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Pag-Asa NG Bayan" and Yet The Society Continues To Discourage Many Young People To Break Out

The documentary highlighted societal problems and ignorance among Filipinos during Spanish colonization. However, Rizal found ways to alleviate negative mindsets, especially among youth. Nowadays, many view youth as useless, but the documentary showed that young people can contribute greatly to society, like Michael De la Pena who empowered youth leaders through his programs. While leadership is challenging, the documentary teaches that we should fight for beneficial principles and not be slaves to wrong ideals, in order to serve our purpose and society. However, leading change is difficult in a society still stuck in the past with "cancers" that corrupt ethical values and question freedoms.

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Pag-Asa NG Bayan" and Yet The Society Continues To Discourage Many Young People To Break Out

The documentary highlighted societal problems and ignorance among Filipinos during Spanish colonization. However, Rizal found ways to alleviate negative mindsets, especially among youth. Nowadays, many view youth as useless, but the documentary showed that young people can contribute greatly to society, like Michael De la Pena who empowered youth leaders through his programs. While leadership is challenging, the documentary teaches that we should fight for beneficial principles and not be slaves to wrong ideals, in order to serve our purpose and society. However, leading change is difficult in a society still stuck in the past with "cancers" that corrupt ethical values and question freedoms.

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MERCULLO, Endrei Clyne, M.

| 11813431 | GERIZAL Y26 | 04/26/2021

The 30-minute documentary presented a lot of societal problems and ignorance among
Filipinos in the time of Spanish Colonization. On the bright side, despite of this culture and
attitude of Filipinos, Rizal found several ways to alleviate this mindset that impacted the lives of
many Filipinos, especially the Filipino youth. Personally, the documentary became a somewhat
a “wake-up call” to stand up and contribute something for the welfare of the country and for the
welfare of our heroes who fought the battle with a pen and paper that lead to a bloody ending.
Nowadays, many people seem to question the status of the youth because they are being
regarded as lazy, incompetent, not persevering, and timid to the truth of society. In other words,
most people view the youth as useless. But the truth is, the youth is not useless. In fact, there are
many young people who contributed so much for the country and to their communities such as
Michael De la Pena who is the Director for Communications and Partnership at Positive Youth
Development Network that envisioned the youth’s idea is worth the try and must de defended
and developed rather than pinned down or discouraged. Through his program, he relishes in
transforming passive, apathetic young people into empowered leaders who are taking charge in
changing the health narratives of their communities. As a result, it reached over 2.4 million
Filipinos nationwide and it produced competent and empowered young Filipino leaders ready to
take up the challenge of the world than adults do. Dr. Rizal once said “Ang kabataan ay ang
pag-asa ng bayan” and yet the society continues to discourage many young people to break out
of their shell and try something for the betterment of the country. As we grow old, our capacity
to contribute a change is not that vigorous and passionate than when we were in our younger
years. So, the young people come into the equation as they have a larger role to play, which is to
contribute something for the betterment of the society’s future. Thus, the documentary really
teaches us that to break the stigma that if you are young, you don’t have the capacity to
contribute something that is good. It is now the time to let them take the lead.
Now, leading for some may be viewed as an easy task since you just delegate tasks to the
people under you and you are done. The truth is, it is not as easy as you think. Strong and
moving leadership requires you as a leader to always be involved in the action and be engaging.
And sometimes, in leading, you sometimes bump into the ideals and beliefs of others, which
sometimes are wrong in so many dimensions. Sadly, some people seem to believe to it.
Nonetheless, the documentary teaches us not be slaves to our own country or countrymen. If we
believe in a principle or idea that would be beneficial for all, we must fight for it and be ready to
die to our own ideals and principles because at the end of the day, we must serve our own
purpose. And in everything that we are fighting for, we must dare ourselves to be different.
However, it is very difficult to lead in a society that is stuck in its past where there are
still “cancers” that quickly spreads among Filipino people which then corrupts the society. It
only tells us that in our current society, there are a lot of ethical changes that needs to be made,
including the Filipinos understanding on the love for country and virtue. We live in a country
where freedom of speech is being questioned, where people fighting for freedom are tagged as
criminals and terrorists, and where lawmakers serve at the pleasure of the president instead of
serving for the people and for the country. Most people are still trapped to their personal ideals
that makes them “cancerous” to the society and yet, it spreads at a quicker rate than before. If
this continues, we are at risk of sinking and it’s a shame for our dear heroes who taught us to
fight for what is right. Thus, our society has too many shortcomings yet and yet to come.

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