Political Self

• Politics


  An activity relation to power. It refers to achieving and exercising positions of governance-organized control over a human community
• Without power as a force, politics would be useless
• Politics is present in all human social institutions including your school, organization, religious community and others from which you identify yourself
• Politics promotes ideologies about democracy, citizenship, human rights, freedom and other social issues
• Politics serves as the tool by which individuals understand the exercise of power and proper functioning of a democratic society as a citizen
• Citizenship


  The status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a legal member of a sovereign state or belonging to a nation
• Being a member of a particular nation makes a person involved and has the right to speak out as part of the community
• Citizenship becomes the most important aspect of political self
• Political self


  Defined by reference to other members in the political group or community where one belong such as school, religious organization and others like LGBTQ
• The political self and identity are developed through socialization, through the ways people learn they are aware of the norms or standard behaviour, values and roles they take as a member of such particular institutions
• Without deep sense of belongingness or membership one person could not exercise power and make decisions for the sake of the state or nation
• It is very important to know deeply and always go back to the roots of our country so every people in our nation could genuinely serve for its advancement
• For a person to feel the love, devotion and concern to something or someone it is deemed necessary to know about its background
• Before the 1880s, the term "Filipino" actually referred to the people of Spanish parentage born in the Philippines
• The Malayan, native born inhabitants of the Philippine islands were called "indio" or "indigenta"
• During Spanish colonization, real Filipino's are not even having the name "Filipino" to claim its identity
• It was only in the late 1880s and 1890s that the term Filipino began to change to refer to "people from the Philippines"
• A group of young men who went to Europe to study also discovered that the racial and class distinctions that separated them in the colony became less meaningful when they found themselves collectively alone across the oceans
• In Europe and elsewhere around the world, they started to refer to one another as being one people
• The indio and now the Filipino, has shown time and again that they are capable of heroism and love of nation
• There were an estimated 300 revolutions against the Spanish invaders and another war for independence against the Americans
• The guerrilla movement against the Japanese invaders were primarily grassroots movements
• Filipinos have rallied to democracy at critical junctures in its history through leaders like Ramon Magsaysay and People Power Movements
• Ninoy Aquino: 'Filipinos are worth dying for. If not with Rizal and our other national heroes, we cannot imagine as how we can see the liberty and freedom we are experiencing as today as Filipino'
• Kapwa


  The unity of the self and others, a recognition of shared identity an inner self shared with others. It is the core or heart Filipino values
• Virgilio Enriquez is the father of Filipino Psychology and he discovered that it is not maintaining smooth interpersonal relationship that Filipinos are most concerned with, but pakikipagkapwa which means treating the other person as fellow human being or kapwa
• The way a person see others reflects of how one treats the others
• As collectivist country, Filipinos tend to be sensitive and perceptive with the need of others
• Familial community most often take precedence over any types of community in the Filipino setting
• Many young Filipinos as of today are becoming more pro-active in politics with the help of social media. Some young Citizens have learned to pressure the government to do their job for our nation
• Good citizen


  Diligent tax payer, honest voter, one who follows the traffic rules, knows how to assert one's right, protects those cannot defend themselves, cares for the environment and honors equality among men and women
• The family has an organizational structure from one is expected to behave in accordance to his or her role
• At young age, most people are aware that the first authority to follow is our parents. We obey their rules and treat them with respect
• The school is accountable for moral, spiritual, and political upbringing of children. It will help the students to become patriotic and responsible citizens through academic learning
• The church shapes political self through religious teachings and values
• Peers are also important in influencing the political self. Interaction with peers emphasizes the equal distribution of power, rights, and privileges among members of the group
• The mass media could also be a key source that may influence an individual's political values and beliefs
• The assertion of one's power depends on how one individual exercised his or her political self with his early membership in family, school and mass media
• When a person is oriented to be a good follower of rules despite oppression of his own rights, others may not feel obliged to speak out about it
• Peers are also important, some children remain inferiors to their playmate dues to their perceived power of over them. No wonder that some people may not demand for their rights