The Hundred-Thousand-Peso-Question

Final Project: Teen Titans

SA 21 Section B

Topic: Deviance

We asked 20 people from different age brackets, social class, and social institutions a very interesting question that we called the hundred-thousand-peso-question. Behold for the very amusing and even shocking answers that you are about to see! Enjoy. :)

Question: For P100 000. 00, which of teh following would you consider doing?

               a. Cross-dress for a month.

               b. French kiss a random stranger on the lips.

               c. Dye your hair with multiple colors.

               d. Jaywalking.

               e. Cheating on a partner.

               f. Eating human flesh.

Age Group

#deviance #folkways

Name: Alec

Age: 11

Gender: Male

Status: Geade School Student

"I am so excited to try this. Just for fun!"

#deviance #folkways

Name: Princess

Age: 9

Gender: 

Status: Grade School Student

"I can boeeow from my kuya and this is gonna be so easy for me."

#deviance #folways

Name: Aldrin

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Status: College Student

"Just to be different."

#deviance #folkways

Name: Elai

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Status: College Student

"Madali like 1, 2, 3."

#deviance #mores

Name: wish not to disclose

Age: wish not to disclose

Gender: Male

Status: Professor, PolSci Dept., ADMU

"wish not to disclose"

#deviance #law

Name: Aimee

Age: 30

Gender: Female

Status: Department Secretary

"Easiest to do."

#deviance #folkways #dyehair

Name: Ben

Age: 49

Gender: Male

Status: Family Driver

"Dye hair, because it is the simplest."

#deviance #folkways #dyehair

Name: Elv

Age: 49

Gender: Female

Status: Housemaid

"Dye hair, because it is the simplest."

Social Class

#deviance #mores #upperclass

Name: Albert Sy

Age: 52

Gender: Male

Status: Bussinessman

"Eating human flesh because he's curious about the taste."

#deviance #folkways #upperclass

Name: Rosario Sy

Age: 48

Gender: Female

Status: Bussinesswoman

"Cross-dressing because it's the easiest task to do."

#deviance #laws #working class

Name: Rowel Calogos

Age: 31

Gender: Male

Status: Security Personnel

"Kasi may thrill."

#deviance #folkways #workingclass

Name: Alma Fermano

Age: 42

Gender: Female

Status: Photocopying personnel

"Kasi tomboy ako dati."

Social Institutions

#deviance #folkways #lector

Name: Dr. Grace Carole Beltran

Age: does not wish to share haha

Gender: Female
Occupation: dermatologist and cosmetic surgeon; mass lector
"I've always wanted to try wearing some clothes for men!"

#deviance #folkways

Name: Angelo

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Status: College student and Church choir member

"It's easy. I can even do it for free."

#deviance #folkways

Name: Ric

Age: early 50s

Gender: Male

Status: Businessman; parent

"I would cross-dress because it is the simplest."

#deviance #mores

Name: Luisa

Age: late 40s

Gender: Female

Status: Housewife; parent

"I would cross-dress because it is the simplest."

#deviance #laws

Name: Pacifico

Age: -

Gender: Male

Status: Lolo

"Because a lot of people are already doing it."

#deviance #folkways

Name: Pacifica

Age: -

Gender: Female

Status: Lola

"Because in doing so, i offend no one."

#deviance #laws

Name: Victor

Age: 21

Gender: Male

Status: Teacher, ADMU

 "Because it's the the easiest thing to do out of the 6. Screw the rules."

#deviance #laws

Name: Reine
Age: 19

gender: Female
Occupation: Upperclassman
"P100,000 is so big just to pay a jaywalking fine."

Observation
Well, to start off, we begin with our Teenage participants. It was very interesting to find out that a teenage boy is willing to cross dress for a month (even said he would do it for free) because it would be a quite amusing experience to see how his friends would react to him while the girl answered that she would be willing to dye her hair with multiple colors because she has done it before. As you may infer, it may seem so that the generation of the youth today are more adventurous and diversifying in what they want to experiment in their physical appearances because they feel they have more “freedom” to do it and are less likely to be judged nowadays.
As for the kids, our group mate was excited and at the same time iffy about asking the kids about our deviance question because he felt they might be a bit too “overwhelming” for them. He was amused when he found out that at their age, they had the concept of giving importance to morals, values, law, and norms, thus, he wasn’t that much surprised anymore about their choices. From what they chose, (dying the hair and cross-dressing for a month) we can say that for the kids, they were willing to go against the things that they usually do for a hundred thousand pesos probably because there wasn’t much really to think about on the question.
For the Working class, we ended up going for our Guard and Photocopier personnel because a lot of people didn’t want to get questioned. Funnily enough though, the Guard ended up choosing to break the law because, as he said, “May thrill”. For our very own Photocopier (Ate Alma), she chose to cross dress because she used to be a “tomboy”.
As we can conclude from the experiment, the choices of the adults and parents (both male and female) are pretty much similar, where they would choose what they think are the easiest and safest to do without disrupting the folkways and mores of society. As dying one's hair in different colors or cross-dressing for a month are actions that would create gossip within friends but wouldn't really create that much controversies as the other actions such as cannibalism or cheating, or endanger one's life such as jaywalking. For the teens, so long as the people that surround them don’t mind what they do, they seem not to care whatever they end up doing. Of course though, we still had one person, a teacher, who picked to eat human flesh but shied away from showing his face and giving his name to be showed here. We can only understand that he felt that he could be judged by others if people knew that he was willing to do this. As it stands though, it seems that when people reach a certain age, they tend to care less of their fears of being judged by others so that in doing these weird things it’s not really that big of a deal for them anymore.