National Pride Philippines

Now, however, it is possible to expand and develop the hypothesis by combining it with these things to allow a more specific and detailed experiment that does not provide confounding evidence. From all these, I feel that: If a country has high indicators of national pride, as measured by V66: Willingness to fight for your country, and V211: How proud of nationality from The World Values Survey, then that country will have a higher political participation and voter turnout, as measured by V7: Important in life: Politics, V226: Vote in elections: local, and V227: Vote in elections: national, also from The World Values Survey, compared to a country with lower indicators of national pride, because the citizens of a country with higher levels of …show more content…
82.7% of Filipinos stated they would willingly fight for their country, while only 58.7% of Americans stated they would fight for the United States. This is a 24.0% difference, which is about one-fourth of the sample. It is also shown that Filipinos are much prouder of their country than Americans, as 85.1% stated they are “Very proud” of their nationality, while only 56.9% of Americans stated they are also “Very proud” of their nationality. This is a 28.2% difference, which is more than one-fourth of the sample. Based on this data, it can clearly be determined that Filipinos have a higher level of patriotism than the United States. When referring to our hypothesis, this should indicate that the Philippines also have higher levels of political participation as well. Dependent …show more content…
The Philippines are significantly more patriotic than the United States, and, as my hypothesis suggests, they also have significantly higher levels of political participation. Almost one-quarter of the Filipino sample votes more than the American sample in national elections, and more than twice as many Filipinos vote in local elections than Americans. I feel that the combined 52.2% difference (average of 26.1% per question/indicator) of indicators of patriotism has a direct, positive causation correlation with political participation, which has a combined 80.7% difference (average of 26.9% per question indicator). These averages are within 5%, so I feel that it is very reasonable to conclude that because the Philippines have higher levels of national pride and patriotism, then they also have higher levels of political participation and voter turnout, as measured by the World Values Survey. This cannot be absolutely certain, however, because there is always the possibility of unknown and/or confounding variables to be present in the experiment, which could possibly change the relationship of the values and explain their behaviors more