What is the meaning of Filipinization program?

Answer 1

One of the weaker aspect of the Philippines is its culture. Although the filipino's have preserved the cultural legacies left to them by their ancestors, the state of Philippine culture is becoming worse as time passes on without innovation. Prospective Filipino sociologists, historians and anthropologists had been sucked into the massive nursing trend that currently monopolizes the job industry in the country. Then how else can Filipinos propagate and strengthen their cultural consciousness?

The festivals, for one thing, may be a point which many would argue a major contributor to the preservation of Filipino culture and tradition. Indeed, since the past decades, festivals, fiestas and the like had preserved the nationalist cultural sentiment the Filipinos harbor, but as time passed on, these festivities becomes nothing more than a milking cow for event organizers and opportunists. Such festivals promote consumerist attitude among the Filipinos, even to the poorest of the poorest. While it is hard to deny that such occasions also gives opportunities to the poor to earn money through selling ice water, it is much harder to deny that the people who earn super-profits the most are those with the most capital. People in power who were given access to the taxpayers' money could easily invest for free and reap a zero capital interest at the expense of the taxpayer. and with the advent of the elections, these opportunist personalities would take any means necessary to further their campaign funds. So much for culture and tradition, huh?

Despite of the general public's lack of concern over the dwindling cultural consciousness, some people did exemplary works in catching the tastes of the current generation and do so by asserting the filipino culture to its audiences. Filipinization, or the assimilation of foreign cultural trends into the filipino culture, had been one of the oldest ways in which the Philippine culture had managed to survive. Since the dawn of Catholicism in the country, filipino culture had seeped in to fill the missing gaps that separated the native Filipinos' animistic beliefs to the theological practices of the spanish colonizers. But what remains of the set of cultural beliefs that had survived are those that had been used by the colonists to subdue Filipinos. beliefs such that of Aswangs, Tikbalangs, etc. were used by the spanish oppresors to threaten and punish the freedom fighters of old.

The modern professionals, who. like Rizal, filipinized the products of foreign cultures, are the real modern day heroes of the country. In a consumerist society, the proliferation of a product without being subjected to foreign competition is rare, thus products that retain the filipino culture which became popular are of excellent quality. And this means that it is no easy feat for professionals to attain these quality of work.

Filipinization is a must, for the Philippine culture to remain as it is today.