1. We Filipinos are professional
“crammers”
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> T O F O R C E , P R E S S , O R S Q U E E Z E
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Crammer(Cram)

3. “when the teacher give a
requirement a month
or so before the deadline , students do not
mind at all”
“Manana habit”
Manana is a Spanish word which means “tomorrow”
or “morning” and it could also means as “putting
something off until another time.” This is where the
Filipino’s phrase “mamaya or mamaya na” came
from. This trait was instilled to the Filipinos during
the Spanish era in which they use this habit in work
and serious business as a silent protest to the
invaders.

4. What are its negative effects in life?
a). It delays transactions and corporations; plans and
progress.
b). Other people will find you unreliable, as well.
c). You’ll have a harder time finishing your tasks – in
short, you’ll be a victim of procrastination again.
d). You’ll have regrets in later life for those things that
you could have done when you still had the time.
Procrastination is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks
in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable
things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off
impending tasks to a later time, sometimes to the "last minute"
before a deadline.

5. “Filipinos do things a day before the deadline and
they would usually ask first for extension”
“Filipino Time”
Filipino time is a coined phrase for the embarrassing
affliction of tardiness among Filipinos. It has become
a phenomenon and impression for Filipino Schedule,
making it a characteristic of Filipinos to be generally
late. Obviously, this trait was also an influence from
the Spanish occupiers for people would rather give
more attention to their amor propio (hiya), in some
events than going there as early as possible. This
trait is also a root of the “manana habit”.

6. What is its negative effect in life?
a). You’ll miss a lot of important once-in-a-life time
experiences/events.
b). It’ll be a bad impression imprinted on your personality.
People will look to you as a “latecomer” whom you can
rely on.
c). Time, again, will be wasted in waiting.
d). It’ll be hard to catch up with what you hurried (work or
classes), and it’ll bring across more problems that can
pull you to being incompetent and unreliable later in the
end.