Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

Loyalty is substantial part of relationship. It is a manner that express to the

nation, community, friend, citizenship, marriage, or state. A moral quality of

loyalty can be shown in the term patriotism. Furthermore, patriotism is a

connection to a country. This connection can be seen as far as various

components identifying with one's own particular country, including ethnic, social,

political or chronicled angles. It envelops an arrangement of ideas firmly

identified with those of patriotism. It has importance in personal identification,

interest and weal state. In this, unique affection or response is denoted, and that

response is appointed as a “love for country”.

Philippines has myriad of cultural influences and these influences are the

products of colonization basically from the culture of Spain and the United States.

Moreover, Philippine culture is a mix of Eastern and Western societies. In

addition to that, Philippines also shows angles found in other Asian nations with a

Malay legacy likewise show countless of American impacts.

Despite of the huge influences of foreign cultures, Philippines is also known

for its peculiar characteristics. As a matter of fact, Philippines is a place where

the celebration of holidays and occasions lasts longer than its usual and allotted

time. Furthermore, it is also known for their religious celebration of traditional

festivals, native foods and products, and their hospitality. A few customs, be that

as it may, are changing or bit by bit being overlooked because of modernization.

The Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company has been commended

for protecting huge numbers of the different customary people moves found all

through the Philippines. They are well known for their notorious exhibitions of

Philippine moves, for example, the tinikling and singkil that both element

conflicting bamboo posts.

Additionally, Filipinos are weathercock persons because they can freely

adapt to different environments, whereas, they are known as a settler in many

portions of the world. This people are enthusiastic of music, and resourceful to

create sound. In addition, they love performing like singing and dancing during

different celebrations. In terms of meal, Filipinos have known for their uniqueness

and having a variety of foods. Furthermore, in terms of religious affiliation, a large

number of Filipinos are Catholic.

Nowadays, colonial mentality is throughout the country. People have this

kind of mentality wherein they consider the foreign skills, products, talents and

culture is better than their own. One example of this are the Filipinos. It became

an issue that many Filipinos degrade their own products in a way of thinking that

the local products could not be internationally competitive. Many Anthropologists

addressed that Filipino culture is lost and their identity is nowhere to be found.

This mentality has various effects in the country especially the Philippines. First,

it leads to the Socio-cultural crisis and second, it affects the economy. It is said

that the Philippines economical rate decreased for the past years while the

foreign economical rate increased because most of the Filipinos prefers imported

products than the local ones. This thing is what really happened to the whole
economy, the lesser people to buy Filipino products, the lesser income the

government will get.

Indeed, neocolonialism is a common situation in the modern world. With this,

the youth is the most affected in the humankind. The curious minds of the youth

are influenced by this continuous situation. Different effects are all over the

corner. Materialistic became the new trend. The so-called millennials are said to

be very proud of themselves.

Millennials nowadays are known as the social-media dependent wherein

they tend to rely more on technology as well as the new media. Based from the

millennialmarketing.com, it is stated that 56% of the millennials are commonly the

ones who uses the new technology. Furthermore, because of the wide range of

new media, it became a path that connects millennials to other part of the world.

For that reason, they were exposed in the world wide community wherein they

can see how other people around the world lives; their culture, traditions and

such. Because of this, they tend to be more interested on other countries’ kind of

living because it seems that it is new for them. Little by little they start to research

and learn more about it until they adapt how other people around the world lives.

Just for an instance, the millennial in the Philippines.

Most of the millennials in the Philippines are known to be more interested in

other country than in their own country itself. Lots of Filipino millennials are fond

of using the internet where Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, Youtube and

many more can be found. Through this, it gives them access to other countries’
cultures, traditions entertainments, delicacies, and the like. They usually watched

videos, listening to music, learning the languages and reading more information

about other countries than in their own country. For this reason, they start to

patronize other countries than their homeland.

Nowadays, only few of the Filipino millennials appreciate the products of the

Philippines because most of them want to buy and have imported products; just

for an instance, in terms of clothes; most of the Filipino millennials are fond of

using of branded clothes from foreign countries because for them, it gives them

something to boast around.

