Before anything else, let me tell you the meaning of the word Filipino. Filipino, if you search on the dictionary, it is defined as the people who are living or natives of the Philippines. Also called as an Indio by the spaniards, an Indio in their own definition is a lower rank people who doesn't have any authorities in anything, in other word, Filipinos are set to be very unvocably when it comes to their feelings even if they are ones who are the natives of their own country.
Values on the other hand is defined as the traits or characteristics that are either accepted or rejected by other. These are abstract and shared ideas about what is desirable, good and correct. It is also can be define as the cultural traits of people in the country in which they are raised. It can be either inherited by their ancestors or came from the other entities.
Filipino values is serves as a unique characteristic of the Filipinos despite of the differences wherever they were raised. It is the traits and characteristics in which they are known and being proud of because it serves as a good values were most of foreign countries salutes. Maybe there are somewhat same as the values that are inherited through the countries that invades us at the time of cold war but the cultural heritage of the filipinos are as unique as the filipinos living in the Philippines, a country in which resides on the southern part of Asia and also known as the pearl of the ocean.
Now after we defined the all of the necessary things that said to be our main topic for this blog, let us now what are the examples of Filipino Values. First of all, let us look for good values that every filipinos have,
Close family ties. We are known for being one because of our being very close to our families. Even if we already do have our own families, we tend to live with our parents and take care of them when they are old enough to show our love on them. We even depend on them on anything that is going to happen in our lives.
Smooth interpersonal relationship. With this kind of relationship, filipinos are tend to go on being loyal to one another as their deep friendship with one goes on. They even give gifts or food to show their friendship though they don't have enough money for it.
Hospitality. When you happened to go to the Philippines, you are going to see this characteristic of filipinos even you are a foreigner. This kind of traits happened when you asking for a direction, going to fiestas(feast) or asking for a favor. They are willing to help you without asking anything in return.
Joy and humor. Is there a time when something depressing struck you up?Have you had a big disaster happened to your life? Even a simple smile can't have a glimpse with your face is it? Well, this things happened but for filipinos those moments will pass but still be able to laugh at it and still can recite a joke as if those things are like jokes for them. For example, when the typhoon ondoy strikes, many houses are being flooded, even too many people are drowned and killed but when this happened or was just happening, many filipinos still survived and laughing at it not because they laugh at somebody but they are doing that because they are thinking that it happens for a reason and laughing at it will lessen up their burden and the new beginning will rise after it.
Loyalty. To be able to show the deep appreciation that one has given to them, being loyal is the one that is always comes to the mind of every filipinos. They show this to show that they have the good characteristics of being a person.
Ability to survive. If you go to anywhere in the world, you can count on that you can see Filipinos. They have the characteristics of being flexible and have the ability to survive even on the the very land of Iraq. This the traits that the Filipinos are really known. They can live anywhere, just give them enough reason to do so and they will willingly do it.
Religious.Filipinos, though don't have the same religions, are known for being religious. They always got to church every Sunday or whenever there's a mass. They do respect God all the time and prays when they needed to. They even celebrate fiestas pertinent to their Saint's birthday and give thanks for all the blessings that they received for the whole year and for the another year to come.
Inspite of all the things that we knew about the filipinos, like other countries, we too have a sort of undesirable characteristics that is quite unfavorable when it comes with making up with people around. These traits sometimes makes our economy got into a low level rank and we often can't get ourselves go into top. These traits are the few:
Self centered. When someone is too popular, being self centered is the thing that goes on their minds. They thought that they are too superb and they wanted to be the center of attention. In this kind of personality, filipinos are not an exception. They are known, through not all, specifically those who are on the position. They do like to be on the top, and don't want to be unrecognize by the other people around.
Crab Mentality.This characteristics are often seen in the Philippines politics today. For example, our government today have too much good plans for the future for the people of the Philippines but the other entities, like media and etc. do always have something to say in order to pull the government to the bottom. This is the reason why our country can't get over the puberty that we are experiencing ever since. We can't get over to see that the other people are being successful, that to be able for us to be happy, we tend to have a crab mentality.
Procrastination.Anyone can relate to this but, Filipinos, as one which has the highest rank when it comes to being procrastinator. The term "deadline" was always the thing that they search for when doing something. They tend to wait for that date to come before they go ahead and work for it. For example, every year Philippine government set a date for taxes to be paid. People won't go to municipal hall unless it is the last date of submittion, the result, more than hundreds of people line up on that date and the government even sometimes extend the filing of ITR so that all of the tax payers will accommodate.
As a part of my view I would like to acknowledge these book/site/person which broaden up my ideas in doing this blog.
References:
Filipino Values - AMA moodle NSTP00B1
Philippines a unique nation
Mr. Raymond Mindanao
epub-ebook.com - (Do's and Don'ts in the Philippines by Maida Pineda)
Article by :
Marian J. Reyes
28 years old
Marinig, Cabuyao, Laguna
Bachelor in Information Technology @ AMA Computer College-Biñan campus
Euthenics 2 - section CD
Mr. Raymond Mindanao
