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0:05hello my dear students
0:07good morning and welcome
0:10today i will talk about the strengths
0:12and weaknesses of the filipino moral
0:14character so i hope that you will listen
0:17well and i hope that you will learn a
0:19lot of valuable information and truths
0:22about our own
0:24uh traits as filipinos
0:26so let's go ahead and talk about the
0:28important cultural values or practices
0:31that we filipinos have i have prepared
0:3320 so 10 positive and 10
0:36not so positive traits that we have so
0:39i'll start with the strength or the
0:41positive first
0:43all right the first one here is
0:45respectful
0:47this is
0:48very well known to all of us we use po
0:51and oppo when speaking with an elderly
0:54as a form of respect to them and also
0:56pagmamano um it may not be for all
0:59families now but most filipinos would
1:02still do this blessing the hand as shown
1:05in the photo here
1:06uh usually done to the elderlies as well
1:10as a form of greeting
1:12so that's showing our
1:14uh respect to them
1:17very truly filipino
1:19all right next we have hospitable we are
1:22known for our filipino hospitality and
1:25it says here that for filipinos it is a
1:28pleasure to accommodate guests in their
1:30homes
1:31guests visitors
1:33our friends families relatives coming
1:36from other places
1:39also foreigners we are very hospitable
1:42to foreigners as well
1:44and another thing that i'd like to share
1:46about our uniqueness when it comes to
1:49our hospitality is that as compared with
1:52other countries i'm talking about for
1:54example countries in north america usa
1:57canada
1:58and such
1:59um
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2:01it is not a practice for you to just
2:03visit the home of your friend or your
2:05family without informing them first that
2:08you are coming but here in the
2:09philippines
2:10we will gladly do that right and we are
2:14going we are welcomed
2:16with filipino warmth even if we did not
2:19um give advance notice that we're coming
2:22that's very okay for filipinos
2:25so we are very hospitable and
2:28this is a long discussion because
2:30there's so many things that i can think
2:31of when we talk about hospitality of the
2:33filipino people
2:36especially in the provinces or those
2:38people older than us those generation
2:41whenever there are guests coming in
2:43their homes
2:44they would even take out the special
2:47dishes the special china special
2:50glasswares
2:51and whatever things they have at home
2:54so that this
2:56stuff will be used by the guests
2:59they really have that special
3:02dishes
3:03for our for the visitors and even take
3:06out the
3:08the new and you know
3:10a very clean linens if the guest decides
3:14to stay for the night so that's how we
3:18that's how hospitable we are here
3:20in the philippines or
3:22as filipinos
3:24and i hope that you can you know you can
3:27relate to that still
3:30okay
3:31next we have resourceful
3:33so filipinos find way to improvise
3:36do you believe that you are resourceful
3:39filipinos would always think of creative
3:42ways uh you know to for example to fix
3:44something if there's if something is
3:46wrong so very creative or compaga in
3:49other words in our own language
3:52we are always very resourceful
3:56especially during unexpected situations
3:58and you know temporary
4:00um we can provide temporary and quick
4:04solutions to such problems there are
4:07such situations
4:10all right so we are resourceful
4:14next we have here close-knit with family
4:18okay we always understand that that we
4:20are very close to our families filipinos
4:23are value oriented you know value
4:25families
4:26and not only our immediate families but
4:29even extended families at some homes the
4:32extended families are even living in one
4:34home
4:35not just because of poverty yes it could
4:37be but aside from that uh even on
4:40celebrations we don't want to miss out
4:43anybody who's part of the family we
4:46we value traditions when it comes to
4:49family gatherings
4:51and you know um we always we take care
4:54of our old people as well that's uh one
4:57of the things that we
5:00we take pride on
5:01right
5:03okay so next we have education is highly
5:07valued
5:08of the filipinos so families
5:11make great sacrifices to educate their
5:14children
5:15and even the children would really want
5:17to go to school would really want to
5:19study
