Does Post-Colonialism apply today?

Of course!

Presence of Post-colonialism is existent in a lot of ways. We may present the idea of Black-skin – white masks by blabla. Or brown skin –white masks. With our over-exposure to the American life-style we have been embedded with the idea of foreign is better. With the English language representing a rather elitistic presence, former colonies such as ours are then compelled to propagate such cultures. The reasons are obvious; it gives out a sense of refinement and a feel of superiority over our less fluent countrymen. Integration and or hybridization as stated by Homi Bhabha represent a more impirical evidence of post-colonialism. Integration of two cultures, a perfect example would be taglish, it is quite interesting as to how the tagalog dialect or quite a number of the dominant dialects in the Philippines integrates English within their sentences. Another is the Spanish language which has integrated itself well into Filipino that it is nearly indistinguishable amongst Filipinos who uses it. As stated by Bhabha, Hybridization does not occur by choice but rather, it occurs naturally due to continued exposure towards the said culture. Thus affecting quite a number colonized country into lacking a sense of oneness of their culture in purity.  We could also see the post-colonialism with the idea of Edward Said in Orientalism which explains the embedded idea that anything western is superior to the oriental, or in our case the oh so famous colonial mentality. The Book blackskin-white mask further strengthens that claim. With the author being black himself and is exposed to racial discrimination, he was raised within the French life-style wherein he have grown to believe or made to believe with the idea of that to be black is bad and to be white is good in more than physical aspects. Black people then gets low-self-esteem because they themselves believe that them being black makes them inferior and that in order for them to be socially acceptable they then have to wear white-masks. Similar cases have occurred to us Filipinos, twice actually, first with the more than 300 years of occupation of Spain and the euphoric American lifestyle we have grown to love. 

       Bago ang lahat, inyo sanang asahan na ang blog na ito ay mapupuno ng kung ano-anong mga haka-haka na maaaring walang relasyon sa ating kurso. Maliban na lamang kung ito'y maihahambing niyo sa isang social experiment marahil sa kalanuang inyong makikita sa mga sumusunod na sulating aking gagawin. Para klaro sabihin nalang nating it is not for the faint of heart, kung ano man ang ibig sabihin noon.

       Sa ating pagsisimula, talaga namang napakainteresante ng mga teoryang ating napaguusapan sa ating kurso sa pag-aaral ng kulturang pampulitika. At hindi, hindi po ako nambobola maniwala man kayo o sa hindi. Nasabi ko ito dahil kapansinpansin na sa pag-aaral ng mga teoryang ito lalong lalo na sa aming report na Post-Colonialsim na hindi pa namin naisisiwalat sa ating klase ay may mga parte ng mga teorya dito na nagbibigay ng panin sa mga bagay bagay na may pake tayo. Sa totoo lamang nakakawindang isipin na mayroong palang mga pag-aaral ng mga gawain ng mga tao na sa buong pagaakala ko'y napakapersonal o sariling akin kumbaga. Hindi ko akalaing mayroong na palang pag-aaral ng "behavior" kuno o ugali ng isang tao. At lalong hindi sa pagbasa ng paggawa ng desisyon ng isang tao  sa isang pangyayaring politikal. Saan ka makakakita ng pag-aaral ng mga tao na buong buhay ko'y tinatawag nating mga salot sa lipunan gaya ng mga LGBT's? Sadyang nakakawindang ito dahil binibigyan natin ng importanisya o halaga kahit papaano ang mga produkto ng mga ideyang kakaiba o deviant ika nga sa systema na atin nang ikinalakihan. Dito sumusulpot ang mga tanong na bakit? at ang ganti na bakit hindi? na hindi naman masagot ng maayos ng nauna. Sadyang napakaraming katanungan na nagaantay masagot, at nakakatuwa lamang isipin na nandirito tayo sa gitna ng lahat, alam o inaalam and dahilan kung bakit nangyari ang mga nangyari habang pinapanood ang mga kapwa tao natin, nabubuhay na hindi napapansin ang mga bagay na ating nakikita. At talaga namang nakakatuwa na marami sa ating gumawa ng blog ay ngayo'y nagsusulat gamit ang salitang filipino o tagalog o taglish. Wala lang natuwa lamang ako, kasi napaka candid.  Sa susunod na lamang ako maglalagay ng picture kung inyong mamarapatin.