Cultural Preservation of Historical Sites in Laguna in Relation to their Cultural Identity

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

This study was conducted to determine the Cultural Preservation of Historical Sites in Laguna in Relation to their Cultural Identity.

METHODS

The descriptive method is used to help in portraying the probable relevance as it existed during the time of the study. The respondents of this study were the (5) Municipal Tourism Officials for each Municipality of Nagcarlan, Rizal, Liliwand Magdalena, Laguna and (55) Historians preferably a High School Teachers in Araling Panlipunan of Nagcarlan, Rizal, Liliw and Magdalena, Laguna and (20) residents of each municipality were the historical site is found. Convenience sampling is a non-probability sampling technique was used in the selection of respondents that determined the cultural preservation of historical sites in Laguna in relation to their cultural identity. The subjects are selected just because they are easiest to recruit for the study and the researcher did not consider selecting subjects that are representative of the entire population.

RESULTS

The computed r -value of 0.280, 0.427, 0.334, 0.256 in relation to government funding have p -Value of 0.000, in tourism computed r -value 0.296, 0.420, 0.276 and 0.245 have p -value of 0.000 , 0.001 and 0.002, in community involvement the computed r -value of 0.273, 0.463, 0.351 and 0.345 have p-value of 0.001 and 0.000, in celebration computed r -value 0.328, 0.431, 0.388 and 0.418 have p-value of 0.000 which are less than alpha of 0.05 level of significance which indicates that cultural preservation of historical sites have significant relationship on cultural identity in Laguna.

DISCUSSIONS

Based on the statistical measurements done in this study the following findings were evident: 1) Mean Level of Cultural Preservation of Historical sites in terms of government funding, tourism, community involvement, and celebration. The overall mean of 4.10, 4.06, 4.11, 4.07 the respondents agreed that they are "High" extent on Cultural Preservation of Historical sites in terms of government funding, tourism, community involvement, and celebration. 2) Mean Level on Cultural identity. In terms of language, religion and sexuality the respondents got "Very High" extent and with an overall mean score of 4.23, 4.31 and 4.28, while in political power overall mean score of 4.06 with "High" verbal interpretation 3) Significant relationship of Cultural Preservation of Historical Sites in Laguna to their Cultural Identity.