LESSSON 2 ASAL PINOY Flashcards
WHY IS IT DIFFICULT TO IDENTIFY THE FILIPINO PERSONALITY?
- There is a problem of choosing a reliable method to analyze the traits and values of Filipinos, a people whose country had been greatly influenced by colonizers;
- Most researchers have used western models not applicable to Filipino culture. That is, according to Landa Jocano (1978), the discrepancies between research findings and real Filipino behavior.
Pedro Chirino compared the Philippines to a _____
“Spanish seed planted in Malay soil and nourished by Chinese and American influences.
Who compared the Philippines to “Spanish seed planted in Malay soil and nourished by Chinese and American influences.
Pedro Chirino
The Filipino soul is aa synthesis of _____, ______, and ____.
the Malay, Chinese mind, and Indian art
Are charming, trusting as a child, naturally tolerant, forbearing, and kind.
the Malay
He laughs a good deal, and is convinced that tomorrow everything will be better.
the Malay
is frivolous, characterized as lack of seriousness. His religious rituals are occasion for merrymaking and enjoyment.
the Malay
He praises the man who gets along well with others, ‘marunong makisama.’
the Malay
a blend of philosophy and pragmatism.
the Chinese mind
He laughs a good deal, and is convinced that tomorrow everything will be bette
the Malay
He is brave to the point of recklessness.
the Malay
His religious rituals are occasion for merrymaking and enjoyment. His meetings are reduced into a litany of green jokes and bawdy stories about dancing girls.
the Malay
His patience and perseverance, hardiness and foresight, frugality and thrift have been transplanted into the Filipino psyche.
the Chinese mind
The Confucian philosophy accounts for most of the values the Filipinos imbibed.
the Chinese mind
During the ______ (618-907 A.D), some 3,000 Chinese traders came and established residence in the Philippines.
Tang Dynasty
According to her about 10% of Filipino genes is Chinese.
Carmen Guerrero-Nakpil
elements in the Filipino lie mainly in art, manners, beliefs and language.
the Indian art
percentage of Filipinos that embraced Spanish catholicism
80%
a religion based on folk Catholicism mixed with pre-Spanish superstitions and pagan beliefs.
Spanish Catholicism
Emphasis on appearance, reputation, privilege and status are all Spanish.
- Delicadeza
- Some of the elements are: the public health system, road system, mass education, English language, Western democracy, presidential system, Congress.
AMERICAN REGIME
- The American regime made the Filipinos _____
PRAGMATIC
- Where before he had an obedient mind, now he is asking questions.
The MIND OF THE FILIPINO: AMERICAN
Under the Americans, Filipinos became ________
materialistic and individualistic
The Filipino is frequently diagnosed as one suffering from _____
identity crisis
He is Asian by birth but matured with a Western mind.
FILIPINO
Who said that the Filipinos are “They are little more than unfortunate clones of the West. They suffer from a ‘lack of their own culture.’”.
Delia Aguilar, 1995
Who brought the thinking to the Filipinos of inferiority?
Spaniards
He is a creation of diverse social, economic, cultural, political, and psychological stresses.
the Filipinos
He identifies the three basic aims that predominantly motivate and control the behavior of the Filipino:
Fr. Frank Lynch (1976)
three basic aims that predominantly motivate and control the behavior of the Filipino:
SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE
ECONOMIC SECURITY
SOCIAL MOBILITY
defined as being taken by one’s fellow for what he is or is believed to be and being that image in accordance with his status
SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE
attainment of social acceptance is assisted by two intermediate values
Smooth Interpersonal Relationship
Sensitivity to Personal Affront
the ability to get along with others in such a way as to avoid signs of conflict.
Smooth Interpersonal Relationship
the method used to maintain includes pakikisama, euphemism, and the use of go-between.
Smooth Interpersonal Relationship
the loss of social acceptance is guarded against by two sanctions that discourage behavior descriptive of those relations:
i. hiya
ii. amor propio
a goal means the desire to possess the essentials for a decent human life and the opportunities for improving oneself
Economic Security
suggests self-sufficiency maintain one’s dignity and family
Economic Security
principle of behavior wherein every service, solicited or not, demands a return, the nature and proportion of which is determined by the relative status of the parties involved and the kind of exchange of issue
Reciprocity
is most consciously generated when a transfer of goods or services takes place between individuals belonging to two different groups.
Reciprocity;
going up the ladder of social class— from lower class to elite class;
Social Mobility
It is emerging from poverty to riches.
Social Mobility
He made the Filipino hierarchy of needs
Dr. Tomas Andres
Dr. Tomas Andres has observed that the Filipino is motivated by the following hierarchy of needs:
Heroism Social Mobility Social Acceptance Reciprocity Familism
the Filipino has the need to belong.
Familism
He is governed by Utang na Loob
Reciprocity
- The Filipino has the need to be accepted in a bigger group
Social Acceptance
- The Filipino aspires to climb the socio-economic ladder
SOCIAL MOBILITY
- The Filipino has the ultimate need to be esteemed and revered.
HEROISM (or Pagkabayani)
He gets a lifting spirit when he does good to his family or society and this achievement is recognized and acknowledged.
HEROISM (or Pagkabayani)
TRUE OR FALSE. the Filipino looks for meaning in what is not said.
TRUE
The ______ for the Filipino together with the pauses between silences is very meaningful.
SILENCE
his concept of society is the absence of conflict and the existence of equilibrium in society
FILIPINO
letting the other party hear by speaking to a different person.
Parinig
‘Biru-biro kung sanglan, totoo king tamaan’
Biruan
The Filipino uses a camouflage of words para ____
hindi makasakit ng damdamin at kalooban.
‘to close up’ not to lay self open; The Filipino is not making the first move towards involvement or commitment.
Pakipot
“Hindi mapagtanim, masama lang magalit.”
THE FILIPINOS
He is showy for the benefit of social approval.
Pakitang tao
The Filipino feels he is being watched. Thus, he has expected to some roles and evaluated by the community.
Pakitang tao
YES’ for Pinoys has seven (7) meanings
He does not know;
He is annoyed;
He wants to impress;
He wants to end the conversation;
He half understood the instruction or what is being said;
He is not sure of himself; and,
He knows better than the one speaking to him.
Yes has various meanings, one of them is ’NO’.
“I’LL TRY”
PILITIN PA
The Filipino _____ means something should not reveal anything big
SILENCE
For ______, ‘time is gold’, or ‘time is money’.
Westerners
For _____, times is unending and limitless as a circle (cyclical).
Filipinos
The religion of Filipinos before the Spaniards influence them
Animism
