Guarin, Mary Grace

Hobrero, Paolo
Nadela, Aimee
Noynay, Sarah Mae
 A form of internalized oppression, characterized by a perception of
ethnic or cultural inferiority
 It involves an automatic and unreasonable rejection of anything
Filipino and an instinctive and uncritical preference for anything
Western or foreign
 Its scope is not limited to patronage of
foreign products but also involves the
choice of language, concept of beauty,
educational systems, laws and policies,
and even political systems
 Filipinos have a colonial mentality which is made
up of two dimensions: the first is lack of
patriotism or an active awareness,
appreciation, and love of the Philippines; the
second is an actual preference for foreign
things.
 Filipino culture is characterized by an openness to
the out-put side - adapting and incorporating the
foreign elements into our image of ourselves. And
yet this image is not built around a deep core of the
Philippines history and language.
 The result is cultural vagueness or weakness
that makes Filipinos extraordinary susceptible
to the wholesale acceptance of moderns mass
culture which often western. Thus, there is
preference for foreign fashion, entertainment,
lifestyle, technology, consumer items.
 Filipinos have this distinction between the “ethnic
majority” and the “ethnic minority”, which is also
the result of the our country’s colonial past. The
Filipinos who were assimilated by Spain and other
western countries became the “ethnic majority”.
While those who continued the practices of their
ancestors were labeled as the “minorities” and
“indigenous people”. And it’s saddening that a lot of
Filipinos perceive minorities as uneducated,
barbaric and ancient.
 Level of
Social and
Economic
Philippine Development
Culture and of Philippines
Values

Colonial
History of the
Country

FILIPINNO COLONIAL
MENTALITY
Colonial History of • Effect of the colonization is the internalization of the inferior perception that is
Philippines imposed on a person by the colonizer

Level of Social and

• Colonization occurred before Filipinos could develop a sufficient society thus foreign
Economic influence easily penetrated our culture
Development of
• We had no monuments which could remind our people of an ancient glory
Philippines

Philippine Cultures • One of the goals of Philippine values system is social acceptance
and Values • Colonized people try to become like the colonizers to be freed from being inferior

• American education transformed the United States in the eyes of the Filipinos from
Philippine an aggressor who had robbed them of their independence to a generous benefactor
Educational System • Filipino culture is ignored brought by the predominant Western Culture that was
already embedded in their minds
 A BARRIER FOR THE PROGRESS OF PHILIPPINES
 Western goods are seen as superior over those made in the
Philippines
 Most of Filipino enterprises suffer because consumers do not
use much of anything made in the Philippines

 PEOPLE’S CONCEPT OF BEAUTY

 People perceive beauty biased on the mestizos’ attributes,
that is why skin whiteners are one of the top grossing
products in the Philippines
 PHILIPPINE CULTURE (MUSIC, LITERATURE, AND
FILMS) IS UNDERAPPRECIATED
 Libraries and bookstores are filled with American and other
western book while there’s a scarcity Filipino books or
anything written by Filipino authors

 EMIGRATION
 Filipinos have associated foreign countries with “greener
pastures”, so they choose to leave the country either to work
abroad or permanently migrate
 DECOLONIZATION
 This refers to the task of unlearning colonial mentality
 Its objective is to retell the narrative of the oppressive
colonial experience throughout Philippine society for the
purpose of exposing its oppressive intent
 “Liberation begins with recognizing one’s history”
 STRICT IMPLEMENTION OF PRINCPLES THAT
PROTECT THE PHILIPPINE PROVISIONS
• The government plays a significant role in this advocacy
• “Filipino First” should be practiced
 REEXAMINING OF PHILIPPINE VALUES
• Filipinos must embrace their traits and take pride in them.
• Patronizing Western products and trying to look like a
westerner will never make a Filipino become one
• Most importantly, nationalism – the attitude that the
members of a nation have when they care about their
national identity and their actions when seeking to achieve
and sustain national unity and independence
If you were actually listening….