Frederick M.

Lalimarmo

Faculty, General Education Department

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Climate, Population, Agriculture, and Religious Composition
 MAP OF THE PHILIPPINES

- The country’s total land area is 115,

600 square miles (299402.626 km
square)
- The Philippine archipelago’s location
at the far southeastern edge of Asia
The current population of the
Philippines is 111,532,078 as of
Thursday, November 4, 2021, based on
Worldometer elaboration of the latest
United Nations data.
- There are two major seasons in the
Philippines – wet and dry season
 Map of the Philippines
- Luzon is ethnically and geographically divided
into a number of subregions and is the home to
three of the country’s six major language dialects
- The islands at the center of the country are
known as Visayas and include the long thin island
of Cebu which was the 1521 landing spot for
Ferdinand Magellan during his exploratory
voyage around the world and where he lost his
life in a battle with a local chieftain.
- To the far South is the large island of Mindanao
that extends from a southwesterly arm known as
Sulu archipelago up to the main portion of the
massive island that is a home to uneasily mixed
population of non-Christian tribal groups,
indigenous Muslims and recent Filipino Christian
migrants.
- Majority of the population is
the Christianized “lowland”
Filipinos.
- Filipinos are usually
differentiated or distinguished
according to which dialect
they speak.
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- Filipino Christian on Mindanao
identify themselves by geographic
residences; the Muslim people base
their identity on religion, and the
nation’ s indigenous peoples, whose
pre-Christian and pre-Islamic
religious beliefs and cultures give
them distinct identities.
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- Tagalog speakers live in the
metropolitan Manila area and
adjacent regions of Central Luzon
to the north and southern Tagalog
provinces to the south.
- Tagalog forms the basis of
Pilipino/Filipino, which over the
last few decades has made real
progress in becoming a true
national language, despite the
resistance of other dialects whose
speakers resent the
Manila/Tagalog dominance of the
nations political, economic and
cultural life.
- Ilocano is the native dialect of the
Filipinos living along the coastal
plains and agricultural valleys of
northern Luzon.
- Ilocanos have a reputation for
being very hard working and
extremely frugal.
- Bicol region on the southern arm
of Luzon have their own dialect
and cultural identity.
- Bicolanos are known for their
spicy foods that make abundant
use of chili peppers and their
consumption of the coconut
vodka lambanog.
- Linguistically, the Visayan Islands
are divided into a number of
dialects: Ilongo of Panay Island,
Cebuano from Cebu, and Waray-
Waray spoken on the islands of
Leyte and Samar.
- Most Mindanao’s Christian population is
comprised of relatively recent migrants,
who came from all over the Philippines to
settle in this second largest island if the
country.
- The nation’s Muslim population is divided
into five ethnic subgroups, including the
boat-dwelling Badjaos; the Tausugs of the
Sulu Archipelago; Samals of the
Zamboanga peninsula pf Mindanao; the
Maranaos, who reside in the vicinity of
Lake Lanao; and the Maguindanaoans.
•Philippines is an
overwhelmingly Christian
country.
•Unique among its other
neighbors in Southeast Asia
being the country that is highly
Christianized.
Christianity in the
•The denomination of Philippines
Christianity that became most
embedded in Filipino culture is
Catholicism, which was
introduced in the Philippines
during the early colonial period
by the Spanish.
•Islam was introduced to the
southern Philippines from
neighbouring countries in
Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia
and Indonesia.
•In present day Philippines, most
of the Muslim population in the Islam in the Philippines
Philippines reside in the
southern islands of Mindanao,
Sulu and Palawan.
•Contemporary Muslim Filipino
communities are often
collectively known as Moros.
Most Moros practice Sunni Islam,
while a small minority practice
Shi’a and Ahmadiyya.
•The most dominant
religious characteristics of
archipelago’s scattered
communities was animism
•Animism if the worship of
spirits in nature and Deism Concepts of Nature and
a vague belief of numerous
gods and.
Supernatural
•The most common lesser
deities were the
Anitos/Diwatas
•The Filipino concept of
natural and supernatural
worlds and one’s
relationship to them is
immediate since one’s own
ancestor may be an anito.
The Philippine Art
• The Philippine art is a combination of
indigenous traditions, adopted
Western forms, and a vibrant
contemporary folk art.
• Western influenced art can be found
at 2 cultural levels.
• At the high end of culture, artists
produce sophisticated works
comparable with any others in the
international modern art scene.
• Art level at the mass or folk level of
Philippine culture is seen in
resplendent decorations for
religious occasions and festivals; in
urban popular art, and on highly
decorated jeepneys.