WEAKNESSES OF FILIPINO CHARACTER:

1. EXTREME FAMILY CENTEREDNESS

- Using one’s office and power to promote family interests and thus
factionalism patronage, political dynasties and the protection of erring
family members.
- It results inlack of concern for the common good, and acts as a block to
national consciousness.
2. EXTREME PERSONALISM
- Filipinos view the world in terms of personal relationship.
- Because of this, the Filipino is uncomfortable with bureaucracy, with rules
and regulations and with standard procedures.
- Extreme personalism leads to the graft and corruption evident in Philippine
society.
- Filipinos tend to give personal interpersonal interpretation to actions take
things personally.
- There is in fact some basis for such interpretations as Filipinos are quite
personal in criticism and praise.
3. LACK OF DISCIPLINE
- A casual attitude toward time and space, manifest in lack of precision and
compulsiveness, in poor time management and procrastination.
- Impatience result in short cuts, palusot (this is where you can be labeled
as “sa una lang magaling).
4. 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 for inefficiency poor service and even violations
of one’s basic rights.
5. COLONIAL MENTALITY
- Lack of patriotism, or of an active awareness, appreciation and love of the
Philippine and an actual preference for things that are foreign.
6. KANYA- KANYA- SYNDROME, TALANKA MENTALITY
- Done by tsismis, intriga unconstructive criticism.
- It is evident in the personal ambition that is completely insensitive to the
common good.
7. LACK OF SELF- ANALYSIS AND SELF REFLECTION
- The tendency to be superficial and somewhat flighty.
- Satisfaction with superficial explanations and solutions.
8. EMPHASIS ON PORMA RATHER THAN SUBSTANCES
- This lack of analysis is reinforcement by an educational system that is
more form than substance.