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ENGLISH IV
31 February 20, 2007
Paula Pia P. Peña IV-3

The Genuine Burgis:
The creation of the modern burgis from the evolution of the traditional bourgeois


"In life there is only one thing constant... change..." – Anonymous

Through modern technology and the changing times, no burgis is a true and genuine burgis. The meaning and essence of the burgis has evolved together with the evolution of everything left on earth. What is a genuine burgis anyway? Has the value of being one depreciate as the times change?
The early and traditional view of the burgis originated from the French bourgeois. This sector composed of the middle class nobility. They were the merchants and traders of the 17th-18th century France. The early bourgeois were the part of society that dwelled between the nobility; the king and his court, and the proletarians; the servants and workers.
During the early middle ages, this silent majority entered the scene as a great economic force. They cleared the feudalist system. Through this the bourgeoisie reigned gradually as the ruling class of France. The bourgeoisie did not only uplift the social order, they transformed the norms of the old France. They contributed a great change in religion, civil rights and free trade; few of the many reforms that came from their intervention.
Although critics view them as materialistic and one-track minded they promoted these concepts. The most influential and controversial critic that the bourgeoisie encountered was Karl Marx. He pronounced that the ideology of the bourgeois was a sugarcoated way for their new social class to exploit the working class. Despite all the critisms, the bourgeois stood firm and established a newly defined France.
The bourgeois was not all bad. Yes, they did profit from their establishment of a new social order but the greater part of France also benefited. The proletarians gained a greater strength as the manpower of the new society. They served as the foundation of the new society, building the basics for people. They were liberated from serfdom and the corruption of the nobility. The bourgeois brought about their liberation. The new economic sector emerged as the liberator of the oppressed workers.
The cynical case of the bourgeois was left. The views of their presence and ideology were cleared off and the bourgeois emerge victorious. Through the years the bourgeois continued to transform society. They are the silent force that drives the nation, the middle class that now comprises the 48% of our world’s population.
Through the change in all fields of human life, currently the bourgeois is seen in a completely different perspective. No more are they the merchants and traders of the country; they are now the educated sector. They are the fresh "power" that could transform and uplift a greater scope of people.
I am a modern day burgis. Like the traditional bourgeois, I am learned. Being fortunately educated, I am aware of the capacity and responsibility of being a modern day burgis. I am fortunate to have a life that provides me my basic needs and simple wants. Because of this fortunate state, I have an obligation to the others that have fewer privileges than mine.
The modern day burgis and the traditional bourgeois have a lot in common. Like the traditional bourgeois, the modern day burgis have the power to transform society. Being part of the fortunate educated class, I have to use my talents to serve as the liberator of the oppressed. This role of the modern day burgis is similar to the role that the traditional bourgeois played for the serfs of the 17th-18-th century France.
The only difference between the roles of the traditional bourgeois and modern day burgis is their reaction to their times. The French bourgeois were the silent force that emerged from the French Revolution. On the other hand the modern day burgis are the strong yet stagnant force that could transform the nation by merely speaking-up.
As part of the modern day burgis, I must speak-up and be heard for through it I could use the stagnant force that lies within me. A force that could change the world.

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