Filipino Professor Reveals the Genius of the Filipino | Culture Bearer 01 — Transcript

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1. 0:00Filipinos do not realize that Filipino
2. 0:02culture is one of the greatest really
3. 0:04this is really I'm very serious about it
4. 0:07one of the greatest in the
5. 0:08[Music]
6. 0:14world I am Philipp Delan Jr I have been
7. 0:17studying Philippine culture since the
8. 0:2060s I've been to many parts of the
9. 0:22Philippines trying to understand who we
10. 0:24are and understand how Filipinos can be
11. 0:27their better
12. 0:28selves at the very core Filipinos are
13. 0:32very highly relational people wanting to
14. 0:35connect all kinds of people in all
15. 0:37levels young and old whether you are
16. 0:40educated or not from the poorest to the
17. 0:42richest Filipinos would like to bring
18. 0:44people together that's the very core of
19. 0:46Filipino culture a high degree of
20. 0:48relationality connectivity this has to
21. 0:51do with the philosophy of Kapa Kapa
22. 0:53means the other person is also yourself
23. 0:55Filipinos believe that they have no
24. 0:57separate existence they're all one
25. 0:59that's the meaning of Kapa every
26. 1:01person's responsibility is not only to
27. 1:03himself but to
28. 1:06others that's why according to CL tayag
29. 1:08a culinary expert our culture has no
30. 1:11recipe for a single person it's always a
31. 1:13recipe for 6 to 10 people because we
32. 1:15expect food to be shared that's why any
33. 1:18chance upon family is having dinner you
34. 1:20will always be invited to share the
35. 1:21dinner with them in a Festa even if you
36. 1:24are not invited you enter any house
37. 1:26where there is food is the basis of this
38. 1:29because in an individualistic culture a
39. 1:31person feels separated from others and
40. 1:33therefore there's no natural
41. 1:35responsibility for everyone to serve in
42. 1:37a materialistic culture where people are
43. 1:39confined to their physical selves you
44. 1:41don't see yourself connected to others
45. 1:43because connectedness has to do with a
46. 1:45spiritual belief no that the spirit of
47. 1:47God connects us all to one another so
48. 1:49this is the very essence of Filipino
49. 1:51culture a culture of sharing a culture
50. 1:53that would like to bring people together
51. 1:56[Music]
52. 2:02our language has been with us since
53. 2:04around 2,500 years ago we were already
54. 2:06Filipinos even though we were not called
55. 2:08philippinos at that time we were
56. 2:10aans all our languages came from one
57. 2:13Island in Taiwan and it's not Chinese
58. 2:15it's a Southeast Asian archipelago a
59. 2:17Southeast Asian place with at least nine
60. 2:19ethnic groups and one ethnic group there
61. 2:21was our ancestors this ethnic group went
62. 2:24down from Taiwan to batanes the of down
63. 2:27to the visayas men and Indonesia
64. 2:31Malaysia so the languages of Indonesia
65. 2:33and Malaysia came from us we even
66. 2:35brought this languages to the Pacific
67. 2:38Micronesia Melania poia as far as
68. 2:40eastern island and Hawaii and he brought
69. 2:43this languages even to the West in
70. 2:44Madagascar Africa that's why if you go
71. 2:47to madas Africa they speak a language
72. 2:48similar too Tagalog Kang it's called
73. 2:50malagi and that time alone no you're
74. 2:54already highly relational because our
75. 2:56language shape us we shape our language
76. 2:59and the language in turn shapes
77. 3:02us filipin languages are the most highly
78. 3:05relational of all the aonian languages
79. 3:08we have the highest number of
80. 3:10conjugations how many conjugations are
81. 3:12possible in English the word to eat eat
82. 3:15eating ate eaten what else are suppose
83. 3:20you can have at most 12 conjugations of
84. 3:22one word or one verb in English but not
85. 3:24more than 12 what about Kain the Tagalog
86. 3:27word for it in less than an hour you can
87. 3:29come up with 100 conations
88. 3:32[Music]
89. 3:37of so many no so what does that mean
90. 3:40that means we are highly relational from
91. 3:42the very beginning we're already highly
92. 3:44relational because every conjugation is
93. 3:47a kind of
94. 3:49relationship all of us let's go together
