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    F. Sionil Jose provides six reasons why Filipinos are shallow in his article. First, the educational system focuses less on humanities. Second, Filipinos have large egos and mistake knowledge for wisdom. Third, many Filipinos blindly follow "religious quacks". Fourth, media programs lack quality and critical thinking. Fifth, few Filipinos read, resulting in poor language skills. Sixth, Filipinos are overly materialistic due to media influence. He also specifies two reasons for why Filipinos are poor. First, many Filipinos avoid work and are lazy. Second, colonialism and colonial mentality have held the country back from success. Awareness of the

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    F. Sionil Jose provides six reasons why Filipinos are shallow in his article. First, the educational system focuses less on humanities. Second, Filipinos have large egos and mistake knowledge for wisdom. Third, many Filipinos blindly follow "religious quacks". Fourth, media programs lack quality and critical thinking. Fifth, few Filipinos read, resulting in poor language skills. Sixth, Filipinos are overly materialistic due to media influence. He also specifies two reasons for why Filipinos are poor. First, many Filipinos avoid work and are lazy. Second, colonialism and colonial mentality have held the country back from success. Awareness of the

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    F. Sionil Jose provides six reasons why Filipinos are shallow in his article. First, the educational system focuses less on humanities. Second, Filipinos have large egos and mistake knowledge for wisdom. Third, many Filipinos blindly follow "religious quacks". Fourth, media programs lack quality and critical thinking. Fifth, few Filipinos read, resulting in poor language skills. Sixth, Filipinos are overly materialistic due to media influence. He also specifies two reasons for why Filipinos are poor. First, many Filipinos avoid work and are lazy. Second, colonialism and colonial mentality have held the country back from success. Awareness of the

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    Adiel A.

    Ravanera
    HUMSS 12-17
    Why we are shallow
    In F. Sionil Jose’s article, it points out several reasons why Filipinos are shallow.
    Shallow people are described as being vain and focused on physical perception.  Their
    perception of life is based mostly on beauty, property or money. In F. Sionil Jose’s
    aricle, he specified six reasons why we Filipinos are shallow. The firs reason he pointed
    out is the Philippines’s educational system because our educational system places less
    attention on the humanities. Humanities is significant for us Filipinos because it enables
    us to gain a broader attainment of our past and its philosophies and it also helps us
    understand who we are Filipinos. The second reason he specified is because of our
    ego. He wrote that Filipinos are shallow because we are mayabang, ego-driven, and
    arrogant. He stated that we mistake knowledge for wisdom. He pointed out that public
    commentators are framed as knowledgeable people by the media. The third reason why
    we are shallow, according to him, is because of “religious quacks”. He wrote that we
    lack the perception and courage to deny these religious quacks. People who follow to
    these religious quacks let their opinions be dictated by these religious quacks. They
    blindly follow these religious quacks without judgment. The next reason F Sionil Jose
    wrote is because our media is also shallow. The programs that the media show lack
    quality; they do not encourage critical thinking. Viewers do not look beyond what is
    offered to them. That’s why people who subscribe to the media also become shallow.
    The fifth reason why we are shallow is because we don’t read. Lack of reading results in
    poor language skills, shortage in information. The last reason, he pointed out, why we
    are shallow is because we are enslaved by gross materialism. We became materialistic
    because of the media taught us. The media define our idea of success. And because of
    that Filipinos think only material things can satisfy them.

    Why are Filipinos so Poor?


    F. Sionil Jose’s article specifies several reasons to why Filipinos are poor. As the
    author said, the Philippines used to be the most envied country in Southeast Asia.
    Which then led to the questions on to what happened to the Philippines throughout the
    years. The author wrote that one of the main reasons for this is the way we think and
    our behavior. Filipinos tend to avoid work and to be lazy, which leads to incapability in
    our responsibilities and jobs. The author also wrote that we are poor because of the
    presence of colonialism and colonial mentality. We will not become a successful country
    if we do not appreciate and acknowledge what is done by our own country. Filipinos
    should be aware of the reasons why we are falling behind from other countries.
    Because if we are conscious about the reasons, we will be able to change it as change
    can only occur if we act up on it.

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