To read Rid’s blog is a journey both of joy and knowledge. His skill in mastering English is really surprising and I can always find some new expressions upon his journals.
The Philippines is an archipelago, of 7,700 islands. I read his blog on Filipino culture and his view on the importance of language for several times and I like them very much. There’re some points that I want to share with Rid.
First of all, the immigration and the colonization of the Spaniards, Americans and Japanese do result in the cultural diversity of the country. Rid introduced us that there’re some dialects that sound like Spanish thanks to the Spanish three-hundred-year domination. It seems to be the most apparent evidence that Spanish is part of the Filipino culture now. And Rid told me that there’re Chinese restaurants on every island. Even though the Philippines focus on its farming and manufactory industry, its tourism is also a shining charming to explore. After Rid had introduced the traditions and the food in the Philippines, I got that the finest product one can buy in the Philippines is its culture. That’s why the Filipinos have a natural sense of culture inclusion.
Moreover, I want to talk about the language issue with him. "Language defines a person" is what he quoted and what I couldn’t agree more. Language is what has evolved from time and space. Though we’re not what our ancestors like some hundreds years ago, we do have some shadow of them in language. Time is like a funnel; the old-fashioned elements of a language are gradually dying away while bank of new vocabulary throws a lot of words in it which start the dying-away process once put into use; if there’re no new words to enrich the bank, the language will extinct. And, language is the code of a culture. If a language died out, a kind of culture will become a secret that will never be thoroughly known.
All in all, language is what identify as who we are and our history.
Thanks to Rid, and I’m very glad to learn some Filipino before I go back to China. And I’m trying to gain a tolerance on different cultures as Rid!
The Philippines is an archipelago, of 7,700 islands. I read his blog on Filipino culture and his view on the importance of language for several times and I like them very much. There’re some points that I want to share with Rid.
First of all, the immigration and the colonization of the Spaniards, Americans and Japanese do result in the cultural diversity of the country. Rid introduced us that there’re some dialects that sound like Spanish thanks to the Spanish three-hundred-year domination. It seems to be the most apparent evidence that Spanish is part of the Filipino culture now. And Rid told me that there’re Chinese restaurants on every island. Even though the Philippines focus on its farming and manufactory industry, its tourism is also a shining charming to explore. After Rid had introduced the traditions and the food in the Philippines, I got that the finest product one can buy in the Philippines is its culture. That’s why the Filipinos have a natural sense of culture inclusion.
Moreover, I want to talk about the language issue with him. "Language defines a person" is what he quoted and what I couldn’t agree more. Language is what has evolved from time and space. Though we’re not what our ancestors like some hundreds years ago, we do have some shadow of them in language. Time is like a funnel; the old-fashioned elements of a language are gradually dying away while bank of new vocabulary throws a lot of words in it which start the dying-away process once put into use; if there’re no new words to enrich the bank, the language will extinct. And, language is the code of a culture. If a language died out, a kind of culture will become a secret that will never be thoroughly known.
All in all, language is what identify as who we are and our history.
Thanks to Rid, and I’m very glad to learn some Filipino before I go back to China. And I’m trying to gain a tolerance on different cultures as Rid!
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