Lessons from the Bayambang Culture Mapping Project
1. In general, we the people don't give much importance to our local history. We just don't care. This can be gleaned from the lack or absence of artifacts or relics from the past, including some very important ones.
2. In digging up the past, people may get negatively affected (hurt, offended), especially when properties such as precious pieces of land are involved. For example, there are affected residents in two places designated as important local cultural marker: Estacion (a property of Philippine National Railways, a national government agency) and old cemetery welcome arch (which is on church property reportedly donated by the archdiocese to the occupants).
3. If we don't pass on markers of cultural identity and heritage, they get lost within one generation.
4. Senior citizens are mostly the culture bearers of the fast-fading traditions.
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