Ablang, Joseph Francis

Apostol, Ken Louie

Bautista, Ira Teresa T.
Bulalacao, Irra Julia
Cabaloza, Christine
Trivino, Jonald

GLOBALIZATION AND NATIONALISM SUPPORTS/LEADS

Globalization and nationalism can support and promote one another with the exchange
technology, services, and logistics of every country that supports the “developing countries”. For
example, after President Duterte visited Russia, there are about ten agreements where Russia can
do business with our government. One of which is the nuclear energy deal where Russians own
energy companies that can help to the Philippines have their own nuclear power plant. All it need
is the final apporval and agreement with the cabinet members of Duterte administration (CNN
Philippines Staff, 2019). In that example, it shows that globalization supports nationalism in the
context of making deals with countries with no difficult conditions or policies that would put the
country struggling in terms of paying. This is similar to the book entitled, “Globalization and
Nationalism: the Relationship Revisited”, written by Sabanadze (2010), says that there’s a type of
nationalism which is the contemporary nationalism, that is open to engage with globalization. It
appears that this kind of nationalism doesn’t see globalization as a threat but as an opportunity
‘that is worth exploiting’”. Another factor is that refurbishing the obsolete materials or
infrastructures in the country making a message that third world countries are now catching up
with what the rest of the world does, would have the support of the people especially if they benefit
from the change in energy consumption with the aforementioned example, bulding a new, advance
and cheaper way to use energy consumption in the Philippines to abolish fossil fuel usage which
is more costly (ClickBeat, 2019).
Another example is the relation between the South Korean Government and the Philippine
Government. Wherein, South Korea donated a Pohang Class Corvette for the Philippine Navy
named BRP. Conrado Yap came from the Philippines which he is a brave Filipino soldier during
the Korean War. This is globalization supporting nationalism in a way that donations would benefit
the countries assets in the navy. Filipinos proudly representing themselves that they can fight and
resist insurgencies, terrorism and or even imperialism with the technology we have now in our
jurisdiction. With this example, it shows that globalization and nationalism supports each other by
letting a country benefit from what they (ABS-CBN News, 2019).
Some globalization can lead to nationalism or vice versa. For example, they can support
and promote one another in the concept of culture. The YouTube channel of a South Korean
vlogger known as “Mr. BulBul”, posted a video entitled, “FEEL THE PHILIPPINES IN KOREA”
which shows the culture of the Philippines in South Korea that the Philippine Diplomatic Relations
in Korea had a street event in their 70th Anniversary. There are Filipino food products, cultural
shows such as performing a traditional dance; photo booths with Filipino iconic items as props
like the jeepneys, barong Tagalog, and more (BulBul, 2019).
On the website of Korean Cultural Center, it is stated that we, Filipinos have been accepting
and welcoming the Korean culture especially in the context of entertainment. They were able to
promote their culture in our country by having their cultural center which is located in Taguig
(Korea Cultural Center, n.d.).
In the second argument of the article entitled, “Does globalization diminish the importance
of nationalism?”, written by Abdulsattar (2013), it says that globalization and nationalism
relationship in which one leads to other while one promotes the other. In this argument, it explained
how nationalism leads to globalization and how globalization promotes nationalism. Here, the
author explained how it would be possible that these two ideologies could work together. When
one nation already established their nationalism, and they have the chance to share their culture or
even products that leads to globalization. In that way, each of the nation have the chance to add up
something in this world that we live in and they are able to promote their country as well. Sound
logical, right? Well, if we will look at it in the perspective of the Western countries, this is very
relevant to what they have accomplished all over the countries. It resulted to cultural imperialism,
dominance of the Western and taking over the capitalist society pushing other countries to be under
their power.
Here, we will discuss our counter argument about this.
The emergence of the associative spread of globalization has change the way of living. The
speed of change and transmission of information, ideas, trends, and cultures is at its peak. Several
citizens see that globalization have acted agaisnt nationalism (News Today, 2009). According to
their views, nations, and more, specifically the developing ones, have been losing their identity in
favor of other nations that dominate the world, especially on the cultural level (Global News,
2018).
The Filipinos, somehow, doesn’t have their own identity because there were a lot of
countries that dominated the Philippines from the past and nationalism is difficult to concept in
this globalized era. It benefits them from globalization and it makes the Philippines better and
globally competetive but it seems that Filipinos are already at their limits. Filipinos have colonial
mentality and everything that they use today are imported from the foreign countries such as the
food, technology, clothes, etc. In other words, in today’s society, we are already lacking
nationalism (Rappler, 2015).
As a Filipino, we are tolerable by other country on what they are trying to introduce to us
and we never think what would be the effect for our country but still we can find a way to use this
new things for our own good and for the sake of the people in our country because we, Filipinos,
are always open for everyone who tried to reach with us even though we don’t know what they
really want from our country and we cannot blame who has the authority to communicate to other
country because he/she has a heart of a true Filipino that’s why they don’t ask for the opinion of
other’s and they decide on their own. Being nationalistic on your own republic helps our country
to improve and patrioize by the citizens living in itself, not only nationalism is the one we are
focusing, instead we must promote patriotism for the purpose of foreign related cultures and
products that dominates our own culture that is absolutely accustomed on us. Invasion from
foreign countries will not affect the way we live if we are nationalistic Filipino citizen and that we
are patrionizing and promote our own culture, products and traditions. This view of nationalism is
similar from Anthony Smith’s view which indicates that culture must preserve and promote its
identity (Sabanadze, 2010).
In history, Americans invaded our country and at the same time, presented us education for
us to learn their language which is English and after the war, there was peace in every country.
From the statistics in 2015, Philippines is one of the globally largest English speaking country
around the world in 4th place. It supports one another by having recognition of a country’s
performance with or without the influence of other countries. Globalization? Presenting the
English language for education of the Filipino people. Nationalism? Filipinos are comemmorated
for having a good communication skill using the universal language making us good
communicators.It supports one another by having a recognition of a country’s performance with
or without the influence of other countries. It leads nationalism with brutal facts, historically
speaking, Americans colonized the country for several years given that there were innovation
presented to the country but we cannot deny that there were lives on the line during their time in
our country (Carpenter, 2019).

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