Post-Colonialism
Do we have our country called Philippines before the colonizers came? Do we really label ourselves as Filipinos before they came? The answer is no, we do not have a name called "Philippines" before they came. As i can remember, it was the spaniards colonization when our country was named as "Philippines". In that sense, can we categorize ourselves purely Filipinos when in the first place, the man who labelled us Filipinos and called our country Philippines was the spaniards? I do not agree that Phillipines has its own pure culture since we were mold by the colonizers.
After being a direct colony of many countries, there are things that changed. Our religion was greatly influenced by the Spaniards when they came, our food culture was influenced by the colonizers and the proof is that now, we are purchasing orr supporting the foreign food like burgers, fries, pancit, siopao and other. We are also influenced by tge colonizers in terms of our clothing. These days, bahay is not used as clothing for people in the cities and in the urban and rural areas but is used to be the clothing for the IP tribes in our mountains like Igorot. Sad thing is that, only fer of those IP groups that came from the mountanous parts of the Philippines is using it becuase they have already introduced to the use of blouse, pants and skirts. Even the use baro't saya was an influenced by the Spaniards, they were the one who used it. They used it with a classification.
The effect of colonization exerted a huge impact in our society. We have racism and discrimination. Racism and discrimination is being a significant problem in our world since we are all people and our what we want is the nature of acceptance. The form of otherings will always be the result. The discrimination that will lead to a misorganized society will always be present. It is like our categorization of our social statuses wherein some elites may be overpowerful that may result to stepping do the rights of the average people because they have the money, the connections and the power. Color is the becoming the social issue nowadays because it is perceive that whites are the superior, the rich people who came from a royalty blood while blacks are the poor, the inferior people and the one who came from a slave blood.
Post-Colonial theories are significantly affecting all of the people especially the Filipino nation. The search for our own identity is being destroyed. Filipino people are confused with our own identity and categorizing what is our own.
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