Kapwa, the unity of the “self” and “other,” it’s the way of
interacting with each other. They’re friends that’ll always be there for you
and you will always be there for. Like My friends and I, that I consider kapwa,
hang out together every day after school and we share food, drinks, even from
time to time sweaters if some of us have to walk home in the cold. We aren’t
the closest of friends but that doesn’t mean we can’t be kapwa because not all
family members are that close to each other; even though we were very different
in many ways. The main difference that is noticeable is that Most of the guys
are Filipino, I am Mexican, and Charlie is White. To Me I’ve had problems with
some Filipinos in the past and knew that not all were like that, but had that
mind set that I would never have friends that were like brothers to me that
were Filipino and now look at me now, my closest friends are Filipino. When
there are any problems of any kind I know that they have my back and I have got
theirs and ill be there to help them guide through it. And in like any other
kapwa or families there will be slight problems. There are problems between us
but we will get passed it like how we’ve gotten over our pass. And by dealing
the problem our group gets stronger because we walk through our problems
together. There can and always be someone leaving to do better things in life,
but we will always stick around.
Hey Josh. I like how you show kapwa to your friends. We pretty much do the same thing. It’s true that we can be kapwa with different people, stranger or not. This blog made me think of my friends on my other class. I also tend to do those kinds of things like sharing food with them and they would do the same thing to me and it feels nice. Check out my blog about Kapwa. I’m pretty sure it’ll be worth viewing.
ReplyDeleteAye! Josh. I like how you show kapwa with us. We spend so much time with each other a lot after class. And yeah Josh check Mac's blog it's awesome.
ReplyDeleteHello. I enjoyed reading about the close relationship you have with you friends despite the fact that you come from different cultural backgrounds. I found it encouraging reading that you were able to overcome the problems that you with Filipinos in the past and turn a negative experience into a positive one. Maybe you could give an example of a problem that you once had with a Filipino. What made you think at that time that you would never be able to have a close friendship with a Filipino? Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHello. I enjoyed reading about the close relationship you have with you friends despite the fact that you come from different cultural backgrounds. I found it encouraging reading that you were able to overcome the problems that you with Filipinos in the past and turn a negative experience into a positive one. Maybe you could give an example of a problem that you once had with a Filipino. What made you think at that time that you would never be able to have a close friendship with a Filipino? Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHello. I enjoyed reading about the close relationship you have with you friends despite the fact that you come from different cultural backgrounds. I found it encouraging reading that you were able to overcome the problems that you with Filipinos in the past and turn a negative experience into a positive one. Maybe you could give an example of a problem that you once had with a Filipino. What made you think at that time that you would never be able to have a close friendship with a Filipino? Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHi, there. I like the example you provided. I agreed with you that it doesn't matter what ethnicity you have to be to have a friend. Also, you have a mix of culture around your group. It’s a nice thing have and one can learn a lot from others. How would you be if you weren’t the way you are? Anyways, thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteSup Josh.I really like the images you used to help out with your post. I also think your choice to talk about kawpa was very good one. Good job man!
ReplyDeleteJoshua,
ReplyDeleteI think you are right about friends, it doesn't matter what race they are from. I am also Mexican, but I have friends that are Irish, Japanesse, Koreans, Indians, etc... Doesn't mean that we hang out everyday, now everybody is married or move far away. Even though your point was clear, I think you should look at the sentences, some are kind of confusiing. You could also reference the movie "The young guns" where the outlaws are from different races, but they got each others back. They start hating each other but later they fight together till death.
I like the section where you wrote about the meaning of Kapwa and how you gave an example of how it relates to you in your own personal life. Your post made me feel grateful for all the wonderful people who are a part of my life, and how people I thought I’d never be friends with are now to this day people I’d consider family because they’re that close to me. Seeing as you are all about the whole unity idea, you should check out the concept of “Umoja” which is very similar to the concept of Kapwa as we all come together as one and unify with each other.
ReplyDeletehey josh. I like the section where you stated the definition of kapwa and how you can relate to it. This blog made me think about me and my friends and how I relate to you. Even though my group of friends are a mixture of blacks, mexicans, asian, and middle easterns. We have each others back no matter what. But overall good blog josh. good job man.
ReplyDeleteHello Joshua,
ReplyDeleteI appreciated how you used the analogy of friendship to family. You had a great point that not even some family members are as closes as some people you know even as acquaintances. Just like many other bloggers and yourself I to have a mixed group of friends and in a way family member as well. Just like anyone’s right to pick their friends, we have the right to pick anyone we want to marry. I noticed a few grammar errors with the placing of your commas. An example would be, “There are problems between us but we will get passed it like how we’ve gotten over our pass.” I would have applied a comma between the us and but, and I am also unsure if you meant pass or past. I also noticed you started a few sentence with And. It’s becoming more so acceptable, but call me old fashion, I still think you shouldn’t start a sentence with the word And.