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Empowering Filipino Youth for Change

The document discusses how Dr. Jose Rizal viewed the Filipino youth as the hope of the fatherland. It notes that the youth today face challenges like underprivileged families and discrimination in education. However, it also says that the current situation has allowed youth to learn more about themselves. While some see today's youth as uncontrolled, the document urges the youth to prove critics wrong by using their talents and skills to help those in need, as Dr. Rizal envisioned, and make the Philippines a better place.

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Empowering Filipino Youth for Change

The document discusses how Dr. Jose Rizal viewed the Filipino youth as the hope of the fatherland. It notes that the youth today face challenges like underprivileged families and discrimination in education. However, it also says that the current situation has allowed youth to learn more about themselves. While some see today's youth as uncontrolled, the document urges the youth to prove critics wrong by using their talents and skills to help those in need, as Dr. Rizal envisioned, and make the Philippines a better place.

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Dear Filipino youth,

Teenage years are one of the toughest and most memorable years of life. A long time ago Dr.
Jose Rizal once said that youth is the hope of the fatherland, it was like a simple saying that a person
once said. But as the younger generation starts to get old and mature, the saying that Dr. Jose Rizal has
said now makes sense. It is indeed the youth is the hope of the future, we are the ones who are going to
make a difference in the future and it might feel like we are being pressured but the point is that at the
end of the day it's going to be us who’ll receive the benefits.

Years go by and yet too many children and young people are denied their right to an education
because of the following circumstances: Firstly, their families are underprivileged, Second, because of
where they come from, Third, the languages they use, Fourth, their gender or sexual orientation, and
lastly, because they have disabilities. Not only that, some are entirely excluded from education; others
face discrimination, stereotyping, and stigma once inside school doors. Rather than welcoming what
each learner brings, education is often too rigid, pushing many of us out. Above all else cherish every
memory you make, for it is today – and not tomorrow – that matters most.

Defining the youth is not an easy task. In this time of the pandemic, everything seems to be on
pause. It seems like our process of learning many things in these teenage years is slowed down because
of the current situation that we have. But on the other hand, the positive thing is that we were able to
know more about ourselves, our limitations, and our boundaries. Deny it or not we all know that the
youth of today is a little bit out of control than the old generation.

The generation of youth today is mostly on the wrong side of the path and sometimes just there
for popularity, pleasure, and leisure. We, the youth, in regards to facing the problems that we have right
now do our best to at least give off the best of ourselves to show that even though most older
generations think that the current generation is a little out of bounding we can still show that we can do
better and we can take things seriously. Proving ourselves is one of the ways to show how serious we
are in the saying of Dr. Jose Rizal that the youth is the hope of the fatherland.

To put it concisely, Dr. Jose Rizal wanted the Filipino youth to use their capabilities, talents, and
skills to stand out not only for their praise and success but also for the praise and success of their
motherland, the Philippines. He also wanted the Filipino youth to build up their abilities and use them to
help those who are in need. Fast forward more than a century, and we, the Filipino youth of today,
exclaim, "We are right here, on the verge of success, brimming with idealism, and primed to make the
Philippines a better place!"

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