Activity 1.

Go to YouTube and look for the song, “No Man is an Island” by Joan
Whitney and Alex Kramer. Reflect on the meaning of the song.

 What potential meaning does the song imply?

The song is about how we aren't supposed to go through life on our own. We often try to get
through life's challenges, tribulations, and difficult times, or even amazing moments, on our own.
That isn't how we were designed. We were made in God's image to live in community. The
wonderful thing about being covered by Christ's blood is that we are instantly accepted into this
amazing family. In Christ, we have brothers and sisters all across the world.

Activity 1. Through drawings/poem/story, share your social experience/s that has

been particularly helpful in understanding yourself.

*Through joining “Knights of the Altar”, it helps me to understand myself more and also
the bible helps me to understand the things that I can’t explain on my own.
EVALUATION!
Now that you have an idea about the cultural self and your own cultural self, what
are also the struggle/s that you can narrate about your cultural/identity or cultural self.

Criteria:
 Content- 30pts
 Grammar- 10pts
 TOTAL= 40pts

            Cultural identity refers to the connection between yourself and a culture. This idea
affects our daily communication as well as our relationships with people. As I identify my cultural
self, I had already experienced some cultural issues from the community I live in. These include
racism from the province I came from and the attainment issues wherein my father's generation
influences me for specific achievement for future motives.  
              As I grew up in our province in Kalinga, I have noticed that some of our neighbours
were gossiping about my skin color. I had lighter skin that is different from them and as you all
know, Kalinga people have dark skin. Since I have a contrasting skin color, my childhood
companions kept away from playing with me because their parents told them so. They told them
to avoid me for the reason that I am incompatible and I don't belong to one of them. This
discrimination questioned me where and whom I should connect with, and struggled me to fit in
in a group.  I also encountered conflict about what I should choose in my field of study. My
father told me that they had a principle on choosing professional attainments in our lineage.
Men should take either marine courses or military paths while women should take nursing-
related courses. This culture policy was from our great grandfather wherein he wanted to
implement this for an identity race in our family. And with this, I was pressured; I had difficulties
in my decision-making in taking up this culture policy.
               To conclude, these cultural conflicts didn't stop me from my perspective of my identity.
I have learned to speak up against racism by disagreeing with what they said and criticizing the
comment and not towards the person who said it. In addition, I have perceived that no matter
what my family would suggest, it cannot change my viewpoint about life, my identity, and my
race.
 Exercise #1 the Filipino Self

Examine the Filipino “self”. Using a concept map, construct a Filipino

“self” based on the Filipino culture. Then, write a brief explanation of your work in not
more than 10 sentences

Hospitality Kindliness

FILIPINO SELF

Respect Religious

Hospitality, this is the most popular word used to describe how Filipinos greet
visitors from other countries. The Filipinos' attitude toward their tourists is
certainly unique. We Filipinos were so kind for example is that even though we
have nothing to give to others we still find a way to help them or share things to
other people. Some of the Filipinos give respect to other people’s cultures,
beliefs, religion and many more. We Filipinos were so religious that even if we
are not relatives or “Kadugo” and compatriots or “Kababayan” we still include
them in our prayers.