On a lazy Sunday afternoon, after accomplishing my daily goal of reading a book. I could only resort to watching the television to satisfy my boredom. And after flicking the remote countless times, I ended up with a local news show.
Nigel Barker (of Americas Next Top Model fame) was on the country again to shoot a spread for the Philippine Tattler. So the reporter interviewed Nigel about photography or what not and then he came asking this question.
"Do you think filipino's can make it to the top modelling world?"
This one question really got me thinking.
does talent really depend on your nationality?
is the Philippines that fabulous that you have to pay homage to your nationality every time? I mean really?
Let's take kenneth cobonpue for example.
He's a very accomplished industrial designer and a businesman.
Can his success really be attributed to him being filipino?
I think this is one of the social problems that our country has yet to solve.
Excessive Pride.
Excessive sense of nationalism.
It's all over the place.
Manny Pacquiao.Kenneth Cobonpue.Charice Pempengco.Rafi.
all these people who made it "big"
can you really equate that their fame is because of their nationality?
Can we not base their fame on their individual talent alone?!
ofcourse where they came from would definitely influence who they are and most possibly what they do.
But can we base it on that alone?!
I refuse even to think such an idea.
on another note!
This summer has been the most productive summer so far.... in terms of learning stuff.
so horaay!!cheers to me.
our nationalism is one based upon the eros principle, where we seek relatedness, in some instances based upon nationality (but other times, family, town, province, same overseas location). this type of nationalism, I think is helpful to the cause of humanity, and helps to support compassion. i think this outweighs whatever minor negative effects a positive inflation with this kind of identification can have on individuals. the other type of nationalism, based upon the principle of power, is not helpful and does not support the cause of humanity or the development of compassion. but rather, it dehumanizes others and, in doing so, we dehumanize ourselves.
ReplyDeleteanti-Chinese (and now anti-Korean) sentiment is perhaps the extent of common power-based nationalism among our people.
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