ARE FILIPINOS DEPENDENT?

Filipinos, in the present, are getting more and more dependent (to foreign countries and cultures). Almost 500 years ago, Philippines was discovered by a Portuguese explorer known as Ferdinand Magellan. From then, Spaniards conquered the country and ruled over Filipinos. Same thing happened during the American colonial period more than 100 years ago. Americans ruled over the Filipinos. And again, the same thing happened 70 years ago, during the World War II and the Japanese occupation. Filipinos became slaves and Japanese ruled over them. Though Philippine Independence was declared during the year 1989, Filipinos remained under the power of different countries.

Filipinos really are dependent, proven for 425 years under Spaniards, Americans and Japanese, but the reason for their dependence is that the foreign colonizers want the Filipinos to be dependent on them. It’s not the Filipinos’ will to follow them, to be with them, and to do what those foreign people did.

It was said that Philippines became independent in the year 1946, and it actually happened. They had their own republic, own government and the like, but Filipinos can hardly let go of the influence from the Colonizers. In the present, Filipinos are getting more and more dependent to foreign countries and foreign cultures. There are different proofs that this problem is actually happening right now.

Restaurants, clothes, television shows, and music, these are just few examples of Filipino dependence. As we can notice in restaurants, foreign foods are more in demand to Filipinos today such as: Tokyo-Tokyo, Starbucks, Sbarro and a lot more. Imported clothes are also more reliable depending on more Filipinos. Dickies, Guess, Girbaud, these are the more preferred clothes than the local ones. In music, many Filipino music are only translations of the original foreign music. A lot of songs were turned into Tagalog and even Bisaya, such as, Sometimes when we touch (Ojo Kaluguran Daka), Beautiful Girls (Binibining ganda), Low, Crank that, Clumsy and a lot more. Another noticeable thing is in Television shows. A lot of the shows today are franchised from foreign countries, reality shows, Korea novellas and others. Examples are: Survivor, Big brother, Fear factor, My girl, LaLola, Betty La Fea, Kim Sam Soon, Family Feud. These shows are all franchised and originally made in foreign countries. Did the Filipinos become incapable of creating their own shows that’s why they are just dependent on other countries?

I have supposed that “in the present” Filipinos are getting more and more dependent (compared to the past of course) because; they are not anymore ruled by other countries. No one dictates them what they have to do, but rather FILIPINOS NOW HAVE THEIR OWN CHOICE and they chose to be dependent on foreign countries and cultures, which is a lot worse than what happened in the past.