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Earlier this year, Rector Peter Stilwell visited Fu Jen Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan and met with President Vincent Han-Sun Chiang. On 27 Oct, 2014, accompanied by Prosecutor Liang Kuang-Tsung from the Justice Department responsible for international legal affairs, Pro-Rector Vincent Yang paid a visit to Prof. Shang-Shing P. Chou, Vice President for Academic Affairs in Fu Jen.

They discussed the possibilities of forming a closer cooperative relationship between USJ and Fu Jen in joint research and faculty-student exchange activities. Like USJ, Fu Jen is a well-established Catholic university. The university was originally created in Beijing. It is committed to a constructive dialogue leading to the integration of Chinese culture and Christian faith, the promotion of genuine knowledge and the development of advancement of humankind. USJ has had a history of exchange activities with Fu Jen for many years.

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On November 26^th 2014  at 6 - 10 pm, the Students’ Association cooperates with the Pearl River Delta Cultural and Creative Exchange Association, will be hosting a documentary event, where we will show two movies. This event is open to all.

The first film is called “No Impact Man” directed by Laura Gabbert / Justin Schein, they show how an environmentalist, Colin Beaven and his wife, Michelle’s fundamental lifestyle change. The Second documentary film is about an Earthquake in East Japan on 11^th March 2011, countless of people lost their homes and their love ones. This is a consequential accident happened at the Fukushima Nuclear Reactor caused a great threat. Director IWAI SHUNJI, having all those meetings and conversations with his friends, he would hope to find the bet step towards Japan’s future.

謹訂於2014年11月25日黃昏六時正至晚上十時，假聖若瑟大學演講廳舉行CNEX主題紀錄片活動，此活動將會由三角文創主辨，聖若瑟大學學生會協辦，當日將會有兩部紀錄片公開放映，影後設有座談環節。

“No Impact Man”  熟男減碳日記 -美國 | Directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein “Friends after 3.11” 311 之後 -日本︱ Directed by IWAI SHUNJI 岩井俊二  " ["post_title"]=> string(31) "CNEX Documentary Screening Tour" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(31) "cnex-documentary-screening-tour" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2014-11-26 12:08:40" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2014-11-26 04:08:40" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(51) "http://www.usj.edu.mo/?post_type=events&p=4565" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(5) "event" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [5]=> object(WP_Post)#3783 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(4558) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "1" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2014-11-26 11:21:36" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2014-11-26 03:21:36" ["post_content"]=> string(2977) "  

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EVENT

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Representatives of the two universities agreed to form a cooperative relation for the exchange of expertise and resources in teaching and research." 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SPEAKERS  Dr. Richard A. Engelhardt, Dr. Vincent Ho. Prof. Francisco Pinheiro, Prof. Vitor Teixeira, Prof. Lucie Bernier Download Management of the Historical Centre of Macau – Past, Present and Future Scenario

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Dr. Roy Eric Xavier received his Doctorate and Master’s degrees in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now the Director of the Portuguese and Macanese Studies Project, and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues. Prior to Berkeley, he was an Associate Dean at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and earlier the General Manager of KCRT Television and Media for 14 years in Richmond, California.

His recent publications include: "Death at the Races: The Portuguese Presence during the Happy Valley Fire of 1918", published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society - Hong Kong, Vol. 53, March, 2014, and "The Macanese at War: Survival and Identity among Portuguese Eurasians during World War II", to be published in a collection by the University of Hong Kong in early 2015.

ABOUT THE TALK

The history of Macau and its people is also the history of Macanese culture as it developed during several migrations and resettlements across Asia that began from the middle of the 16th century. These migrations were the result of Portuguese expansion and trade, which at its height stretched from the Persian Gulf to the northern coast of Brazil. The settlement of racially mixed Portuguese in Goa, Macau, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and other ports along the trade routes also marked the locations where forms of a new “maritime” culture in Asia first appeared.

 Beginning in 1557 the emergence of Macau provided neutral ground for Europeans and merchants from Asia to exchange goods, and a tolerant environment where Portuguese Eurasians could settle in relative peace. During the next three hundred years, various elements of “Macanese” culture and identity solidified, including a creole language, religious devotion adapted to the conditions, an expressive literature, and culinary arts. Some components were encouraged by the Church, while others were influenced by the continual mix of people who traveled in and out of Macau as trade with Europe developed.

