Why is the world divided territorially?

Is it me or isn't everybody gives importance to own security/privacy, especially to one's own territory? This implies power/authority on your own territory. Despite the obvious fact that the world is geographically separated between lands and seas there is another factor why divisions occurs. From our world history we have learned that previous colonizers gives emphasis on colonizing as much land as they can and inculcate their own customs and traditions. Just like what happened in our country (Philippines) we have been colonized by numerous country such as Spain, US and Japan and all tried to inculcate their own into ours. Also, it opened ours eyes to different cultures and such.

The world is divided territorially because this gives sense of security and protection in own's property. Also, with cultural and ideological differences it would be hard to have a unanimous nation. In short, divisions happened because of differences. This gives the authority to each nation to practice their own practices without any restrictions from others beliefs and even if there are nations like Europe (which is compose of different sectors) they still differ from each other.

I guess the division helps us to recognize the differences and boundaries we can make to each and everyone. Also, this helps us to learn from each other and to improve our own with time. Moreover, this organizes or rather maximizes sense of responsibility and limits the upbringing of chaos. But now in the time of globalization, these territories are starting to loosen up because we are all connected easily unlike before. The turn back is that we might forget our ancestral root and eventually make a new civilization in the near future that there will be no more racial biases and such. I am not saying this is not good however, knowing one's ancestral roots and living it up implicates a very important thing

How do we begin to think about the world? (Master Lecture)

Even before we were born there are already prior implications we had about the world and these were broaden we already entered our college lives. There are a lot of theories, ideologies and such around us, therefore, which is which? But i meant is that which ideology should be believe then if everything seems to be true? In our time today we no longer know what is not and what is we are easily lured to whatever there given to us. Also, with this we are overwhelm with the fact that everything are made easy for every single thing and thus we no longer want to bother ourselves in minding things that not for us to associate ourselves with.

As we emerge in the century of globalization we are slowly declining to our sense of living. In spite the fact that the technologies we have now makes things faster and convenient for us we are trying things to be inconvenient with the world. We have already experienced a lot of calamities around the world and for me this implies a threat that the good old world we have is facing its end faster than it was calculated. We should now stop or slow down in reaching the peak because one we get there it is already the start of our fall (what comes up must come down. We should remind ourselves what to priorities and this is to assure that there is enough resources left for everyone. This means we must learn to save and take good care of what we have right now (nature) or else little do we know there will no longer left even just a single one.

How do we find out what's going out in the world?

In our world today we know that we are well informed through the help of radios, televisions and internet. These are our media to know what is going out around us. But is the media really a good source of information? With all due respect to media men and all individuals behind the industry this blog does not intend to bad mouth the media but rather to give my personal output about this emerging topic. These are all from my own perception and i don't encourage others to think the same thing.

Whenever we watch the television we impart the issue along on how the media portrayed it to us. For example the crazy infomercials luring around our televisions at home and even to our radios. We are all LSS (last song syndrome) to the jingle of Mr. Manny Villar his concept tells the people that we should vote for him because he has done a lot of things to our country and that he came from rags to riches and he would like to do the same in our country. True as it may be we are lured to these "facts" his infomercials are telling us but how can we know if these are really? How can we verify its validity? The same goes to other presidentiables as well. We must remember that in all works bias can never be prohibited one way or the other. Like in the media they can make a story good or bad depends on how they may portray it.

The sad part of this is that some people are actually easily lured (same goes to those who practice unity among their religion) that some no longer tend initiate on looking for the real deal. Also, sometimes media is not good in accordance with national security. I believe that some things are supposed to be left unknown until a certain time to protect the many and also to give immediate solution to the problem rather than having another problem with it.

In the case of UK, they used the media as their fourth state. Supposed it must be a watchdog a mediator (check and balance) but it became the goverment's mouthpiece after wards. In the case of our country, the media is more often than not against or does favor the government and other political officials (there is always bias). A perfect example is what happened in the presidential forum last friday. During the debate the candidates were questioned whether Pres. Arroyo made a mistake will they try to pull her down and let her pat for her mistakes and what are this mistakes are. From all candidates (mostly from the opposition) only Mr. Gibo Teodoro is part of the Administration and during the debate he didn't answer the question, however explained that in his position he cannot make a stand directly since he is with the same party as with the Pres., I guess this is also because of the respect he has with the position (Presidency). Come to think of it you can label Gibo Teodoro as a weak candidate because he is not brave enough to go against the "enemy of all" (PGMA) but for me it is simply a gentle man's act but it doesn't mean that he will not go after those who have wronged the country (he said the same thing to his speech). After Gibo's speech Mr. Ted Fallon asked the audience "Malinaw ba?" and the crowd mostly answered "hindi" For me this implied that the people wants to know the "truth" (a principle the media has implanted to everyone) without understanding deeper the questions and the answers.

Finding out things around us - world should not just lie to the lenses of the camera man's camera, the scripts written by the writers nor the words that are coming out from the newscaster/radio. announcers. People should learn how to exercise their own freewill and know better about the things around them. They should not be influenced easily but rather be guided though these news they hear everyday. Here I rest my case and just like what I said these are just all from my own opinion and I would appreciate if these ideas are to be respected.

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