5:20majority of filipinos love to study it's
5:23really inculcated in our culture it's
5:26cultural and um
5:28for other families as mentioned here
5:30they go great lengths of sacrifices for
5:33example for a filipino farmer they would
5:36even sell their cows or carabaos or
5:41their source of livelihood
5:43just so that their kid can go to college
5:47their children can get the proper
5:49education
5:51right and we have the belief the
5:52filipinos believe that the gateway to a
5:56great life or good life in the future is
5:58through
6:00having a diploma or a good education
6:04so
6:05that's something very unique about us we
6:08don't just um
6:09stop in high school we would always a to
6:12go to college
6:14and higher education
6:17so look at
6:18this to your great students
6:21so you are very
6:23blessed and fortunate that you are in
6:26school and your parents are working very
6:29hard and you yourselves most filipinos
6:32would study
6:34while our world work while studying
6:38so
6:41next we have hard working
6:44hard working okay in the photo here
6:47it's showing the hard work of the people
6:49while planting rice but not only that
6:51there are so many ways that the
6:53filipinos
6:55are shown to be
6:57hard-working people
6:59and even they go great lengths also in
7:01their hard work
7:03i'm talking about
7:04having
7:06overseas filipino workers they would
7:08sacrifice a lot of their you know of
7:11their freedom sacrifice a lot of
7:15being away from families for many months
7:18and sometimes years
7:20they would sacrifice getting
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7:23homesick
7:25right
7:26just so that they can provide a better
7:28life for their families and abroad
7:31they're always um commended to be people
7:34who works very well
7:37very hard working among filipinos
7:41all right so next another one is
7:43friendly and easy to get along with do
7:45you do you believe in that
7:47yes filipinos are very friendly it's not
7:50difficult to approach a filipino
7:53they was not that's not but you
7:56filipinos always have a ready smile to
7:59any stranger whether local
8:02whether foreign like what's shown in the
8:04photo here they're just inside the
8:06jitney right but it seems that um
8:09there's friendliness going on in there
8:11so we are easy to get along with our
8:14filipinos are
8:15very trusting people
8:18so
8:19there you go
8:20um
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8:22to approach a filipino especially if you
8:25go abroad and you can find one person
8:28filipino you can always approach that
8:30person and you'll sure that if she or he
8:34is filipino you'll get a smile and
8:36you'll get along
8:38easily well all right so next we have
8:42community spirit we have the very well
8:45known by any han
8:47okay and the photos here this was the
8:49bayanihan in the past we're in
8:53men are helping each other in
8:55transferring this baha'i kubo to another
8:58place this is where the word bayanihan
9:01actually started
9:02and you know there are many forms of
9:04bayaniha now in our modern times in
9:06another photo this could be we're in
9:09there helping
9:10this
9:11vehicle
9:12but aside from that especially during
9:14the pandemic filipinos would help each
9:17other
9:18uh would give food or whatever they have
9:21um
9:22to their neighbors to the strangers to
9:25just about anybody you can filipinos are
9:28always ready to help so that's our
9:31community spirit
9:33that's a very good trait that we should
9:35never um erase in our culture
9:40then the next one is religious actually
9:42filipinos are very religious not only
9:44christianity
9:46well christianity is very broad but
9:50specifically the catholic faith
9:53has become a part of the filipino
9:55culture and if you i know that you would
9:57agree that a lot of our holidays here
10:00are
10:01religion related
10:03so
10:04filipinos would practice traditions and
10:09not only that for majority if not all
10:12filipinos we believe in god most of us
10:15believe in a higher being
10:17right so whether
10:19whether what kind of denomination of
10:22christianity you belong to
10:24we
10:25respect that
10:27and we also have
10:28you know we we practice our beliefs
10:31and not only for christians but also for
10:33muslims as well
10:35so we are very religious
10:39okay next one we have fiesta spirit
10:43right we love celebrations our provinces
10:47has their own
10:49festivities
10:51we have different festivals here in the