95. 3:51and
96. 3:52eat do the eating for me that's another
97. 3:55kind of
98. 3:56relation well I was compelled to eat
99. 3:58because others were eating oh that's
100. 4:00another kind of relation not every
101. 4:02conjugation is a relationship also
102. 4:04another thing look at our languages it
103. 4:06has very fine no one say for
104. 4:08relationships I don't know of any single
105. 4:10word in English that refers to a group
106. 4:12action a verb like Maus Maus all of you
107. 4:16go
108. 4:17out together let's eat I don't know
109. 4:19anybody in English any verb in English
110. 4:21that refers to a collective action it's
111. 4:23Collective that means This is highly
112. 4:25relational again and that's in the
113. 4:26language so much in the language
114. 4:33you're equally beautiful equally ugly
115. 4:36there's no translation in English these
116. 4:38are verbs adjectives that are mutually
117. 4:40reciprocal connecting people to one
118. 4:42another there's none of that in English
119. 4:45as far as I
120. 4:46know so we can see our relationality in
121. 4:49our language but we can also see it in
122. 4:52our
123. 4:53geography people say that we're a
124. 4:56divided country because we're an
125. 4:57archipelago but the truth is really
126. 4:59different
127. 5:00people who live in a land mass rather
128. 5:04than archipelago will even be more
129. 5:06divided if this land mass is so
130. 5:08mountainous a mountainous area that is
131. 5:10just one landm is where people will be
132. 5:12so extremely divided because it's
133. 5:15mountains that divide how can you easily
134. 5:17go from one side of the mountain to the
135. 5:18other side of the mountain it might take
136. 5:19you days before you can go to the other
137. 5:21side but people in a short time learn to
138. 5:24cross from one Island to the other
139. 5:26through water especially because our
140. 5:28origin from Taiwan we really cross
141. 5:30islands and our ancient prowess in
142. 5:33Maritime navigation really made us very
143. 5:35very skilled in water the Filipinos all
144. 5:37over the world we Master Navigators on
145. 5:40the sea so if you go to the Philippines
146. 5:43you will find that any two Island
147. 5:45separated by water we speak the same
148. 5:47language because we are connected by
149. 5:50water and divided by mountains look at
150. 5:53Negros Negros is divided by Mount Canon
151. 5:56decided faces ILO speaks elongo decided
152. 5:59faces speaks seano masb the one that
153. 6:02faes latest summer speaks warai the one
154. 6:04that faces Bol is speaks Bolano and so
155. 6:06on this is true anywhere in the country
156. 6:09if two islands are separated they water
157. 6:10they are more unified so it's not true
158. 6:13that we are divided because we an an
159. 6:14archipelago in fact we are more united
160. 6:16because of being an
161. 6:19[Music]
162. 6:21archipelago and so because of our highly
163. 6:23relational culture our creative genius
164. 6:26was able to flourish within the
165. 6:28traditional Filipino cultures and that's
166. 6:30because in traditional cultures the
167. 6:32sense of community is very very strong
168. 6:34this is the norm in all of our
169. 6:36traditional societies if there is a very
170. 6:38strong sense of community you feel more
171. 6:40relaxed you don't feel any tension no
172. 6:42now the more relaxed you are the more
173. 6:44open you are the more you are you the
174. 6:46more you can bring out who you really
175. 6:48are you become more expressive you
176. 6:51become more artistic you become a
177. 6:53natural artist that's why in our
178. 6:55traditional cultures everybody is an
179. 6:58artist almost no reception no matter
180. 7:00what the work is of a person you can be
181. 7:02sure that he is doing some kind of art
182. 7:04why because the more close you are to
183. 7:07one another the more you would like to
184. 7:09understand and do what others can do if
185. 7:11you're are very close to the farmer you
186. 7:13will learn farming if you're very close
187. 7:15to the carpenter you will learn
188. 7:16carpentry you are very close to the
189. 7:18arario you will learn traditional
190. 7:20medicine if you are close to your mother
191. 7:22you will learn how she cooks so closest
