Philippine Popular Culture Module
Philippine Popular Culture Module
Philippine Popular Culture Module
CULTURE
Culture is from the Latin root word colere meaning to inhabit which later developed
to colonus or colony
Latin: coulter which means cultivation or tending
Frenchcouture which suggests fashion
Germanic kultur which is synonymous with civilization
English mime-word culchah which suggests refinement
-Raymond Williams
CULTURE
Total complex of values, beliefs, practices, behavior, patterns shared in common and
transmitted by a group of people from one generation to the next.
The whole complex of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual, and emotional
features that characterize a society or group. It includes not only the arts and letters,
but also modes of life, the fundamental rights of human being, value systems,
traditions and beliefs
Successive crises in the Filipino nation’s life have led many thoughtful analysts to suspect
that the country’s main problem could be the dis-functionality of the entire educational
system. This system, largely borrowed and imposed from without, has failed to spring roots
in the soul of the people. Instead of drawing strength from local milieu, it arrogantly asserts
its [colonial] superiority…In the name of nationhood, it has suppressed native sensibility. It
continues to denigrate traditional folkways and wisdom in the name of global
cosmopolitanism.