“I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.”
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My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.
We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.
Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.