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 verbally arguing with them can be the appropriate and respectful move to do.

I am not encouraging everyone most specially the Filipino people to remold this culture of ours—the culture of making the elderly superior above the young ones in terms of verbal expression. I just pray that time will soon come that God will reconstruct this concept retained in our mind. May there be a dominance of equal freedom among the people. There should be one neither superior nor inferior at all. I also think that by this latest idea which may be filled in our minds, the culture of silence will be transformed into culture of peaceful dialogue.