Marriage and Affianced Pair
1. Identify and describe the folkways that happened in your hometown during the last ten years and compare it today. Include the dressing, relationship between parents and children and the customs and traditions.
1. Mano Po - Blessing of the hand/ means "right" [opposite of "left"] and po is a word you say to show respect.
Before - Usually, it's the kids who execute the "Mano Po" although adults will also do this especially when visiting their parents, or the parents of their girlfriend.
Now - the kids are not using “Mano Po” and it seems that some kids today are disrespectful to elders. But some kids are “Sosyal” because instead of using “Mano Po”, they’re just kiss their parents or elders to show their respect.
2. Po and Opo - Kind of respect you use among elders in the Filipino culture. It’s also a custom provided in the Philippines. Opo is actually 2 words. PO and o. O generally means yes or what. Po is just added on to certain sentences in Tagalog to mean respect for older people.
Before - kids are saying Po and Opo to elders to show their respect.
Now - some kids are not saying Po and Opo that’s why it shows that they are disrespectful.
3. Bayanihan - Filipino term taken from the word bayan, referring to a nation, town or community. The whole term bayanihan refers to a spirit of communal unity or effort to achieve a particular objective.
Before - people are helping each other to achieve a particular objective.
Now – they do not help each other and sometimes they don’t care if you need help.
4. Harana - an old Filipino courtship tradition of serenading women, probably a Spanish influence. It has been practiced mostly in rural areas and small towns.
Before - The man, usually accompanied by his close friends, goes to the house of the woman he is courting and plays music and sings love songs to her.
Now - Serenade is not popular. Because today, you can court a girl by simply texting her or sending a text messages or court a girl
1. Mano Po - Blessing of the hand/ means "right" [opposite of "left"] and po is a word you say to show respect.
Before - Usually, it's the kids who execute the "Mano Po" although adults will also do this especially when visiting their parents, or the parents of their girlfriend.
Now - the kids are not using “Mano Po” and it seems that some kids today are disrespectful to elders. But some kids are “Sosyal” because instead of using “Mano Po”, they’re just kiss their parents or elders to show their respect.
2. Po and Opo - Kind of respect you use among elders in the Filipino culture. It’s also a custom provided in the Philippines. Opo is actually 2 words. PO and o. O generally means yes or what. Po is just added on to certain sentences in Tagalog to mean respect for older people.
Before - kids are saying Po and Opo to elders to show their respect.
Now - some kids are not saying Po and Opo that’s why it shows that they are disrespectful.
3. Bayanihan - Filipino term taken from the word bayan, referring to a nation, town or community. The whole term bayanihan refers to a spirit of communal unity or effort to achieve a particular objective.
Before - people are helping each other to achieve a particular objective.
Now – they do not help each other and sometimes they don’t care if you need help.
4. Harana - an old Filipino courtship tradition of serenading women, probably a Spanish influence. It has been practiced mostly in rural areas and small towns.
Before - The man, usually accompanied by his close friends, goes to the house of the woman he is courting and plays music and sings love songs to her.
Now - Serenade is not popular. Because today, you can court a girl by simply texting her or sending a text messages or court a girl