In terms of place, many of the Filipinos not just millennials want to explore

other countries. Many of them still go to far places such as abroad just to enjoy

beautiful destinations of other countries. It’s just that, Philippines has also more

beautiful spots like other countries have. Indeed, Philippines is known to have

beautiful spots around the world but Filipinos prefer to travel to foreign places

than to treasure what their own country has.

In terms of entertainment industry, most of the Filipino youths nowadays

patronize foreign countries’ entertainment. They are more fond of singing

English, Korean, Japanese and other languages songs than the Original Pinoy

Music (OPM) songs. In addition to that, they became huge fandoms of foreign

bands/groups and even artists such as actors and actresses. Moreover, the

millennials are described as spendthrifts according to “The Week”. Besides, they

even spend their money just to buy collective stuffs of their favorite bands/groups
and artists even if it costs a lot as well as they spend too much just to buy tickets

and attend to the concert of their idols. Also, in television programs such as

dramas, cartoons or animes and even movies, millennials patronized it a lot than

the local-made or the Filipino-made ones. As time goes by they even become

more addictive to these to the point that their fandoms turn into obsession.

It seems that foreign countries are eating up the minds and interests of the

Filipino youths which lead for them to love foreign countries more and became

less patriotic to their homeland which is not good for them as well as for their

country.

The students from Legazpi City Science High School are considered as

millennials and known to be as the 21st century learners specifically the Senior

High School students, therefore there is no doubt that they are dependent to new

media. Because of this, they are not anymore unfamiliar to what is happening in

the modern world. They already know and experiencing the effects of

neocolonialism nowadays which is making the youth less patriotic to their own

country.

Because of the alarming number of millennials who became less patriotic to

their country especially the Filipino youths, the researchers came up with an idea

to investigate the things covering this issue which includes the factors that affect

of being nationalistic of the millennials and the like. This study aims to gather

information to come up with a possible solution as well as to spread awareness

for the said issue in the future.

Statement of the problem

This study aims to know the patriotism of the Senior High School Students

in the Legazpi City Science High School (SY: 2017-2018).

Specifically, it sought to answer the following questions:

1. What are the factors that affect the patriotism of the students?

2. How these factors affect the patriotism of the students?

3. What is the average mean of the students who are patriotic in terms of:

3.1 Love for country

3.2 Language

3.3 Entertainment

3.4 Foods

3.5 Products

3.6 Place

Hypothesis of the study

There are factors that truly affect the patriotism of the Senior High School

Students in the Legazpi City Science High School (SY: 2017-2018) in terms of

love for country, language, entertainment, food, product and place.

Scope and Delimitation

The researchers would like to determine the factors that affect the patriotism

of the Senior High School Students in Legazpi City Science High School (SY:

2017-2018) as well as how these factors affect their patriotism. In addition to that,

the researchers want to know the average mean of the patriotism of the students

in terms of love for country, language, entertainment, food, product and place.

The study is limited only for the gathering information that is covered and

focus of the study which is the patriotism of students as well as the average

mean of their patriotism in selected aspects. Moreover, it doesn’t include the

patriotism of students in different grade level, school and batch. Also, it doesn’t

include the solution to the problems that is related to the patriotism of the

students.
Significance of the study

The results of the study will be a great benefit to the following:

Government. They will be aware of the level of patriotism of the students. For

that reason, they can come up on ways on how to strengthen the

students/youth’s love for country.

Businessmen. It will serve as a basis on what kind of foods and products are in

demand from the youth/student. For that reason, they can produce foods and

products according to the taste of the students as well as the trend.

Entertainment Industry. It will give them an idea of what kind of entertainment

the youth wants resulting to improve the Filipino industry in order to patronize by

the students/youth.

Organisasyon ng Pilipinong Mang-aawit(OPM). This organization will benefit

on study since it will provide a wider and better perspective on foreign music and

hence strategize anew in the local music industry.

Students. They will be aware if they are still patriotic or not, for that reason they

can come up to realizations and there is a possibility for them to change and

become more patriotic to their country.

Future researchers. The study will serve as a guide as well as an idea for

another research in the future.