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FOUNDATION OF VALUES EDUCATION Incculturation

This document discusses the rootedness of values within different cultures. It notes that a nation's cultural heritage is shaped by its people's creations and achievements over time. Values are an integral part of any given culture, and each culture has its own "otherness" based on the experiences of living together. The failure to properly understand another culture can lead to ethnocentrism, or judging other customs using one's own standards. The document also discusses how inculturation involves the exchange of cultural items when two cultures come into contact, as seen in the experience of early European colonists in the Philippines failing to convert natives by force rather than understanding their culture.

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FOUNDATION OF VALUES EDUCATION Incculturation

This document discusses the rootedness of values within different cultures. It notes that a nation's cultural heritage is shaped by its people's creations and achievements over time. Values are an integral part of any given culture, and each culture has its own "otherness" based on the experiences of living together. The failure to properly understand another culture can lead to ethnocentrism, or judging other customs using one's own standards. The document also discusses how inculturation involves the exchange of cultural items when two cultures come into contact, as seen in the experience of early European colonists in the Philippines failing to convert natives by force rather than understanding their culture.

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FOUNDATION OF VALUES

EDUCATION
VALUES AND CULTURE
The Rootedness of Values in Each Culture
 A nation's cultural heritage is a product of its people’s creations
(both material and non-material) as well as the human
achievements, the inherited expectations and the past and present
gains as result of living together (Panopio, 2000).
 It simply impossible to talk about culture without discussion of
values.
 What is peculiar in each culture, though, is its “otherness”.
 St. Thomas, who barrow from Aristotle, would put it: “All our
knowledge originates in sense experience” (O’ Donnel, 1996)
 All unique entities, a person’s culture demands it be properly
understood. The failure to do so would result to what
anthropologist call as ethnocentrism – the tendency to judge the
customs of other societies using one’s own standards (Bates,
1996).
 What is commonly revered, cherished, or valued in other
countries may not be given much attention in the Philippine
setting.
 The value of religiosity, for instance, should not be understood
simply in terms of the Judeo-Christian tradition. For the
consciousness of one’s faith is not peculiar to the Jews of early
Christian alone, but to everyone who ha learned to value his
relationship with God.
Inculturation and Values
 The characters of the Battle of Mactan are long dead and gone , yet their
experience continues to inspire the contemporary Filipino.
 One important lesson can be learned: that a person cannot be forced to
accept something that he in unfamiliar with.
 The Europeans failed to realize that the sword was not an effective means
of converting the natives (force begets force). They could have done better
by heeding the Golden Rule: “Do unto others what you want others would
od unto you”

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye


even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. (Mat 7:12 KJV)
Miranda give the following definition of inculturation:

 Inculturation, a neologism, is a combination of two different concepts.


1. Enculturation of the process by which an individual becomes part of a given
culture; it is parallel to, but not synonymous with, socialization or the
process by which an individual becomes part of a given society.
2. The other is acculturation, which is the process that occurs when two
cultures (rather than societies) come in contact with each other and exchange
items and units from each other. (Miranda, 1992)
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