Good morning everyone. Before everything else I Hailey Eisleen V.

Lazaro would like to take this

opportunity to make a speech in front to all of you.

The History of Filipino People Is a fulfillment of the wish of the late Professor Treodoro A. Agoncillo who
indicated in various occasions to members of his family and friends.

The common traits are probably basically Malayan and characterize the Filipinos as a people.

One patent Filipino trait that immediately commends itself to the foreigner is his hospitality. All peoples
the world over are hospitable in their own way, but Filipino hospitality is something that is almost a
fault. This hospitality to a fault has been misunder. Stood by many foreigners, particularly by the Spanish
adventurers of the previous century, who thought that such show of profuse hospitality was a form of
inferiority and obsequiousness.

The Filipino has very close family ties. The family has been the unit of society and everything revolves
around it. The Filipino family ordinarily consists of the grandparents, the parents, and the children. The
father is the head of the family, but while he rules, the mother governs. For it is the mother that reigns
in the home: she is the educator, the financial officer, the laundrywoman, and the cook.

Respect for the elders is one Filipino trait that has remained in the book of unwritten laws. The Filipino
parent exercises almost absolute powers over the children. It is unthinkable for a Filipino to do an
important thing without consulting his parents. The latter do not condone children talking back not only
to them, but to those older than they are.

The Filipino is naturally fatalistic. No amount of expostulation on the virtues of science or logic can
dislodge him from his idea of fatalism. He believes that whatever happens to him is the work of Fate.
This fatalism is best symbolized in the phrase “Bahala na,” a phrase that defies translation but which
may be rendered loosely as “come what may.”

Loyalty to a friend or to a benefactor is one trait that is very strong in the Filipino. Do him a little favor
and he remembers you to the end of his days. For to the Filipino, friendship is sacred and implies mutual
help under any circumstances. A friend is expected to come to the aid not only of a personal friend, but
also of the latter’s family. A man’s friend is considered a member of the family and is expected to share
its tribulations as well as its prosperity and happiness. It is almost unthinkable for the Filipino to betray
his friend, and if there be such one, he becomes a marked man: ostracism is the lightest punishment
that can be meted out to him.