Thursday, November 27, 2014

Why Filipinos Are Shallow?

http://www.philstar.com/arts-and-culture/725822/why-we-are-shallow


F. Sionil Jose’s article titled “Why we are shallow” again opened my eyes into many perspectives. “Shallow” is not caring about or involving serious or important things. In this article, it opened my eyes that our shallowness had rooted in many reasons, like media, the one I am going to be in the nearest future, and our arrogance and the rugged educational system.
I agreed to Jose’s opinion, that media is one of the reasons to our shallowness, because aside from they are bias, they also bring news that does not contain any information to ponder and they also contain unserious matters. Media plays a big role in the popularity of every person who wanted to be recognized; popularity, not the quality.
But what struck me the most was that shallowness rooted in this arrogance. Because we have this boosted confidence and pride within us, we think we can do it and therefore accept far behind our qualifications, and we are trained to see them as if they are the real deal, as if they are true. It shows shallowness, and immaturity, because we make our own burden to which will scourge us and will make us suffer, as well as those who will be affected by a “little show”. I say immaturity because as the opposite term implements, maturity needs full development physically and has wisdom. Let me ask you, do people with wisdom do such fake shows and over-believing? I believe not. “We are shallow because we lack this most important knowledge — who we are and the limits to what we can do.”, stated F. Sionil Jose.

I also believed that Filipinos don’t read much that is why we are shallow, and this belief was strenghthened by his situation in hospitals and from other countries. But this article also gave me this belief that Filipinos are shallow because some life situations made them arise to this state of self, a state of shallowness, and also because they wanted to attain something they have never done before. 

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