ROOTS OF THE

FILIPINO
CHARACTER
A MORAL RECOVERY PROGRAM: BUILDING A
PEOPLE BUILDING A NATION
 ROOTS OF THE FILIPINO CHARACTER
The strengths and weaknesses of the filipino have their roots in many factors such
as:

1 The Family & Home Environment 6 Religion

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2. The Social Environment 7 The Economic Environment
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3 Culture and Language 8 The Political Environment
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4 History 9 Mass Media
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5 The Educational System 10 Leadership and Role Models
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THE FAMILY & HOME ENVIRONMENT
The Main Components of the Home Environment:

• Child Bearing Practices

-Child Bearing can be both difficult and rewarding

at the same time. The goal of every parent is to have
your child grow up to be a respectable and
resourceful adult in society.
 Child bearing in the Filipino family is characterized by:

• High Nurturance • Low Independence Training

• The Filipino child grows up • Over Protection

in an atmosphere of love and
affection.
• Providing the children with the
opportunity, means the children with
the opportunity, means and support to
pursue their goals.
• Some Parents act on their own
needs for power and use control
and coercion to ensure that they
remain the dominant forces in
their childre's lives.
 Low Discipline
• Attempts to maintain discipline come in the form of many "no's" and
"dont's" and a system of criticism to keep children in line.

• Subtle comprarisons among siblings also are used by mothers to

control their children.
 FAMILY RELATIONS
• In a large family where we are encouraged to get along with our siblings
and other relatives, we learn pakikipagkapwa-tao.
• In an authoritarioan setting we learn respect for age authority; at the same
times we become passive and dependent on authority.

• Children are taught to value family and to give it primary importance.

 FAMILY ATTITUDES AND
ORIENTATION
• Family Orientation
The Filipino's family orientation may be attributed to the colonial times when the
hierarchical structure of family has beenin prevalent place, where age and status
demand high level of respects, and the good of the family takes precedence over
personal desires.This characteristic is still presnet despite modern times.
2. THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
• The Social Environment of the Filipino is characterized by a Feudal
Structure with great gaps between the Rich Minority and the Poor
Majority.
The Main components of the social environment are:
• Social Structures
• Social Systems
such as:
• Interpersonal Religious
• Community Interaction
3. CULTURE AND LANGUAGE
-Language and Culture cannot be
separated. Language is vital to
understanding our unique cultural
perspectives. Language is a tool that is
used to explore and experience that are
embedded in our cultures.
 Filipino Culture rewards such:
• Traits and corresponding behavioural patterns
develop because they make one more likable
and enable life to proceed more easily.

• An Openness to the outside which easily

incorporates foreign elements without a basic
consciousness of our cultural core.
4. HISTORY
• We are the product of our colonial history, which is regarded by
many as the culprit behing our lack of nationalism and our
colonial mentality Colonialism developed a mind-set in the
Filipino which encouraged us to think of the colonial power as
superior and more powerful.
5. THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

• Aside from the problems

inherent in the use of a
foriegn language in our
educational system leads to
other probems for us a
people.
 6. RELIGION
• Religion is the root of Filipino optimism and its capacity to
accept life's hardships. However, religion and instils in the
Filipino attitudes of resgination and pre- occupation with the
afterlife. We become vulnerable also being victimized by
opportnusim, oppession, exploitation, and superstition.
7. THE ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT
• Many Filipino traits are rooted in the poverty and hard life that
is the lot of most filipinos. Our difficukties drive us to take risks,
impet us to work very, hard, and develop in us the ability to
survive.

• Poverty, however, has also become an excuse for graft and

corruption, particularly among rhe lower rungs of the
bureaucracy.
 8. THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT
• The Philippine Political environment is characterized by a centralization
of power. Political power and authority is concentrated in the hands of the
elite and participation of most Filipinos often is limited to voting in
elections.

• Basic services from the goverment are concentrated in Manila and its
outlying towns and provinces.
• Politicsl Power is still very much concentrated in the hands of a few
may lead to passivity.
 9. MASS MEDIA
• It means technology that is intented to reach a mass audience.

• It is the Primary means of communication used to reach the Vast

Majority of the general public.
• The most common flatforms for media are newspapers, magazines, radio,
television, and the latest is the internet.

The Tendency of media to produce escapist moview, soap operas, comics, etc., feed the Filipinos
passivity. Rather that confront our poverty and oppression, we fantasize instead. The propensity
to use flashy stes, designer clothes, superstars, and other Bongga features reinforce Porma.
 10. leadership and role models
• Filipinos look up to their leaders as role models. Political
leaders are the main models, but all other leaders serve as
roles violate the law or show themselves to be self-serving
and driven by personal interest-- when there is lack of
public accountability-- there is a negative impact on the
Filipino.
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Group 8:
Acxel Rose Ampong
Judy Ann Alvarez
JEan ashley alde