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Why do Filipinos give more recognition for athletes than filipino scientists/inventors?

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I bet if you ask someone on the street to name 3 filipino athlete's they would answer imidiately but when you ask them to name 3 filipino scientists/inventor's they go silent

I am not saying that athletes should no be celebrated, I myself am an athlete and I am currently completing for swimming , I believe sports can change the Philippines view aswell like yulo and Diaz winning on sports their opposite gender would normally play .

I just find it sad that filipino inventors and scientists are not treated equally, they also represent the filipino brain , they help improve the world by their discovery's and such ,

it was so surprising to me that Carlos yulo had such a big cash prize money , yet some of our filipino scientists had to give up or fly to another country that's willing to pay for their brain because the Philippines just gives them a pat on the back and a mediocre paycheck after they discover something extraordinary.

Plus the filipino people see athletes more important than scientists! Imagine del mundo the inventor of the incubator ,if she was alive today and she asked the parents of the babies she saved she would be so disappointed to hear that most of the filipino population don't know her name.

If we happen to have a filipino scientist who only gets 1 minute of publication while Filipinos athletes gets tons of publication I would be so disappointed.


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13 Comments

  1. innocent question: yun bang mga discoveries ng mga scientist natin, is it something that can be commercialized / earn money from? don’t get me wrong. i am just using money as an indicator of the value of something. para sa akin, any discovery / learning / training should address a real problem. and business is essentially that – addressing a problem, and earning money from it.

  2. Better ask the media sector why is it the case. They would rather feature foreigners with Filipino descent who had nothing to do with the country than Filipinos who should be given recognition in their own field.

  3. Anywhere in the world naman ganyan. Athletes are essentially celebrities, so normal na you’d see them everywhere. Scientists are not.

    Not a scientist, but I remembered when Maria Ressa won a Nobel Peace Prize – see how our kababayans reacted. 🥲

  4. I think the main difference is for athletes, there are international events where they can compete and if they win, they get news coverage.

    For inventors and scientists, I think yung equivalent ng Olympics is Nobel, and if a Filipino scientist someday becomes a Nobel laureate, I’m pretty sure he/she will be remembered by so many people for generations.

  5. Sports and science are very different fields that require different levels of appreciation.

    In sports, the optics are easy because athletes are ranked. And ranks very easily resonate to the ordinary person.

    Scientists, in general, are not ranked the way athletes are because science isn’t really a competition. And the extent of the significance of their contribution are often only understood by scientists within their circle.

    That said, our local scientists are recognized by a few award giving bodies, such as the Outstanding Young Scientist award.

    I bet many scientists are comfortable working in the background. Putting them to same spotlight athletes receive would subject them to the gossiping and politicking that athletes often have to face.

    Final difference I can mention is that athletes, especially our Olympians, receive cash as an incentive. Scientists need funding, and it would be cruel to dangle these million dollar incentives if scientists achieve an end goal. If I were a scientist researching for the cure to cancer, I need the money *while* I am searching for the cure, not *after*.

  6. This is true for all countries in the world. Sports gets more recognition and truly successful athletes are akin to celebrities. A lot of factors are involved here but a huge factor of it is marketing.

    You have to consider the pace at which these two fields produce content from the same people. Most sporting events have established seasons churning out multiple games per week. How many times do we hear updates from the scientific community? How often do breakthroughs happen? How involved are we in watching this process?

    How do we expect people to be invested in stories of people they don’t know? The marketing behind athletes extend beyond their scores and records. Sports associations actively market them and their lives heavily. Follow sports social media accounts and they’re not just posting scores, they’re making these athletes play silly games (selling their personality), talk about their childhood, model their appearances etc. They get celebrity status because they are marketed like celebrities.

    Hindi pa nga developed yung ganito sa Pilipinas to the level that it is in other countries. Sa ibang bansa some athletes have entire stadiums/museums named after them while their careers are still active.

    I’ll point out also that although it might seem like athletes are famous as a whole they mostly only are to people who follow the sport. Only the truly great break past this barrier. For example, if you’re not a tennis fan you probably don’t know the current world #5, and he’s fifth best in the world already but you might know Roger Federer. In the same vein, only the giants in science get recognition as well.

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