BREAKING IT DOWN

Pursuing the arts and social sciences, especially the arts, is riskier to pursue in today's economy due to many factors This includes, naturally, disparities in job opportunities Today's job market has become so cutthroat Artists earn barely enough to get by Many of their income can also be depleted by shouldering expenses for resources, studios, materials, funding for films, and many more. Artists in the Philippines earn ranging from 18,000 Philippine pesos to 35,000 Philippine pesos--and this is only if you decide to pursue the corporate route (Indeed). Many have to take on second or even third jobs to maintain a livable salary, especially considering the state of the economy

Now, these biases do not come out of nowhere. Here, we can reference Louis Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses". Ideological state apparatuses (ISA) "denote institutions such as education, the churches, family, media, trade unions, and law, which were formally outside state control but which served to transmit the values of the state, to interpellate those individuals affected by them, and to maintain order in a society, above all to reproduce capitalist relations of production."

(Encyclopedia) In today's economy, money is prioritized over passion and creative exploration and development

In the Philippine context, pressure from local educational institutions and families i most prominent. Starting from a young age, children are taught to pursue money-making careers, many of them including science-oriented careers. Many Filipino children grow up to believe that pursuing anything besides the "safer" jobs, would be risking not only their future but the future of their family. However, this problem is not applicable to all. Unlike the 99%, the 1% have the complete freedom to pursue whatever they want.

NOW, HOW DO THESE BIASES AFFECT UP STUDENTS?

Let's take a look at personal experiences of students belonging to the College of arts and Letters (CAL) cluster.