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Prominent examples of Western Late Modern countercultures include Romanticism (1790–1840), Bohemianism (1850– Shopee 3D Floor
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We Are Social also announced that 80 million Filipinos are users of social media.

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Popular culture, as the 'culture of the people,' is defined by the interactions between people in their daily activities: clothing
styles, the use of slang, greeting routines, and the food that people consume are all examples of popular culture.

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The Digital Revolution could have occurred so rapidly that we can't even easily focus on how deep-seated and profound the
impact it has on the different facets of the culture.

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Original Pilipino music, now more commonly called original Pinoy music or OPM, originally only referred to Philippine pop
songs, particularly ballads, such as those popular after the collapse of their predecessor, the late 1970s Manila sound.

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Oxford describes social media as 'websites and applications enabling users to develop, distribute, or engage in social
networking content.'

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Pop culture encompasses the facets of social life that the public most actively engages in.

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Fernando Poe Jr. is the "King of Action Movies."

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"Bayan Ko" became the anthem of opposition to the Aquino regime during the 1986 People's Power Revolution.
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The media produced in the Philippines is most popular in its native country, but it also attracts audiences around the world,
those who moved abroad to find job opportunities.

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Traditional arts bearers may be called Gawad Manggagawa ng Bayan (GAMABA), equivalent to the National Worker.

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Renowned artists in the 1990s included Eraserheads, April Boy Regino, Rivermaya, Jaya, Agot Isidro, Vina Morales, Donna
Cruz, Jolina Magdangal, Jessa Zaragoza, Ariel Rivera, South Border, Carol Banawa, Yano, Introvoys, AfterImage, Side A,
Andrew E., Lani Misalucha, April Boys, Color It Red, Roselle Nava, and Blakdyak, among many others.

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

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Sarah Geronimo, Julie Anne San Jose, Angeline Quinto, Jonalyn Viray, Rachelle Ann Go, Christian Bautista, Kitchie Nadal,
Barbie's Cradle, Moonstar88, Aiza Seguerra, Toni Gonzaga, Richard Poon, Nina, Yeng Constantino, KZ Tandingan, Nyoy
Volante, Hale, Spongecola, Jake Zyrus, Jed Madela, Erik Santos, Parokya Ni Edgar, Kamikazee, Abra, and Gloc-9 are
among the leading OPM artists in the 2000s and 2010s.

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Ceramics, potted clay and folk art sculpture are examples of Pottery.

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The famous writer is certainly a significant intellectual, given the size of its audience to be considered as pop icon or identity.

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Ryan Cayabyab's works range from commissioned full-length ballets, theater musicals, choral pieces, a Mass set to
unattended choruses and orchestral pieces, to commercial recordings of popular music, film scores and television specials.

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Metro Manila Popular Music Festival, the country's first songwriting competition, was first founded in 1977 and launched by
the Philippine Popular Music Foundation.

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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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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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The media produced, even while taking ques from other foreign media, is still very distinctive and unique on its own.

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Some historical figures are recognized as having attained the status of "pop icon" during their period, and that status can
continue into the present.

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Doc Willie Ong (Senatorial Candidate) holds the top spot for the most popular, most viewed, fastest-growing, and most
popular Facebook post from March 25 to March 31, 2019.

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Pop culture, will enable us to talk as examples of culture about soap opera, pop music, and comics.

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A pop icon is a celebrity, character, or entity whose presentation in popular culture is considered to be a defining
characteristic of a given society or age.

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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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Filipino identity was developed largely by the intermingling and gradual development of post-colonial societies, colonial
forces, and foreign traders.

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Between the 1990s and 2000, OPM was led by such artists as Regine Velasquez, Pops Fernandez, APO Hiking Society,
Kuh Ledesma, Jose Mari Chan, Dingdong Avanzado, Janno Gibbs, Ogie Alcasid, Martin Nievera, Manilyn Reynes, Lea
Salonga, Francis Magalona, Sharon Cuneta, Sheryl Cruz, Zsa Zsa Padilla, and Gary Valenciano, among many others.

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Hat-making, masking, shoes, ornamental metalwork are examples of Ornament, textile, or fiber art.

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Theatrical direction, theatrical performance, theatrical production design, theatrical light and sound design, and theatrical
playwriting are all part of the theater.

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Popular culture is widely known as the vernacular or culture of people at many points at different times predominating in a
society.

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Poetry, fiction, essay, and literary/art criticism are examples of visual arts.
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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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Leah Salonga was the second Asian to play the roles of Éponine and Fantine in Les Misérables on Broadway.

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Philippine art reflects the wide variety of cultural influences on the culture of South Korea and its society, and how those
influences refined the arts of the country.

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The Philippine art can be divided into two different parts, traditional arts and non-traditional arts.