10:54philippines we have that fiesta spirit
10:57filipinos love celebrations and along
10:59with the celebrations of course bonding
11:01with people and
11:03some toast food
11:05about most celebrations if it's like
11:07it's not going to be a celebration here
11:09in the philippines or for a filipino if
11:12there's no food involved
11:14do you agree
11:15so
11:16especially in the provinces celebrations
11:18or fiestas are
11:20taken seriously they would really fatten
11:23a cow or a pig prior to this celebration
11:27so that they can cook this
11:30and they would have to
11:32have a very
11:34festive
11:36um occasion during that time and this is
11:39also religion related fiesta
11:51okay so
11:52that's about it for the positive ones
11:55we are not
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11:58we are not free from weaknesses as well
12:00or the negative traits that we have or
12:02not so good traits that we have that i
12:05hope we can
12:06um improve in the next
12:09lifetime or in the next generation so
12:12you you are the newer generation so if
12:14you see that
12:15these are weaknesses or these are
12:17negative ones so maybe you can do
12:19something about it so let me present the
12:2110
12:22um weaknesses that i prepared here the
12:24first one is a very well-known
12:27procrastination
12:29or the manana habit or we call it
12:31mamayana habit or in the modern time
12:34it's called
12:36weight loss habit
12:38you know younger generations would
12:40always say
12:41when their parents called them to do
12:42something they would say wait lang or
12:44mamayana wait long wait now and all
12:47and this means that we always have we
12:49always put off for a later time what we
12:52can do for now
12:53and the bad thing about this is that on
12:56a later time we will be stuck with work
12:59and giving us so much stress because you
13:01haven't done something now and then mama
13:04yamuna go in then later on
13:08gagawin so i hope that you students will
13:10not practice procrastination
13:13as soon as you get the time to do
13:15something
13:16then do it immediately be productive
13:19immediately so that you will not be
13:20stressed out later on okay this is
13:23something that we need to improve on on
13:24the procrastination
13:26and next we have the baha lana
13:29okay keep calm and baha'u'llah see
13:31batman you will always hear that for
13:34filipinos it means that we try we tend
13:37to leave everything by chance to chance
13:39or to laugh
13:41and what happens here is that
13:44you filipinos would not strive very hard
13:47to achieve that something that they
13:48would want to happen in their lives
13:51because they will just say okay
13:55all right so no specific
13:58goal no specific
14:00um
14:01objective for anything to to better the
14:04life of the filipino but
14:06he'll just say baha lena
14:08and it works for him for many many
14:11generations
14:13all right so next we have the nina's
14:17you know a philippine grass that easily
14:19gets um you know extinguished by fire so
14:25it's
14:26so i call this here unsustained
14:28enthusiasm
14:30it's one of the negative traits of
14:32filipinos wherein we get we get to
14:36to be excited so easily
14:39so excited with a project
14:41with an activity that we have in mind we
14:43are so enthusiastic
14:46and the problem there is that enthusiasm
14:49that eagerness and willingness to do
14:51that project died down so easily as well
14:55just like the cocoon so it's not
14:57sustainable
15:01afterwards because excited
15:04and then
15:06excitement hindi so sustain especially
15:21are you like that i hope not
15:25okay so next we have the colonial
15:27mentality filipinos prefer and love
15:31foreign made products whatever products
15:34it may be food clothing
15:37whatever apparels
15:39bags shoes whatever kind as long as it's
15:42made from somewhere else filipinos would
15:45sure love that
15:47okay
15:48so
15:49that's not very good because it affects
15:51our economy so instead of loving our own
15:54products
15:56uh filipinos would prefer to buy
15:58imported products
16:01okay so that's colonial mentality next
16:03would be
16:04crab mentality i know that you know this
16:07and this is quite popular here in our
16:09country where in filipinos like to pull
16:12each other down
16:14if you can see in the photo here let me
16:16read oh no you don't where do you think
16:19you're going come back down here where
16:21the rest of us belong
16:23so filipinos don't like to see a
