The locals of the Philippines are called Filipinos. Their primary ancestors are the Malays who came from the southeastern Asian country or what is now called Indonesia. Before the Europeans discovered the country‚ Filipinos have had connections with China that resulted to a mixed Chinese-Filipino descent. Spanish-Filipinos came out during the colonial period and Filipino-Americans added a few percentages as well during the American occupation. They are easily distinguished by their fairer color‚
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Who wants to be a Filipino? If you were to be reincarnated and given the choice‚ would you opt to be Filipino again? It was in 1998‚ at a Forum of students of top schools at the University of Asia and the Pacific‚ that I raised this question. As expected‚ everybody‚ except me‚ gave a resounding yes for an answer. Hypocrites! I could see from the way they talked‚ from the clothes they wore‚ from their ideas of what was good and beautiful‚ that even in this lifetime they were dying to camouflage
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include homosexuals‚ bisexuals‚ transsexuals‚ crossdressers‚ and effeminate men. Filipino gays are mostly stereotyped as effeminate‚ crossdressers‚ hairdressers‚ camp and ridiculed. Bakla or Bading‚ a derogatory Filipino word for gay‚ is commonly used. Tibo or tomboy has a similar function‚ and refers to lesbians‚ usually of the butch and masculine type. A more benign slang word for gay men is billy boy. For Filipino gays‚ the Tagalog phrase "paglaladlad ng kapa" (literally means "unfurling of the
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Revolutionizing Mindsets National consciousness among Filipinos is faced with a lot of challenges today. There is a need to revolutionize mindsets and one big factor that has a big impact in the process of revolutionary mindsets is the Media. It is unfortunate that a lot of what the media shows to the public represses transformation. A lot of soap operas that are being shown are remakes of western ones which are usually Korean or Mexican. Products like food and gadgets that are being endorsed are
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identity of the Filipino? I have thought about this concept as I read through Linda Revilla’s “Filipino American Identity”. According to Rivera‚ the two main factors that have affected the sense or definition of “Filipino American Identity” are colonization and immigration. The vision of a Filipino in my mind is someone whose identity is culturally resilient in adapting and overcoming adversity and yet so culturally fractured in our identity. For me the concept of being Filipino had always been exotic
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Filipinos Speech Purpose:|To inform the class about Filipinos and their culture| Thesis:|Today I am going to talk to you about Filipinos customs‚ food and family activities.| Introduction I.|Filipinos have many customs such as the etiquette they have to do when meeting someone new.| II.|Filipino food has many influences towards their ingredients and type of dishes.| III.|The family is the center of the social structure and includes the nuclear family‚ aunts‚ uncles‚ grandparents
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I am a Filipino I am a Filipino‚ and I’m proud to be a Filipino. And what happens to our ancestors in the past. From the Malayan pioneers sought our land and live on their own. Make home on what they see on the nature‚ land‚ hills‚ mountain and seas‚ hoping to have a better life with their family in the nature. How they care to their nature is what I will pass to the next generations. I’m proud to be a Filipino‚ to our ancestors who became a hero. They battle against the aliens who want to
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PEOPLE WHO SHARE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING FILIPINO VALUES AND ITS STUDIES: Felipe Landa Jocano is a Professor Emeritus at the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines and Executive Director of PUNLAD Research House‚ Inc. He has authored numerous books on various aspects of Filipino Society and Culture. Frank Lynch is an anthropologist who came to the Philippines and study Filipino values and the acceptance of this in the society ‚ founder of Frank Lynch university. Robert Hennig- B.S. Psychology
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Rik Lezter M. Pantoja 07-14-2014 Mktg2-2 Socsci 100 Reflection Paper From the articles that I had read‚ will reflect the readers’ understanding on different Filipino values‚ how it defines one‚ what it means‚ and if one’s personality changes to fit certain situations. Filipino values have been derived from racial strains and cultural elements such as Aeta‚ Indonesians‚ Malayan‚ Hindu and Chinese which formed the core of our moral conscience‚ cultural identity coupled with
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“The Indolence of the Filipino People” Summary On the first chapter‚ it primarily deals with the admittance of Rizal that indolence does exist to Filipinos and he also pointed out reasons why it existed. Rizal also elucidate that the term indolence was greatly altered in the sense of no love or little love for work. In the Philippines‚ Rizal pointed out that the disaster‚ hardships‚ and weakness of the others are blamed to the indolence of the Filipino. Rizal agreed that laziness has been present
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