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Celebrations that prompt us to go back to our roots and reflect on the question: Who is a Filipino?

Independence Day and Buwan ng Wika

According to this Constitution, Filipino people are "....those whose fathers or mothers are citizens of the Philippines, those born before January 17, 1973, of Filipino mothers, who elect Philippine citizenship upon reaching the age of majority, and those who are naturalized in accordance with law"

1987 Philippine Constitution

It also grealy influenced the manner Filipinos learn, live, and behave to date.

Culture and History

Philippines may be well known for its "————" beauty.

awe-inspiring

Common Filipino phrases such as ———— & ————

Mabuhay!, Salamat!

Filipinos welcome their guests and tourists as if they are their own brothers and sisters, they always make their guests feel at home, offering them something to eat, or even a place to stay.

The Filipino Hospitality

Filipinos greet their elders by kissing their hand while saying "Mano pol" and constantly using "po" and "opo" in conversations. Forgetting to address older people properly will regard them as rude and impolite.

Respect for Elders

Filipinos maintain a tight relationship with their families regardless if the children are old enough and already have familjes of their own.

Close Family Ties

Filipinos have a habit of smiling and laughing a lot. They smile when they are happy, or sometimes even when they are sad or angry Smiling has been a coping strategy for many Filipinos especially during trying times and calamities.

CHEERFUL PERSONALITY

An attitude of Filipinos can be seen as an extension of the Filipino hospitality. Filipinos go out of their way to extend help to their friends, families, and loved ones.

Self-sacrifice

Spirit of communal unity and cooperation of Filipinos. It is also about giving without expecting something in return.

BAYANIHAN

A Filipino version of "Hakuna Matata". The phrase is said to have originated from "Bathala na," where Bathala means God, and the phrase meaning leaving everything into God's hands.

"Bahala Na" Attitude

It is regarded as the lack of patriotism and the attitude where Filipinos favor foreign products more than their own.

Colonial Mentality

This is the Filipino term for procrastination. It was derived from a longer Filipino phrase called "Mamaya na" meaning dawdling things, which could have been done at an earlier time. It is a poor habit of laziness that results in heavier workloads.

"Mañana" Habit

It is a Filipino term for flame

Ningas

is a Filipino term, a grass that easily burns out after it is put into flames

Kugon

refers to the attitude of eagerly starting things but quickly losing eagerness soon after experiencing difficulty

Ningas Kugon

When two parties are not in good terms, they find it so hard to apologize and wait until the other party asks for an apology first.

Pride

This is a toxic trait among Filipinos where one resents the achievement of another, instead of feeling happy for that person.

Crab Mentality

Filipinos have this common attitude of arriving late at commitments, dinner, or parties especially if they are meeting someone close to them. They tend to not observe punctuality altogether.

Filipino Time

She was egarded as the Mother of Philippine Folklore, classified proverbs into six categories (Eugenio, 2000): a. proverbs expressing a general attitude toward life and the laws that govern life; b. ethical proverbs recommending certain virtues and condemning certain vices; c. proverbs expressing a system of values; d. proverbs expressing general truths and observations about life and human nature; e. humorous proverbs; and f. miscellaneous proverbs.

Damiana Eugenio

Filipinos also subscribe to their own set of ————— passed down from generation to generation. Some of these may be influenced by beliefs from other cultures, but Filipinos have retold these according to their own experiences and they sometimes end up even more interesting.

SUPERSTITIONS

Due to the Philippines's rich culture and history, numerous —— and ————have sprung about things that are beyond one's imagination. These stories are aimed to explain the origin of things, at the same time, teach a valuable lesson. Some of these stories stemmed in pre- Christianity period, but have evolved to the stories we know today.

Myths and Legends

These serve as a reminder of true patriotism and nationalism as they have sacrificed their lives for the sake of their country's freedom and progress. Every year, we lend a whole day to celebrate them usually the last Monday of August, to remember their greatness, bravery, and resilience that has led to the freedom we know today.

HEROES AND ICONS

More than half of the population worldwide now uses the Internet. It has only been 25 years since —————made the World Wide Web available to the public, but in that time, the Internet has already become an integral part of everyday life for most of the world's population.

