Filipino Fashion Just when you think that Filipinas do not know how to strut on the catwalk‚ Filipinas do not just have the passion to wear designed clothes; Filipinas are natural fashionistas. Tracing its origins‚ Filipinos had long since been very innovative and creative in the kind of clothes that they wear. The early settlers wore bahag‚ a loincloth commonly used by Filipino men before the European colonizers arrived. This is mostly used by indigenous tribes in the mountains‚ and until
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The Top 10 Filipino Entrepreneurs By the way‚ this list is ranked in no particular order‚ age‚ net worth or achievements. 1. Henry Sy – SM Malls Henry Sy Henry Sy is a Chinese Filipino entrepreneur and founder of SM Group. You’ll be hard pressed to not find an SM Mall around the Philippines. Henry Sy started building his own small business called “Shoe Mart” and eventually turned it into a major corporate identity. Henry Sy inspires many people that you can start small and grow it into a massive
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"Filipino uprisings" Chapter VII (INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL OF FILIPINO UPRISINGS) HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF FILIPINO UPRISINGS The early missionaries learned the language of their flock and even their customs and traditions. They lived among the people as the father and mentors of the community. At times they took the sides of the natives against tax exaction of the state. They worked through the chiefs and established themselves as an additional authority. Greater power together with the decline
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The Filipino Today By Alex Lacson‚ 2010 After the August 23 hostage drama‚ there is just too much negativity about and against the Filipino. "It is difficult to be a Filipino these days"‚ says a friend who works in Hongkong. "Nakakahiya tayo"‚ "Only in the Philippines" were some of the comments lawyer Trixie Cruz-Angeles received in her Facebook. There is this email supposedly written by a Dutch married to a Filipina‚ with 2 kids‚ making a litany of the supposed stupidity or idiocy of Filipinos in
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WHAT IS FILIPINO NATIONALISM? - Mrs. Leticia R. Constantino Nationalism has had a long history in our country. In our struggle for freedom‚ there have been periods when strong nationalist feelings fired our people to action and other periods when nationalism seemed to be forgotten. Not only did nationalism as a sentiment have its peaks and valleys‚ nationalism as a political concept has been espoused at one time or another by different sectors of society which projected particular nationalist
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THE FILIPINO FAMILY 1. The Changes in the structure of the Filipino Family The Filipino family was considered as the backbone of the state (Carandang‚ 2008). That is why alterations in the family’s beliefs‚ practices‚ structures and members’ responsibilities immensely influence the nation’s constancy. These changes have put our “traditionally- structured” families at jeopardy. How the children in the family are being socialized is also subject to change that leads to inconsistency of the adaptation
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water from nature is the pervasive factor that shaped the Philippines fertile soil – an ever agricultural setting. The most concrete illustration of early Filipino expertise in farming was the building of the rice terraces‚ is the well known Banaue Rice Terraces‚ probably the “Eighth Wonder of the World”. Social Classes The early Filipinos in general were all very similar in their social classes. Each barangay was divided into three social groups: the datus or nobles‚ the timagwas or freemen‚
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responsibility is to provide for the education of every member of the society‚ it follows that an educated Filipino must possess three characteristics as enumerated by Francisco Benitez in his essay “What is an Educated Filipino?” 2. According to the author‚ what is the first quality should distinguish the educated Filipino? First is the power to do which embraces not only the ability of the Filipinos to produce material goods but also the valuable services rendered to society through institutions
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Filipinos are abundant in terms of culture‚ tradition‚ cuisine‚ and transportation.All of us Filipinos should be proud of them. There are a lot of tourist spots in the Philippines that we can be proud of. And to introduce my culture would be fun and great. I would make them ride a jeepney‚ eat some street food like kwek-kwek and drink some alcohol like tagaka. First‚ I would make foreigners ride a jeepney.It is one of the transportations in the Philippines. It has four wheels
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Filipino Immigration 2 Abstract Many Filipinos who have migrated to the U.S had an opportunity to explore a different type of life. Living in America there are so many opportunities for each Filipino to live‚ work and to have a better type of lifestyle. Migrating from a third world country is a huge transition from the way life is in the U.S. Coming from a country of seven thousand plus islands and a culture where “…women were considered equal to men‚”(1) according to Linda A. Revilla in her
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