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Dances, plays, and dramas are examples of Folk (oral) literature.

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One of the finest modern poets in the world was Jose Garcia Villa (Doveglion).

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Older movies depicted the average Filipino in poverty. Nowadays the majority of movies are portrayed as an elite class.

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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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The Philippines is ranked #1 in the usage of Social Media.

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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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The King of comedy is Rodolfo "Dolphy" Quizon.

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The audience, the Populus, for a pop icon should be defined in the concrete sense of the Philippines which makes culture
common rather than elite.

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Commodified culture and consumerism and generating false needs through ads and exposure to alien lifestyles through
mainstream forms of culture are some issues faced by the Philippine pop culture.

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OFM is currently used by Filipino musicians and singers as a catch-all term for popular music written and performed by it.

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Roselyn Grace P. Santos wrote in her study 'The Effects of Social Media on Filipino Culture and Behavior' that social media
has corresponding positive and negative effects on Filipino culture and behavior.

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Folk song, is a form of folk lyric that expresses hopelessness and failures, people's struggles as well as their death.

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Non-traditional arts which are bearers of non-traditional arts cannot be nominated as National Artist, equal to Gawad
Manlilika ng Bayan.
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Basket weaving, weaving of back-strap looms, weaving of headgear, weaving of fishnet and other weaving types are
examples of Weaving.

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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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Philippine art refers to the works of art that have evolved and accumulated in the Philippines from the beginning of the
country's civilization up to the present period.

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Stilt homes, country houses and aerial buildings are examples of Modern architecture.

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

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The extended form, the tanaga, the mono-riming heptasyllabic quatrain, which expresses insights and lessons about life, is
"more emotionally charged than the treacherous proverb, and thus has an affinity with folk lyrics."

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The most popular types of pop culture are entertainment (such as movies, music, television, and video games), sports, news
(as in news reports about people/places), politics, fashion, technology, and slang.

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

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Woodcarving and non-argile folk sculpture are examples of architecture.

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The alternative term mass culture conveys the concept that such culture arises naturally from the masses themselves, much
as mainstream art did before the 20th century.

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Composition, musical direction, and musical production are all part of the music.

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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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Dance choreography, dance direction and dance performance are examples of dance.

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Popular culture is something that cannot be interpreted by different people in different contexts in a number of contrasting
ways.

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Folk Culture refers to the divided expressive elements of everyday life as practiced by regional, traditional communities.
 True
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Leah Salonga is best known for creating Kim's leading role in the Miss Saigon musical, for which she won the Olivier, Tony,
Drama Desk, Outer Critics, and Theater World Awards.

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Being influenced by foreign invaders, the Philippines did not manage to keep its own identity.

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The use of the term, pop icon, is essentially arbitrary because certainly, there are objective standards that exist.

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The nationalistic pride rousings of the 1960s and 1970s have helped bring about this change of mindset among a new
generation of Filipinos concerned about the "Filipino heritage."

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Popular culture (also known as pop culture) is commonly recognized by members of a society as a collection of behaviors,
values, and artifacts that govern or predominate in a society at a given time point.

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Epics, songs, and myths are examples of Folk performing arts.

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Folk culture is a more complicated lifestyle, which is typically traditional, predominantly self-sufficient, and mostly, reflective
of urban life.

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Popular culture often includes the behaviors and feelings produced by contact with these dominant objects.

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The advent of Pilita Corrales, Sylvia La Torre, Diomedes Maturan, Ric Manrique Jr., Ruben Tagalog, Helen Gamboa, Vilma
Santos, Edgar Mortiz, Carmen Camacho and many others occurred during the 1950s, 1960s and before the 1990s.

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Raymundo Cipriano Pujante Cayabyab is well known to the art industry.

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False

Manny Pacquiao-Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao-is a former Filipino Martial Artist and politician.

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Social Media has proved itself to be a game-changer in Philippine politics.

True
False

The Spanish Empire conquered the islands between the 16th and 19th centuries, through the Viceroyalty of New Spain
(Batanes is one of the last places to be colonized in the mid-1800s), resulting in Islam spreading and dominating throughout
the archipelago, and influencing the religion and beliefs of the Filipino natives.

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False

The status of "rock icon" can be differentiated from other forms of popularity outside of the mainstream culture, for example
with mythical figures.

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Popular artists in the 1970s included Nora Aunor, Tirso Cruz III, Eddie Peregrina, Ramon Jacinto, Victor Wood, and Asin.

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.

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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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.'

True
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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False

The typical unfamiliarity of Filipino with his indigenous literature was primarily due to what was impressed upon him: that his
country had been "discovered" and, thus, Philippine "history" only began in 1521.

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False

Google's search engine site remains the most visited site for both SimilarWeb and Alexa worldwide, followed on the second
spot by video-sharing site YouClick.