Tim Berners-Lee

These users in the Philippines grew by 12 million or 25%

MEDIA USERS

mobile ———— users increased by 13 million or 32%

SOCIAL

According to them, self-presentation is the "process of controlling how one is perceived by other people" and is the key to relationship inception and development.

Goffman (1959) and Leary (1995)

Identity that is the interpersonal level of self which differentiates the individual as unique from others.

PERSONAL

This identity is the level of self whereby the individual is identified by his or her group memberships.

SOCIAL

He explained that sharing ourselves is no longer new and has been practiced as soon as human beings were formed

Belk, (2013)

This help us share information broadly, more than ever before

DIGITAL DEVICES

Facebook and other social media applications are now a key part of ———for one sixth of humanity

SELF-PRESENTATION

This condition has been called ———— People would like to remain updated and they keep on sharing themselves online because it adds a sense of confidence at their end especially if others like and share their posts.

Fear of Missing Out

One of the reasons for so much sharing and self-disclosure online is the so-called "" (Ridley 2012; Suler 2004). The lack of face-to-face gaze-meeting, together with feelings of anonymity and invisibility, gives people the freedom for self-disclosure but can also "flame" others and may cause conflict sometimes.

disinhibition effect

The resulting disinhibition causes people to believe that they are able to express their "true self" better online than they ever could in face-to-face contexts

Taylor 2002

The self is still a work in progress and we keep on improving and developing ourselves every single day. Seemingly self-revelat can be therapeutic to others especially if it goes together with self-reflection.

Morris et al. 2010

In addition to sharing the good things we experience, many of us also share the bad, embarrassing, and "sinful" things we experience. We also react and comment on negative experiences of others. Sometimes, we empathize with people. We also argue with others online. Relationships may be made stronger or broken through posts online. Blogs and social media are the primary digital fora on which such confessions occur, but they can also be found in photo-and video- sharing sites where blunders and bad moments are also preserved and shared.

Strangelove 2011

In ———— (1978, 1998) view, confessing our secret truths feels freeing, even as it binds us in a guilt-motivated self-governance born of a long history of Christian and pre-Christian philosophies and power structures,

Foucault's

According to "", confession, along with contemplation, self- examination, learning, reading, and writing self-critical letters to friends, are a part of the technologies of the self through which we seek to purge and cleanse ourselves.

Foucault 1998

Is a biological state that corresponds to what we might call a "man" or a "woman." And is often explained as biological, fixed, and immutable, it is actually socially constructed (West and Zimmerman 1987).

SEX

It is the social understanding of how sex should be experienced and how sex manifests in behavior, personality, preferences, capabilities, and so forth.

GENDER

Is an individual expression and understanding of desire. While like gender, this is often viewed as binary (homosexual or heterosexual), in reality, it is often experienced as fluid.

SEXUALITY

This theorist conceptualized gender as a performance. She explained that popular understandings of gender and sexuality came to be through discourse and social processes. She argued that gender was performative, in that it is produced through millions of individual actions, rather than something that comes naturally to men and women.

Theorist Judith Butler(1990)

To find the meaning of life starts with holding a future goal. Each individual has each own future goal to achieve or a task to perform. That task or goal to fulfill becomes the meaning of their life. Therefore, meaning of life is unique to every individual.

Purposeful Work

A meaningful life is a life with suffering. Suffering is inevitable part of life. To find meaning of life is to recognize suffering, pain, and death as part of life and to have the courage to face these life difficulties.

Courage in the Face of Difficulty

Popova (2017) quoted Dr. Frankl's notes about his experience in the Nazi Camp: "For hours I stood hacking at the icy ground. The guard passed by, insulting me, and once again I communed with my beloved. More and more I felt that she was present, that she was with me; I had the feeling that I was able to touch her, able to stretch out my hand and grasp hers. The feeling was very strong: she was there. Then, at that very moment, a bird flew down silently and perched just in front of me, on the heap of soil which I had dug up from the ditch, and looked steadily at me."

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