It is wrong to declare that we don't have a culture of our own. It is just covered or submerged with many foreign influences. The effect: It is now difficult for us to understand who we really are. To know our Filipino citizenship, we must take off lots of things in our mind and habit. It's like peeling an onion. In the process of peeling it you can't prevent that you will cry because there are so many painful changes.

Because of the influence of the foreigners, many of us were influenced: reverse ethnocentrism. We measure ourselves in a form of the foreigner's judgement. That's why in our view, we are always missing something. We always lose because we cannot top the western standards. Our view of ourselves were crushed. We looked to our culture so low compared to the others.

In our view, we looked like woe. Instead of loving our own, we instead dreamed of becoming and giving more importance to the foreign cultures. We sing songs every December the "Santa Claus is coming to town" and "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas" even though we don't have snow or chimneys in our houses.

The sales of glutathione increases because many wants to become white. But they don't know, that it's easy to get skin cancers if you're removing the skin coloring of melanin that fights ultraviolet rays. From clips of the clothesline until to the plastic nose lifters, everyone rushed to looked like they have pointed noses.

Others even whiten their faces to look like their favorite Korean boy band. Others even put contact lenses so that they look like anime characters. But you can't figure your genes, a snub is a snub, that's what it is. Being a Filipino is not just a talk outside but it's inside you, everything we do to our body just results to everything in our will.

Source:
Pinog Big Values
By: Ronald Molmisa