UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

A Blog for my SocSci Class. 

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Binhi Experience

For my Binhi, I went to diocese of Novaliches where I met some nanays from the community. Since there was something wrong with the schedule so what our activity became centered on is becoming the adoptive children of our nanay. Our nanay was very nice and was very open to us about her life-story. I was very touched when my nanay actually trusted us with such a personal story on her children’s betrayal but nether less I felt really happy at the end of the day.

Habitus is basically how we act and what we consider to be valuable. For my habitus, I was raised in an environment where my parents were very protective and I could say that I was more on the privilege side. I guess due to that I was more conservative in nature and was more used to an environment where it’s quite spacious and air-conditioned. My nanay’s habitus, on the other hand, was quite in society with narrow roads and hot areas so I guess her life is more on the open side as she would often invite her neighbors from time to time to stay in her house. This was quite different to my conservative nature where I barely invite our neighbors to our house as we only invite them in special occasions. What I really found different is how nanay was able to stand with the heat because her house has no aircon. For me, I was sweating really hard without the aircon but nanay seemed to be doing really well under the heat. Another thing we differ is how nanay views food. I view food to be like something so much of a small thing to worry about but nanay was very worried about how the food wasn’t able to fit us. She even told us about how sometimes they have little rice to feed the family and how it is getting more expensive by the day. I never really cared about the rice value but here nanay is so worried about the inflation on the rice. But not everything is different for me and nanay, we value education a ton. Nanay and I think that education is a key if we want to elevate our life. Nanay shared about her children who she sent to college hoping that they could help elevate her life and give her wealth. My mother and father pushed me to envision that I have to study well so that I can earn money for them as well once they retire. This is something that I guess nanay and me have the same.

Overall, the experience is really worth it. This activity didn’t only help me realize how privileged I am but also see education in a different light. Education isn’t only something that people from the higher class value but it is also considered to be important by the lower class as a way to elevate them from the cruel poverty of the society. 

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For today, we have the online vs. offline me meme. I’ll start explaining the online me:

Me in my Parent’s Eyes

The photo that I got to describe myself in my parent's eyes is a pig. My parents always think like I am the pig of the family because I would always be the first one to ask “ What will we eat? When will we eat? Where will we eat?”. So I think that they started seeing me like a pig who loves to eat.

Me in my Dogs’ Eyes

I have three dogs and they all look at me like their mother duck. It's funny how my three dogs would often follow me around the house like little ducklings so I chose a photo of a mother with her ducklings.

Me in my Classmates’ Eyes

For my classmates, I think they would think of me as a studious (I get average to high average in terms of grades) girl who is so into dogs because I would often exclaim when I see dogs. This is why I got a photo of a dog who is studying.

For my offline self, I have:

Me in Facebook

I barely post in Facebook which is represented through a blue moon since we only see a blue moon rarely so you will see my facebook post rarely.

Me in the Internet

I placed a photo of a girl who looks like a shopaholic because most of my time that I spend in the internet is actually me online shopping. I would often shop in zalora, sephora, and shoppe and that is why I placed a shopaholic as a representation.

Me in Instagram

For instagram, I would often place photos of food and would critic it like in my caption that is why I chose Gordon Ramsey because he is known for being such a food critic like me in instagram.

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So for today’s reflection, I was tasked to actually write what I think my friends thinks of me then ask her what she thinks of me. The first picture shows what she thinks of me and the one below shows what I think she thinks of me. 

The thing is there are some parts that I managed to guess about myself and other part that I didn’t think she would think of me. In this activity, i get to learn many things about myself. I guess the me that I projected can sometimes differ from the me that people see me for. But at the end of the day, people can still more good in you and help you discover yourself more than you think you know yourself.

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SPRING AWAKENING

Honestly, I didn’t know what was going to b in this musical. I just wanted to watch because it was a musical and who doesn’t like musicals?

The thing is this is more that a musical it has context. Basically, this musical talks about how these group of teens are on their way dealing with their sexuality and suicide. 

I guess because of the conservative stage of the setting. Phallic stage for these teens came much later. We have the main character (Welda) who wants to know how babies are produced. We have Moritz and Melchior who are talking about Moritz’ wet dreams and how he yearns for a woman through his dreams. There was even one character who masturbated.

The musical also shows latency stage in which homosexual relationship begins with these two male characters who are friends and will eventually have sex on the set. 

The musical also showed genital stage which is present in Melchior, who I deemed to be the most mature character. He eventually realizes his attraction to Welda and eventually the two then get to the act. There was a part where Welda asked him to hit her and this turned Melchior into another person. I guess this is because his repressed sexual desire is trigger by such event.

Overall, this musical is amazing as it displays different characters in a different lights of the later psychosexual stages. 

1. Phallic Stage is seen in the naive Welda and Moritz who is now discovering their sexual identity

2. Latency stage is seen in the two men who are supposed to be friends but then got into a homosexual phase.

3. Genital stage is seen in Melchior, who is highly noted to be a very mature character, who discovers his hidden sexual desires

I really recommend this musical to everyone because you can really see the actors being passionate about their work. They really showed professionalism throughout the whole play. The execution of the characters are very well-played and it evoked a ton of emotions. It is amazing to actually see the actors dance while sing stably and in harmony. Overall, i really enjoyed the performance!

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For Socsci, we were tasked to plan a project that promotes being social. Being social is hard now a days, as most people are on their phone consumed by the new technology that they forget how to socialize. Our activity was a simple get to know the other people by learning a fact about them such as their favorite food. 