 At a macro level, Macanese culture and identity first took root in the lore of Portuguese explorers, including Henry the Navigator, Vasco de Gama and Jorge Alvares, whose discoveries of sea routes to Africa, India, Asia, and South America allowed the Portuguese to by-pass the old “silk road” that linked Europe and Asia from the time of the Crusades. These explorations were driven in large part by the need of the Portuguese monarchy to be less dependent on Spain in the 15th and 16th centuries, a period of political and social upheaval in Europe which we now identify as the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

To secure their early advantage, the Portuguese sought to incorporate, rather than conquer, indigenous peoples into a colonial strategy that was later adopted by other European rivals. When the number of Portuguese in Asia began to dwindle after 1600, this same policy led to the recruitment of mestizos in Macau and other trading ports as soldiers, artillery gunners, navigators, linguists, advisors, and mid-level bureaucrats. Many in Macau served as intermediaries to the Chinese Empire, Portugal’s principal trading partner in the 17th century, and played key roles in the creation of European trade and the beginnings of global commerce.

Thus, the emergence of Macau as the cultural home to Portuguese Eurasians contributed to socio-economic developments that had direct consequences in Europe, the Americas, and rest of the western world. A closer look at Macanese migrations and the relation to culture and identity through case studies allows us to illustrate how this important variant of cultural development occurred over the last five centuries.

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自16世紀中葉始，澳門成為了世界貿易中的一個特殊驛站，翻開了它作為世界文化交流史的傳奇歷史。小小的澳門半島形似蓮花，僅一條形似“蓮花莖”的沙堤與大陸相連。如今，隨著澳門新填海區的逐漸擴大，澳門這座寧靜的南中國濱海小城又搖身成為了“世界休閒旅遊中心”，成了一座充滿喧鬧的人工浮島。越來越多來自世界不同地域的人在此彙聚，“過客”與“原鄉”混雜在一起。商業和娛樂就是當代澳門這座“蓮島”浮世萬象創造的重要動力。

Macao has become a particular post of the world trade and opened a legendary chapter as part of the cultural exchange history of the world since the middle of 16th century. In a shape of lotus, the tiny Macau peninsula is linked with the mainland China through a “lotus stem” of dike. Now, with the gradual expansion of the newly reclaimed area, this quiet coastal city of Macao in southern ...China, has suddenly become the "World Leisure Tourism Center", and a bustling artificial floating island. More and more people from different regions of the world gathered here, "passing travelers" mixing together with "natives".

插畫是一種講求敘述性的平面視覺藝術表現形式。作為一種更為自由的當代藝術形式，當代插畫的創作者不僅在敘述個人的觀點，更多的是在敘述一種精神。

Illustration, as an art emphasis on narrative, is also a more liberal form of contemporary art, the graphic art of illustrations finds the artists not only relating a personal point of view, but more importantly, describing a kind of spirit.

此次插畫大賽，旨在通過徵集澳門具有原創性的當代插畫作品，去發掘屬於澳門這座“蓮島”的現世故事，將有關於這座城市的故事真正留存下來，通過插畫作品將個體記憶轉化成為留存城市記憶的一種獨特形式。於此同時，舉辦澳門首屆當代插畫旨在有責任為年輕人創建一個良好的文化交流平臺，以更有力的推動澳門藝術設計走向更廣闊的市場，從中發掘有潛力的青年插畫師，使年輕學子在求學成長階段以至職業生涯開始，得到社會外界的更多關注；同時亦讓世界瞭解澳門的插畫現況，並為澳門積蓄藝術設計人才資源，配合澳門文創產業之長遠發展。

The Illustrations Competition aims at exploring secular stories of this "lotus island" and retaining the true story of the city by collecting original contemporary illustrations of Macao, thus the individual memory can be transformed into a unique form of retained memories of the city. Meanwhile, as the first contest of its kind here, it is responsible to create a good cultural exchange platform for young people, vigorously promoting the Macao Art and Design to a broader market, tapping the potential of the young illustrators that on the one hand they may gain much more attention from the outside at the beginning stage of their careers or even when they are at school, and on the other the status of Macao illustrations could be better known by the world, and accumulating human resources of art design to meet the long-term development of cultural and creative industries in Macao.

