LESSON 2:

MILLENIALS AND
“FILLENIALS”: ETHICAL
CHALLENGES AND
RESPONSES
The Filipino Millenials (“Fillenials”)

There are four generations working in the same workplace:

1. Traditionalist- those born from 1990-1945. The generation that lived through two World Wars.

2. Baby Boomers- Those born from 1946-1964. They are called “Baby Boomers” because of the
significant increase of population in their generation.

3. Generation X- Those born from 1965-1980. The generation born in the era of video games and
computers.

4. Millenials- Those born from 1981-2000. They are called “digital natives”. The generation born
in the internet era.

5. Generation Z- Those born from 2001- the present. They are also called iGeneration. They are
the generation born in an era of individual mobile technologies.
Qualities of Fillenials
There are things the Filipino Millenials acre more about than their millennial counterparts in other countries.

• 83% of the Filipino youths rely heavily on their parents for advice.

• On adulthood, Fillenials value close family relationships.

• They believe that age limit for someone to continue living with their parents is 30 years old.

• Filipino millenials are more active in social media and are more easily influenced by peers.

• 61% feel pressured to portray themselves in the best way possible in social media.

• 96% feel it is important to a positive contribution to the community.

 However, despite the fast-moving world of social media and communication there are three enduring human truths
about being young that as true today as they ever were in the previous generations.

1. The notion of needing to “find yourself”

Being young is still ridden with angst. They are at the stage wherein identity being formed. Millenials go through
the same agony of “trying to figure things out” specifically “to figure what kind of person I am.”

2. Friends are everything

Finding your group to hang out with is the key to establishing the sense of “self” and happiness.

3. “Finding your place in the World”

The millenials still strive to figure out their values, passions and ideals, as well as establishing their sense of
personal justice of what is right and wrong.
 LESSON 3:

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
ETHICS AND RELIGION
What is religion?
• Generally, religion is a “system of beliefs and practices” (Hopkins, et al, 2001).
• Religions and Ethics are not synonymous. However, ethics and religion are often understood and treated as the
same thing.
• Various religions claim that their belief systems are the best way to live and that faith presents a path to
enlightenment and salvation. Ethics on the other hand is not dependent on religion.

The role of Religion in a Globalized World

• Globalization made way for the creation of international for a through various organizations where nations
around the world participate like the United Nations and ASEAN.

• Through these organizations, issues that concern participants nations (peace, security, health issues, poverty,
the environment, etc.) are discussed.

• Globalization made possible for religions to come in direct contact with another.

• According to Bandchoff, 2008, The Summit’s conversation encouraged the world’s religious communities to
stop fighting and arguing amongst themselves and begin working together for peace, justice, and social
harmony.
The Emergence of “Religious Nones”: Its Impact on Ethics

• Christians are the largest religious group in the world as of 2015, representing 31% of the global population;
Muslims came second.

• By the same year, 1.17 billion-16.4% of all human beings alive declared that they had no religious affiliation.

• These “religious nones”, whose size is projected to grow to 1.20 billion in 2016, consists of atheist, agnostics and
those who do not identify with any specific religion.
• There is no intrinsic relationship between religiosity and morality that is, there is no significant difference between
the behaviour of religious believers and those of non-believers.

• The type of education one goes through and the type of values it promotes matter.

• Since programs provided by one’s erstwhile religious leaders are no longer accessible to “religious nones”, school-
based educational programs need to be initiated to strengthens students’ ability to distinguish good from bad
arguments, translate ethical principles into solutions for real-life moral problems, and deal with religious issues in
a more symbolic way.
THANK YOU 