stories. But you know what I think? Some Filipinos who acts as if they’re filty rich have many debts! They show the fruit of their labor‚ oops! My mistake‚ the fruit of their "utang" (debt) You can’t measure sucess with what you have alone‚ but how many lives you’ve touched. hmm‚ i don’t think that a success story. for me‚ it really depends on the attitude formed and not on the nationality. its sad to know that if someone sees for example a filipino nurse behaving against the norm set in their
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Filipino Americans My name is Mely‚ a Filipino American‚ born and raised in the United States. Many people are not too familiar with Filipinos as they are other ethnic groups‚ such as the Chinese or the Japanese. Some people have confused me or my family as Chinese or even Hispanics because of our physical features being similar to either culture. I would like to give a background of my Filipino history. According to the U.S. Census Bureau‚ there has been a 99% increase of Asian Americans
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Filipino values The Filipino value system or Filipino values refers to the set of values or the value system that a majority of the Filipino have historically held important in their lives. This Philippine value system includes their own unique assemblage of consistent ideologies‚ moral codes‚ ethical practices‚ etiquette‚ and cultural and personal values that are promoted by their society. Models of the Filipino values F. Landa Jocano identified two models of the Filipino value system. The first
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The indolence of the Filipinos In this essay of Dr. Jose Rizal‚ he explained the behaviors of the Filipinos he had observed in the past and present with in his time. Here he admitted that indolence exist with in Filipinos‚ but was because of the troubles experienced by the country. One of this troubles is the hot temperature of the Philippines‚ which Rizal clearly stated that it is reasonable. He was right when he said that we shouldn’t be compared to the Europeans‚ because their climate is cold
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Before attending an AA or NA meeting‚ or learning about substance abuse users I always questioned why they would not choose to become sober. When I would see a person who looked like they were a substance abuse user I immediately thought less of them because I thought they were consciously making a choice to live their life like that and they were choosing to live their life that way. On September 11‚ I attended the Friday Freedom Group at St. Augustine Church in Manchester and the meeting has affected
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Rise of Filipino nationalism The opening of the Philippines to world trade rapidly developed the Philippine economy. Many Filipinos prospered overnight. Everyday Filipinos also benefited from the new economy with the rapid increase in demand for labor and availability of business opportunities. Some Europeans immigrated to the Philippines to join the wealth wagon‚ among them Jacobo Zobel‚ patriarch of today’s Zobel de Ayala family and prominent figure in the rise of Filipino nationalism. Their scions
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The Miseducation of the Filipino (Reaction Paper) Prof. Renato Constantino‚ in his essay entitled “The Miseducation of the Filipino”‚ writes about the coming about of the miseducation and the consequences of such action in the lives of the Filipinos‚ then‚ now‚ and perhaps the future. Promoting and imposing the “unFilipino” identity in Filipinos was the miseducation that Americans pursued during the time when they “posed” as a benevolent ally to the Philippines‚ and they proved victorious indeed
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and continued in Binan‚ Laguna. He entered a Jesuit-run Ateneo Municipal de Manila in 1872 and obtained a bachelor’s degree with highest honors in 1876. He studied medicine at the University of Santo Tomas but had to stop because he felt that the Filipino students were being discriminated by their Dominican tutors. He went to Madrid at Universidad Central de Madrid and in 1885 at the age of 24; he finished his course in Philosophy and Letters with a grade of "Excellent". He took graduate studies
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The Indolence of the Filipinos This is a collection of essays that declares the existence of indolence among the Filipinos. However‚ he points out that this is not the reason of the country’s backwardness and its citizens’ lack of ambition‚ thereby encouraging us to see the root cause rather than what seems to be it. Rizal pointed out several factors like‚ wars‚ insurrections‚ expeditions‚ invasions‚ corruption in the government‚ usurpation of the native lands by the friars‚ limited training and
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Non-verbal Communication: Filipino Style Not all cultural gestures are unique; some gestures may be the same with other cultures. However‚ there are certain gestures that we can identify as very Filipino. As I observed the people around me‚ there are a few gestures that I noticed that I was not even aware that we do but actually do quite often. I come to realize that conversations and situations would be bland without these gestures that we have become accustomed to one way or another. Nothing
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