參賽資格：

i. 澳門就讀大專院校學生；

ii. 持澳門特別行政區永久及非永久身份證者。

Entry Qualifications:

i. Macao college students;

ii. Participants who hold the permanent and non-permanent identity card of the Macao Special Administrative Region.

報名費：澳門幣40元/件，澳門幣80元/系列。同一系列作品不得超過6件。送選作品數量不限。

Entry Fees:

MOP $ 40/piece, MOP $80/ series;

A series should consist of not more than six pieces of work. There’s no limit to the number of works selected.

遞交時間：2014年9月10日至11月10日24時

Time of Submission: September 10 to 24 p.m. on November 10, 2014

參賽須知：

i. 檔案格式：

A. 圖案解析度：每個檔案不大於A4(210mm x 297mm)，RGB，200 dpi，jpg格式 (品質﹕12) ，圖片最小邊不小於550px；

B. 檔案名稱：英文姓 + 名 + 編號 + .jpg；

C. 例：(第一張：chan_kai_yin_01.jpg) (第二張：chan_kai_yin_02.jpg) 。

Entry Information:

i. File formats:

A. Pattern resolution: each file should not be larger than A4 (210mm x 297mm), RGB, 200 dpi, jpg format (quality: 12), the minimum side of the picture should not be less than 550px;

B. File name: English surname + name + serial number + .jpg;

C. Example:(the first piece of work: chan_kai_yin_01.jpg) (the second: chan_kai_yin_02.jpg)

ii. 提交方式：

A. 上FACEBOOK下搜索“中華文化產業促進會”，進入“首屆澳門當代插畫大賽”活動專頁下載報名表；

報名表下載link：http://goo.gl/vYN3GC

B. 把作品圖片、報名表、報名費收劇副本上傳至ccipa_mo@ymail.com；

Ii．Submission:

1. Search Chinese Cultural Industries Promotion Association on FACEBOOK and enter the 1st Macao Contemporary Illustrations Competition page to read download the entry form of the completion;

Download the entry form of the completion link：http://goo.gl/vYN3GC

B. Upload pictures of artwork、entry form and copy of the application fee receipt to ccipa_mo@ymail.com;

iii. 作品準則：

A. 作品必須在2011年之後創作；

B. 作品根據比賽主題創作。風格、表現手法內容不限、手繪、數碼插畫作品（含圖書插圖、繪本、塗鴉、遊戲原畫）均可；

C. 報名表中所有欄目均需準確填寫，以利評選作業；

D. 作品版權必須為參賽者擁有；

E. 主辦機構日後會另發函邀請入圍的參賽者提交作品高解析度檔案，以作展覽印刷之用。

F. 評選標準：

a. 視覺表現的原創性；

b. 媒體形式的獨特性；

c. 表現手法的藝術性。

iii. Requirements:

A. All works must have been created after 2011;

B. All works should be created based on the theme of the competition. There’s no limits to style, techniques of expression, content, and so on; and both hand-painted and digital illustrations (including book illustration, picture book, graffiti, original painting for games) are acceptable;

C. All the blanks in the Application Form should be accurately filled to facilitate the selection;

D. The copyright must be owned by the participants;

E. The organizers will send another letter of invitation to shortlisted participants to submit high-resolution file of the works to print for exhibition purposes.

