chapter 5 Flashcards
The country’s total land area is ________ square miles (298,170 km square)
115,124
The Philippine archipelago’s location at the _____ edge of Asia
far southeastern
The current population of the Philippines is_____ at mid year or 2023, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.
117,337,368
The archipelago is made up of over 7,100 islands of which only ____ are more than one square mile (2km square) in area.
460
t or f
The rest of the islands are inhabitable, and some disappear at high tide.
t
The geographic location of the Philippines meant that many aspects of region’s religious and cultural influences could be selectively adopted into the pre-existing culture.
Freedom to pick and choose from other cultures have helped to produce the very unique combination, that is the Philippines.
t or f
___ is ethnically and geographically divided into a number of subregions and is the home to three of the country’s six major language dialects
Luzon
___ which was the 1521 landing spot for Ferdinand Magellan during his exploratory voyage around the world and where he lost his life in a battle with a local chieftain.
cebu
To the far South is the large island of ____ that extends from a southwesterly arm known as ___ archipelago up to the main portion of the massive island that is a home to uneasily mixed population of non-Christian tribal groups, indigenous Muslims and recent Filipino Christian migrants.
Mindanao
sulu
very diverse geographically with a number of major river basins, gulfs, and bays, and it is known to a number of ethno-linguistic groups.
mindanao
t or f
Majority of the population is the Christianized “lowland” Filipinos.
t
t or f
Filipinos are not usually differentiated or distinguished according to which dialect they speak.
false; usually
The distinction being that the dialects are variations of a single linguistic root, since they all belong to the _____ language Family.
Malayo-Polynesian
people today prefer to call the Malayo-Polynesian family the “_____” family.
Austronesian
The language is geographically concentrated in the South Pacific islands and parts of southern Asia including the ____
Philippines, Madagascar, much of Malaysia, and the Central and South Pacific island groups (excluding Australia)
t or f
Filipino Christian on Mindanao identify themselves by geographic residences
t
t or f
the Muslim people base their identity on religion, and the nation’ s indigenous peoples, whose pre-Christian and pre-Islamic religious beliefs and cultures give them distinct identities.
t
Tagalog speakers live in the ____ area and adjacent regions of Central Luzon to the north and southern Tagalog provinces to the south.
metropolitan Manila
t or f
Tagalog forms the basis of Pilipino/Filipino, which over the last few decades has made real progress in becoming a true national language, despite the resistance of other dialects whose speakers resent the Manila/Tagalog dominance of the nations political, economic and cultural life.
t
Central Luzon, which covered the provinces of____and two highly urbanized cities (Angeles City and Olongapo City)
Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac and Zambales
Southern Tagalog which covered the provinces of _____ and the highly urbanized City of Lucena
Batangas, Cavite, Laguna, Marinduque, Occidental Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Palawan, Quezon, Rizal, Romblon and Aurora
the native dialect of the Filipinos living along the coastal plains and agricultural valleys of northern Luzon.
ilocano
Ilocanos have a reputation for being very tamad and extremely frugal.
false; hard working
____ are known for their spicy foods that make abundant use of chili peppers and their consumption of the coconut vodka lambanog.
Bicolanos
If the stereotype of the Ilocano is one hardworking frugality, the Visayan is the __
Archetypal opposite.
The ___ of the central islands has helped to produce a culture that values music, fun, and gregarious personal relations.
abundant marine resources and rich volcanic soils
Linguistically, the Visayan Islands are divided into a number of dialects:
Ilongo of Panay Island, Cebuano from Cebu, and Waray-Waray spoken on the islands of Leyte and Samar.
t or f
Most Mindanao’s Christian population is comprised of relatively recent migrants, who came from all over the Philippines to settle in this second smallest island in the country.
false; largest
The nation’s Muslim population is divided into five ethnic subgroups
boat-dwelling Badjaos; the Tausugs of the Sulu Archipelago; Samals of the Zamboanga peninsula of Mindanao; the Maranaos, who reside in the vicinity of Lake Lanao; and the Maguindanaoans
They do not have distinct dialect of their own but to speak of their original home provinces.
mindanao
Religiously and culturally, the Muslims have much more in common with the neighboring ____ than they do with their fellow Filipinos against whom they have waged independence struggle for a number of years.
Malaysians and Indonesians
an overwhelmingly Christian country.
ph
The denomination of Christianity that became most embedded in Filipino culture is ___, which was introduced in the Philippines during the earlycolonialperiod by the Spanish.
Catholicism
was introduced to the southern Philippines from neighbouring countries in Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia and Indonesia.
islam
In present day Philippines, most of the Muslim population in the Philippines reside in the __
southern islands of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan.
Contemporary Muslim Filipino communities are often collectively known as ___.
Moros
Most Moros practice __ Islam, while a small minority practice __
Sunni
Shi’a and Ahmadiyya.
The most dominant religious characteristics of archipelago’s scattered communities was
animism
the worship of spirits in nature
animism
a vague belief of numerous gods
Deism
The most common lesser deities were the
Anitos/Diwatas
Filipino concept of natural and supernatural worlds and one’s relationship to them is immediate since one’s own ancestor may be an __
anito
a combination of indigenous traditions, adopted Western forms, and a vibrant contemporary folk art.
The Philippine art
Western influenced art can be found at 2 cultural levels.
At the high end of culture,
Art level at the mass or folk level of Philippine culture
artists produce sophisticated works comparable with any others in the international modern art scene.
At the high end of culture,
seen in resplendent decorations for religious occasions and festivals; in urban popular art, and on highly decorated jeepneys.
Art level at the mass or folk level of Philippine culture is
Art in the early American period was dominated by
Fernando Amorsolo and Sculptor Guillermo Tolentino.
rustic landscapes of bountiful harvests, contented farmers, and smiling young women framed in warm tropical sunlight.
fernando amorsolo
based his style on classical forms.
Guillermo Tolentino
believes that the subject should include the ugliness of life.
victorio edades
He and his fellow modern artists introduced a full range of feelings and passion to the canvas as well as modern styles of art such as cubism, abstraction, and figurative expressionism.
victorio edades
he captured the mood and social concerns of the times with his cubism and neo-realist works of urban life.
Vicente Manansala
he features the actual residents of their town brings national and international praise.
Carlos “Botong” Francisco
he represented the new style of artist using a number if mediums, such as painting, printmaking, and etching as well as the mixed media of photography and painting to present his social statements most effectively.
Ben Cabrera
