Thursday, May 17, 2018

PAGSARMINGAN: A MIRROR OF IDENTITY

                                                     Mr.Mark-Jhon Ramos Prestoza
                                                                    Research Manager
                                                        International Multicultural Network


The Philippines has more than 7, 104 islands scattered like a broken beads of rosaries around the archipelago.  A home of Filipinos with various ethnic cultures mixed with a colourful religion and fragrance language. These ethnic cultures reflect its peoples’ journey towards fully human development. It defines the magnanimity of the country’s soul.

Philippines is known as the pearl of the orient sea, not because of its demographic location but because of its various cultures and arts.  Filipinos has rich in tangible heritage, a manifestation of their belief, in their life and existence as a people. Filipinos worth preserving the intangible heritage (indigenous culture) manifested in their rituals show how much they care, support, love, and protect each other against life problems and worries, sickness, poverty, bad luck and unseen forces/spirits that disturb/destroy their health, prosperity, good life and harmony with themselves.
Through the ages, despite Spanish and American colonization, the tangible and intangible heritage of Filipinos tried to preserve their ethos, system of values and code of conduct as reflected in their crafts, arts, rites and rituals. There are indicators, however, that due to the influence of a formal education and millennial age the culture and their exposure to media and other cultures in the towns, cities, and even abroad, their original cultures and arts, particularly their crafts and arts of healing, singing, dancing, playing instrument and also with their way of living has influenced by the multiculturalism.

Filipinos embraced multiculturalism in order to build a bridge between others that unite with harmonious relationship. Multiculturalism helped Filipinos to enlighten one another with respect, love and support, it also one way to learn how to preserve and what to serve.  It’s a strong effort to make Filipinos a living force that shape and nurture the inherent values of love, life, community, family, solidarity,  and responsibility.

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