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35 Phil. J. Pub. Admin. 99 (1991)
Sustaining Filipino Unity: Harnessing Indigenous Values for Moral Recovery

handle is hein.journals/phpubadm35 and id is 107 raw text is: Philippine Journal of Public Administration, Vol. XXXV, No. 2 (April 1991) Sustaining Filipino Unity: Harnessing Indigenous Values for Moral Recovery PROSERPINA DOMINGO TAPALES AND MA. CONCEPCION P. ALFILER* The series of revolts dated back to the Spanish era down to the 1986 EDSA Revolution concretizes the sporadic sense of unity of the Filipino people during crisis situations. However, once the crisis is resolved, the spirit of unity withers, leaving the nation at the foothold of recovery. The reason behind this is the faulty perspective toward nationalism. The exposure to a motley of cultures created a gap between the privileged few and the masses. Western values were forced down our throats disregarding the indigenous ones. What is needed for the nation to take off is to reconcile the meaning of the indigenous core values-kapwa and pakikisama between the elite and the masses, incorporate these in projects / programs involving mass participation and translate these into empowerment of the masses through equal sharing and redistribution. Only then will a sense of shared identity and a truer meaning of nationalism be developed which are necessary for Filipinos to sustain unity. Introduction The din from the applause and cheers of EDSA in 1986 has turned into noise barrages of discontent from some sectors that helped bring about the people's revolution. The one million signatures which the late Chino Roces obtained to get Corazon Aquino to run for President will be tripled by early 1991, according to oppositionist Eva Estrada Kalaw, to get Aquino to resign. By Christmas time, the peso had plummeted to P28.00 (P31.50 in the black market) to a dollar; the price of premium gasoline had gone up to P15.95 per liter (forcibly lowered from a high P20.70 to appease irate consumers). To cushion the impact of price hike of commodities on their lives, workers demanded a P30.00 per day wage increase and government workers fought for P1,000 across the board in- crease per month. *Associate Professors, College of Public Administration, University of the Philippines. Prepared for the National Congress on Moral Recovery, 2-3 March 1991, Ateneo de Manila University. The authors are grateful to Dr. Virgilio G. Enriquez and to some of their colleagues at the UP College of Public Administration for sharing their ideas on the topic.

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