Activity: Learning Guide 

Let’s Check for Understanding 

List the weaknesses of the Filipino character. Explain each in a sentence. 

1. Extreme Personalism - it highly protects oneself from any decision such trying to 
give explanation and interpretation to action. Thus, following rules and regulations 
would be onerous for him or her. 
2. Lack of Initiative - dependency is too much or abused and even used as defense for 
any issue related to productivity of a particular thing or situation to not point the 
blame on them. 
3. Lack of self-analysis - which leads people to become glib and frivolous in all tasks 
that weaken the quality of life because there is a dearth of self-examination and 
reflection. 
4. Lack of discipline - people are always wanting to pinned themselves in a relaxed 
mode or attitude yet poor in time-management. Making excuses is the common 
armor to blanket the failure of accountability. 
5. Colonial Mentality - people are o​ pen outside but side-open or close inside. Western 
countries and other popular countries are highly idolized and the basis of being in, 
updated and standard of living. 

List the strengths of the Filipino then in a phrase or clause, explain when that strength 
becomes a weakness. 

Strength  It becomes a weakness when 

Personalism  It leads to lack of objectivity. Filipino take 

things personally that tend to eradicate any 
hindrances that may not grant the offer to 
their loved one’s concerning not others 
potentials. 

Joy and Humor  out of control and place using this 

character. Problems were not taken 
seriously, thus it came up with unrewarding 
solutions. 

Faith and Religiosity  faith has no equivalent action. People 

entomb themselves in their own 
 perspective on how God will answer their 
prayer, together with “bahala na” as a 
reservoir of psychic energy. 

Flexibility  trade-off disciplines that lost its essence to 

take part and when to make decisions to 
stop bargaining for it go with the flows, and 
only accept changes. 

Pakikipagkapwa-tao  it started to feel resentment and bitterness. 

As Filipino can easily empathize with 
others, they can easily compare themselves 
and feel jealousy.