SIKOLOHIYANG PILIPINO (VISAYAS)

What is sikolohiyang Pilipino?

Sikolohiyang bunga ng karanasan, kaisipan, at oryentasyong Pilipino, batay
sa kabuuang paggamit ng kultura at wikang Pilipino.

SOME VALUES OF FILIPINO PERSONHOOD (PAGKATAONG

FILIPINO) by Dr. Virgilio Enriquez
PAKIKIPAG-KAPWA (SHARED IDENTITY)
The core value of Filipino personhood is kapwa. This idea of a shared self
opens up the heart-doors of the I to include the other. It bridges the deepest
individual recess of a person with anyone outside him or herself, even total
strangers. Here, it is not important if you are rich or poor, or status in society.
People are just people in spite of their age, clothes, diplomas, color or affiliations
said the Visayan artist Perry Argel.
Kapwa is the unity of the one-of-us-and-the-other, according to Virgilio
Enriquez, who declared the concept as a Filipino core value. He upheld that kapwa
implied moral and normative aspects that obliged a person to treat one another as
fellow human being and therefore as equal.
KAGANDAHANG LOOB
The last core-value of the Filipino personhood is kagandahang-loob or shared
nobility. The dictionary renders the term kagandahang-loob as a very general
concept that emphasizes the beauty of something. Itsmeaning is so broad that the
notion stands for anything good about something. It is also translated as
generosity.
Kagandahang-loob acts like an anchor that grounds kapwaand pakiramdam in
the enduring ancestral beliefs and convictions of Filipino IKSP. These are basically:
God is good. Life is about learning, creating and sharing. It is good, even if there are
hardships. Every sunrise brings a new day, a new horizon. There is always hope.
PAKIKIRAMDAM (KNOWING THROUGH FEELING)
Pakiramdam is often described as an all-important shared inner perception
that compliments the shared identity of kapwa. It is an emotional a priori that
goes with the Filipino personhood (as Enriquez called the Kapwa Personality).
Pakiramdam operates behind all Filipino values. This steering emotion triggers the
spontaneous voluntary actions that come with the sharing of the Self. It is the keen
deep inner feeling that initiates all deeds.

KALAYAAN (FREEDOM, INDEPENDENCE, THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX)

Kalayaan freedom, liberty and independence is a sine qua non for Filipino
personhood. To understand this ancestral Filipino (human) value is important for a
culture of non-violence.
Why?
It is because violence usually arises from the attempts of one person or
group to control another person or group. But control runs counter to the
kapwa orientations where the norm is voluntary giving, including and sharing;
where problems are resolved through consensus building and mediating
rather than through fist or force.

OBSERVATIONS:
a. Joe Anderson When I made my way down south to Cebu and the
Visayas, I was shocked that people were not impressed on how they
welcome tourists. At first I found them kind of rude, honestly, but soon
began to really appreciate their sense of pride. I really came to love the
people and culture down there.
Explanation:
Based on Joes comments it seems that people from Visayas are rude but
have a sense of pride .But I think having a lot of sense of pride is not really
something we Filipinos should be proud of because there are a lot of times that our
pride could take us down .
b. Rachel Gadiane Visayans use the expression "nosebleed" when a
foreigner comes up to them and asks a question in English. They are so
caught off guard and/or intimidated that it's like having a nosebleed
suddenly. I still don't quite understand this one, but it is SUCH a common
joke here.
Explanation:
Rachel observed that everytime a foreign like her talks in a English manner
most of the Visayans says the word nosebleed , in other words one Visayans are
easy to go on a panic situation everytime they hear someone speaks a different
language .
c. Rachel Gadiane - People sing "Happy Birthday" here just like we do in
the U.S., except they don't use the person's name. They just repeat
"happy birthday" one more time instead. My joke is that families here are

SO big (LOTS of birthdays), that it's easier to do it this way and not have
to know/remember the person's actual name!

Classification of Visayan Languages

David Zorc notes that the Visayan language family is more like a dialect
continuum (the neighboring areas languages seem to only differ slightly but as one
travels in any direction, these differences accumulate in such a way that speakers
from opposite ends of the continuum are no longer mutually intelligible) rather than
a set of readily distinguishable languages. The South Visayan languages are
considered to have diverged first, followed by Cebuano and then the rest of the
three branches. Also, in the Visayan region, Romblon Province has the most
linguistic diversity, as languages from three primary Visayan branches are spoken
there.
Cebuano Balitao

E. M. Loeb speaks that In the Orient along with the love song went
proverbs and riddles which are to be found among cattle raisers intimately
associated with the love song.

It can be implied that Visayans are fond of riddles about love and is often
expressed through them.

Observations of Nathan Allen

The Philippines seems to be a country full of consumers and copycats, Some
Filipinos Media consumption - TV, radio, and Internet...and it's all designed to
manipulate you one way or the other. Encouraged through the media is shopping you've got to have the latest shoes, bags, and phones. Otherwise, your value in
society isn't very high. He says that when he came to Philippines he observed that
we Filipinos had a sense of connectedness, sense of clutural pride and also had a
Family Oriented Culture unlike to their country They have a higher kind of living ,
the amount of time they have to reflect and enjoy life with their friends and family
is shockingly little. Unlike ours, their families are broken and disconnected.
He mentioned when he was in Manila, how a few people in Manila seemed to be
ashamed to speak Filipino with him. He got the impression that they admired him so
much - just for being white! When he would go through security anywhere in
Manila, He was the only one who wouldn't be searched. He seemed to get a
free pass, again, because He was white. That was something he really loved about
Cebu and the Visayas...there, the security searched me just like everybody else. It
was fair.
Please put an end to the "crab mentality" - lift each other up, don't pull each
other down. If your country is ever going to rise up and share its treasures

with the world, you will have to foster an environment of praise and support for your
countrymen.

Richard Warren Lieban on:

Cebuano Society
A Cebuano Society includes kinship and friendship; common culture
and nationality; mutual economic, social, political, and religious interests;
and governmental and nongovernmental sanctions that enforce norms and
laws.

REFERENCES:
http://philippineculture.ph/filer/Indigenous-Filipino-Values.pdf
http://www.idreamedofthis.com/2013/11/27/what-i-really-think-of-thephilippines/
http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/nfile/401

http://www.idreamedofthis.com/2014/02/18/a-foreign-blogger-s-letter-to-thephilippines/
Cebuano Sorcery; Malign Magic in the Philippines by Richard Warren Lieban