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ask me
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we're going to talk about understanding
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self and others for your national
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service and training program mutual
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of course
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but the self is actually simple it is
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someone that is formed
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in relation to other people
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or
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every time that you swipe right and you
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only swipe right
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once in ten profiles
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in order for you to understand yourself
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you have to answer one question
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who
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they constitute the self that we have
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right so sometimes we uh
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we look into the mirror
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then i thought
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larger concept of the self and
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if we construct the self and we answer
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the question of who am i
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very unconsciously there are also some
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uh manners in which we construct the
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self very purposefully like for example
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your own social media branding right so
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a lot of influencers
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um curate their social media posts they
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don't post something
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outside their own brand so
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intentionally
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we're going to talk more about that in
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the succeeding slides
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okay why is it important to know the
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self
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in sociology we have what we call
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sociological imagination
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sociological imagination says that only
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in understanding the self
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can we understand their own society and
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of course vice versa
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participate
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we are forced in to adapt to this kind
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of of
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set up because a lot of the people in
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power for example
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are not doing their job to curb the
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pandemic a lot of the people in power
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a lot of the people who hold privileges
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have
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don't have their priorities straight
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yeah
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something like that okay only
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understanding society
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yourself can can you understand your own
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society so we used your personal problem
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to relate them to public issues
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and also understanding the self helps us
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identify our role and entering our
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possible contribution
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to the lives of other people if you know
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that it is where you stand
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if you understand that these are the
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privileges that you hold and these
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are the solutions that your privileges
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will allow you to do then
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at the moment i'm going to present to
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you 10 different conceptions of the self
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these are only 10 of the many ways
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people think about or
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theorists think about the self that
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people
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have and all of these perspectives of
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course they sometimes they mix and match
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sometimes they combine um hindi selam
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utility exclusive
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so let's dig deeper okay there are
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some people some theories who say that
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the self
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is an essential part of being
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and the self automatically comes with
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the individual
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okay so self is formed in relation to
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other people
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just because you have about a body just
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because you are an individual
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automatically
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it doesn't um require that
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long process of interaction with other
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people it doesn't require the lagana
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you're able to very
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well communicate with other people for
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you to have a self
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an example is the fact that we think
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babies have
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personalities
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it is a self
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self it is natural the next perspective
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says
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that there is a true and unified self
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the only challenge is finding out who
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this self is
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and then being true to who this self is
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not
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in order to find yourself you have to
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endeavor
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to those for you have to struggle and
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you have to
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you know win over a certain journey in
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your life
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different perspectives later nah now get
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engaged the man's a perspective that i'm
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true and unify itself
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now the next perspective says that the
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role that people occupy
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make them who they are known as a
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face-to-face mode of learning
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introduce yourself introduce yourself
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and people
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most of the time introduce themselves
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using the rules that they hold
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hello i'm an engineering student hello
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i'm a sociology student
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and not just in the classroom
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hi i'm a sociologist i work in update
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and these are rules i'm a bts fan
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these are rules and we organize
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ourselves
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based on these rules something
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sociology association of the philippines
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perspective not all the fact is these
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perspective recognizes that there are
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strong influences on themselves
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one example is expression
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and of course you know the fact that
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women or
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all the fact that the fact that we all
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can can wear whatever we want is
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a different topic altogether i support
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that we can wear whatever we want
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but the fact is the rules that we have a
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lot of straw
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have a lot of external influences
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expectations
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who we are is a performance
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i know i am performance so do i need to
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dance do i need to sing in order to
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realize that i have a self no that's not
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the case
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um this is a theory from irving goffman
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he uses the metaphor of theater
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to to discuss who with who we are so
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southy at the american front stage men
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come backstage
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and the front stage attend performance
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that they
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don't backstage relax this is where we
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ran to our co-actors
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and marine times script nothing to
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follow
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earlier perspectives on the rules
