College of Hospitality Management

First Semester, A.Y 2022-2023

Activity 10

Name: Noriel Sabanal

Year Level: BSHM Block F -1

I. Activity
Direction: Answer the following questions straight to the point.

1. Name five positive Filipino values and explain briefly their relevance to you. Write your answers on the
table provided. (5 pts)

Filipino Values Personal Relevance

1. Respectful The children and young Filipinos will always use the words “po” and “opo” and
“mano po gesture to show respect to someone who’s older or who’s in the
higher position than them.

2.Hospitality Filipinos are usually friendly and welcoming to our guests/foreigners. This
Filipino attribute is also the reason why foreigners keep coming back aside from
it’s natural tourist destinations.

3.Family Oriented Filipinos are willing to make big sacrifices just to make sure that their loved
ones will have a good life. Our parents will do anything just to give us a brighter
future.

4.Generosity and Filipinos are generous people. Even when we have very little, we always share
Helpful with those around us

5.Love and Caring This is so true! Filipinos are the sweetest and most loving people in the world

2. Name five negative Filipino values and briefly explain how these values hinder development and unity.
Write your answers on the table provided. (5 pts)

Negative Filipino Explanation

Values
Simply put, this refers to the behavior of preventing someone from achieving
1.Crab Mentality something due to jealousy or envy. Instead of praising or rendering assistance,
someone with crab mentality would think “if I can’t have it, then you can’t as
well” and will purposely try to bring his/her victim down. And just like the crabs
who could have escaped from the bucket if they only stopped pulling each
other down, nothing ever gets accomplished.
Why is it so hard for Filipinos to obey the rules? This social phenomenon is not
2.General Disregard exclusive to hardened criminals either—a look at everyday life in the country
For Rules shows Filipinos from the entire social strata nonchalantly breaking the rules,
whether it is something as benign as jaywalking or as dangerous as beating the
red light.
Probably one of the biggest flaws we have as a nation is our colonial mentality,
3.Colonial Mentality defined as a preference for all things foreign over our own, a negative trait we
acquired from our days under the Spanish and the Americans. As a result, we
Filipinos have been indoctrinated with the misconception that our culture is
inferior to that of our past colonizers.
Glaring examples of colonial mentality include patronizing foreign instead of
local brands, favoring foreign values over our own, and even desiring to look
 more “Western” (think whitening products). If we can’t even have pride in our
own country, then unfortunately we will always be stuck with this self-defeating
mentality.
Roughly translated as “come what may”, this is the Filipinos’ own version of
4.Bahala Na Attitude fatalism, the belief of leaving everything to the hands of fate.
This attitude, while not inherently detrimental in itself, is still a double-edged
sword. On one hand, positive aspects of this behavior include belief in Divine
Providence and national social responsibility. On the other hand, the attitude
can also promote a sense of helplessness and resignation of one’s fate at the
local level, and a countrywide lack of empathy and collective action on the
national level. This is also the reason why we tend to have amnesia over past
wrongdoings committed by our leaders.
One of the biggest social ills our country has continued to face since time
5. Corruption immemorial is the issue of corruption. Let’s face it, our “culture of corruption” is
embedded deep within our system and reinforced by a complex web of
economic and social factors which include personal ambitions and a twisted
sense of loyalty to friends and kin. The Philippines is in for a long haul if our
officials and we ourselves do not get rid of this very negative habit.

II. Assessment

1.) Basing from the Philippine Political Culture, what are your observations in the current governance of the
Philippines, may it be in National or Local Government Unit and identify specific Philippine political culture/s
that you have observed. (10 pts)
Months after the violence of "EDSA Tres," debate continues as to what triggered this bloody event.
How dida seemingly ragtag crowd turn into an angry mob? Some say the uprising was a class war that
drew itspower from the class divide in society, with the arrest of the masses' idol Joseph "Erap" Estrada as
thespark that spread the wildfire (De Quiros, 2001). Others saw the siege of Malacañang as the handiwork
of asmall and currently disenfranchised elite, who after exploiting the poor, disowned responsibility for
inflaming the mob (Doronila, 2001). This variety of interpretations could confuse the layperson, not only
about EDSATres, but more so about the daily-life relations between Filipino politicians and their followers.
This chapter probes the source of this confusion.Politics involves the generation, distribution, and use of
decision-making authority among large groups of individuals. In a stable and powerful state, political activity
is usually related to state governance. In unstable and weak states, politics, both mental and material
constructs, involves issues of social power within and outside the boundaries of "legitimate" states. It
includes, inter alia, the beliefs, sentiments, practices accepted by the group, language shared by large
groups of Filipinos in generating, allocating and using political power in their interactions within and with the
State and tools.