16:26neighbor or a friend or a colleague or
16:28other filipino people
16:30to succeed more than the success that
16:32that person is enjoying
16:42it pictures a crab in a bucket if you
16:46can
16:47you know
16:48uh try to imagine that and i'm sure that
16:51you've seen this scenario already
16:57so the thing about a filipino who has
17:00this crab mentality is that this person
17:03is very
17:05insecure
17:06okay so very insecure not confident that
17:10he or she can also achieve something
17:12good or better so that's why
17:15this person pull the other person down
17:18or say something negative to the other
17:20person so that the other person would
17:22lose heart and would not
17:24try to achieve that good thing that he
17:27is planning to achieve so i hope you
17:29students don't have this crap
17:31mentalities
17:34we are very known for this
17:37and um it will start from you now
17:40that with your classmates now you can
17:42help each other not cheat not copy
17:45answers from your classmates but you
17:47know motivate each other
17:50you know offer some solutions if your
17:53classmates have problems offer to teach
17:55your classmate if there is something
17:57that he or she finds difficult and you
17:59know that you know it
18:01so just you know be kind you have to
18:04really try to eliminate
18:07this crap mentality and eventually i
18:10know that we will succeed on this one
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18:30and then we have here the pride and
18:31arrogance the filipinos don't like the
18:33idea of being defeated or embarrassed
18:38this was popularly called a more propio
18:41the spanish word for pride
18:44so uh some
18:46fights you know street fights
18:49you know are rooted
18:51with this case
19:00and another thing for the pride and
19:02arrogance
19:03have you noticed that it's very
19:05difficult for filipinos to say sorry or
19:08to apologize when he or she has done
19:11something bad or wrong to other people
19:14it's difficult for a filipino person to
19:17say
19:18i apologize or say i'm very sorry
19:21what a filipino would do is that ah baba
19:24we
19:25[Music]
19:33inaudible the gesture of actually saying
19:36sorry it's kind of difficult for a
19:38filipino person
19:40and so we try to practice that as well
19:43we just we have to say sorry
19:45try to eliminate pride and arrogance
19:50okay so next we have
19:53i got this in the photo
19:56no see so are you no see so what is nosy
19:59in the photo here
20:01uh that explains a lot so filipinos like
20:04to engage in gossips likes to listen and
20:07believe hear says
20:10right uh very nosy we try to even if
20:13strap
20:16was happening you tried to listen
20:18um that's very common to filipinos but
20:21that's very negative that's not good and
20:24with this filipinos also are so easy to
20:28to form speculations in their minds if
20:31they see people talking or whatever
20:33actions that they feel that you know
20:36something fishy again
20:39filipino which is not good
20:41right
20:43and this is so true in the provinces
20:46we're in the you know the the parents or
20:49the mothers the housewives don't have
20:52anything to do
20:53so they would gather around during
20:55siesta time
20:57and do this stuff the gossiping thing
21:00and this will cause fights as well
21:02and chaos in the community this is not
21:04good so don't ever try to imitate this
21:08kind of trait of the filipinos all right
21:11students
21:12okay so next we have show-off
21:15yeah filipinos would spend beyond their
21:17means what do you mean by that for the
21:19purpose of showing off
21:21so an example for example you imagine a
21:24grand wedding
21:25everybody everyone's
21:27invited
21:29the close friends the immediate family
21:32extended family families from other
21:35towns families from other cities
21:38friends of friends
21:41co-workers co-workers of the extended
21:44family
21:45so see
21:46a lot are invited making sure nobody is
21:50left behind because we love celebrations
21:52right and we are close family knit kind
21:55of people so that's why we would make
21:57sure that when we have celebrations or
22:00occasions like such as a wedding
22:01everyone is invited the thing about this
22:04is that even if
22:07the couple or the family truly cannot
22:10afford that kind of of celebration
22:13they would still
22:14the bad thing is borrow money from
22:17someone else so that they can pull off
22:19that grand wedding that they have in
22:21mind
