Philippine Pop Culture

• The status in society could contribute to dictate what can be popular in a certain place.
• Edward Tylor (1947) defines culture as "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society."
• Culture, once acquired, can be adapted, reconstructed, or reproduced.
• Traditional Politics - or TRAPO still dominates the government and with their nature of continuing the trend and not courageous enough to step up and formulate better platforms and plans to give better service.
• Mass Media - The television and radio became the main source of information.
• Church - The Church resisted to the formulation of a rational and responsible population planning policy, that is to address the growing demand of the society.
• Kidd (2014) divided culture into high and folk culture, with high culture referring to the set of cultural goods like paintings, classical music, literature, and other forms of creative expression, and folk culture referring to local music, crafts, oral traditions, morality plays, and other types of expression.
• Family - Filipinos are known for their family oriented culture and because of this, opinion and tradition of the family could always hinder the will to adapt and explore new things.
• Overseas Work - Filipinos who worked overseas shows a comprehensive impact on the collective fate and their private lives.
• Filipino culture includes at least more than 170 languages, strong family bonds, respect for the elderly, and teaching children to say "po" and "opo".
• In Filipino culture, "pamanghikan" is the process where the suitor's parents visit the bride's family to ask for her hand in marriage.
• Filipino culture includes various festivals and national holidays.
• Popular culture, as defined by the dictionary, is cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.
• Modernity, as defined by Linehan (2009) in the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, is a set of cultural, political, economic and spatial relationships that influence social life, economy, and use of experience of time and space.
• Modernity is a term used to refer to the borderless change of the world, as described by David (2017).
• Modernists are those who favor or accept modernity and completely accepts and lives with it.
• Traditionalists are those who resist the new trends because they are comfortable with the nostalgic feeling of the past.
• Education, through the channels of school and market, helps to generate new ideas and make things easier.