UCSP Notes Sep 15 2022

Culture defines situations.
Culture defines attitudes values and goals.

Each person learns from his/her culture what is good, true, and beautiful. Attitudes, values, and
goals are defined by the culture.
- Attitudes are tendencies to feel and act in certain ways.

- Values are measures of goodness or desirability.
- Goals are those attainments which our values define as worthy.
Culture defines myth, legends, and the supernatural.

Myths and legends are important parts of every culture.
We cannot understand the behavior of any group without knowing something of the myths,
legends, and supernatural beliefs they hold.
Culture provides behavior patterns.

The individual need not to go through painful trial and error to know what food can be eaten or
how to live among people without fear.
The need for order calls forth another function of culture-direct behavior-so that disorderly
behavior is restricted and orderly behavior is promoted.
Heritage
According to Joh nFeather, cultural heritage is a human creation intended to inform.
- Architectures such as buildings, houses, and structures

- Artifacts like books, documents, object, images, clothing, accessories, and jars.
- “things” that made people who they are like oral stories, values, laws, norms, rituals,
and traditions.
Cultural heritage is a representation of the ways of living established by society or group and
passed on from generation to generation. Cultural heritage can be categorized as either
tangible or intangible.
Tangible Heritage
Tangible means perceptible, touchable, concrete, or physical. A tangible heritage is aphysical
artifact or objects significant to the archaeology, architecture, science, or technology of a
specific culture.
Objects that can be stores are included in this category:

- Traditional clothing,
- Utensils (such as bead work, water vessels)
- Vehicles (such as the ox wagon)
- Documents (codes, laws, land titles, literature), and
- Public works and architecture built and constructed by a cultural group (buildings,
historical places, monuments, temples graves, roads and bridges fall into this category).
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is a specialized
agency of the United Nations aimed to promoting world peace and security through
international cooperation in education, arts, and sciences.
World Heritage site is the designation for places on Earth that are of outstanding value to
humanity and as such, have been inscribed on the World Heritage List to be protected for
future generations to appreciate and enjoy. The UNESCO selects a landmark or area for having
cultural, historical, scientific, or other form of significance, which his legally protected by
international treaties.
Philippines’ World Cultural Heritages

- Baroque Churches of the Philippines
These four churches, the first of which was built by the Spanish in the late 16 th century,
are in Manila, Santa Maria, Paoay and Miag-ao. Their unique architectural style is a
reinterpretation of European Baroque by Chinese and Philippine craftsmen.
- Historical City of Vigan

Established in the 16th century, Vigan is the best-preserved example of a planned
Spanish colonial town in Asia. Its architecture reflects the coming together of cultural
elements from elsewhere in the Philippines, from China, and from Europe, resulting in a
culture and townscape that have no parallel anywhere in East and South-east Asia.
- Rice Terraces of the Philippines

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Intangible Culture
Intangible is the opposite of tangible. Unlike tangible heritage, an intangible heritage is not a
physical or concrete item. Intangible heritage is that which exists intellectually the culture.
Examples:
- Songs,
- Myths,
- Beliefs
- Superstitions,
- Oral poetry,
- Stories, and
- Various forms of traditional knowledge such as ethnobotanical knowledge.
Threats of Tangible and Intangible Cultures
There was a time in contemporary history when museums were in constant search and hurry to
look for historical materials to display. Due to the ascent of demand for cultural materials,
opportunists saw this as an avenue for them to earn money. They invented materials and claim
that these were excavated or unearthed.
Documents whose authenticity are yet to be determined include Hitler diaries, crystal skulls of
Mesoamerica (tangible), and the status/story of Saint Nicholas’ companion Black Peter
(intangible).
Authenticity or truthfulness of origin, attributes, and intentions of cultural heritage are one of
the issues concerning sources of our culture.
Aside from authenticity issues, preservation, or the act of making a cultural heritage lasting and
existing is also a primary concern.

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Culture defines situations.

Culture defines attitudes values and goals.

- Attitudes are tendencies to feel and act in certain ways.

Culture defines myth, legends, and the supernatural.

Culture provides behavior patterns.

- Architectures such as buildings, houses, and structures

Objects that can be stores are included in this category:

Philippines’ World Cultural Heritages

- Historical City of Vigan

- Rice Terraces of the Philippines

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