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Importance of Filipino
characteristics and
Values System
Posted on April 15, 2022
Filipino characteristics and values system has a great significance to the Filipino’s way of life
and to the growth, and success of Filipinos. Its importance is widely seen but not realized since
for us Filipinos – practicing our own values system and characteristics is natural, and we do not
do it for ourselves but for everyone so to maintain peace and harmony . The practice of passing
down the Filipino characteristics and values system also became the culture of Filipinos, that is
why most values and characteristics are noticeably traditional. Thus, it preserves not only the
positive traits that most of Filipino possesses like being hospitable and respectful, but also to
correct the negative ones traits of some.

The characteristics and values system of Filipinos has a very long history – how it was formed
and discovered, how it became a part of practice in the Filipino way of life, and many others
which I can share one to you.

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One trait that you may or will really hate is that the laziness of some Filipino people, which I
remember when I was in first-year in our Philippine History class there’s a study saying Filipino
people are not naturally lazy. On the older days, Filipinos are traditionally punctual and hard
workers especially farmers who woke up early in the dawn to go and work in the farm field
before the sun rises. The sole purpose of rising early in the morning and starts working is to
avoid the heat before the sun takes its peak in the afternoon. In the noon time, the farmer
Filipinos takes their time to rest, then finally finish their work before the sun sets.
All is well before the Spaniards came, the Spanish colonialism changed the Filipino way of life;
slavery and force-labour happened that most Filipino people lose their freedom to get their rest
and was working all day. During this times Filipinos skip or stop working when no one’s looking
to rest and to avoid from the raging afternoon sunlight on which appears them as lazy people and
doing the act of “ningas-kugon” which means stopping from work when no one is looking.

Though Filipinos had some unpleasant past, still until today Filipinos quite owned a unique
culture that will really make you say, “I Love Philippines!”

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Commonly known for being hospitable, Filipino people possesses other more unique traits on
which they practice on their everyday life.

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The importance of the Filipino values system and characteristics are not only for us to be known
as Filipino or how it serves as our identity, but it was also way more than that. These values
system and Filipino characteristics help us in our everyday life; it serves as our guide in decision-
making by knowing what to do, how to react, and where to go next. Aside from that, it also helps
us organize our thoughts and behaviour in a certain situation, for example; Filipino have a very
strong family ties or family oriented people, so most Filipinos don’t like the idea of leaving their
parents or grand-parents to the home for the agent to take care of them, instead we take the
responsibility as daughter and son to keep our parents with us that we feel will make them feel
safe, cared and loved. So you see, Filipinos are very sentimental kind of people having a good
heart and genuine emotion like being cheerful and staying happy even after experiencing rough
days or even calamities and disaster –they’re happy for a reason that they are still alive and ready
to stand again for another day.