WHO IS THE

FILIPINO?
 Country Profile

Credit: BBC website

Ethnic groups
1.Tagalog -- 28.1%,
2.Cebuano --13.1%,
3.Ilocano -- 9%,
4.Bisaya/Binisaya -- 7.6%,
5.Hiligaynon Ilonggo -- 7.5%,
6.Bikol -- 6%,
7.Waray -- 3.4%,
8.Others -- 25.3%
(Source: 2000 census)
Credit: CIA Factbook Website
Languages
1. Filipino (official; based on Tagalog)
2. English (official);
3. Eight major dialects [sic]
a. Tagalog,
b. Cebuano,
c. Ilocano,
d. Hiligaynon or Ilonggo,
e. Bicol,
f. Waray,
g. Pampango, and
h. Pangasinan

Credit: CIA Factbook Website

Religions
1.Catholic - 82.9% (Roman Catholic
80.9%, Aglipayan 2%),
2.Muslim - 5%,
3.Evangelical - 2.8%,
4.Iglesia ni Kristo - 2.3%,
5. other Christians - 4.5%,
6.others - 1.8%,
7.Unspecified - 0.6%,
8.none - 0.1%

(Source: 2000 census)

Credit: CIA Factbook Website
 CHARACTER STRENGTHS
OF THE FILIPINO
Flexibility, Adaptability
Pakikipagkapwa-tao and Creativity

Hard work and

Industry
Family-orientation

Faith and Religiosity

Joy and Humor

Ability to survive

Source: Patricia B. Licuanan

 WEAKNESSES
Extreme Personalism

Colonial Mentality

Extreme Family-
centeredness
Kanya-kanya
syndrome

Lack of Discipline
Lack of Self-analysis
and reflection

Passivity and Lack of

Initiative

Source: Patricia B. Licuanan

WRITE TIME CW - Individual
Divide the paper into two. On the left side, write
down the positive traits of the Filipino and on the
other side (left), write down the Filipinos
negative traits.
Think about your own life and personality.
As honestly as you can, encircle the positive and
negative traits that are applicable to you and on
the lines below, give a particular example or
experience to support your answers.
 ROOTS OF THE FILIPINO CHARACTER

Home Social Culture and

History
environment environment language

Educational Economic Political

Religion
system environment environment

Leadership
Mass Media and Role
Models
1. HOME ENVIRONMENT
2. SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
Fiestas
A symbol of the
Filipinos sense
of community
Florentino
Hornedo
A cultural anchor helping
Filipinos define their
national character
Florentino Hornedo
 3. CULTURE AND LANGUAGE

Meals are nonlinear and celebrative like time.

4. HISTORY
4. HISTORY
5. EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
Is this the norm in
our educational
system?
Acquiescence
Code switching
 Most if not all of the leaders now in government
are products of Catholic schools. Gloria Arroyo whom
they say has given the Philippines the ignoble
distinction of being the most corrupt country in
Southeast Asia and the 11th most corrupt worldwide is
a product of their schools.
The public officials who have been accused of
stealing millionseven billions ofpesos are
all products of a Catholic education system that has
essentially failed to instill the virtues of honesty,
decency, and love-of-country, in its students.
Source: http://www.worldwithoutend.info/social/articles/corruption/011-most-corrupt.htm
6. RELIGION
7. ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT
HOW DO WE STOP
CORRUPTION?
 How do we come up with a development that
includes the poor and the marginalized?

growth coupled with

equal opportunities

INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT
Source: ADB Operational Paper on Inclusive Growth and Inclusive Development: A Review and Synthesis of ADB Literature
 focuses on creating
opportunities and making
them accessible to all, not
just to the poor
INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT
Source: ADB Operational Paper on Inclusive Growth and Inclusive Development: A Review and Synthesis of ADB Literature
 There is inclusive growth when all
members of a society participate in
and contribute to the growth process
equally, regardless of their
individual circumstances.
INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT
Source: ADB Operational Paper on Inclusive Growth and Inclusive Development: A Review and Synthesis of ADB Literature
8. POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT
Centralization of Power
Basic services focused
on Manila
9. MASS MEDIA
9. MASS MEDIA
9. MASS MEDIA
9. MASS MEDIA
10. LEADERSHIP
AND ROLE
MODELS
 Group Discussion
What brings out the good, the best in the Filipino? How do you inspire or what inspires Filipinos
towards positive, productive or constructive behavior/social action?
How do you get Filipinos to cooperate and work together harmoniously, happily, efficiently and
effectively?
What are we most productive/creative at/in? What is the nature of the Filipino cultural genius (both
local and nationally shared)?
How do you bring out honesty, sincerity, and loyalty?
How do you resolve conflicts?
How do you criticize ones work or raise standards of excellence without arousing ill will and
resentment?
How do you inculcate or promote discipline and dedication to ones task? (The feeling of being taken
advantage of; being exploited, abused; being treated unfairly, unjustly, or being demeaned, insulted
pinagsasamantalahan, minamaltrato, ginugulangan, nilalamangan, iniinsulto o binabastos is
especially abhorrent to the Filipino, it being a serious affront to ones dignity as an ultimately sacred
being.)

Source: http://ncca.gov.ph/about-culture-and-arts/in-focus/beyond-the-dona-victorina-syndrome/