Name/s: VOLPANE, Van Vincent A.

Date: Feb 5, 2019

Section: Sec 35-BSMT 111 Understanding the Self

These are New to Me Points I Agree With

 That we put entitlement into  “If you have the ability to look at things

millennial/s due to Eurocentric perspectives
 We have the wrong perception that
the problem we are facing are solvable through
western means, we must account our own
history and culture
 SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION- the
capacity to look at the connection b/w society
and biography
 Schooling had offer us the new
perspective.
 If an individual had a problem, it is a
personal problem. If a group of people had the
same problem, it is a sociological problem.
you should know how to look beyond things
 Never use other identity/ies as a basis
to judge our identity
 We don’t see enough, we have no
perspective on the children in the inside, we
need to see beyond the scope of history and
culture to understand what is the problem
 In order to obtain the right amount of
facts and reasons, we must first shut up
 That we are not so much culturally
advance to which we cannot relate even to our
bahay kubo song,
 We conflict due to prejudices and
Judgement.
 Philippines had succumb to brain
drain.
 We still see diversity in perspective as
beautiful even though it is not, it is the
kaleidoscope thing.

Summary
Professor Clarence M. Batan’s, Ph.D. discussion on the “The Filipino
Children & Youth in a Kaleidoscope World,” focuses on the dealing with the
Xenocentric(Eurocentric) preference we have on dealing with children &
Youth. Prof. Batan exemplifies that artifacts like Culture and History is the
means of properly understanding of what we are currently facing, and we
must look beyond our known perspective because we have no capacity to
look at the connection between society and biography.
  Filipino society can only be seen in  I agree to an extent that we are
tight spaces, meaning spaces in poverty. different in terms of behavior towards the
 The wrong doings of the country western countries. In the video we saw the
resulting to different horrible outcomes is a overpowering behavior of a teen due to her
part of the life course of a Filipino citizen. addiction to technology, my question is how
 From Brown & Larson 2002. P3- it is come we do not relate to that if Philippines
no longer sufficient to adopt the parochial view itself is the leading texting capital of the
of adolescence in one culture and claim an world?( manila and cebu alone) is it because
understanding we are that oblivious?

 I agree to the concept that we

Points I Disagree With
understand things if we have a reference, thus
we need to define Filipino children in
accordance to our history and culture because
we have that life course that we ourselves have
experience that struggle. But the contradiction
is, you clearly stated that rich and poor are
clearly divided through sociological cognition
through which I have a query on how are we
going to have a perspective if we ourselves
don’t really know what is happening to the
population as a whole due to the division of
society (as you stated being that the Filipino
society is only seen at the brick of poverty)

 As stated earlier those prejudices and

judgments result to conflict, do you think that
a human can talk without prejudice or
judgement in today's society? Aren’t prejudice
and bias a basic instinct of a human?

 Through globalization doesn’t that

contradict your so called Filipino society?
 Filipino society in the means that we are not
capable of having comparable culture because
we have our own?

 What do you mean having a wider

perspective? I’m usually open to the idea of
wider meaning outside the box metaphors,
thus opening to other concepts, hence other
cultures.

 I have a question on how does the song

“Imagine” by John Lennon back up your
theory that we must continue the parochial
view of adolescence? Because if we are taking
it on face value to which we disregard the
attack against religion, Imagine purely deducts
a world where the sociological construct is
absent. If the song is saying that sociological
construct leads to violence and bloodshed then
in reality we must have a united front and
abandoned a parochial view to only on our
culture and history in which we can solve the
problem. The most confusing part is that the
lecturer is discussing that we should not
compare identities and emphasizing OUR
IDENTITY and collaborate his discussion to a
song that purely is an outcry to social
construct.

Questions I Have

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