F. Selection criteria:

a. Originality of visual expression

b. Unique form of media

c. Artistic quality of the expression techniques

付款方法：

1. 親臨澳門勞動節大馬路214號裕華大廈第十座地下Ｂ座（中華文化產業促進會）交付報名費。

2. 銀行轉帳

銀行名字：中國銀行（澳門分行）

帳戶號碼：11-01-10-345448

帳戶名稱：中華文化產業促進會

Payment Method

1. Deliver the registration fee personally at B, Underground, No. 10, Yuhua Building, No. 214, Avenida 1 De Maio, Macao. （Chinese Cultural Industries Promotion Association）

2. Bank transfer

Bank Name: Bank of China (Macao Branch)

Account Number: 11-01-10-345448

Account Name: Chinese Cultural Industries Promotion

評審嘉賓

Jury Committee:

王  敏（評審主席 ）

現任中央美術學院設計學院院長，長江學者特聘教授。國際著名平面設計師。國際平面設計師協會（AGI）會員，AGI中國區主席。曾任教於美國耶魯大學藝術學院並擔任世界最大出版設計軟體公司Adobe 高級藝術指導與設計總管。曾任北京奧組委形象與景觀藝術總監。

Wang Min (Committee President)

He is Dean of the School of Design, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Cheung Kong Scholar Chair Professor, internationally renowned graphic designer, member of Alliance Graphique International (AGI), and president of AGI China. He once taught at School of Art and Design, Yale University and was the senior art and design director of the world's largest publishing software company Adobe, and the image and landscape art director of Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games.

鄭德華（評審委員）

著名歷史文化學者。香港大學歷史學博士，聯合國非物質文化遺產中國分會會員曾任三聯書店（香港）有限公司高級策劃編輯及澳門大學中國文化研究中心主任。現任教于澳門大學人文學院中文系，是榮休教授。

Zheng Dehua (committee member)

He is a famous historic culture scholar, Ph.D of the University of Hong Kong, member of the China branch of the United Nations Intangible Cultural Heritage. He was the senior planning editor of Joint Publishing (H.K.) Co., Ltd. and director of the China Culture Research Center at University of Macau. Currently he is an Emeritus Professor at Department of Chinese, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau.

馬志雄（Winson Ma）（評審委員）

香港國際品牌人偶設計師、猿創作人偶品牌創辦人及創作總監。曾任2009年—2011年香港插畫師協會會長。

Winson Ma (committee member)

He is a Hong Kong-based international brand figure designer, the brand of “Apex”founder of creative director of Winson original Creation. He was the former President of Hong Kong Society of Illustrators from 2009 to 2011.

查詢電話：2845 5113

Contact number: 2845 5113

傳真號碼：2823 1122

Fax number: 2823 1122

查詢電郵：ccipa_mo@ymail.com

Email: ccipa_mo@ymail.com

獎 項：

優秀奬     1名  獲獎者將被安排於12月前往上海出席作品巡展

評審特别奬4名   獲獎者將被安排於12月前往上海出席作品巡展

入圍奬    15名  入圍作品將參加巡展

Note 1: Only entrant of competition category i will be eligible to go to Shanghai, and all awards winners will be issued with a certificate for identification;

Note 2: The tour exhibition is tentatively arranged in Shanghai and other places;

本屆大賽特別獎項設置

1.特邀評審獎4件，獲特邀評審獎證書及作品集；

2.優秀指導教師獎1名，獲優秀指導教師獎證書及作品集；

3.最佳組織院校獎1名，獲最佳組織院校獎證書及作品集；

Special Awards Setting

1. Four for Special Jury Awards, with special Jury Award certificates and Works Collections;

2. One for Outstanding Instructor Award, with the outstanding instructor award certificate and Works Collections;

3. One for Best Organization Award, with the best organization award certificate and Works Collections;

主辦單位：中華文化產業促進會

Organized by: Chinese Cultural industries Promotion

協辦單位：澳門科技大學、澳門城市大學、聖若瑟大學、澳門理工學院

Co-organized by: Macao University of Science and Technology, City University of Macau, University of Saint Joseph, Macau Polytechnic Institute,

