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FILIPINO REPRESENTATION CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES IN COMMUNICATION 10 - GROUP MEMBERS: KAYLA MARIA SIMPAO • LOUIE JAY TABLADILLO • JON ROQUE TOROBA • LIWAYEN TORRES • JEFF TREMUCHA

The reassuring feeling one discovers a character they can identify with. The feeling of pride that comes from seeing your beliefs, culture, and traditions reflected positively in popular media. The thrill of discovering that a hero shares a striking resemblance with oneself. How many of us have been through something like this, and how many of us haven't? It was a lovely sunny Saturday morning in 2010. Yenyen, a seven-year-old Filipina kid, excitedly marched her way to the television set, with her parents not letting her watch shows during schooldays; weekends are magical! As she sat down in front of the TV, she noticed that in every movie she saw, almost everyone was white with pointed noses. \"They're so pretty; maybe that's why they are on TV.\" Growing up, she always felt ugly, simply because she was not blonde or white. As she watched the movie Legally Blond longer, she almost jumped when she saw a brilliant and beautiful woman with nearly the same skin color as her. And this, my friend, gave little Yenyen the confidence that her brown skin was just as beautiful as the white skin she often sees on TV. And this shows the importance of representation.

foreword In our society, we have come to realize that media plays a significant role in terms of representing the Filipinos. With the advent of technological advancements, being aware and educated of correct representations is crucial. Media, entertainment, and other popular culture substantially impact how we perceive others. Many depictions, however, are based on cultural stereotypes, which tend to marginalize and caricature members of nondominant groups. While a lack of representation is always harmful, the misrepresentation of underserved communities is a massive problem with detrimental effects. This concept is exhibited through stereotyping. Most harmful preconceptions about Filipinos relate to their education level and ability to find and maintain employment.

FILIPINOS ARE PORTRAYED AS Filipino women are often portrayed as domestic helpers in foreign television. This can be true to an DOMESTIC extent because the widespread poverty and HELPERS inadequate pay have forced most of the Filipino women to leave the country and work abroad. To support this claim, about 1.4 million Filipinos work as kasambahays and over a million are on live-out arrangement in other countries based on a survey conducted last year by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

Filipinos are frequently included in singing competitions around the world, which is why they are referred to as talented vocalists. Filipino artists often appear on franchises of well-known singing reality shows like American Idol and The Voice. The strongest evidence that Filipinos can sing is found right here in the country. Numerous artists and musicians from various types of music may be found around the nation. In the Philippines, singing is a common part of festivals and gatherings. You can always find Filipinos singing, whether it's during a family gathering or a public festival. As common as air is the karaoke machine. Without a few songs on the karaoke machine, a gathering is never truly complete.

Filipinos are known FILIPINOS ARE for having strong FAMILY-ORIENTED family ties and demonstrating filial piety which is an important concept in Filipino culture. They place a high value on their family and prioritize it above all else. They work all day and do everything in their power to feed and provide for their family. In other countries, after the age of 18, a person can live on their own. In the Philippines, people value their families so much that they keep them intact over time.

Filipinos are known to be hospitable. Many admire this aspect of Filipino culture, which is one of the reasons why people in the Philippines, as well as foreign visitors, enjoy traveling from place to place. The Filipino hospitality is something to take pride in. Filipinos have been generally known for treating their visitors warmly, regardless of the race. The number of tourists and visitors who have enjoyed their stay in the country, some of whom have made genuine friends and decided to make the Philippines their home, is a true testament to Filipino hospitality.

FILIPINOS HAVE THICK AND FUNNY ACCENTS The hard Filipino accent is often portrayed in the media. While there are Filipinos who have thick accents, it is inaccurate to generalize so about the entire population. There are a lot of Filipinos who are soft-spoken with neutral or even western accents when speaking a foreign language. Therefore, it is incorrect and even disrespectful to portray Filipinos with a thick or heavy accent, especially when the goal is to make fun of it. Our Filipino accents are presumably mixed because the Filipino language itself is not the only language spoken in the country. It is diverse and influenced by various circumstances and cultural contexts. For instance, Tagalog, Cebuano, Kapampangan, and Chavacano are only a few of the many languages and dialects spoken in the nation. Every language has a distinctive accent that a native speaker utilizes to convey themselves and their culture.

HFILIPINOSUHAVE AMGREATO RSENSE OF Filipinos often play comedic roles in foreign movies and other types of media content. This may be accurate given that Filipinos love to joke around as a way of socializing with people. Filipinos are known to be the happiest people even in the face of difficulties and trials. The Philippines even ranked as the 3rd happiest nation in the world according to Gallup's 41st Annual Global End of Year Survey. Filipinos engage their \"national humor\" in a variety of ways, including as a coping mechanism, a tool for employing unity, an outlet for creativity, and a way to simply socialize.

FILIPINOS ARE THE BEST Filipinos are known to be the best pageant fans in the world. From cheering for their candidates, getting beauty queens to trend, as well as creating incredible fan art, it’s no doubt Filipinos will give and have given their all every time pageant season rolls by. Apart from the obvious merits of the country’s representatives to international beauty pageants, the Filipinos’ overwhelming support makes the Philippines a strong contender internationally. With the continuous wins came more fans who, in turn, became more aggressive in their support. PAGEANT FANS IN THE WORLD

FILIPINOS LOVE PREPARING GREAT TASTING FOOD One of the most popular qualities of the Filipinos is that they put a premium on how they serve food to other people. This representation might be correct as Filipinos love to cook different putahe or dishes. The warmth extended to family and friends motivates Filipinos to \"cook with love.\" The typical Filipino meal is composed of vegetables, seafood, dairy, meat, and rice.

Nylon, an American lifestyle magazine, posted an article about the appearance of a Filipino line in Spiderman: No Way home movie on its NYLON Manila website. Filipino fans were shocked when Ned's grandmother entered the scene shouting \"Salamangka,\" alluding to the magic happening before her. Later, she asks Andrew's Spider-Man if he can climb walls and tells him to clean the ceiling, and even tells them not to mess up her living room. “Ikaw ha, nagkalat ka na naman. Linisin mo lahat ng mga basura mo dito. At ikaw naman, alam mo naman na gusto ko na itong bahay natin maayos pero tignan mo, dumi dito, dumi doon,” she says with Ned serving as translator. It seems funny how Ned's Lola was able to tell the man crawling on her ceiling to clean the cobwebs instead of getting scared, but the idea of Filipino grandmothers being keen at home, especially when it comes to cleanliness, is on point! The Filipino representation in the movie is accurate and therefore acceptable.

CNN Philippines, a commercial broadcast, posted an Because healthcare is expensive in the article about Chai Fonacier, a Bisaya actress, being seen Philippines, Filipinos opt to use on the international screen in Nocebo. CNN published traditional methods of healing in order their article under the lifestyle and entertainment to cure illnesses. Examples of these are section and tackled Nocebo and the burdens of cultural hilot (folk massaging), burning incense, representation. and brewing concoctions. These folk- healing methods are accompanied by In the movie, Diana is a Filipino nanny who later various materials such as oils, holy revealed that people from where she came from did water, and other traditional medicines. traditional healing. This led to another representation of Filipinos being traditional healers. While modern medicine is already widely-utilized in the Philippines, Filipinos still perform traditional healing practices even up to this day. Hence, the representation might have been true to some extent.; however, traditional healing was used as an excuse to pursue black magic in the movie, which degraded and made the Filipinos evil in the eye of the alien world; it made a part of the Filipino culture appear evil when in reality, traditional healing is not even that scary.

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