Who wants to be a Filipino? If you were to be reincarnated and given the choice‚ would you opt to be Filipino again? It was in 1998‚ at a Forum of students of top schools at the University of Asia and the Pacific‚ that I raised this question. As expected‚ everybody‚ except me‚ gave a resounding yes for an answer. Hypocrites! I could see from the way they talked‚ from the clothes they wore‚ from their ideas of what was good and beautiful‚ that even in this lifetime they were dying to camouflage
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Revolutionizing Mindsets National consciousness among Filipinos is faced with a lot of challenges today. There is a need to revolutionize mindsets and one big factor that has a big impact in the process of revolutionary mindsets is the Media. It is unfortunate that a lot of what the media shows to the public represses transformation. A lot of soap operas that are being shown are remakes of western ones which are usually Korean or Mexican. Products like food and gadgets that are being endorsed are
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Filipinos Speech Purpose:|To inform the class about Filipinos and their culture| Thesis:|Today I am going to talk to you about Filipinos customs‚ food and family activities.| Introduction I.|Filipinos have many customs such as the etiquette they have to do when meeting someone new.| II.|Filipino food has many influences towards their ingredients and type of dishes.| III.|The family is the center of the social structure and includes the nuclear family‚ aunts‚ uncles‚ grandparents
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I am a Filipino I am a Filipino‚ and I’m proud to be a Filipino. And what happens to our ancestors in the past. From the Malayan pioneers sought our land and live on their own. Make home on what they see on the nature‚ land‚ hills‚ mountain and seas‚ hoping to have a better life with their family in the nature. How they care to their nature is what I will pass to the next generations. I’m proud to be a Filipino‚ to our ancestors who became a hero. They battle against the aliens who want to
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PEOPLE WHO SHARE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING FILIPINO VALUES AND ITS STUDIES: Felipe Landa Jocano is a Professor Emeritus at the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines and Executive Director of PUNLAD Research House‚ Inc. He has authored numerous books on various aspects of Filipino Society and Culture. Frank Lynch is an anthropologist who came to the Philippines and study Filipino values and the acceptance of this in the society ‚ founder of Frank Lynch university. Robert Hennig- B.S. Psychology
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typically pay one hundred to one hundred and fifty dollars per week look attractive to families living in poverty. In the US‚ Filipino nurses earn more in one day than they do for a whole month in the Philippines. Naturally there is a tremendous amount of competition for these coveted overseas jobs. To find professional employment overseas‚ Filipinos have to be more qualified than the other applicants. This means studying and more studying. Of the 28 members of my paramedic
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FROM INDIO TO “FILIPINO” The history of the Philippines is believed to have begun with the arrival of the first humans via land bridges at least 30‚000 years ago.[1] The first recorded visit from the West is the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan‚ who sighted Samar on March 16‚ 1521 and landed on Homonhon Island southeast of Samar the next day. Before Magellan arrived‚ Negrito tribes roamed the isles‚ but they were later supplanted by Austronesians. These groups then stratified into: hunter-gatherer
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The Filipino Shoe Industry The shoe industry in the Philippines is modest in size‚ is made up largely of very small units of production with low levels of capitalization‚ pays meager wages‚ even by local standards‚ and is characterized by much informalization of employment structures. The industry is strongly concentrated in geographic terms. The National Capital Region‚ which includes Marikina City‚ is by far the dominant center of the industry with 39.3 percent of all establishments and 53
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Educated Filipino? (Francisco Benitez) (From an address before the General Assembly of the University of the Philippines‚ 1923.) The educated Filipino should‚ first‚ be distinguished by the power to do. The Oriental excels in reflective thinking: he is a philosopher. The Occidental is a doer; he manages things‚ men and affairs. The Filipino of today needs more of this power to translate reflection into action. I believe we are coming more and more to the conviction that no Filipino has the right
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FILIPINO CHEMISTS 1.) William Padolina William Padolina‚ Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology‚ is a man of exceptional vision who sees clearly the whole socio-economic panorama unfolding and understands the implications of the crests and troughs in the pre- millenium landscape. The contributions of William Padolina in chemistry include research into the derivatives of coconut fatty acids. He is also well known for his many awards and years teaching. 2.) Clara-Lim Sylianco
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