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    A Culture That Exceeds Its Limit

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    The document discusses how certain cultural traditions in the author's community have begun to exceed reasonable limits. Specifically, the tradition of "Binogwa," where a deceased person's remains are exhumed and cleaned to commemorate them, is sometimes extended beyond three days. The author believes this wastes money and time, and the ceremonies have become occasions for gambling and other vices rather than remembrance of the deceased. While culture and tradition are important, the author argues they should be celebrated with love, simplicity and balance, not exaggerated ways that stain their meaning and value.

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    The document discusses how certain cultural traditions in the author's community have begun to exceed reasonable limits. Specifically, the tradition of "Binogwa," where a deceased person's remains are exhumed and cleaned to commemorate them, is sometimes extended beyond three days. The author believes this wastes money and time, and the ceremonies have become occasions for gambling and other vices rather than remembrance of the deceased. While culture and tradition are important, the author argues they should be celebrated with love, simplicity and balance, not exaggerated ways that stain their meaning and value.

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    The document discusses how certain cultural traditions in the author's community have begun to exceed reasonable limits. Specifically, the tradition of "Binogwa," where a deceased person's remains are exhumed and cleaned to commemorate them, is sometimes extended beyond three days. The author believes this wastes money and time, and the ceremonies have become occasions for gambling and other vices rather than remembrance of the deceased. While culture and tradition are important, the author argues they should be celebrated with love, simplicity and balance, not exaggerated ways that stain their meaning and value.

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    The document discusses how certain cultural traditions in the author's community have begun to exceed reasonable limits. Specifically, the tradition of "Binogwa," where a deceased person's remains are exhumed and cleaned to commemorate them, is sometimes extended beyond three days. The author believes this wastes money and time, and the ceremonies have become occasions for gambling and other vices rather than remembrance of the deceased. While culture and tradition are important, the author argues they should be celebrated with love, simplicity and balance, not exaggerated ways that stain their meaning and value.

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    GULLON, JOHN FRANCES T.

    September 3, 2020
    BSAC 2-9 1764 GETHICS

    A CULTURE THAT EXCEEDS ITS


    LIMIT
    Culture has been part of the process as we go on in life. Sometimes, it heals us from the
    pain of the society and it also put us down from what actions we exercised. Culture is everything
    and it becomes more beautiful when it is experienced. However, some of it becomes
    exaggerated.

    Here in our place, our culture is rich and majestic. It has a lot to offer but what really
    annoys me is how they treated it badly. One of it is so called “Binogwa”. This is a tradition
    wherein the coffin of the dead person (bones) is open. They open it because there is something
    happen in the family that nobody else can find the reason, example is sickness. In here, they will
    clean it and butcher a pig in commemoration to the dead person. It takes one day to do it but
    sometimes they extend it for 2-3 days. This is a superstitious belief that if they will open it, the
    person who is suffering from sickness will be cured. That’s the essence of it.

    Unfortunately, for me, this becomes bad because some people tend to funeral it more than
    3 days. In my perspective, it is beautiful to commemorate the dead person however, let’s be
    practical in life. The more days to funeral, more money will be spent. Another reason, some
    people will go there for their vices such as pagsusugal. Instead of remembering the dead; it
    becomes a place of worldly pleasures. Lastly, some people do this tradition every year. I don’t
    know their reason and intentions but this is too much. Yes, they do it because they are rich but
    what’s the point of celebrating the month of November if you do it every year, the essence makes
    no sense.

    A culture is more meaningful when it is celebrated with love and simplicity, which is the
    main purpose. I know we tend to do it exaggeratedly but let’s not put our culture into bad things
    that people will remember. In fact, our culture is preserve and nourishes through our actions and
    let not our actions be the reason to stain its beauty. Therefore, too much and too less is not good,
    rather it should be balance always. There is no such bad culture; we tend to make it bad.

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