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How is Social Media Westernizing the Filipino Culture
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how is social media
westernizing the Filipino culture this
is from wendia samel samiz and
psychotherapist here in California now
if you've listened to me before I have
mentioned and you'll keep mentioning
that for every culture there's always a
shadow a negative and a light side the
positive side so of course there's
something positive about the Western
culture when I say Western knes the
Philipp culture and the Western culture
are very different culture one is very
individualistic and Filipino culture is
very collectivistic so I am framing my uh
uh
contrasting uh based on those facets now
if you're consuming social media so you
might be using Facebook Instagram Tik
Tok I'm talking about those social media
but also the mediums that we now use how
we can consume our news on Facebook or
on the Internet um first one that it
would something to pounder in how we are
changing our culture simply by consuming
social media is uh Filipinos are very
relational and uh this is very hard for
if you were born uh in America in Canada
uh because especially the elders would
make comment sometimes just simply by
greeting in which they might ask a weird
question when are you going to have your
own kids in which we should learn from
each other if we know um that this
offends the young so maybe we don't want
to ask that question but if you are the
generation living in the west just know
that the way that Filipinos ask the when
I say Filipino I'll just talk about
Filipino immigrants or Filipino IND the
islands they ask not from a task
oriented question meaning they don't
necessarily may need an answer it's like
they use it as a
greeting um their questions are more
relational questioning in which they are
using it to connect to actually go to a
deeper or more of a topic that is uh
mutually uh enjoyable for for both but
they don't know yet so gauging this is
one of the reasons why social media is
not really in my opinion is is almost um
the opposite of the Filipino culture as
we know it it's very uh relational in
social media it's very
transactional so that's the first one um
second um we know there are cultures
that are high context and low context so
the Western culture is very low context
we teach our children say what you mean
so that you can get your needs met in
many cultures that are at high context
which is the Filipino culture is one of
those high CO High context culture
there's a lot of things to consider than
just the
Linguistics um we talk with our bodies
and I have a video that I could link
below how Filipinos talk with their
bodies and those are the things you miss
when you're communicating with somebody
just simply using social media so the
more we use it we're priming not just
our communication but truly our brain
because our brain changes from what we
call you know it's neuroplastic so it
changes based on a repetition uh of what
we're doing it could also change based
on trauma even a single incident but
it's traumatic you know we could
remember that more brain-wise and
bodywise um and so the more we do it one
of the reason that it's likely that we
are westernizing the Filipino culture
you could check out the book called
shallows and um I forgot the the author
but I could link it in which the thesis
of that book is that now our brains are
uh evolving to read information in a
more shallow manner because of the way
we consume our
information now so that's the second
part the context is lost next is just
what I mentioned um the Western culture
is very
linguistic uh you would know a culture
that's very linguistic with the law that
they have the more laws uh it's likely
that they are more linguistic it's
coming from the history of the Roman
Empire and uh you just check your own
history but for instance if you say to
someone I am pangit okay first of all
don't say that to just anyone but let me
just give you this example the uh often
if you were raised in uh not in the
Philippines if somebody just said I am
pangit without any other context it's
very rude
and we don't say that so because the
linguistic is very also visual so you're
just saying what you're seeing um but
the word pangit is very multisensorial
if you were raised in the Philippines
you will
bad the thing the energy is uh uh not
good and so we have so many panga
talking about taste so it's
multi-sensorial we have a little bit
more practice with using that adjective
I'm using this as an example that it
means a lot more than meets the eye so
again when some culture is very
linguistic it's also very
visual um why Filipino culture could be
more westernized by your use of the
social media is it misses a lot of the
multi-sensorial people can easily get
offended by a simple word word because
the word now is caged in a singular
meaning um Filipinos are actually um
maybe prior to social media knows that
there are many meanings and so they're
they're they're curious they query what
do they actually mean rather than just
the perceive meaning of the receiver so
that's the gift of uh um the Filipino
culture and when we're not consuming too
many too much of the social media um
also next is the medium okay so like I
mentioned it's not just the content but
the medium so if you're consuming news
uh usually people consume news by just
reading the headlines and not the fine
print and so we're becoming more
activated and uh rather than again
piggybacking on the last point we're
wondering what does that really mean
who's that person why is he writing this
we become less curious we just kind of
get on the the case without knowing much
about the case thinking about the case
critically and and so as much as social
media could be uh helpful uh at some
points it is also quite harmful in many
ways um finally the one that I would
share why uh social media could
potentially westernize the Filipino
culture because many of the influencers
are using the lens of uh the Western
culture I mean just the characters how
many characters you can write most of us
are using English in which we know if
especially if you are it's not so much
that Filipinos are not able to speak
English they're known to be bilingual
but the context many of our
cultural meanings are not easily uh
translatable in in English so we could
speak English we don't need a cultural
or our language interpret interpreter
but actually having live in America
that's what I found is that many
especially the Immigrant and the
Filipino American are needing cultural
interpreters so I just give you five
reasons on how social media could
potentially we westernize the Filipino
culture and always when I'm giving these
videos what to do about it right um very
very simple it's uh be aware of your
awareness of consumption so be aware be
aware of what you're
consuming um whom who's writing it and
why they're writing it to be critical
about that how long you know are you on
social media for two hours at a time
and um and then how much you're
consuming so just being um
consumption practice uh consumption
awareness my friend and then when you
are closer back to your own body you're
more relational you can again pick up on
nuances in the culture not just by the
meaning you perceive it to be as the
listener but but widening your l on
and what do they really mean then you're
expanding um just your your perception I
hope this has been helpful uh visit
kamami juice.com I have many many
articles there on Mental Health Filipino
relationship this is Rowan
samels and psychotherapist here in
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