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Parts to a Whole, Creative Imagination, and Product Origins
Parts to a Whole, Creative Imagination, and Product Origins
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Dear Gen Zs,
In your previous lesson, you learned that Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. Although considered as a game-changer in making nations rich and successful, it is definitely detrimental to a nation’s local enterprise.
In this lesson, you will be focusing on how products end up on your dinner or study table. Looking back at the orange juice production diagram, observe how lots of human, machine, and financial power is needed to put a bottle of orange juice on your table, or fridge.
You will be focusing as well at how citizens can take part in a positive global change through learning the 21st Century Skills that is integrated already in your curriculum. How cool is that? Are you a responsible 21st Century Learner? Let’s find out!
Best,
Your Post-Millennial, Pre-Gen Z Instructor, Miss Lei
Activity 1. Pick a product (not included in our previous lessons), trace its origins, and plot its different components’ production and assembly on this world map. You can also download or draw your own map and plot the location there. Here is an example:
MAKE A COPY OF THIS PRESENTATION AND PLOT THE ORIGIN OF THE PRODUCT HERE:
It takes multiple nations to produce components, software, and applications for iPhones alone. What have you realized after this? Write a reflection on the production of the product you have traced the origin of.
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LEARN AND DISCOVER
Looking at the production origins, one can summarize these contributions of the parts to a whole:
1. Politics, economy, migration, and environment constitute the components of a whole.
2. This component creates a domino effect if one part plays the least.
3. The combination of all parts into a creative whole will result to innovations.
4. These components will become the key to survival if it acts creatively and sustainability.
5. It is important to maintain balance to all these parts to avoid disintegration.
As the saying goes ‘No man is an island goes’, so as nations. We have reached an age where nations can tap other nations for help in order to aid their job market, production lines, and depleting resources. But how exactly does this happen? Our history shows us that nations who had rifts before are now coordinating with each other. How exactly did they build their burning bridges?
As the definition of globalization goes, nations are driven to connect for investment and international trade. That does not happen overnight though, with the help of Creative Imagination, nations can engage in peaceful dialogues and meetings to encourage its people to buy into the idea.
Listen to the ‘Imagine’ by John Lennon on this link:
“Widely regarded as John Lennon’s signature song, “Imagine” was the title track of his second album, and is perhaps his best-known solo work. John Lennon famously said that the track is “anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic…but because it’s sugar-coated, it is accepted.” The track conveyed Lennon’s wish for world peace and harmony. While the song’s message resonated widely, and was given added poignancy after Lennon’s assassination in 1980, its message has since been derided by many who point out the contradiction of a multi-millionaire asking the rest of the world to imagine no possessions.”
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/articles/the-10-influential-songs-that-changed-the-world/Now listen to the ‘Tatsulok’ by Bamboo on this link:
“According to the Philippine Music Registry, the song was originally written by Rom Dongeto in 1989 and was included in the album Karapatang Pantao, an anthology of songs by various artists. In 1991, “Tatsulok” became the carrier song of Buklod’s second album. Eventually, it was picked up by Noel Cabangon again when he transitioned to a solo career, and afterwards was picked up by Bamboo, giving it a new lease on life in 2007, as part of the album We Stand Alone Together.”
https://www.onemusic.ph/news/sometimes-the-root-of-the-problem-is-at-the-very-top-2252“However, the song doesn’t point fingers at any one person. Instead, it points at the people who are holding all the power, and are ultimately refusing to distribute it to the powerless, being content to just hold on to it for their own selfish desires. The song wants to illicit anger and revulsion, hoping to incite a revolution, and it’s one of those songs that truly show the plight of the poor.
At the end of it all, the song doesn’t attempt to take sides; in fact, it encourages you to do the opposite: instead of bothering with distinctions in allegiances, get to the root of the problem—the numerous power-hungry individuals trying to seize and stay in power, no matter what. The song invokes in us anger, seeing as how the wealthy are the only ones capable of “affording” justice, while the rest of the country is abused by the rich and powerful.”
https://wethepvblic.com/tatsulok-30-years-later/ACTIVITY 2.
Listen to the song ‘Imagine’ once again and answer and reflect on the following questions.
How did John Lennon sugarcoat his “anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic” ideals in this song?
Can John Lennon’s utopia be a reality? Can human beings prosper in a world with “no possession”, “no religion”, “no countries”, etc?
What are your thoughts on the song and the meaning it is trying to convey?
Listen to the song ‘Tatsulok’ once again and answer and reflect on the following questions.
What do you think the lines “Hindi pula’t dilaw tunay na magkalaban” mean? More importantly how relevant is it to our country’s current social/political climate?
What “Tatsulok” was the song referring to? Have you ever imagined it looking like the triangle below? If so, is it relevant to our country’s current social classification?
What are your thoughts on the song and the meaning it is trying to convey?
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Songs (just like the examples above), posters, movies, even propaganda that changed the world and unified the masses have one thing in common: Creative Imagination. Take a look at how songs like ‘Heal the World’, ‘We are the World’, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, and even ‘Bella Ciao’ have unified people from around the globe and effect a positive change. These songs model a positive impact on the general populace.
This leads us to our next topic; the Philippines as a model for globalized migrant labor. Read the text below and answer the questions on the Run-through portion.
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THE PHILIPPINES: A Global Model on Labor Migration
The Philippines has been publicized as a global model for labor export. In some international gatherings, Philippine officials have been lauded for their ways of handling of the country’s labor-export program. Officials of labor-exporting countries have even asked the Philippine government officials to give them pointers in managing and developing their labor-export programs.
With some 8.7 million migrants, overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), and undocumented workers overseas who remit more than 12 billion dollars each year, the Philippines has a number of laws in place and agencies mandated to the serve the needs of its overseas workers and their families. Several international instruments to promote migrants’ rights have also been put in effect in the past decade.
In many cases, however, Filipino migrants still find themselves in vulnerable situations and unable to realize their rights guaranteed by national and international instruments. …
This document seeks to lay bare the concept of a “global model” by presenting current Philippine and global realities. It deals with how these affect and influence labor outmigration in the country. It will further examine the Philippine labor migration policies, not merely in theory but also in terms of realities on the ground.
Based on the facts, readers can either remain convinced that the Philippines really is a “model” that should be emulated, or they can turn into critics of the current labor export program.
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Here are key points about Philippine migration and labor to remember:
Labor and migration problems and issues increase in the twenty-first century.
The Philippines is the world's third biggest supply of migrant workers in the world, next to China and India.
For the last 5 years, preparation figures have inflated by an annual average of three .6%.
In January 2009, despite the global crisis in the economy, the full range of deployed migrants was 25% more than the previous years.
The migration of Filipinos abroad may be a product of a deepening crisis in the economy in the country.
Overseas Filipinos represent 10% of the entire Filipino population. Their range by the last of December 2007 was placed at 8.7 million.
They are found in more than 193 countries and destinations. The largest proportion of migrants is deployed within Asia and in the US.
Migrant Filipinos heaps within the economy through their remittances.
They shall be entitled to security of tenure, humane conditions of work and a socially acceptable living allowance.
Filipino migrants realize themselves in situations where they are vulnerable to abuses.
The State has the duty and obligation to safeguard the migrant workers as mandated within the Constitution.
Answer and reflect on the following questions.
Does the Philippines live up to its image as a model for overseas labor export?
Do its laws and agencies really serve the needs of Filipino overseas workers and their families?
Has the country been able to draw on international instruments in promoting the rights of Filipinos abroad?
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