Filipino Characteristics

Personalism

Filipino trait wherein they give importance to interpersonal relations or face-to-face encounters. Filipinos usually extends their work or services through “personal touch” or handles problem solving through good personal relations.

Familialism

focuses on the welfare and interest of the family over those of the community.

Particularism

relates to the strong family influence on the individual or group behavior.

shown when an individual strive to promote their own and their family’s interest over the community’s interest

(3) main obligations of Filipino value

orientation

relational, emotional, and moral

Utang na Loob

individual is required to return a favor or service received. However, the return of such service or favor cannot be translated into monetary equivalent and may reciprocated in a month of service or even a lifetime.

Bahala na

They firmly believe in the supernatural and in all kinds of spirit dwelling in individual persons, places or things. They believe in a Supreme Being who will take care of things for them.

Mañana Habit

This is a Filipino trait that enforces procrastination - practice of putting off work to be done in the near future or in the last minute.

Ningas Kugon

As a Filipino trait, it means that Filipinos tend to have a strong enthusiasm in the beginning of each work or endeavor but gradually slows down and lose their drive to work and finish the job.

Amor Propio

means a sense of self-esteem or self-respect that prevents a person from swallowing his pride. It also means ego defensiveness or maintaining one’s dignity and personal pride

Bayanihan

It is helping out one’s neighbor as a community, and doing a task together, thus lessening the workload and making the job easier.

Pakikipagkapwa-tao

Camaraderie and feeling of closeness to one another; foundation for unity as well as sense of social justice

Family Oriented

Feeling of belongingness and rootedness and a basic sense of security

Joy and Humor

Emotional balance, optimism, a healthy disrespect for power and office and the capacity to survive

Flexibility and Adaptability

Productivity, innovation, entrepreneurship, equanimity and survival

Hardwork and Industry

Productivity and entrepreneurship for some and survival despite poverty for others

Faith and Religiosity

Courage, daring, optimism, inner peace, as well as the capacity to genuinely accept tragedy and death

Ability to Survive

Bravely live through the harshest economic and social circumstances

Extreme Personalism

Leads to graft and corruption

Extreme Family Centeredness

Lack of concern for the common good and acts as the block to national consciousness

Lack of Discipline

Inefficient and wasteful work systems, violation of rules leading to more serious transgressions and a casual work ethics leading to carelessness and lack of follow- through

Passivity and Lack of Initiative

Easily resigned to one’s fate and thus easily oppressed and exploited

Plus lack of discipline

Colonial Mentality

Basic feeling of national inferiority that makes it difficult for them to relate as equal to Westerners

Kanya-kanya Syndrome

Dampening of cooperative and community spirit and in the trampling upon of the rights of others

Lack of Self- Analysis and Self – Reflection

Emphasis on form more than substance

Value Etymology

Latin = “valere”

to be strong and vigorous

Values

by Dr. Tomas Q. D. Andres

things, persons, ideas or goals which are important to life; anything which enables life to be understood, evaluated, and directed.

Values

by Edgar Sheffield Brightman

whatever is liked, prized, esteemed, desired approved, or enjoyed by anyone at any time. It is the actual experience of enjoying a desired object or activity. Hence, value is an existing realization of desire.

Mixture of Filipino Values

blend of the rich Christian values of Europe, the pragmatic and democratic values of America, and the spiritual values of Asia.

Family

basic social unit

here where values and principles are nurtured and imbibed in each and every member of the family