Sociology A Brief Introduction (8th Edition ed.). The Atlantic Monthly, 49-58.Schaefer, R. If everybody would work for a better Philippines (meaningstable economy, commendable values system, and unwavering faith onfuture success), as what functionalists and interactionists say, then it will never be too late for the Philippines to mend itsdamaged culture.BibliographyFallows, J.
And this shall come first in the support of local products, events,traditions, etc. And that is because, in the interactionist perspective, we are becoming hopeless with our owncapabilities, and the capabilities of our government.As a Lasallian, I must imbibe the idea of nationalism and relive the truePhilippine culture by putting trust back to what I know our country can doand can be. Since we are nowconsidered to be a developing country, it is inevitable for us to be dependenton the developed ones. And in the conflict perspective, thismay be viewed as simply an effect of social classes. It is simply saying, leaving behind the colonialmentality. We have somehowforgotten that in order to achieve stability or, more specifically, economicsuccess, we should work together towards that and not the economicsuccess of another country. The Filipinos are dependent on thecountries we are allied with, especially the United States. And that is the attitude of thepeople towards their own country. According to this hypothesis the difference between the Philippines and South Korea in 1960, say, was that the former had a bad culture, while the latter had a good one, or at least one. That’s what James Fallows said in his 1987 article in The Atlantic was the problem with the Philippines. Thus, we lost the focus on what we already have and what we couldmake out of those resources.In the functionalist perspective, oneessential part of the society is dysfunctional. A Damaged Culture Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. We were blinded by what the other countrieshave. National hackles raised, collective pride hurt. Much attention and much controversy followed. And he called his opus A Damaged Culture. What its author, James Fallows, was able to peer through was not pleasant. We were influenced bytoo many external cultures. Its author peeled the celebrated curtains of People Power’s heady triumph at EDSA in peacefully booting out a dictator. It may not be as a whole, but the identity ofPhilippine culture has been lost for a long time now. (Accessed: May 18, 2014).Bibliograph圜ybelle YaoINTSOCI- C31A Damaged CultureBy James Fallows(Reaction Paper)I agree with what James Fallows (1987) had said in his article “thatculture can make a naturally rich country poor” because that is how thePhilippine culture is now. Overcoming polarization: The New Social Morality. Common framework for the ethics of the 21st century.September 1999. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The imperishable dominion: The Baha’i Faith and the future of mankind. A Damaged Culture : A New Philippines? A critique of James Fallows’ Article on Filipinos.
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