FILIPINO STRENGTH WEAKNESSES
VALUES
1. Family orientation  Filipino possess a  Excessive concern
genuine and deep
love for family-
source of personal
identity, emotional
and material
support.
 Honor and respect
given to parents
and elders, care
given to the
 Family
children.
 The generosity
towards kin in
need.
 Great sacrifices
one endures for the
welfare of the
family.
 Sense and
rootedness in a
basic sense of
security.
2. Pakikipagkapwa tao  Filipinos are open to  Filipinos have a
others and feel one
with others. We regard
others with dignity and
respect, and deal with
them as fellow human
being.
for family manifests
itself in the use of
one’s office and
power as a means of
promoting the
interest of the
family,
factionalism,
patronage and
political dynasties,
and in the protection
of erring family
member.
centeredness results
to a lack of concern
for the common
good and acts as a
block to national
consciousness.
selfish, self-serving,
attitudes that generates
a feeling of envy and
competitiveness
towards others,
particularly one's peer,
who seem to have
  We can easily gained some status and
empathize prestige.
 But at the same time be
envious of others.

3. HARD WORK AND  We have the capacity for  Yet we are lazy and
hard work given proper passive at work.
INDUSTRY
conditions, to raise one’s  Filipino are generally
standard of living and to passive and lacking of
possess the essentials of initiative. There is strong
a decent life for one’s reliance on others
family (leaders, government) to
 We are willing to take do things for us related to
the risks with jobs our need for a strong
abroad and, while there, authority.
to work at two or three
jobs. The result is
productivity and
entrepreneurship for
some and survival
despite poverty.

4. FLEXIBILITY,  We can adjust and to  Sometimes Filipino

ADAPTABILITY adapt to circumstances
and the surrounding
AND CREATIVITY
environment, both
physical and social;
adjusts to whatever
happens even in
unplanned or
anticipated events. We
possess a tolerance for
ambiguity that enables
us to remain unfazed
by uncertainly or lack
of information.
are impatient and
unable to delay
gratification or reward,
resulting in the use of
short-cuts, in skirting
the rules (the palusot
syndrome) and in
foolhardiness. We are
guilty of ningascogon,
starting out projects
with full vigor and
interest which abruptly
die down leaving
things unfinished

 The Filipino’s lack of

discipline is manifested
in a casual and relaxed
attitude towards time
and space which
manifests itself in lack
of precision and
compulsiveness, in
 poor time management
and procrastination.

5. JOY AND HUMOR  We joke about the most

 Filipinos have a
cheerful and fun- serious matters and this
loving approach to prevents looking deeply
life and its ups and into the problem. There
downs; pleasant is no felt need to validate
disposition, a sense our hypotheses and
of humor and a explanation of things.
propensity for Thus, we are satisfied
happiness that with superficial
contribute not only explanation and
to the Filipino superficial solution to the
charm but also to the problem.
indomitability of the  There is a tendency in
Filipino spirit. the Filipino to be
superficial even
 Laughing at somewhat flighty. In the
ourselves and the face of serious problems,
mess we are in is both personal and social,
an important there is a lack of analysis
coping mechanism;
or reflection.
playful, sometimes,
disrespectful, we
laugh at those we
love and at those
we hate and we
make jokes about
our good fortune
and bad.
manifested in the
Filipinos love for
socials and
celebrations, to
laugh even in the
most trying of
times. The result is
a certain emotional
balance, optimism,
a healthy disrespect
for power and
office and the
capacity to survive.