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that we have so we have a front stage
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where we perform a self
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and you have a backstage uh where only
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trusted people can see who we are
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an example private twitter so
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um and not just twitter on private
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facebook
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on private instagram i have someone who
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has
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private twitter private facebook private
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instagram
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private accounts
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so
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so a lot of people use facebook of
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course to connect with workmates
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now a lot of people use facebook to
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connect with students
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with their co-teachers etc etc and
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sometimes you can really post
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you know all of the things that you want
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on in on
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those facebook
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and you perform that all throughout
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in all your posts you make sure that you
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uphold this certain identity
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okay and um you you private profile more
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you filter the people who can see you
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either your closest friends
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or your family members
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next and in relation to um performance
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and front stage
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cinesabinon's perspective not only the
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self is composed of a combination
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of what the person knows and what other
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people know
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let's um
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area or an open area where in
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um the self that you know is also the
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self
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that other people know american blind
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area
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or unknown area
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blind spots like in our profession um
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our blind spots
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composed of an example is our mannerism
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um most of the time right
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the background
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is something that i have struggled to
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to be aware of like all my life in all
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my lectures
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so
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and they can mix and match they can be
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used in different situations in
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different contexts
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to make sense of the self all right the
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next one
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um says that the self is composed of an
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eye
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and a me and it's not just in terms of
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grammar hindi it's the grammar class
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lecture on understanding self and others
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for your nstp module
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we have conformist and rule breaker
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selves um and this is um
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a perspective that we have in sociology
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you i
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at the international thing a gentic self
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i think active self do you intentional
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self it only attain
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conformists
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and one is not not necessarily
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better than the other and exactly it is
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a perspective of the toe
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we use both i and me in varying degrees
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okay so
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for example is a straight it's a
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straight honor student
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you get um one point something or 1.0 in
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all of your subjects
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you you you go home at exactly the time
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that your parents tell you to do so
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you sleep but exactly the time that we
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that other the doctors say
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our health uh doctors say is healthy
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um eight hours lagging you sleep more
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you are using your meat you are
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conforming to what people
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and society say that you should do
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is um who we think about as the more
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creative
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rule breaker self
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indication
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you you shrink yourself smaller in order
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for
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men to to take up space at ayo manga
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but you're using your eye but again
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one is not necessarily better than the
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other we use both in varying degrees
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an example is choosing your own degree
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program a lot of people will say
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and it's always a question of who am
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i going to employ is it my
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i self or is it my me
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self of course if you want to change the
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world
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if you want to change the course of your
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life
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you have to make sure that you're using
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the i
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more than you're using than me if you
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want to change the world except you can
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never change the world of course if you
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if you always allow the me overpower
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the eye all right
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charles horton cooley i the self varies
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depending on
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our relationship with other people
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who i am is who i think you think i am
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so dalawang thing
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who i am is who i think you think i am
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hindi who i am is who you think i think
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i am
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so let's break it down okay and
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um i'm you i'm gon i'm going to use uh
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face to face uh
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uh face-to-face learning you know system
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as an example
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teacher
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them understanding what i'm saying
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mean other things
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so that laugh can mean other things also
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but in interpret musa as a laughter of
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affirmation on your end as a teacher
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okay
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so again the self that you think you are
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depends on how you interpret
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people's interaction with you
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you can be wrong in your interpretation
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the self is maintained through
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capitalist
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activities now what does this mean only
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in consumption
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do we define ourselves you know when we
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watch different advertisements
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when we attend in different love or when
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we attend different
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love yourself lectures ladies and
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gentlemen express yourself
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but how do you do that how do you
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express yourself how do you show other
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people that hey
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as a person there's only one thing
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to do with that or there's only one way
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to do that
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you spend and it is
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in in in the way that we spend
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that we solidify ourselves that we
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solidify
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how people will see us a lot of people
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will
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will say no um
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interpretation of the self can also be
