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The document discusses 11 Filipino traits and values: hiya, ningas-cogon, pakikisama, patigasan, bahala na, kasi, saving face, sakop, bukas na/mamaya na, utang na loob, and kanya-kanya. For each trait, the author notes potential positive and negative aspects. Positively, the traits can contribute to peace, humility, loyalty to family, and resilience. However, negatively the traits can also enable avoiding responsibility, postponing action, and being self-centered. The document analyzes both benefits and drawbacks of core cultural values in Filipino society.

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The Ambivalence of Filipino Traits and Values - For Quipper Task

The document discusses 11 Filipino traits and values: hiya, ningas-cogon, pakikisama, patigasan, bahala na, kasi, saving face, sakop, bukas na/mamaya na, utang na loob, and kanya-kanya. For each trait, the author notes potential positive and negative aspects. Positively, the traits can contribute to peace, humility, loyalty to family, and resilience. However, negatively the traits can also enable avoiding responsibility, postponing action, and being self-centered. The document analyzes both benefits and drawbacks of core cultural values in Filipino society.

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THE AMBIVALENCE

OF FILIPINO TRAITS
AND VALUES
By Prof. Emerita S. Quito, PhD
1. HIYA (shame)

• Negative, because it arrests or inhibits one’s • Positive, because it contributes to peace of


action. mind and lack of stress by not even trying to
achieve.
2. NINGAS-COGON (procrastination)

• Negative, because it begins ardently and • Positive, because it makes a person non-
dies down as soon as it begins. chalant, detached, indifferent, nonplussed
should anything go wrong, and hence
conducive to peace and tranquility.
3. PAKIKISAMA (group loyalty)

• Negative, because one closes one’s eyes to • Positive, because one lives for others; peace
evils like graft and corruption in order to or lack of dissension is a constant goal.
conserve peace and harmony in a group at
the expense of one’s comfort.
4. PATIGASAN (test of strength)

• Negative, because it is stubborn and resist • Positive, because it is a sign that we know
all efforts at reconciliation. our rights and are not easily cowed into
submission.
5. BAHALA NA (resignation)

• Negative, because one leaves everything to • Positive, because one relies on superior
chance under the pretext of trusting in power rather than on one’s own; it is
Divine providence. conducive to humility, modesty, and lack of
arrogance.
6. KASI (because, i.e., scapegoat)

• Negative, because one disowns • Positive, because one can see both sides of
responsibility and makes a scapegoat out of the picture and know exactly where a
someone or something. project failed; one will never suffer from
guilt or self-recrimination.
7. SAVING FACE

• Negative, because being closely related to • Positive, because one’s psyche is saved from
hiya and kasi, it enables a person to shirk undue embarrassment, sleepless nights,
responsibility; one is never accountable for remorse of conscience; it saves one from
anything. accountability or responsibility.
8. SAKOP (inclusion)

• Negative, because one never learns to be on • Positive, because one cares for the family
one’s own but relies on one’s family and and clan; one stands or falls with them.
relatives.
9. BUKAS NA/MAMAYA NA (procrastination)

• Negative, because one constantly postpones • Positive, because one is without stress and
action and accomplishes nothing. tension; one learns to take what comes
naturally.
10. UTANG NA LOOB (indebtedness)

• Negative, because one overlooks moral • Positive, because it is a recognition of one’s


principle when one is indebted to a person. indebtedness. This trait portrays the spirit
behind Filipino saying, “He who does not
know how to look back the past will never
reach his destination”.
11. KANYA-KANYA (self-centeredness)

• Negative, because self-centered; one has no • Positive, because one takes care of oneself
regard for others. and one’s family: “Blood is thicker than
water.”

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