ASSIGNMENT ON FILIPINO MORALITY

NAME: Hannah Keziah Joy P. Legaspina

SECTION: CBA 16/BSTM 2C
DATE: 11/10/2022

Search for Filipino's Moral Character, Strength, and Weaknesses, and answer the ff.
questions

1. Research the different Moral characters, strengths, and weaknesses that

you still see existing/prevailing today.
 WEAKNESS
 Excessive concern for family - Excessive concern for family entails using
one's office and power to promote family interests, resulting in
factionalism, patronage, political dynasties, and the protection of erring
family members. It leads to a lack of concern for the common good and
serves as a barrier to national consciousness.
 Lack of discipline - A casual attitude toward time and space manifested in lack
of precision and compulsiveness, in poor time management and
procrastination. Aversion to following procedures strictly results in lack of
standardization and equality control. Impatience can result in shortcuts,
palusot and nigas cogon. Often results to inefficient work systems, the violation of
rules and a casual work ethic lacking follow through.
 Colonial Mentality - A lack of patriotism, or an active awareness,
appreciation, and love of the Philippines, as well as a genuine preference for
foreign things.
 Extreme personalism - Takes everything personally and is unable to
separate objective task from emotional involvement. As a result, the Filipino
is uneasy with bureaucracy, rules and regulations, and standard procedures.
He makes use of personal contacts and prefers family and friends in hiring,
services, and even voting. This leads to the graft and corruption that is
prevalent in Philippine society.
 Passivity and lack of initiative - Waiting to be told what to do, reliance on
others (leaders and government), complacence, lack of sense of urgency.
There is a high tolerance of inefficiency, poor service, and even violations of
one's right. Too patient and matiisin, too easily resigned to his fate, the
Filipino is easily oppressed and exploited.
 Kanya-kanya syndrome, talangka mentality - Done by tsismis, intriga,
unconstructive criticism, it is evident in the personal ambition that is
completely insensitive to the common good. Example: the lack of a sense of
service among people in the government bureaucracy. This results in
dampening of cooperative and community spirit, and in the trampling upon
other's rights.
 Emphasis on porma rather than substance - This lack of analysis and
emphasis on form is reinforced by an educational system that is more from
than substance.
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 Lack of self-analysis and self-reflection - The tendency to be superficial

and somewhat flighty. In the dace of serious personal and social problems,
there is lack of analysis or reflection, and instead satisfaction with superficial
explanations and solutions.

 STRENGTHS
 Pakikipagkapwa-tao - a basic sense of justice and fairness. Concern for
others. Ability to empathize with others. Open to others and feel one with
others. Regard others with dignity and respect deal with them as fellow
human beings.
 Joy and Humor - Filipinos have a cheerful and fun-loving approach to life
and its ups and downs. Laughing at ourselves and the mess we are in is an
important coping mechanism. Playful, sometimes, disrespectful, we laugh
at those we love and at those we hate and we make jokes about our good
fortune and bad.
 Family orientation - source of personal identity, emotional and material
support and one’s main commitment and responsibility. Sense of family
results in a feeling of belongingness and rootedness in a basic sense of
security.
 Flexibility, adaptability, and creativity - We can adjust and to adapt to
circumstances and the surrounding 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.
 Faith and religiosity - Filipinos have deep faith in God. Our innate
religiosity enables us to comprehend and genuinely accept reality in the
context of God’s will and plan. Religious expressions are very tangible.
 Hard work and industry - We have the capacity for hard work given proper
conditions to raise one’s standard of living and to possess the essentials of
a decent life for one’s family. We are willing to take the risks with jobs abroad
and, while there, to work at two or three jobs. The result are productivity,
entrepreneurship, and survival despite poverty.
 Ability to survive - Filipinos make do with what is available in the
environment. It is manifested in the millions of Filipinos who bravely live
through the harshest economic and social circumstances

2. Discuss which Filipino weaknesses you

have experiencing now.
 Filipinos character the hospitality and joy are well-known globally but we
have also weaknesses like others.
I have to admit that sometimes I still have this character that is weakness
in Filipino Morality. I am guilty that I lack discipline because, at times when
there is an occasion whether in school, church, or with family and they
already set up a time for that event I always arrived there thirty minutes
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late or even one hour late due to the mindset that maybe I will just be
waiting there alone and I felt ashamed if I am too early. Furthermore, I
think I also have a colonial mentality even though I am taking up Tourism
Management which aims to promote the Philippines’ products, culture,
and destinations I have always been eyeing for foreign things like
chocolates, shoes, and gadgets from the West. Also, I appreciate Korean
Dramas, K-Pop, and Korean Skincare so I’m guilty about this one too. I
am trying to appreciate our own culture but due to the current trends and
influence of social media, I am swayed by foreign things. Lastly, I still
haven’t lost my “chismosa” behavior I think this character is unchangeable
to Filipinos because we are used to it but even though we are used to it
and seems like we are not violating someone else’s rights it's still a
negative thing to gossip someone behind their backs. I just do this slightly
to relieve stress together with my friends.

3. What Filipino strengths do you have?

 Although, there are many weaknesses when it comes to Filipino Morality.
There are also strengths and the strengths of Filipinos are known
worldwide. One thing that I possess is flexibility, adaptability, and creative
behavior because of the various trials we are going through annually with
typhoons and earthquakes including the pandemic which is not yet over we
are being forced and trained to be flexible at all times. These trials make us
more used to adapting to changes and we are not merely adapting to
changes we are also even joyful at times of trials because that’s our
trademark. Resiliency in times of trouble. Honestly, the pandemic and all
the crazy deaths made me anxious during the peak of lockdowns in the
Metro and our province Bataan. Making me develop a mental illness I am
thankful for the floods and scarcity that my family experienced before the
pandemic due to my current experiences I was able to bravely overcome
the darkest times in my life then. I also have a strong faith in God that’s
because my mom influences me to be religious and faithful. Lastly,
regardless of social status, my mom taught me the “pakikipagkapwa-tao”
during the pandemic there are many people we know including neighbors
who have tested positive for covid and due to the protocols they weren't
able to buy their essentials so I and my mom volunteered to do that for them
as an act of pakikipagkapwa-tao.