ROOTS OF THE

FILIPINO
CHARACTER
A MORAL RECOVERY PROGRAM:
BUILDING A PEOPLE BUILDING A NATION
ROOTS OF THE FILIPINO CHARACTER
The strengths and weaknesses of the filipino have their roots in
many factors such as:

1. The Family & Home Environment 6. Religion

2. The Social Environment 7. The Economic Environment

3. Culture and Language 8. The Political Environment

4. History 9. Mass Media

5.The Educational System 10.Leadership and Role Models

THE FAMILY & HOME ENVIRONMENT
The Main Components of the Home
Environment:
Child Bearing Practices

-Child Bearing can be both difficult and

rewarding at the same time. The goal of
every parent is to have your child grow up
to be a respectable and resourceful adult in
society.
Child bearing in the Filipino family is
characterized by:
High Nurturance
The Filipino child grows
up in an atmosphere of
love and affection.
Providing the children with the
opportunity, means the children
with the opportunity, means and
support to pursue their goals.
Low Independence Training
Over Protection
Some Parents act on their
own needs for power and
use control and coercion to
ensure that they remain the
dominant forces in their
childre's lives.
Low Discipline
Attempts to maintain discipline come in the form of many
"no's" and "dont's" and a system of criticism to keep
children in line.

Subtle comprarisons among siblings also are used by

mothers to control their children.
 FAMILY RELATIONS
In a large family where we are encouraged to get along with
our siblings and other relatives, we learn pakikipagkapwa-tao.
In an authoritarioan setting we learn respect for age authority;
at the same times we become passive and dependent on
authority.
Children are taught to value family and to give it primary
importance.
 FAMILY ATTITUDES AND
ORIENTATION
Family Orientation
The Filipino's family orientation may be attributed to the colonial
times when the hierarchical structure of family has beenin prevalent
place, where age and status demand high level of respects, and the
good of the family takes precedence over personal desires.This
characteristic is still presnet despite modern times.
2. THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
The Social Environment of the Filipino is characterized by a
Feudal Structure with great gaps between the Rich Minority
and the Poor Majority.
The Main components of the social environment are:
Social Structures
Social Systems
such as:
Interpersonal Religious
Community Interaction
3. CULTURE AND LANGUAGE
-Language and Culture cannot
be separated. Language is vital
to understanding our unique
cultural perspectives. Language
is a tool that is used to explore
and experience that are
embedded in our cultures.
Filipino Culture rewards such:
Traits and corresponding behavioural
patterns develop because they make
one more likable and enable life to
proceed more easily.

An Openness to the outside which easily

incorporates foreign elements without a
basic consciousness of our cultural core.
4. HISTORY
We are the product of our colonial history, which is
regarded by many as the culprit behind our lack of
nationalism and our colonial mentality Colonialism
developed a mind-set in the Filipino which encouraged
us to think of the colonial power as superior and more
powerful.
5. THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
Aside from the problems
inherent in the use of a foriegn
language in our educational
system leads to other probems
for us a people.

"They develop a mind-set that things

learned in schools are not related to
life"
 The lack of suitable local textbooks and dependence on
foreign textbooks, particularly in the higher school levels.

Aside from the influences of the formal curriculum, there

are the influences of the "hidden curriculum" i.e., the
values taught informally by the philippines school system:

• schools are highly •the filipino student learns

authoritarian with the passivity and conformity.
teacher as the central
focus.
•The Filipino student taught to be dependent on
the teacher .

Force Filipino students as well as their teachers to

use school materials that are irrelevant to the
philippine setting.
6. RELIGION
Religion is the root of Filipino optimism and its
capacity to accept life's hardships. However, religion
and instils in the Filipino attitudes of resgination and
pre- occupation with the afterlife. We become
vulnerable also being victimized by opportnusim,
oppession, exploitation, and superstition.
7. THE ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT
Many Filipino traits are rooted in the poverty and
hard life that is the lot of most filipinos. Our
difficukties drive us to take risks, impet us to work
very, hard, and develop in us the ability to survive.

Poverty, however, has also become an excuse for

graft and corruption, particularly among rhe lower
rungs of the bureaucracy.
8. THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT

The Philippine Political environment is characterized by a

centralization of power. Political power and authority is
concentrated in the hands
of the elite and participation
of most Filipinos often is limited to voting in elections.
 9. MASS MEDIA
It means technology that is intented to reach a mass
audience.
It is the Primary means of communication used to reach
the Vast Majority of the general public.
The most common flatforms for media are newspapers,
magazines, radio, television, and the latest is the internet.

The Tendency of media to produce escapist moview, soap operas, comics, etc.,
feed the Filipinos passivity. Rather that confront our poverty and oppression, we
fantasize instead. The propensity to use flashy stes, designer clothes, superstars,
and other Bongga features reinforce Porma.
10. leadership and role models
Filipinos look up to their leaders as role models.
Political leaders are the main models, but all
other leaders serve as roles violate the law or
show themselves to be self-serving and driven by
personal interest-- when there is lack of public
accountability-- there is a negative impact on the
Filipino.
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Group 8:
Acxel Rose Ampong
Judy Ann Alvarez
JEan ashley alde