22:23and of course after the wedding the
22:25couple
22:26will be left with debts to pay instead
22:29of just having a small celebration
22:33and then
22:36it's not really happening for a typical
22:38filipino a typical filipino would really
22:41do great lengths just so that they can
22:44show off
22:46all right so it's part of their pride
22:48and arrogance as well
22:52okay so next one is
23:01a death of
23:03um you know gratitude or a debt of good
23:05will you know when you do something when
23:07somebody does something good to you you
23:10have that uttana up to that person so
23:12the beneficiary of a good deal has to
23:15repay the favor with another favor and
23:18the thing with autumn
23:19it doesn't
23:20get paid for a lifetime
23:25it will always be forever you will
23:27always think about it it's really
23:29cultural
23:32um
23:34so later on when that person needs
23:36something you would really want out of
23:39guilt you would really want to give in
23:41to that thing
23:45and
23:47this will be a very
23:49long discussion maybe in class
23:51because even in our politics
23:59look it in the photo here don't forget
24:01us
24:02so our the parents the filipino parents
24:04are also expecting
24:06their children to be paying this depth
24:10later on
24:15in the future when in fact
24:17it's not really your obligation so to
24:19speak but you know a morality issue of
24:22course you don't want to
24:23um to leave your elderly behind the man
24:27but yeah that's one thing with uttan
24:29naloop it never
24:40on it
24:41however
24:42there are also negative things about
24:44this so that's why that's a negative
24:49uh
24:50the filipino person with uttarangal
24:52seems to be in prison with that
24:55and another
24:57negative nato
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25:07something that it's beyond what you can
25:10do peroga with more because
25:12so that makes it very negative
25:15all right next we have the very
25:17well-known filipino time
25:20so i hope that we are
25:22eliminating this already or if not
25:30this is the filipino's own way our own
25:32unique brand of time which we know
25:36minutes or hours behind schedule
25:40always late the philippine time is a
25:42late time i hope that
25:45parang
25:46late time
25:50but we are still known for that
25:52the filipino time and and um this is
25:56negating our our good trait which is
25:59respect because you know when you are
26:02practicing this filipino time you are
26:04disrespecting the other person
26:07this annoys the foreigners of course
26:09this annoys the people or this um
26:15yeah annoys and angers the person who
26:18always want to be on time
26:21because especially those personal people
26:23who believe that time is gold
26:25because this is really disrespect
26:27clearly this is disrespect you are not
26:29respecting another people's other
26:32person's time
26:34for showing late imagine another person
26:36is there already waiting at eight
26:37o'clock and you arrived at nine
26:40so one hour naomi nakamura don't say
26:42something
26:44this is really very negative there's
26:46nothing positive about filipino time at
26:48all
26:49okay showing at work late you've been
26:52paid for
26:54that one hour but you're one hour late
26:57and so many things can happen because of
26:59being late so we can discuss that and
27:02you can include that in your reflections
27:04later on which i will
27:06let you do at the end of this
27:08presentation so that i can hear from
27:10your end there
27:12okay so that's about it for the
27:14weaknesses
27:16and negative traits and practices that
27:18we filipinos have
27:21and also of course the positive ones
27:23that i discussed earlier so i hope that
27:27you are learning something i hope that
27:29you will retain those positive traits
27:32and try to
27:33to pass on to the next generation to
27:35pass it on to the next generation but
27:38the negative ones as i mentioned i keep
27:40on mentioning we try to eliminate it we
27:43have to succeed at
27:45eliminating it especially those that are
27:49truly negative you hindisha have half
27:51the like the filipino time thing
27:54all right so i'll see you guys in class
27:56and i will be asking you to do
27:58reflections as i've said i will be
28:00posting the activity that you need to do
28:03and i hope you're learning something and
28:05i hope you're enjoying too
28:07all right see you thank you so much for
28:10listening and thank you so much for
28:13um being with me today bye guys