Being Filipino

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The awareness of being Filipino does not come naturally. We may be surrounded by all the symbols of nationhood the flag, monuments, maps, pictures of our national heroes and the historic events in which they figured but, though these may continue stirring images of the nation. A national identity id one of many affiliations into which we are involuntary thrown in the course of our lives. some of these affiliations become salient to us insofar as we acknowledge and weave them into our own personal narratives. The nation penetrates our consciousness by producing consequences in the way we think, feel of act, and indeed, in how others threat us.