PHILIPPINE POPULAR CULTURE (prelim quiz 1-2)

Global culture as adopted by the Spanish has been "ordinary" to the point that it was a "watering-down of Spanish-European culture
in order to win over the general public to the colonial regime's 'ideology.' 

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False
According to Lumbera, "Popular culture is power, and anyone who uses it to control minds is likely to have their literary and
technical machinery turned against him when the minds he has exploited discover his power as a political tool." 

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True

False
The first permanent settlement in Spain started to replace the native culture with a Muslim and Middle Eastern tradition.  

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True

False
Hauben deeply warns that the internet can be a "source of opinion," though he says a netizen should train him/her to distinguish
real from fabricated knowledge. 

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True

False
According to Turner, as reporters prefer to bend the reporting to stories they sometimes support. Tabloidization is a clear example
of this, or sensationalizing small news stories and making a big deal of it.

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True

False
The word netizen, although popularly used in present times, is in fact a word from Michael Hauben's theory (1996) is a corrupted
term from the expression "Net Person." 

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True

False
The native intelligentsia used the same types of popular culture in the 19th century, through the Propaganda movement, to
"undermine the influence of the oppressive friars and mobilize the people to bring an end to colonial rule" One example of that is
Marcelo H. Del Pilar's work. 

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 True

False
The rise of American colonization introduced to the Philippines the properly so-called, mainstream culture. 

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True

False
According to the 2013 Yahoo-Nielsen Survey, the top three media consumption outlets in the Philippines come from television,
radio and the increasingly growing usage of the internet. 

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True

False
The common culture is produced by the masses ... it is rather a culture generated either by the ruling masses or by representatives of
the intelligentsia in the employment of that mass, for the consumption of the people.

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True

False
According to National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera in his book Revaluation: Essays on Philippine Literature, Theatre, and
Modern Culture (1984), popular culture is very distinct from Filipino folk culture and nationalistic culture.

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False
Forms of popular theater and literature such as "the pasyon, sinakulo, and corido ensured Muslim's acceptance and spread, and the
comedy and awit did the same for the monarchy. 

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False
According to Lumbera, the Spaniards developed and used popular culture in the Philippines to the native Filipinos or Indios through
plays and literature to get the natives 'hearts and win them over. 

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True

False
Under the tutelage of missionaries, the children of the native elite became a central community of intelligentsia called 'ladinos' as
they were instrumental in 'taking into the vernacular, literary forms which were to be instruments for the' peace 'of the natives.'  

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True
 False
According to Lumbera, the local intelligentsia noted that "Popular literature as a product intended for a mass market was seen as a
challenge to serious artistic practice, since the writers accommodated his art to the demands of the publishers and editors who were
more interested in sales than in aesthetics." 

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False
Pop culture is the way to live in a specific time, place, and depicts a few people's habits and how they can cope with nature. 

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False
International culture is the culture produced by colonial resistance, with a people's group at a given time and location. 

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According to Hauben as netizens, in actual fact, geographical separation is replaced by the presence in the same virtual space called
"Yahoo."

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True

False
The liberal approach towards the printing press quickly expanded the dissemination of types of popular culture through radio,
television and film. 

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True

False
Along with the power to use the internet is the reporter's power provided to the netizen for a netizen may actually be a source of
primary knowledge about certain topics or issues. 

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True

False
In a well-defined period, a countercultural movement does not reflect the culture and desires of a specific population. 

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True

False (answer. Mali nnaman sa OED)

Subcultures involve people who may embrace much of the dominant culture but are set apart by one or more characteristics of
cultural significance. 

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True

False
Countercultures are groups of people that are similar with the dominant culture in certain respects, and whose norms and beliefs
may be incompatible with it. 

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True

False (eto sagot)

Some subculture examples are the LGBT, bodybuilders, nudists, hip hop, grunge. 

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False
The cultural elements of imperialism are composed of economic imperialism, also called economic colonialism. 

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A counterculture (also written counterculture) is a subculture whose values and behavioral norms differ materially from those of
mainstream society, often as opposed to mainstream cultural mores. 

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True

False
Spanish colonization came upon the momentum of European mercantilism and the desire to spread Islam to the Philippines. 

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True

False (eto sagot. Mali

The critical theorists Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) coined the word pop culture.

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True

False (answer)
True psychological needs are independence, imagination, and genuine happiness, referring to an earlier demarcation of human
needs, which Herbert Marcuse had created. 

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True (answer)
 False
Pop culture, will enable us to talk as examples of culture about soap opera, pop music, and comics. 

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True (answer)

False
Cultural imperialism is the practice of promoting and enforcing a culture over a more powerful society, typically that of a politically
powerful nation; In other words, the cultural hegemony of industrialized or economically and politically influential countries which
define general cultural values and standardized civilizations worldwide. 

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True

False (answer)
In the work 'Cultural Theory and Popular Culture,' John Story describes Culture and Popular Culture as 'works and practices of
intellectual and creative activity, texts and practices whose main role is to represent, create or be an opportunity for meaning
development. 

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True (answer)

False

Pop Culture involves concepts, beliefs, norms, practices and obects that enable a community of individuals, or even a whole society,
to live their collective lives with minimal friction.

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True

False (answer)
Adorno and Horkheimer therefore especially viewed mass-produced culture as helpful to the more technologically and intellectually
demanding high arts. 

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True

False (answer)
Prominent examples of Western Late Modern countercultures include Romanticism (1790–1840), Bohemianism (1850–1910), the
"Jazz Period" of the Roaring Twenties, the 1930's Non-Conformists, the Beat Generation's more fragmentary counterculture (1944–
1964), 

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True (answer)

False
Since the Spanish-American War at the end of the 19th century, the U.S. had chosen the Philippines like a colonial catch due to its
vast natural resource base and strategic position in the U.S. imperialist plan to turn the Pacific into an American lake for U.S. big
business and take a piece of the huge Chinese market. 
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True (answer)

False
Popular culture does not imitate a factory that produces uniform cultural goods — films, radio, magazines, etc. –which are used to
exploit passivity in mass society. 

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True

False (answer)
"The Cultural Industry: Enlightenment as a Mass Illusion," from the book Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), it was described as a
critical vocabulary. 

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True (answer)

False

Popular culture is further broken down into six subdefinitions. The first is culture that is popular or valued by others by measurable
means, such as sales of songs, playing on the radio, attending screenings or concerts, and ratings of viewers on TV shows. 

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True (answer)

False

The fundamental risk of the culture industry is the creation of false psychological needs that only the products of capitalism can
fulfill and satisfy.

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True (answer)

False
In the work 'Cultural Theory and Popular Culture,' John Story describes Culture and Popular Culture as 'works and practices of
intellectual and creative activity, texts and practices whose main role is to represent, create or be an opportunity for meaning
development. 

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True (answer)

False
Popular culture is further broken down into six subdefinitions. The first is culture that is popular or valued by others by measurable
means, such as sales of songs, playing on the radio, attending screenings or concerts, and ratings of viewers on TV shows. 

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True (answer)

False
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