Filipino Culture and

Values
What is Filipino Culture?
- The Filipino culture is an
exuberant story that tells of the nation's
journey through the centuries. Customs
reflect the people's faith, their oneness
with others, their affinity with nature,
and their celebration of life.
What is Filipino values?
- Hiya, pakikisama, utang na loob &
respect to others make a Filipino an
individual with unique moral obligation to
treat one another resulting to community
ties. These values make Filipinos friendly,
hospitable, polite & loyal. In brief, the
Filipino core values influence how they
behave in any situation.
“Human activities”
Filipino Cultures
Family oriented
The basic and most important unit of a Filipino's life is the
family. Unlike in Anglo-Saxon countries, young Filipinos
who turn 18 are not expected to move out of their parents'
home. When a Filipino's parents are old and cannot take
care of themselves, they are cared for in their children's
homes and are very rarely brought by their children to
homes for the aged. The practice of separating the elderly
from the rest of the family, while common in Western
countries, is often looked down upon in Filipino society.
Family lunches with the extended family of up to 50
people, extending until the line of second cousins, are not
unusual. The Filipino culture puts a great emphasis on the
value of family and being close to one's family members.
Humour and positivity
This famous trait is the ability of Filipino’s to
find humour in everything. It sheds light on the
optimism and positivity of Filipinos in whatever
situation they are in so as to remain determined
in going through struggles or challenges. It
serves as a coping technique, the same way a
child who has fallen laughs at himself/herself to
hide his/her embarrassment.
Flexibility, adaptability, discipline, and creativity
Filipinos adapt to different sets of standardized
rules or procedures. They are known to follow a
"natural clock" or organic sense of time—doing
things in the time they feel is right. They are present-
and future-oriented: one attends to a task or
requirement at the time, and, often, in preparation for
future engagements.
Filipinos do not tend to dwell in the past unless it
serves to help them understand the present and future.
This allows the Filipino to adapt and integrate well
into different cultures, and create effective case-by-
case schedules.
Education and multilingualism
Filipinos place a high value on holistic child education
with a belief in parental involvement in the child's success.
Filipinos believe in the importance of multilingualism and
multiculturalism; in the Philippines, there are over 120
distinct languages based in different regions with different
tribes and races. At school, children are educated foremost
in their regional language. There are eight most widely-
spoken Filipino regional languages: Tagalog, Cebuano,
Ilocano, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo, Bicolano, Waray,
Pampango, and Pagasinese. Next, children learn their
country's two national languages: Filipino (Tagalog) and
English. Effectively, by adulthood, children are often at
least proficiently bilingual or trilingual.
Religious adherence
The Philippines is approximately 85 percent
Christian (mostly Roman Catholic) and 10
percent Muslim, with the remaining 5 percent
belonging to other religions including Taoism,
Buddhism and the Dayawism of the highlands.
The combined percentages of Christian and
Muslim faithful are indicative of the strong or at
least nominal faith most Filipinos have in the
existence, agency and power of a creator deity.
Ability to survive and thrive
The Filipinos have survived the rule of
numerous colonial and imperial countries of
their time such as the United States, Spain, and
Japan. Consequently, Filipinos have developed a
sense of resourcefulness or the ability to survive
and thrive irrespective of the political context.
They have an extraordinary ability to thrive
despite perceived or actual material, social, or
political limitations.
Hard work and industriousness
With resourcefulness comes hard work.
Filipinos are very determined and
persevering in accomplishing whatever
they set their minds to.