支持單位：上海市創意設計工作者協會

Supported by: Shanghai Designers

承辦單位：視覺中國、中葡雅集藝術策劃發展有限公司

Undertook by: shijue.me, C P Art Projects Development Co., Ltd

戰略合作媒體：視覺中國

Strategic Media Partners: shijue.me

贊助單位：高等教育輔助辦公室

Sponsors:Tertiary Education Services

總 顧 問：鄭德華

General Counsel: Zheng Dehua

總 策 劃：孟  舒

Curator: Meng Shu

秘 書 長：何偉新

General Secretary: Waison Ho

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| Programme | Presentations | Registration | Timeline |

| Venue Directions | Abstracts | Proceedings | Contacts |

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On the 22nd and 23rd of October, the University of Saint Joseph organises an international conference on Lusophony entitled "Between Demystification and Utopia: an Inquiry into Lusophonia". This conference invites people to rethink lusophonia as a political, social and cultural phenomenon with a particular emphasis on Macau. The conference will open with a session on "Camões and the echoes of his work in contemporary culture" as one of the first literary instances of mythologizing and simultaneously criticizing the Portuguese expansion. In the ensuing debates relatively similar concepts such as Lusophony, Francophony, Sinophony will be examined; the adequacy and operability of the concepts, functioning in post-colonial contexts, will be studied as well as the effectiveness of language policies; myths, ideologies and images in literature will also be discussed. The conference concludes with testimonies about Lusophony in Macau. The event will take place at USJ’s Speakers Hall, Nape 1 Campus.

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Nos próximos dias 22 e 23 de Outubro, a Universidade de São José promove uma conferência internacional sobre a questão da lusofonia: “Entre a desmistificação e a utopia: interrogações sobre as lusofonias”, entendida como um convite para se repensar esse fenómeno político, social, cultural, com especial incidência sobre a realidade de Macau. Os trabalhos abrirão com uma conferência sobre “Camões e os ecos das suas obras na cultura contemporânea”, como uma das primeiras instâncias de mitificação e simultaneamente crítica da expansão. No debate promovido pela USJ equacionar-se-ão conceitos relativamente afins como a lusofonia, francofonia, sinofonia; considerar-se-á a adequação e operacionalidade dos conceitos, o seu funcionamento em contextos pós-coloniais, ajuizar-se-á da eficácia das políticas da língua; serão também sondados mitos, ideologias e imagens na vertente literária. A conferência encerra com testemunhos sobre a lusofonia em Macau. Os trabalhos terão lugar no auditório (Speakers Hall) da USJ, no campus do Nape 1.

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• Morning Ceremony - Taken on 27 Sept 2014
• Afternoon Ceremony - Taken on 27 Sept 2014
• Group Photos - Taken on 20 Sept 2014

USJ 2014 Congregation Rehearsal Floor Plan - Morning Congregation Floor Plan - Afternoon Congregation    " ["post_title"]=> string(21) "USJ 2014 CONGREGATION" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(21) "usj-2014-congregation" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2014-10-15 16:08:54" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2014-10-15 08:08:54" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(51) "http://www.usj.edu.mo/?post_type=events&p=3650" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(5) "event" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [18]=> object(WP_Post)#3770 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(4051) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "1" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2014-09-23 10:35:33" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2014-09-23 02:35:33" ["post_content"]=> string(1806) "DATE & TIME 26 September 2014, 18:30 - 20:00 VENUE Center for Architecture and Urban Studies, Ponte 9, 3/F, Rua das Lorchas, Macau SAR ABOUT THE TALK In association with the exhibition currently on show at Ponte 9 (“Design and Disaster: Kon Wajiro’s Modernologio”) this lecture will focus on a group of Japanese artists and architects known as The Street Observation Society. Formed in 1986 by architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori and avant-garde artist Genpei Akasegawa, together with a fluctuating group of friends and collaborators, the Street Observation Society continues to search Japan’s city streets for moments of beauty and interest in everyday places and objects. This lecture will trace the development of the Street Observation Society, and contextualize it within a longer and broader lineage of fieldwork on the Japanese city. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Thomas Daniell is Head of the Department of Architecture and Design at the University of Saint Joseph. He holds a B.Arch from Victoria University of Wellington, an M.Eng from Kyoto University, and a Ph.D from RMIT University. Widely published, he is a correspondent and editorial consultant for the journals Mark, Volume, and Interstices, and was previously on the editorial board of the Architectural Institute of Japan Journal. His books include FOBA: Buildings (2005), After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan (2008), Houses and Gardens of Kyoto (2010), and Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama + Amorphe (2011)." ["post_title"]=> string(73) "Public Lecture|Found Objects: Modernology and Street Observation in Japan" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(50) "found-objects-modernology-street-observation-japan" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2014-09-23 10:39:13" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2014-09-23 02:39:13" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(51) "http://www.usj.edu.mo/?post_type=events&p=4051" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(5) "event" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [19]=> object(WP_Post)#3769 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(4026) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "1" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2014-09-23 10:01:46" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2014-09-23 02:01:46" ["post_content"]=> string(6341) "DATE & TIME 24 September 2014, 18:30 - 20:00 VENUE Speakers Hall, University of Saint Joseph, Rua de Londres 16, Macau, China MODERATOR ABOUT THE SPEAKER Felipe M. De Leon, Jr. is Chairman and Commissioner for the Arts of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and the Chairman of its Committee on Intangible Heritage.  He is Professor of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines where he taught humanities, aesthetics, music theory, and Philippine art and culture.  Mr. De Leon was Commissioner for the Philippines of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) from 1999 to 2002, and Chairman of the UNESCO Committee on Culture in 2002.  He has written numerous articles on cultural issues, especially on cultural creativity and diversity, worldviews and values, and culture and development.  He was the main author of the ASEAN Declaration for Cultural Heritage. ABOUT THE TALK

