Pasil: The Importance Of Cultural Heritage In Cebu City

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INTRODUCTION
With the changes brought about by the technologies efforts to preserve cultural heritage is a challenge to many people and a responsibility as well. Preserving cultual heritage is economical, historical, and a process. Cebu city has contributed well to the Philippines history and culture. From historical building and places to cultural traditions. Cebuanos even give a lot of contributions to the history and culture.
Cultural Heritage is the people’s historical past that we want to preserved for the future . According to Merrism Webster Dictionary (2017), Culture is the customary beliefs, social forms and material traits of a racial, religious or social group, also the characteristic features of eveyday existence shared by …show more content…

It was brought about by the spanish conquest and were important modes of transportation not just in cebu but also throughout the Philippines during the past decades. They were the most used type of transportation before vehicles came. Before the tartanilla used to crowed the streets of Leon Kilat, Sanciangco and Tres de Abril. This time, Tartanillas can be found along the streets of Duljo. You can ride a tartanilla for a very cheap fare. Tartanilla can roam around the three streets namely, Pasil, Taboan, and Duljo Streets . Pasil is widely known as a fish market and a place where you can buy fresh seafoods. There is no doubt that once upon a time the tartanilla earned the reputation as king of the road but because of the drastic change to our economy, from vehicles, cars and many mode of transportation, tartanilla may perish and may be gone on the streets. Letting tartanilla be erased in the mind of youth and to the next generation is like forgetting the culture that once mad Philippines known, it is in this light that this research is conducted to preserve the tartanillas in Pasil and be able to give the future a legacy.
Statement of the Problem
The study aims to preserve the culture of Pasil, the tartanilla, to let the next generation experience and see it visibly. The research question that guided this study were:
What are the ways the ways in preserving the tartanilla culture and what are the perceptions of many people with …show more content…

How do people in pasil cope in riding tartanilla everyday?
Research Design:
This study used the case study method of conducting a research. The principal purpose of the researchers was to discover what is their decision whether they agree to preserve tartanilla or they disagree based on their experienced.
Research Locale:
This study takes place in Pasil, Cebu city. And the respondents were the residents in Pasil.
Sample or the Respondents:
In order to get enough respondents to sustain datas we were able to used Purposive Sampling because the main people that is needed in the interviews are the people in Pasil who used tartanilla as for transportation and has experienced of using or riding tartanilla. Specifically, Creswell (2005) listed nine types of purposive sampling and based on the list and the data that we need to have we come up in using a typical sample . As of 2015 the population of Pasil is 8,593 according to the website of Cebu city- Philippine Barangay Population. We get a sample of 150 respondents as representative.
Research Instruments:
We used unstructured questionnaire as research instruments in collecting data in order for the respondent to express his or her opinions from a set of

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