“ The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity. ”
If for us culture means museum and library and open house and art gallery, for them it meant the activities and amenities of everyday life... The rift is... between folk culture, where the unschooled can be wise, and print culture, which enslaved the other senses to the eye.
~ Nick Joaquín
Tolerance means to have the heart open to all differences, it is the honorable attitude of receiving another's opinion in order to appreciate it, it is the generous willingness to reach an agreement for the common good. Tolerance is the most precious virtue of democracy.
Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.
This is the difference between the Spanish advent and the American; that the technical revolution provoked by the first produced the Filipino, while the cultural upheaval provoked by the second merely helped us to become more aware of this Filipinoness.
