getrealphilippines/legacy/agr-disagr/16-1-ideo.html We need to have something that would prove that the Philippine society is just more than an historical or fortuitous accident in order to justify its continued existence. We have to formulate some deeper ideology shared by all filipinos that would inspire personal or moral conviction beyond mere emotionalism or sentimentalism. Patriotism could only be sustained if its rooted on more timeless principles and yet peculiar only to the filipino people. Anything else, would be fleeting. Many filipinos wish some kind of acceptance and recognition from other cultures as basis of their own self-acceptance. What happens is that, because of a lack of some clear, stable, objective, and independent benchmark, they measure themselves in terms of criteria relative and workable to other cultures. Sometimes, they think that assuming the native traits of people of other cultures would be route towards universal acceptance, thus, lose themselves in the process. Filipinos have to redefine themselves. We need to reinvent ourselves in terms of a clear ideology or ideal, sufficiently universally acceptable to all filipinos regardless of subgroup, subculture, or other inherent diversities. In other societies, the agreed aspects overwhelm the conflicting ones. While in some societies such as ours, it appears that, the conflicting aspects overwhelm the agreed ones. And when we do agree, nothing uplifting and progressive seems inherently sustainable, stable, or enduring. ---GRP
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