Food has transformed from being cultivated by just farming the land and preserving enough to survive on to becoming a place where a lot of traditional food has slowly disappeared and created dishes that are a fusion of both Filipino and other cultures. But... How did it become that way? First of all, before the Philippines was even evaded for the first time, the cuisine of Filipino/as was very different. We were reliant on what was available to us which was rice, herbs, and fish. Those were some of the main things that fueled Filipino survival back in the olden days. Especially fishing because of how Filipinos were river men and would have a "kapabayan" community work together for activities such as fishing. And everything changed when the fire nation attacked, well not really the fire nation... More like Spain with the Spaniards invading... :/ When the Spaniards invaded they imposed the process of colonization on them. With colonization a lot of their culture had to be altered in order to fit the standards of the Spaniards, and many parts of culture like food were included into the mix. And eventually the Americans also invaded later to instill a more colonial mentality towards us. Colonial mentality is the idea of how the people feel as though they are inferior to their colonizers and feel the need to change in order to fit the standards for their colonizers as a result. Eventually, this took over in the way that they prepared their food. Going from things like fish and herbs to eating a lot of canned and processed foods from their colonizers and starting to use a lot of ingredients that aren't native to the Philippines. Making many dishes like Lumpia, which actually came from the Chinese, and are not traditionally Filipino/as. Many of the cuisine in Filipino/a culture became mixed because through colonization were Filipinos taught to cooked Western and Spanish cuisine which altered the taste of Filipino/as a lot. For people today, a lot of the dishes have become hybrid and processed foods, this worries the older generation because of how they worry about the youth losing sense of their culture due to popular media. Causing a lot of decolonization for Filipino/as and identity crisis. And for many, now has become a sense of motivation to refurbish and innovate Filipino cuisine.
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Rodfatha
3/19/2017 09:09:56 pm
Very informative! Isn't it so crazy to see how we see things in our culture that may seem traditional as untraditional? very good!
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