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extended
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by way of saying
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our consumption is not because we need
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those things but because we need to be
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someone
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else
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what brands do is to sell a self
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right just do it
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just do it and they are selling a
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personality
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next and this is um second
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the second to the last perspective that
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i'm going to present as soon as having
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perspective the self is a product
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of hegemonic discourse
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this course is some it's a concept that
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we use in sociology
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at all um hegemonic powerful
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and this course is a set of
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conversations okay
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so um discourse no gender discourse
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education discourse this course
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just means a set of conversations
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okay so self is a discourse
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basically because there are a lot of
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things that people can say
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about this self contrast it to
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the beat debate alongside
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right so this course there are infinite
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sides
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are just ten different perspectives
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um of the self imagine so self is also a
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discourse
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gender is a discourse and that means a
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discourse
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now um dominant dominant categories
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define
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how people label and view
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themselves right
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okay the way that we define
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ourselves are always in terms of gender
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and class because the gender in class
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form two of the most dominant discourses
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in in
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in at least philippine culture
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and you are afforded different
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privileges because of what you have
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between your legs
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you are afford you you are forced to
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undergo different struggles just because
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of what you have between your legs
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discourse if you think about it in other
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ways
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in terms of that
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um nothing organizing society
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not in terms of how much you earn
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right but in terms of how much
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how many people you have in terms of
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any other things
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ourselves we can be different people all
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together and we will know
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if these categories are dominant cases
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degree program and these are dominant
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categories
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um desired number of steps per day
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desired caller of update
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right so what i want to say is that
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these dominant categories
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carry with them different privileges
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different expectations
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okay and these dominant categories can
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be
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you know otherwise
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i find it difficult to imagine a self
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that is a world
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that is otherwise and the self of course
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that is otherwise but if you use your
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eye
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um too enough um maybe you can do that
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maybe you can imagine a different world
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and it is what a lot of activists too
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they imagine a different world they
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forward different categories
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to to identify ourselves and that is
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because they use their eye
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over their me in that aspect all right
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at the name last um perspective they
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represent cole
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the self is seen as inherently connected
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to other people
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um
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although different um social
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okay now as a call to action and as a
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way to wrap the discussion up
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what can we do as students for nation
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building
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the first thing is to recognize that our
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sense of self
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varies
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um we said a while back during the first
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part of our discussion
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that only in understanding the self can
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you understand the society
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vice versa so you know that you have you
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afford that these kinds of
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self-expression that you can express
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yourself in this manner because you grew
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up in a middle class
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family in an educated family in a family
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that lives in
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in the in the urban um metropolis and
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not saying that
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those who have those who live in rural
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areas and those who are
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in lower socioeconomic classes have less
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ability to express themselves and not
00:32:21
saying that i'm only saying that you
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have different
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um like different opportunities you have
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different
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ways on how you express yourself
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um now if you want to do something about
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that
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you have to check your privileges
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next is to be intentional about your
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actions
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social media
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you know and being intentional really
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can do wonders
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coming from a personal experience also
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and next uphold your scholar and buy an
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identity and these can be interpreted in
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many different ways
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okay your scholar numbayan identity
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depends on
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you
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okay and you serve people
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you can you can only serve people if you
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know
00:34:00
what you can contribute in uplifting the
00:34:03
conditions
00:34:04
of the
00:34:33
next is you maximize university
00:34:36
resources
00:34:38
resources
00:34:46
we are forced now to download journal
00:34:49
articles
00:34:50
or first and how to use up subscriptions
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yeah so and um
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and of course you always have to think
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about the people who helped
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us get the education that we're getting
00:35:10
right now
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and of course give back to them this may
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sound very
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uh cliche um
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behind it
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we're talking about understanding self
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and others
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and it is only in understanding yourself
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and um the society that you live in
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that you can effectively contribute to
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uplifting the conditions of
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the country okay so
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if you have any questions you can reach
00:35:55
me at um my email airpress.edu.ph and
00:35:59
i'm also active on social media and also
00:36:02
you can also contact me through
00:36:03
ashpresto.com so
00:36:05
previous at stay safe busana had
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oh
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you
