The Culture of Silence
Photo from Google Shall I forever hold my freedom of expression or renew my idea of silence? Every time I feel like being offended by their approaches, I would prefer to be quiet rather than arguing with their mistakes but another problem enters in. Whenever I remain quiet and neutral, they make another path through hurting me emotionally. They endlessly interpret another meaning behind my silence and add another implication as if I cannot hear what they say nor answer their accusations. Now, I do not know whether our culture of silence helps strengthen our relationship with the other people. Most concern people say that it is much better to remain silent and understand their errors. As respect to what the majority say, I follow the same philosophy but what I notice most of the time is that my silence turns to be insignificant at all. They are older than me. Considering the Filipino culture about the proper way of showing respect to the elderly, staying silent rather than verb...