It is not easy to be nationalist, although there are some simple ways that would consider us to be one. But like the saying goes "Easier said than done". These are two simple examples to show nationalism, but however its not as easy as it seems.
For example: most of the people want to favor Filipino goods but in the end, they end up buying imported goods. Another is, stop walking and standing at attention when we heard the National Anthem, but people rather ignore it. We cannot blame these people, since in the first case, they are comfortable with imported goods so it is the the job of local companies to make a strategy on how people would like them. For the second example, in some cases, its not our fault for example, national anthem was set as a ring tone for mobile phones how would you give attention to that specially if you know that the song would not be finished. But as for some case in the second scenario, we still would not mind to stop if we heard it from a morning ceremony of an establishment even if it is not required.
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no offense, but I really do not see your point, who cares if a person is nationalist or not? nobody
People just do things that pleases them, they really do not care whether it is for the good of the country, as long as it does not break the law then it is not bad for the country right?
I agree, it is complicated but people now a days do not really care on it. As long as they could leave peacefully and help the other Filipino citizens that is good enough
I think it's not about whether or not Filipino nationalism is complicated, but more about what we choose to do. As Filipinos, we need to instill in ourselves our love and pride for our country. This shouldn't necessarily be in very rigid ways such as standing up straight when we hear our anthem even if it's just a ring tone or always patronizing local brands because we're given the liberty to support what we like, but more of believing in the power of our country to rise beyond where we are--to be a better nation, if we just work together for the greater good.
When you patronize local soaps like I Love Betty La Fea or Diyosa, does this say that you are nationalistic?!
This issue is making me crazy, it is really complicated so what?
so you mean that filipino nationalism is complicated because we can show our nationalism in small ways yet we can't still afford to do it.
yes you're right that local companies must also be doing strategy to enhance local products so that many FIlipinos would patronize our own products. The government should help FIlipino business instead of importing and importing. because of these continuous imports by the government, then FIlipino businessmen especially the small scale ones will have a difficult problem to compete in the market.
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