Essay About Change In The Philippines

We always heard the lines that the only permanent thing in the world is change. For in fact, people can see change everywhere in animate matters, society and even on biological process. Change is natural phenomenon. Change is inevitable. According to the ancient Greek Philosopher, Heraclitus, that change is common and universal. In a sense that, “a person cannot take a bath in the same river twice. The continuous flow of water means that the river we see today will not be the same river tomorrow.”

Another concept of change, the Ancient Chinese recognized change and they developed the concept of yin yang that they referred as the forces producing change. They perceived that change takes place constantly. They established a philosophical attitude regarding change and its role on the everyday life of men, governments and states.

In many parts of the Philippines, families stay together almost regardless on how the wife and husband feels toward each other even the partner is unfaithful. It affirms that potentially troublesome inter-spouse coolness and disrespect might be frequently admitted or atleast satisfy for by other Filipino cultural forces which drive the husband and wife together. The first social pressure that cause Filipino marriage perpetual is the system of marriage arrangement and surveillance. In many barrios and small towns, marriage is decided by the parents and the relatives of bride and groom, for marriage is not seen as joining in matrimony of a couple who are deeply in love with each other rather it is an “inter-family alliance” purposely entered into for economic or other reasons. The alliance is denoted by the union of a representative couple and sealed by the birth of their first child. Also, the practice of living near in one’s relatives hence, it adds a new social pressure favoring the stability of the union: marriage