• Pwede (May I…) is a courteous word in

packaging of pleading and request.

• Oo is the height of the encounter that shows

as acceptance of a person is no matter what
he/she looks like.

• Pwede bang makisukob? Oo ba! May be

interpreted in the Filipino ideal as
PAKIKISAMA.
• Some critics portray Filipino values as possessing
no value at all: they are negative.

• They say values have “damaged” our culture,

brought about the ‘ills in our society’, given rise to
our ‘undesirable traits’, brought about weaknesses in
our character as a people and have caused the
‘moral breakdown’ of our institutions.

• We were made to believe that what is imported must

be better that its local counterpart.
• CULTURE simply rendered people’s lives
meaningful.

• It was a source of identity, of confidence and

of self-esteem.

• It allows people to understand the world and

to define their places within it.

• Culture permitted communities and

generations to share a common memory.
• Marunong makibagay
• Marunong makiisa
• Marunong makilahok
• Marunong makipagplagayang loob
• Marunong makisalamuha
• Marunong makisangkot
• Marunong makitungo
• Marunong makisama