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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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False

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

True
False

Social Media can never be considered as "media outlet."

 True
False

Calligraphy, tattoos, folk art, folk drawing and folk painting are examples of Folk graphic and plastic arts.

True
False

While it's not furtive that the country's internet infrastructure is far from outstanding, Filipinos still love taking stuff through
social media.

True
False

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

True
False

The word 'popular culture' has different significances depending on who defines it and the sense of use.

True
False

From its roots, OPM was based in Manila, where the dominant languages are Tagalog and English.

True
False

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

True
False

Examples of mainstream culture come from a range of genres including popular music, print, cyberculture, sports,
entertainment, leisure, fads, advertisement, and television.

True
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.

True
False

Social media 'increased people-to-people links and created an environment in which you can share your opinions, images,
and a lot of things.'

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

True
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.

True
False

There are 3.48 billion users of social media in 2018, with a net worldwide increase since last year of 288 million (9 percent).

True
False

On average, Filipino households will have 3 to 5 television sets.

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.

True
False

Filipinos are spending an average of two (2) hours a day on various social media sites.

True
False

The Philippines produces genres such as Action, Romance, Comedy, Fantasy, etc.

True
False

Westernized taste and consciousness, or cultural imperialism and cultural satellization, through imported films, television
shows, publications, and popular songs is never an issue in Philippine pop culture.

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."

True
False
Although landing at the world's third place, Facebook continues to dominate the rankings with 80 million monthly active
users in the Philippines.

True
False

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

True
False

Filipinos use the Internet as a go-to location for breaking news and keeping up with the latest events.

True
False

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.'

True
False

Manny Pacquiao is a known boxer who is born in 1978 in General Santos City Philippines

True
False

Social Media includes Facebook, WhatsApp, WeChat, Tumblr, Viber, Skype, Snapchat, Pinterest, Myspace, YouTube,
Twitter, and Instagram.

True
False

Boat-making homes, and maritime activities are examples of

True
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.

True
False

Haw-Haw-De-Karabaw is a movie that depicts middle-class Filipino.

 True
False

Non-ornamental metal crafts, martial arts, mystical healing arts, herbal arts and ancient constellations are examples of Other
artistic expressions of traditional culture.

True
False

"Anak" is the best-selling Philippine record of all time.

True
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.

True
False

Philippine literature is literature from prehistory, through its colonial legacies, and through the present, connected with the
Philippines.

True
False

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

True
False

Pre-Hispanic literature in the Philippines was in fact epics passed down from generation to generation, initially through
written tradition.

True
False

Philippine literature's diversity and richness grew with the country's culture.

True
False
The pre-colonial inhabitants of our islands show a rich past through their folk speeches, folk songs, folk narratives, and
indigenous rituals and mimetic dances that confirm our ties with our Western neighbors.

True
False

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

True
False

Levi Celerio was a creative songwriter, with more than 4,000 songs to his credit, including Filipino folk, Christmas, and love
songs that are popular songs that many consider being immortal.

True
False

Music of the Philippines involves musical performance arts developed in various genres and styles in the Philippines or by
Filipinos.

True
False

Pop culture often means identifying boundaries or overlaps with respect to certain newly defined fields of research in terms
of theory, methodology, and interests, rather than the choice of subjects that can be included in the study of popular culture.

True
False

Leah Salonga also performed the vocals of two Disney "princesses": Jasmine in Aladdin (1992) and Fa Mulan in Mulan
(1998) and Mulan II (2004).

True
False

Social media has created an opportunity to expand one's world and make new friends or to reconnect with them from other
countries as well. But it also reduced physical activity.

True
False

Filipinos are translating the use of the Internet like Facebook, it was a nest for some prospective candidates during the May
2002 elections.

True
False

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

Proverbs or aphorisms express norms or codes of conduct, community beliefs or values by offering nuggets of wisdom in a
short, rhyming verse.

True
False

In 1969, Pia Wurtzbach captured the Philippines Miss Universe title.

True
False

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

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."

True
False

The most important of the folk speeches is the riddle of tigmo in Cebuano, bugtong in Tagalog, paktakon in Ilongo, and
patotototdon in Bicol.

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.

True
False

Freddie Aguilar is best known for his rendition of "Bansa Ko."

True
False

Philippine culture is a mixture of East and West cultures.

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.

True
False

The Internet also plays a significant role in promoting people's social participation, as it has been used as a forum for
activism presentation and promotion.

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.

True
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.

True
False

Typically the categorization of pop icon or identity is correlated with such elements as durability, ubiquity, and differentiation.

True
False

Levi Celerio is a famous Filipino singer.

True
False

There has to be a clear interpretation of "popular culture" in the context of the Philippines.

True
False

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