Understanding the Self

Jovanne Q. Baculpo October 15, 2020

First Year Ab-Philo

Test 1.

1. Some of the Filipino values and traits include:

a. Filipino Hospitality
b. Respect for Elders
c. Close Family ties
d. Cheerful personality
e. Self-sacrifice
f. Bayanihan
g. Bahala na Attitude

2. Filipino give respect to their elders.

3. Filipino’s have close knit family ties bounded by support, love, and care for each
member of the family.
4. One trait of a Filipino is extending help and assistance to people in need is called
Bayanihan.
5. Being Filipino is not thinking through and weight options but rely on fate and
coincidence for some outcome.
6. Two manifestation of colonial mentality include lack of patriotism or lack of an active
awareness, and actual preference for things that are foreign appreciation and love of
Philippines.
 7. Filipino’s use the power of Tsismis, destructive criticism to pull others down.
8. Common Filipino makes an Adaptability, Creativity, and Hard works.
9. A cheerful personality includes pleasant disposition and sense of humor and are fun
loving.
10. Being procrastinate and they prove to delay works, to some other time.

Test 2.

1.
1. Make an acrostic which will describe yourself and your being a Filipino?

ANSWER:

I being a Filipino is very lucky. I have a loving country, loving family, friends and
relatives. I’m very lucky to have this kind of a person. I’m happy being a Filipino like Dr. Jose
Rizal said, “Ang kabataan ang pag-asa ng Bayan”. Being proud that I am Filipino is not quite
easy. Sometimes, I even doubt it because of our government. Now, if someone will ask me, what
is the best thing that I have done for our country? I will tell him or her that I am proud to be a
Filipino.

2. Make an essay entitled “Being my Self and Being a Filipino: My Growth and Development
Saga”

ANSWER:

“Being myself and Being Filipino: My Growth and Development Saga”. In this phrase I
was fascinated because sometimes I always think that someday I fulfilled my dreams and wishes
to become a better person. Talking about the sexuality, sexuality is also a long process. Infants,
children, teens, and adults are sexual being in this modern times. Just as it is important to
enhance a child’s physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, so it is important to lay the
foundation for a child’s sexual growth. Being Filipino was the hardest things to grow and
develop. I suffer a lot of things to grow like to become a teenager this time. Henceforth, being
Filipino is not easy and we are sensitive of being grow and develop.