Authentic Though Not Exotic: Essays on Filipino Identity

• Main Author: Zialcita, Fernando N
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2006
• Subjects: Race and Ethnicity; Sociology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/41; http://www.ateneo.edu/ateneopress/product/authentic-though-not-exotic-essays-filipino-identity-0
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Suggests that through a dialectical process, the encounter between the Western and the indigenous has generated a broader sense of community that has transcended the kin. Local genius transformed Spanish influences, even as it was itself transformed by the latter, resulting in a new culture.