192. 7:24to one another makes you learn so many
193. 7:25things as you grow up this is the reason
194. 7:27why the Filipinos are so very
195. 7:30multi-talented simply because when you
196. 7:32are one with the community and you like
197. 7:35to relate to everybody you have to know
198. 7:37what others are doing how can you be so
199. 7:39close if you are only a very narrow
200. 7:41specialist for example I can cite the
201. 7:43example of s Salan who was one of the
202. 7:46awarders for the national Living
203. 7:47Treasures award in the Philippines
204. 7:49called manik Bayan well just like any
205. 7:51male in Mendo Society or even female
206. 7:54almost anybody can play the K but
207. 7:56someone happen to be the best but you
208. 7:59know that he is not only the best in
209. 8:00that instrument he's also the favorite
210. 8:02barber in his town and also a Muslim
211. 8:06Imam or priest but he was also a very
212. 8:09good farmer because he grew up in such
213. 8:11an environment where everybody is
214. 8:12multi-skilled and if you are really so
215. 8:15relaxed you can easily learn other
216. 8:17skills because you will have no
217. 8:19difficulty learning anything if you are
218. 8:21doing it in a spirit of play in a spirit
219. 8:23of play everything becomes so easy
220. 8:25that's the reason no our sense of
221. 8:28community which makes us very
222. 8:32[Music]
223. 8:34multi-talented my Filipino dream is for
224. 8:38Filipinos to be educated in their
225. 8:40culture Filipinos do not realize that
226. 8:43Filipino culture is one of the greatest
227. 8:45in the world because of the philosophy
228. 8:48of kwat if we are one we have a shared
229. 8:51responsibility for one another this is a
230. 8:54very profound philosophy a shared
231. 8:56responsibility it's not Dog Eat Dog
232. 8:59attitude ude it's not survival of the
233. 9:00fitness it's not ruthless competition
234. 9:03it's cooperation collaboration Harmony
235. 9:06you know how the world has survive how
236. 9:08Humanity has survived according to an
237. 9:09Poli we have survived because of
238. 9:11cooperation rather than competition
239. 9:13that's the wave of life there's no
240. 9:15Harmony on Earth no species would have
241. 9:18survived we have to emphasize that that
242. 9:21our culture is based on cooperation
243. 9:23Harmony by any hand doing things
244. 9:27together for the common good this is who
245. 9:28Filipinos are but philippinos don't
246. 9:30realize this the more we realize it the
247. 9:32better for not only us but the better
248. 9:34for the world because we can promote our
249. 9:36culture everywhere and we can be very
250. 9:38proud of being Filipino now the
251. 9:40Filipinos are not very proud of who they
252. 9:41are simply because they don't know who
253. 9:43they
254. 9:43are secondly I'd like Filipinos to
255. 9:47discover how different we are from one
256. 9:49another the first one is how we are one
257. 9:51no but the second is our diversity we
258. 9:54have at least 131 languages in this
259. 9:56country because the older Society is the
260. 9:58more language it has a young Society
261. 10:01will not have its own languages
262. 10:02Singapore Australia Canada they still
263. 10:05use English or French because they are
264. 10:07new societies that means if we have 131
265. 10:10languages that means we are a very old
266. 10:11culture we have at least 50,000 years
267. 10:14old we are a new nation but we are a
268. 10:17very old people if we have 131 languages
269. 10:20that means we have so many different
270. 10:22cultures the basic subject that I wish
271. 10:25Filipinos to learn aside from the
272. 10:27concept of Kapa How We Are One is how
273. 10:30rich we are in terms of cultural
274. 10:32diversity knowing all kinds of Filipinos
275. 10:35and their cultural genius this is the
276. 10:38best way to make the philippinos proud
277. 10:40of themselves because the more
278. 10:41philippinos know about Kapa and the more
279. 10:43they know about this diversity how rich
280. 10:45they are the more they will love the
281. 10:46country and they no longer fight against
282. 10:48one another they will have a strong
283. 10:50sense of identity they will know that
284. 10:53all Filipinos are
285. 10:58one all
286. 11:04[Music]