Erika A.

Episcope

BSIT 1-3

Reaction Paper: Beyond ‘nosebleed’

Pure, mixed or not, white, black or brown, it can’t define who really you are. Being
a true Filipino, we should willingly accept our roots. The culture we have and the attitude
that Filipino has.

Language doesn’t make you alone as a Filipino. If you are a foreigner and want to
be a Filipino, language is not a problem as long as you have the heart and the willingness
to be a Filipino then you can be it.

I am agreeing to the author of the ‘Beyond ‘nosebleed’ Rica Facundo of Rappler

that being personifies nationalism is the beautiful attempt to understand our culture,
notwithstanding the language barrier and social class that paralyzed a rich complex
country like the Philippines. It is like that we should be proud and loud to be who we are.

Speaking in other language fluently just to be looked well educated or to be smart

then forgetting our own language, even if you say that you are a pure blood yet you are
lock of courage to show where and what you are then it’s nothing, like looking in a shining
glass but empty.

We should not be afraid to show our own culture and where the roots we sprung.
Being called as “nosebleed” as a derogatory somehow is true because we preferred to
be so called “sossy” and being close-minded about who we are and not giving effort to
understand our own culture. Insecurities hinder people to be who they are. They choice
to be someone rather that to be proud to themselves.

Pure, mixed or not, white, black or brown, it can’t define who really you are. Being
a true Filipino have the courage to show other people and being proud who really they
are despite of the differences in life.