Edward W. Said Culture And Imperialism Pdf

UNDERSTANDING OUR FILIPINO VALUE SYSTEM UpdatedMany Filipinos are what I call Sunday religious, that is they go to church every Sunday, take in confession and communion, but the rest of the week they bribe and do corrupt deeds. Dr. Pura Santillan CastrenceNOTES Colored andor underlined words are HTML links. Click on them to see the linked postsarticles. Forwarding this and other posts to relatives and friends, especially those in the homeland, is greatly appreciated. To share, use all social media tools email, blog, Google, Tumblr,Twitter,Facebook, etc. THANKSUPDATE Hi All, I have noted that this particular posting about our Filipino traits and values has beenis very popular among visitors and I guess the popularity stems from the desire of seriously concerned fellow native Filipinos to learn, have deeper understanding, find solutions to stop and reverse the national predicaments suffered and being inflicted on the lives of past, present and foreseeable future generations of our fellow native Filipino majority. With such understanding, it is hoped that it will lead to an appreciation and realization that a great part of the problem is ourselves. I think and believe that  many of our national problems are created andor heightened, knowingly or unknowingly, by our so called Filipino Norm of Morality. Although we may explain our behavior by referring to traits or values, to those of us who have some exposure in psychology we may define traits as more about dispositions or tendencies while values as generally what we consider important and thus prioritize and use as standard for behavior or justificationrationalization for actions or choices. We appreciate and realize that traits and values may influence one another reciprocally, but I believe and think that the latter have greater influence in more instances a thinking person tend to behave more consistently according to his values. Edward W. Said Culture And Imperialism Pdf' title='Edward W. Said Culture And Imperialism Pdf' />Let us hope and work for in our own little way at the very least this realization to come sooner as it is almost too late, and recognize the urgent need for changes in our Filipino traits and values, more fundamentally to re examine our values to employ their positive and dampen their negative potentials in our culture and society, to appreciate acting with less individualistic, personal selfishness and insteadto recognize the higher need for a strong sense of national community which we desperately miss andto express in terms of national unity, i. Filipino nationalism the sine qua non for national progress, that is, the attainment of the common good. This post actually touches the issue of culture, i. Filipino culture. As we know, it is imperative that we obtain a deep awareness of our native history and societyculture our society which embed in the subconscious Filipino mind within each of us  through our home, church and school, etc. Here our native culture is looked at just from the religious point of view. Frankly, I see this point of view as limited or inadequate, based on what I have alluded to regarding source in the preceding paragraph. I will go back, try a broader and deeper look into the issue of our native Filipino culture, i. Edward W. Said Culture And Imperialism Pdf' title='Edward W. Said Culture And Imperialism Pdf' />I see as obstacles to national development sometime later. ADDENDUM As I commented in Split level Christianity, Part 2 of 2, below essay is similarly a synthesis of ChristianCatholic theology and social science thus expectedly with a Christian spin. I add that I personally think and believe that personal and social ethics and morality do NOT necessarily emanate only out of having a religion or being a believer in a God for us the monotheistic Christian God as traditionally or Biblically understood or other. Contrary to the assumption or belief of many Christians, native or not, there are atheists, agnostics, so called pagans, non Christians and what have you who wereare more ethicalmoral and unselfishly act for social justice than those who are self proclaimed or supposedly religious Christians of various shades Catholics, mainline Protestants, Pentecostals or Evangelicals. In short, I believe in the possibility of a Godless morality, though I admit that it is much more difficult to attain. With religion that stresses fear of supernatural justice or retribution, then believers will tend to follow what they think or are taught as Gods or gods command. Bert, 91. Hi All,With the ever worsening greed and corruption that gravely permeate all branches of our civil government and military, including the publicsocial service institutions see all these crimes and treasonous acts as essentially glossed over legacies of the Marcos Dictatorship and with the majority of our fellow Filipinos kept functionally ignorant by design, the latter can only feel perennially abandoned by its government. How To Install Natbib In Latex. All the while the minority who benefit from the recognized system of patronage take care of their extended families and associates. Transparency in government has not taken root thanks to the apathy of the uppermiddle classes some of whom benefit or want to from this status quo and thanks to the imposed ignorance of the native majority as transparency can be put in place only by strong demand from a well informed and active majority. Bosch Ve Injector Pump Manual. We oftentimes wonder what kind of values we have now what have we lost in terms of social conscience, of social morality let us forget here about sexual morality to which the church hierarchy seems to pay relatively more attention to. The question nowadays seems to be Why cant we be goodWe Filipinos point out, ad nauseam, about our homeland as being the only Christian nation in Asia, as if it were a badge that we can brandish around. We do not seem to wonder whether that really is something to be proud of or are we just unknowingly exposing our ignorance about what authentic Christianity is all aboutThere are many interesting online pages with biographical details of W. E. B. Du Bois 18681963 and various aspects of his life, writings, and activities. Edward W. Said Culture And Imperialism Pdf' title='Edward W. Said Culture And Imperialism Pdf' />With all the Catholic schools we have, where many members of our socioeconomic and political rulerselites got their so called education maybe instruction is more apt. What kind of Christian education did these members andor children of the elite class get How come some, if not many, of those who commit crimes and are guilty of corruption were from exclusive Catholic schools What kind of scholastic mentorsteachers did they have Have the mentors themselves sold out Why did the good moral and church social teachings not stick We have expected these alumni of Catholic schoolscollegesuniversities to be better than those who attended public or secular schools. Is it our unique case that social morality can not really be taught in schools nor be practiced in the real world Below is an interesting and informative essay on understanding our Filipino value system, written just a few years after the Marcos downfall, by the late. Representations of the Intellectual THE 1993 REITH LECTURES Edward W. Said VINTAGE BOOKS A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE, INC. NEW YORK. Edward Wadie Said traslitterato anche Said, in arabo , dwrd Wad Sad, Gerusalemme, 1 novembre 1935 New York, 25. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois W. E. B. Du Bois 23 fvrier 1868 27 aot 1963 est un sociologue, historien, militant pour les droits civiques, militant. Fr. Vitaliano Gorospe, S. J.  However, I think Fr. Gorospe was quite naive about the kind of leadership our homeland needs then and now. BertCHAPTER VI UNDERSTANDING THE FILIPINO VALUE SYSTEM  FR. VITALIANO R. GOROSPE, S. J. Since the February 1.