Honestly, I felt that this activity made me closer to the people that I talked and played with. I feel much active, bubbly, and even more energetic as the game continue to pass by. The people that I interacted with were also very friendly and the laughter just went on and on. It made me forget about the time passing by and I wanted every moment to last. It was quite a good change compared to my usual conversation in messenger (phone). For the first time, I felt more fulfilled and more happy in a sense that I was more talkative and assertive. It was as if I smiled wider than before as we make jokes as we guess about one another. It is also nice to get to know the people beyond my phone because we also make weird facial and happy emotions that can’t be generated through our phones. It is nice to hear the voices and see the smiling faces of the people you are talking to. The conversation were also very continuous and like everyone was able to pitch in adding more to the fun of the activity.

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TODAY, I’m Grateful For...

I’m Grateful for Mallow the Dog

Who isn’t human but was always there for me

Who sensed my pain and cheered me up

Who never failed to make my laugh

I’m Grateful for my Friends

Although we are apart, our connection is never lost

They accepted me for me

They love me for me

I’m Grateful for my Family

Specially my sister

Who is also my best friend

Who endured being with me for 18 years

I’m Grateful I have these

People (or Dog) who are there for me

People (or Dog) who loves me for me

People (or Dog) who I makes me smile.

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Be Grateful

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Reflection on Globalization

Me in relation to Globalization.

Q: What thoughts and attitudes, feelings, experiences, do you have about these hybrid identities?

A: I think there is nothing wrong with having a hybrid identity as long as you do not forget your original roots. Being a hybrid, I would say that it’s quite confusing sometimes like there’s ups and downs but in the end I am comfortable with this hybrid identity and I think this identity is what makes me me. It is something that makes me unique and what defines me as a person. I do not belong to one kind and I am free to explore myself.

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Kaya mo ba? Kaya mo pa ba?

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Loob

You look outside and try to look at how the self looks at the environment. The self has a wide connection that is more than itself and is in connection within.

ABOT- MALAY, ABOT-DAMA, ABOT-KAYA

AWARENESS, FEELING, ACT

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Globalization

Globalization. Is it Good? Is it Bad? 

In today’s lesson, we continued where we left off from Globalization. In all honestly, globalization is such a controversial topic specially in the Philippines because of how we are letting western culture affect us greatly that we all are slowly suffering from identity crisis to the point that the government wanted to take out FILIPINO as a subject!!!

Through there are also good effects of globalization, the positive effects will result into increase of creativity and innovation as they are highly influenced and given new ideas.

Aside from learning the good and bad side of globalization we also learned about Heterophily and Homophily. They sound like a annoyingly complicated words but I promise you they aren’t 

Heterophily talks about connecting with people who you do not share the same culture and interest. The good thing about this is that we get to explore and be open to new people but the downside is that we can misunderstand the people who we are trying to connect with.

Homophily talks about connecting with people who you have the same interest and culture with. An example of this is this FB group called subtle asians wherein asians post about their culture and people (other asians) also relate with them. The only bad thing about this is sometimes the topics get redundant and sometimes it can get tiring to talk someone who you know a lot already.

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BRONFENBRENNER’S BIOECOLOGICAL THEORY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

For our first week till Monday just this week, our class was lectured about Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Theory of Human Development. In saying that, we learned about how the environment affects the individual in many way and with that, we are able to categorize his studies to a model, the PPCT (Process, Person, Context, and Time) model.

Let’s first talk about PROCESS. What is Process? Process talk about even the little things in life can actually affect you. And because we interact with objects and people daily, we can say that a person is still being processed or developed.

Next, we have PERSON. Person is where we talk about you as a person. The Person is categorized into 3 types which is Demand, Resource, and Force. Demand is your physical self like your gender, age, and race. Resource talks about your mental, emotional, social, and material skills. Lastly, Force talks about your temperament, drive, and motivation.

The thirst category is the CONTEXT. This is probably the most common as you probably heard about the environmental systems. The environmental systems consist of microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem. Microsystem refers to the individuals who are part of your life and could potential affect you as an individual like your family, friends, and others who are in your inner circle. Mesosystem then talks about the relationships of those in your microsystem like for example my friend meeting my parents. Exosystem then talks about people or certain groups that can indirectly affect you like for example, the neighbors are too loud with their music so I wasn’t able to study for my test the next day. Lastly, Macrosystem is the ideologies, culture, and sub cultures that could affect you. For example, the filipino culture is to say “ po” or “ opo” to elderlies since you are raised in that kind of culture, you have the tendency to say “ po” or “ opo” to the elderly.

Lastly, we have the TIME. Time can affect you in many ways without you even knowing and just like person, time has two types; Microtime and Macrotime. Microtime talks about what happened to you recently and how it affected you like for example, I got my report card recently and I failed in some of my classes so my parents will scold me which in turn would make me want to study even harder, making me studious. Macrotime are events that happened a long time ago but can still affect you till now like for example, the Spanish Colonization. In the Spanish Colonization, we learn to adopt some of their words and use it in our own Filipino language.

With this, I hope that everyone can realize that it isn’t only yourself that is affecting yourself as their are many factor even things that you didn’t know is affecting was actually affecting you. We can also learn from this that we affect other people as well even though they are strangers, friends, and family. With that in mind, I hope that everyone can affect people in a nice way so that we produce kind and lovable citizens instead of rude and uncultured ones.

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Happiness depends upon Ourselves

Aristotle