THE POLITICAL SELF AND BEING FILIPINO • Filipino’s are regarded as “Juan Tamad” or Lazy Juan

Pride
What it means to be a Filipino • Filipinos hold on to their pride as if they are more precious
• Often referenced to globally renowned personalities than keeping a good relationship with family and loved ones
• However, being a Filipino is far more than just being related • Find it so hard to apologize and wait until the other party
to these notable figures. asks for an apology first
• Independence Day and Buwan ng Wika celebrations prompt us Crab Mentality
to go back to our roots. • Toxic trait among Filipinos where one resents the
• achlevement of another, instead of feeling happy for that
According to the 1987 Philippine Constitution person
• Filipino citizens are “…those whose fathers or mothers are • Just like crabs in a container, they pull each other down
citizens of the Philippines, those born before January 17, and ruin each other’s reputation rather than bringing them
1973, of Filipino mothers, who elect Philippine citizenship up, resulting to no progress
upon reaching the age of majority, and those who are Filipino Time
naturalized in accordance with law.” • Filipinos have this Common attitude of arriving late at
commitments, dinner, or parties especially if they are
Filipino Values ad Traits meeting someone close to them.

The Filipino Hospitality • Proverbs or Salawikain

• Always make their guests • Superstitions
• Feel at home, offering them something to eat, or even a • Myths/Legend
place to stay • Heroes and lcons
• Fond of giving pasalubong or tokens from their travels and
pabaon or farewell gifts to their visitors
Respect for Elders THE DIGITAL SELF : Self and other in Cyberspace
• Greet elders by kissing their hand while saying “Mano Pol”
and constantly using “po” and “opo” in conversations Online identity
• Used kuya for older brother; Tito and rita for uncle and • The sum of your characteristics and interactions online
aunt, respectively; Lolo and Lola for grandfather and • You act differently with each website you visit
grandmother; Manong and Aling for older people outside the • The different representations of you are known as portal
family identities
Close Family Ties • Online identity is different from your real world identity
• Place high regard and put importance on their family before Selective self-presentation and Impression
anything else • Management characteristics showing behaviors designed to
Cheerful Personality convey an image about ourselves to other people and to
• Smile and laugh a lot when happy or even when sad/angry influence the perception of other people of this image
• Always maintain positive outlook in life Impact of online interactions on the self
Self-Sacrifice • When interacting with other people, we automatically make
• Filipinos go out of their way to extend help to their friends, inferences about them without even being consciously aware
families, and loved ones of it.
Bayanihan
• The spirit of communal unity and cooperation of Filipinos Positive Impacts
Negative impacts
• Filipinos are always ready to share and help their friends and
• Social media sites • Extensive online
loved ones who are in need.
inform and empower engagement is correlated
“Bahala Na” Atitude
individuals to change with personality and bran
• Filipino version of the famous line “Hakuna Matata,” meaning
themselves and their disorders like poor social
no worries Originated from “Bathala Na, where Bathala means
communities. • Skills.
God, and the phrase meaning leaving everything.
• Increased self-esteem • Low self-esteem due to the
• Originated from “Bathala Na,” where Bathala means God, and
when receiving many risk of being exposed to
the phrase meaning leaving everything into God’s hands
likes and shares. cyberbullying and cyber
Colonial Mentality
• Boost one’s moral and pornography.
• Regarded as the lack of patriotism and the attitude where
feelings of self worth. • More occupied in giving
Filipinos favor foreign products more than their own
attention to social media
“Mañana” Habit
than in keeping their
• Filipino term for procrastination
customs and practices.
• Derived from a longer Filipino phrase called “Mamaya na”
• Poor habit of laziness that results in heavier workloads
“Ningas Kugon”
Filipino term for lame and kugon” is a Hilipino term for Cogon grass
that easily burns out after it is put into flames Attitude of eagerly
starting things but quickly losing eagerness soon after experiencing
difficulty

Filipinos are regarded as “Juan Tamad” or Lazy Juan

THE DIGITAL SELF : Self and other in Cyberspace Extended Self in a Digital World
1.Dematerialization
• Things are disappearing right before our eyes - our
information, communication, photos, videos, music,
Online identity calculation, messages, “written” words are now largely
invisible and immaterial, composed of electronic streams
• The sum of your characteristics and interactions online
stored in digital storage devices in locations we will never
• You act differently with each website you visit
know
• The different representations of you are known as portal
2 . Re-embodiment
identities
• Characterized as the “breakout of the visual” online,
• Online identity is different from your real world identity
leading to new constructions” and definitions of the self In
Selective self-presentation and Impression
the virtual world where online game, blogs, web pages,
• Management characteristics showing behaviors designed to
photo and video-sharing sites, Internet dating sites are
convey an image about ourselves to other people and to
possible; we are disembodied and re-embodied as avatars,
influence the perception of other people of this image
sharing identity with the chosen avatar virtually
Impact of online interactions on the self
3. Sharing
• When interacting with other people, we automatically make
• Uploading, downloading, sharing etc. provide free access of
inferences about them without even being consciously aware
information through web surfing
of it.
• In Facebook, social media friends know more than the
immediate families about our daily activities, connections,
Positive Impacts
and thoughts.
4. Co-construction self
• Social media sites inform and empower individuals to change
• Our digital involvement is social in nature.
themselves and their communities.
• Our blogs invite comments, social interaction which help in
• Increased self-esteem when receiving many likes and shares
constructing our individual and joint extended sense of self
• Boost one’s moral and feelings of self worth.
as the new version of Cooley’s “Looking Glass 8elf Theory”
known as the collaborative self

5. Distributed Memory
Negative impacts
• In a digital world, there is a new set of devices and
technologies for recording and arching our memories
• Extensive online engagement is correlated with personality
• Photos posted in the online world may not be accurate in
and bran disorders like poor social
giving memories of the past since the photos, blogs, etc.
• Skills.
may Just be selected representations of happy times
• Low self-esteem due to the risk of being exposed to
hence, may not be sufficient to tell our stories.
cyberbullying and cyber pornography.
• More occupied in giving attention to social media than in
Boundaries of the online self: private vs. Public; personal vs. Social
keeping their customs and practices.
identity online; gender and sexuality online

Setting boundaries to your online self:

• Stick to safer sites. Guard your passwords.
• Be choosy about your online friends.
• Remember that anything you put online or p0st on a site
ls there forever, even if you try to delete i
• Don’t be mean or embarrass other people online. Limit
what you share.