Societies are organized to emphasize either the me-self or the I-self.

How would you

characterize the Philippines in the 1970’s as compared with the Philippines today?

Fill in the needed information in the given table below by interviewing/asking elderly people (50
years old and above for the “Noon” column) and teenagers or young adults (25 years old and
below for the “Ngayon” column) in your household or community on their views and opinions on
the listed ideas in the table.

NOON NGAYON

Beauty ● Natural beauty no ● Today's

cosmetics standards for
● They defined women are small
beauty as waists, long hair,
simplicity.
and flawless
skin.

Courtship/Dating ● The practice of ● Courting can

harana or now take place
serenading is a without personal
very popular contact: virtual
practice in Filipino dating, chatting
courtship. online, sending
Banding along text messages,
with their friends conversing over
with guitars at the telephone,
hand, young men and instant
would sing messaging
underneath
women's
bedroom windows
at night, in the
hopes of getting
their attention,
and the eventual
acceptance of
their romantic
advances
Life ● Lola Emely said, ● For ate tricia life is
life is always hard no longer exciting
but in their because of the
generation life is covid. Children
like adventure don’t come out
because they have because they have
no gadget back a gadget to
then, they just entertain them and
gonna play outside transportation
until afternoon and nowadays is so
then sometimes expensive, the
they will help their foods also all of that
mother to sell is because of the
kakanin. covid.

Love ● During the old ● Ate tricia said, love

times and in the now is hard to find
rural areas of the because you don’t
Philippines, know if they’re
serious or playing
Filipino men
games.
would make
● Most of the time
harana love is found in bar,
(serenade) the online chats.
women at night ● Nowadays most of
and sing songs the people they’re
of love and not fond of serious
affection. relationship they're
● A 'home-run' is more than to
one where the girl temporary
formally accepts relationships or m.u
in slang terms.
the man's love,
and they become
magkasintahan
(from sinta, love),
a term for
boyfriend-girlfrien
d.
Sex ● the only sexual ● Ate tricia said, one
behavior morally night stands are a
and legally trend now because
acceptable and nightlife here in the
philippines is getting
appropriate is
wild.
heterosexual
● Sex nowadays can
intercourse have all the time.
within a ● Marriage is not the
monogamous standard nowadays
marriage for the two opposite
● Lola said in their gender to perform
generation sex sex.
is only allowed
when you are
already married.
● Sex is only
allowed when
you love only
the boy or man.