, implements marketing campaigns, delivers communications, Ex: Men are not emotional and should not express and directs interested people to a specific vulnerability website DISEMBODIMENT HYPOTHESIS POSSIBLE RISK: - Through the internet: individuals are able to allow the Increases the possibility of fraud, spam, and mind to engage in social activities while the body is virus attacks static Increases the risk of people falling prey to online scams - people do not need to conform to an assigned gender. Potentially results in negative comments and Thus, they are able to freely perform, communicate, and bashing act based on their true gender identity SEXUALITY - a person’s feelings, attractions, behaviors, and orientations related to one’s emotional, romantic, and sexual experience. FACTORS (AFFECTING ADOLESCENT’S SEXUALITY) Hormones Personality or temperament Social or environmental factors Media and the Internet