If culture is essentially the way we perceive the world, the values arising from this perception, and the way we express these values as well as the skills they necessitate, then we may encounter at least five different cultures in any society.  Two of these cultures ultimately arise from a deeply ingrained sense of alienation, insecurity and fear. One is the culture of power, which is focused on the accumulation, exercise and control of power. The other is the culture of wealth, which is preoccupied with the acquisition of material wealth, possessions and the trappings of comfort and privilege. Two other cultures are trust-based, one is the culture of communal sharing, which is devoted to the search for wisdom, self-control, strength of character, creativity, loving kindness and togetherness. A fourth one is the culture of simple needs, where people are mainly concerned with satisfying basic needs and leading a practical, everyday life.

But through time a society constructs a unifying vision of life, which includes an object of devotion and a map of reality. From this arises a fifth culture which is the core culture of any society, this is the culture of ethnicity (or culture a creative social construct). Ethnicity is the unique totality of the world view and values, core principles and ideas, beliefs systems, knowledge, skills and practices, shared by a society - what we call its cultural identity (or ethnicity) of a people.

The ethnicity of a people may be closer to one or the other of the four above-mentioned cultural constants of any society, those concerned with power, wealth, communal sharing, and simple needs. Filipino ethnicity is essentially one with the culture of communal sharing. In general, Filipinos value relationships and family more than power and wealth. The philosophical basis of this valuing is the concept of kapwa, which means “the other person is also yourself”. The core of Filipino psychology, a sense of kapwa is humaneness at the highest level. In principle, it excludes any action that may be detrimental or harmful to other human beings. It is definitely inconsistent with exploitative human transactions. It implies a unique moral obligation to treat one another as equal fellow human beings. In essence, it is a non-confrontational, mystical, highly spiritual belief in the interconnected of all things that could be the basis of strong social cooperation, harmony, and well-being that is the fundamental basis of a nation’s progress.

The disruptive forces and self-serving interests of the elites addicted to the cultures of power and wealth, however, have always prevented any real social progress from being achieved. This is the legacy of Spanish and American colonial rule. The colonial powers had effectively created a powerful few with whom they could easily collaborate to plunder and control the Philippines’ natural and human resources. At present, studies have shown that just forty families control 76 percent of the nation’s wealth. The Philippines is said to have a soft state because of self-serving elite intervention and manipulation.  As a result, the culture of the bureaucracy is more attuned to the needs and values of the elite than to that of the vast majority of Filipinos.

A large-scale transformation of values inculcating the philosophy of kapwa has to be instituted through the educational system and the media. This may conscienticize the elite to make them agree to measures for a more equitable distribution of wealth and sharing of power and move away from oligarchy.  In the long term, improving the educational system can strengthen the middle class and pave the way for a more democratic society. Passing legislative measures so that the economic elite will bear the greater burden of taxation and reduce their monopoly on wealth may also place Philippine developmental goals on a firmer footing.

Organised by USJ Faculty of Humanities & Philippine Consulate General, Macau SAR

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