My first year in college was not easy.
It really got me lutang extensively confused and drained. To name a few, there was the stress of adjusting to the new environment, the new systems, and meeting new friends. This really took a toll on me as I tried to figure out my place as a part of this context and how to work around it. I spent a lot of time thinking about this but eventually, I learned in my SocSci11 Class that this is normal and it’s okay to feel this way. The subject gave me a sense of navigating through my thoughts by understanding myself. It’s important to note that there are multiple factors that shape who we are and how we think now.
First of all, I did not realize that there were so many technical aspects to take into consideration while trying to understand the self. It was interesting to have learned that there was a framework to aid the process of understanding yourself because I’ve always felt really lost trying to figure myself out. Urie Bronfenbrenner is the proponent of the framework mentioned called the PPCT Model or the Process-Person-Context-Time Model. One of the important points I’ve taken with me from this topic is understanding the person through demand, resource, and force. This falls under the Person aspect. These were presented as things we can observe from people, but that also means we can be observed in that way as well. This got me to reevaluate myself using these three points and it actually worked really well in helping understand myself.
Developing in the Globalizing World
There are multiple influences we receive from our own culture and from other cultures. In trying to figure out my Hybrid Identity through the activity assigned to us, I realized that I really am influenced by a lot of other things I find on the internet and even through practices at home and in school which are not purely Filipino. I, for sure, am not constricted to Filipino traits but as discussed, Hybridity actually has the potential to be innovative. By using these cultures and putting them together, it is highly likely to create something new out of the knowledge gained from multiple cultures. I was happy to realize that my mixed personality can actually become something good lol.