Now It All Make Sense
As a grown up, we begin to understand the attributes of culture. We begin to answer the questions
“Why is culture important?” or “Where is it found?”. But as children, unknowingly, culture is also
given to us. It is one of our first windows in life. For me it’s a little bit different because even as a
child, I always choose my own way. I grew up with my father but honestly, I am having a hard time remembering our customs because most of the things I learned, I
learned from the television. There are only a few things that I got from him like, spaghetti, fireworks
and joining the Iwag Festival during Christmas; or climbing the Metanoia Hill during holy week and
family reunion during All Soul’s Day. Attitude and belief wise, I got most of it from the television. In
my earlier days, the television taught me everything. For Science, there is Sineskwela; for Math, there’s Mathinik; for Arts, there’s Art Angel and for GMRC, there’s May Bukas Pa. And every lunch time back in my elementary years, my father will bring me to a carenderia and near that is a bookstore where I buy a book almost every day. There are boxes and boxes of books in my father’s house right now, I’m not kidding. I learned more lessons in the stories. This is the reason why, a lot of people says that my ways are far too different from my family. When I was 10 years old, I was sent to live with my mother’s family and for five years, I always give them a side eye or rolling eyes every time I hear there perceptions in life. I just don’t think that violence to make gay people straight is something amusing and funny or you know, the fact that they think Marcos is “the best president ever”; and things like that. I don’t know why it’s easy for them to laugh at serious issues or pick the very wrong side. In the long run, I got confused and thought that maybe its me. Maybe I’m too influenced by the things that I read and watch. Maybe I’m the one who’s wrong and maybe they’re right because they’re my family, so I kinda obliged. But then I started going to school in the city and found people who thinks exactly the same way as I do. From there I started learning about different kinds of things and trying to know people and listen to their stories especially when I started living alone. I was free to explore and use the internet. In short, I was a stubborn child and my cultural identity was not so built by my family but the things that they let me watch and read. Now, it makes sense to me why I am so into media. It's because a huge portion of myself was influenced by different types of communication when I was a child.
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