The most urgent need for the Filipino masses is economic liberation, but they must first understand their conditions. Two obstacles to enlightenment are the colonial and reactionary culture of the Philippines. To overcome harmful values and foster Filipino identity, artists, scholars and teachers should promote positive values like appreciating brown skin, preferring substance over empty entertainment, thinking independently, and working to make the world more beautiful.
The most urgent need for the Filipino masses is economic liberation, but they must first understand their conditions. Two obstacles to enlightenment are the colonial and reactionary culture of the Philippines. To overcome harmful values and foster Filipino identity, artists, scholars and teachers should promote positive values like appreciating brown skin, preferring substance over empty entertainment, thinking independently, and working to make the world more beautiful.
The most urgent need for the Filipino masses is economic liberation, but they must first understand their conditions. Two obstacles to enlightenment are the colonial and reactionary culture of the Philippines. To overcome harmful values and foster Filipino identity, artists, scholars and teachers should promote positive values like appreciating brown skin, preferring substance over empty entertainment, thinking independently, and working to make the world more beautiful.
(50)The most urgent need confronting the Filipino masses today
is that of economic liberation.But economic liberation shall
become a reality only if the masses themselves are able to face and analyze the condition for better.
two of the principal obstacles to the
(52) enlightment of the masses,however,are the condition and contemporary state of the Philippines culture which is not only colonial but reactionary as well.
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But what are we to do about these values?
How can they be remolded change so that they may help in today’s search for Filipino identity, in culture,government and the the economy? To neutralize and eventually eradicate these values ,Filipino artist,scholars and teacher should create or propagate for counterpart pro- Filipino values namely; 1.) maganda ang kayumanggi (Brown Is Beautiful); 2.) Masaya Ang Palabas na may Laman (Shows with Substance Are the Best); 3.) Mabuti ang May Sariling Isip at Gulogod (It’s Good To Think and Decide for Oneself ); 4.) Gaganda Pa ang Daigdig(The World can Indeed Be More Beatiful).