CFE 103

CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONS OF MISSION

MODULE 4 – Context/Engage Activities
Saint Louis University
Baguio City
First Semester, AY 2020-2021, CLUSTER 2

NAME: HOLANDA, ALEX B. Date of Submission: 11/13/20

COURSE & YEAR: BSCE - 2 COURSE CODE: 2966

To engage yourself in our last (4th) module (Doing Mission Today), kindly answer the following activities
per unit:
Module 4: DOING MISSION TODAY

UNIT 1: Nature of Today's Missionary Context

Changes in our situation lead to corresponding changes in our thinking and behavior (although the
reverse is also true). This is our natural human reaction to what happens around us because adjustment
is a key to survival. If things around us change but we remain the same, we become irrelevant or
obsolete and largely ineffective in dealing with new problems that require new solutions, new mindset,
and new ways of doing things.
For your activity, identify and describe an important event in your community or in the society in
general that has changed the way people behave or think or live. Describe also the change brought
about by the event. (15 points)

Identify the Event – Date, Time, Place, Name, Theme, or any initial details of the event: (5 points)

 The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a new strain of

coronavirus. This new virus and disease were unknown before the outbreak began in Wuhan,
China, in December 2019. On 30 January 2020, the Philippine Department of Health reported
the first case of COVID-19 in the country with a 38-year-old female Chinese national. On 7
March, the first local transmission of COVID-19 was confirmed. WHO is working closely with
the Department of Health in responding to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Describe the effect of the event in not more than 9 sentences: (10 points)
 COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has affected day to day life and is slowing down the global
economy. This pandemic has affected thou-sands of peoples, who are either sick or are being
killed due to the spread of this disease. The most common symptoms of this viral infection are
fever, cold, cough, bone pain and breathing problems, and ultimately leading to pneumonia.
This, being a new viral dis-ease affecting humans for the first time, vaccines are not yet avail-
able. Thus, the emphasis is on taking extensive precautions such as extensive hygiene protocol,
social distancing, and wearing of masks, and so on. Countries are banning gatherings of people
to the spread and break the exponential curve. Many countries are locking their population and
enforcing strict quarantine to control the spread of the havoc of this highly communicable
disease.COVID-19 has rapidly affected our day to day life, businesses, disrupted the world
trade and movements. Identification of the dis-ease at an early stage is vital to control the
spread of the virus because it very rapidly spreads from person to person.

UNIT 2: Mission and Culture

Watch the attached video clip (Ethnocentrism Examples | Animated Review) from Module 4

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CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONS OF MISSION
MODULE 4 – Context/Engage Activities
Saint Louis University
Baguio City
First Semester, AY 2020-2021, CLUSTER 2

folder in the classwork section. Answer the following questions: (15 points)
1. Can you relate with some elements of the video? Why? Why not? (explain in 6
sentences) [7 points]
 Yes, at some point I can relate with some elements in the video clip, especially on the
advantages of ethnocentrism. For example, one of the advantages of ethnocentrism is
that it boosts our confidence and pride on our own culture. At some point in my life,
insecurities always bring down my confidence but some people told me that I am
handsome, better, or smarter than other people so I don’t have to feel ashamed of
myself. I am aware that it shouldn’t be like that because it is bad to feel happy when
we think bad of other people, but it somehow lessen my insecurities and negative
feelings. Also, there are some point that we are aware of some tradition and culture but
when we see it on our daily basis without celebrating anything about it, we think of it
like it’s weird or it’s not normal. For example, wearing traditional clothes for daily
basis and not normal thing that everyone used to, like civilian clothes.

2. Why is it that we often look at the culture of others as inferior to our own? Explain
your answer in 7 sentences. [8 points]
 Actually, in our race, Filipino, we don’t actually look at ourselves superior from others
because we idolize western countries. We are victims of imperialism that is why we
develop this mentality that western culture is better. From skin color, food we eat, the
language we speak, and other products that claims to be superior if we have it. We
actually have our own identity to be proud of but we can’t see it and we wanted to be
like the ones we idolize. But if we narrow down in Philippines’s context, we can also
see how people degrade other cultures. For example, this government are oppressing
Lumad yet they are still part of this country, and must have equal rights just like any
other people in this country. Other example is that, I am from region one and the
culture is different from Cordillera, as an educated student, I would rather understand
people and look for other way not to offend other and in that way we can break the
norms, the chain of ethnocentrism.

UNIT 3: Mission and Ecology

You are familiar with so much destruction of the environment everywhere in the world,
especially in poorer countries in Asia and in Africa. Describe here a movie or a video about
ecological destruction that made a lasting impression on you because of its message.
Afterwards, list ten titles of movies, videos, or video clips about the environment that you like
best. [30 points]

1. Title of the movie or a video about ecological destruction (please indicate the URL if it
is available) [3 points]:

The Day After Tomorrow

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CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONS OF MISSION
MODULE 4 – Context/Engage Activities
Saint Louis University
Baguio City
First Semester, AY 2020-2021, CLUSTER 2

2. Describe your key takeaways from the movie/video [Use 3 bullet points, and introduce
each bullet with a key word or idea. Write down only one point or idea for each bullet.
[4 points for each bullet – total of 12 points].
 A.
A dystopian movie that shows the extreme condition of weather on the planet. These
extreme are not just some high magnitude earthquake, a very strong typhoon. It is
much more than that because it shows really exaggerated weather. This is due to
climate change and global warming.

 B.
I watched it during my elementary days and it really woke my sense up and became
curious about the condition of the environment. In the same year, I also learned how
critical the situation has been. There were holes in ozone layer and I became really
scared.
 C.
Years after, there had been so many conspiracies that the earth will explode and about
the end of the world. I was so scared that I will woke up in the morning with wild fires
everywhere, snow storm making everything looks like inside of freezer. Because of
that, I started making small steps in saving environment as a small child. By simply not
throwing garbage everywhere.
3. Five titles of movies, videos, or video clips about the environment that you like best.
(Kindly indicate the URL or your source if it is available) [3 points each – total of 15
points]
No. 1 – An Inconvenient Truth

No. 2 – Avatar

No. 3 – The Road

No. 4 – 2012

No. 5 – Wall - E

Prepared by:
Dr. Rico C. Jacoba
Professor
Religion Department, STELA-SLU

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