I’m not really fully blaming the media, but i believe it has the bigger influence on the people’s way of thinking than any other factors.

I remember one time….I felt like a “monkey” when I find myself in a Jamboree that was…I got myself sorrounded by locals from Luzon who speaks fluently tagalog. I just keep silent and pretend to be one of the tagalogs. Looking pasts that yesteryears I was such a “Jack-Ass” to have done so otherwise.

And the media…ala eh..number one lagi Sharon at Gabi Concepcion tandem dun eh. Kasama din ako sa nakipag pilahan sa sinehan para masilayan lang ang megastar. Nowadays Sharon literally have become a “Mega” (I leave you guys to your creative imagination kung ano ibig ko sabihin ok - :-))

Although I cant quiet fully agree to you Mr Gwapito that the media can be solely blame for inducing such backward thinking. I guess its the attitude of the people that dominates the trend even today. It grips every basic social unit of our community. Family, schools and the people in the media. All of em have contributed to some extent as to why we think such way. And I do believed that even through this modern times there still humans in Mindanao to have think the same we did before. Its already a sickness thats hard to eradicate

Even here in Metro Manila its worse….basically everyone I know and its sad…think like a foreigner. I guess its true they say that we are indeed a double standard nation. We feel like americans, speaks like americans, dressed like americans, we worship the spaniards for their beauties and idiosyncracies thats already embedded in our system and quadruppled that by our being a locality. But all in all the sum total of all such sophistication and outlook we still act as who we really are….a simple down to earth native to this land. Some of us seem to forget that…and as one proverb claims “He who does not look where he is from, cannot reach its destination”.

Far-out dude!!!

what i mean is your usage of the word “inferior”…hehehe…peace yowwww…

i beg to disagree you labeling the cebuano language as inferior language… let’s just say that it’s a less dominant language…inferior is quite negative…

anyways, im a cebuano and i love my native tongue. only those people who have no sense of themselves can consider their native language inferior…

and about people’s perception about the media…well, we cannot stop them from thinking that everything they see, heard, and read is true. That’s why everybody should be well educated so that we won’t be like stupid idiots who would just hastily believe everything we heard or see.