The document discusses factors that shape Filipino moral identity, including family, social environment, culture, history, education, and economic and political systems. It describes how Filipinos are strongly family-oriented and group-focused due to their history and environment, which can lead to both strengths like resilience and weaknesses like favoritism. It also examines how colonialism, authority figures, and a lack of government accountability have impacted Filipino values and reinforced issues like passivity, conformity, and a reliance on leaders over self-initiative. In general, the document analyzes how Filipino characteristics are both assets and liabilities due to contradictions within their culture and experiences.

1. THE FILIPINO WAY

2. WHAT IS MORAL IDENTITY
MORAL
• relates to the principles of what is considered right or wrong.
IDENTITY
• what do you think of yourself and what aspects and what
aspects in living your life are personallyimportant.
MORALIDENTITY
• level of personal importance that you give in what you deem
acceptable or unacceptable behaviour.

3. FACTORSTHAT HELP FORM
FILIPINO MORALIDENTITY
STRENGTH AND WEAKNESSES OF
FILIPINO CHARACTERISTICS

4. HOME ENVIRONMENT
 THE SOCIALENVIRONMENT
CULTUREAND LANGUAGE
HISTORY
THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

5. HOW DO THESEFACTORS
SHAPE THE FILIPINO’S
CONCEPT OF RIGHT OR
WRONG BEHAVIOR?

6. FAMIL
Y
- the most influential factor of
shaping the Filipino moral identity

7. Father, mother, siblings
grandparents, aunt, and uncles
first degree cousins
second, third, fourth…

8. Developing a close relationship
with extended families over both
the mother and father’s side

9. Filipino children are
taught tovalue family and
give it primary
importance

10. SOCIAL
ENVIRONMENT

11. Filipino social environment
is characterized by
depending on one another
to survive.

12. Dependence on
relationship and struggle
for survival make
Filipinos grouporiented

13. Filipinos arecheerful
and fun loving

14. Even in the most trying
time, Filipinos will find a
reason to smile and laugh

15. CHARACTER
- a complex or the inter related parts of
mental and ethical traits marking and often
individualizing a person, group, or nation
-(Merriam-Webster)

16. Pakikipagkapwa-tao
generosity; the practice of
- is demonstrated in our openness, helpfulness,
Bayanihan or mutual
assistance; the famous Filipino hospitality; and our
love forfamily.

17. Extreme Personalism and
Extreme Family
Centeredness are
weaknesses of the Filipino
character

18. Filipino function in the world by
personally relating to things,
events, and people. Thus, making
it difficult to separate objective
tasks and emotional involvement
(Licuanan, 1994)

19. Preference in hiring ,
delivering services,
voting someone into a
government position

20. Palakasan System
make it difficult to turn
down personal requests

21. Kanya-kanya Syndrome
is also related to extreme
personalism and extreme
family centeredness where
self-interest is supreme

22. Kanya-kanya Syndrome
dampens Filipino sense of
community and cooperation

23. The family is both source
of strength and
weaknesses forFilipino

24. Political dynasties in
elected government posts
starting from the barangay
level all the way to national
positions

25. Filipinos are joyful and fun
loving but had the
tendency to be superficial
and somewhat flighty

26. Filipinos lack analysis
and self-reflection

27. Filipinos arecharacterized
as “Madaling Makalimot”
or a nation with a short
memory

28. Filipinos forget mistakes
committed and tend to
repeat the same mistakes

29. The trait of
“Madaling Makalimot”
allowed trapos or
traditional politician to
flourish

30. CULTURE
AND
LANGUAGE
-Filipino culture is a mix of both
Eastern and Western cultures

31. The belief and traditions or
pre-colonial Philippines
were mainly indigenous
Malay heritage

32. Ancient beliefs and traditions
have mostly been merged with
the colonizers and eventually
evolved into what we now know
as the Filipino culture

33. Filipino non-formal written or
verbal communication is a mix of
Filipino language and English.
Formal communication is mainly
in English

34. Current trends in Filipino speech
among young Filipinos
some
mainly
include
Korean expressions
influenced by Anime and
Japanese and
as
K-
drama/Kpop.

35. Filipino
show
culture
openness
with
elements but,
consciousness of
and language
to foreign
no basic
the cultural
core of beingFilipino

36. The English Language is
central to Philippine
Educational System

37. Filipinos prefer films
locally produce
over
movies
Anime, Mexicanovela, Taiwanese and
Korean drama

38. Filipinos have a foreign
iconic artistthat
influences the trends of his
or hergeneration
Elvis Presley, Beatles, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Beyonce, K-pop

39. “Colonial mentality”
-the perception of ethnic and
cultural inferiority and a form of
internalized racial oppression.
(Decena 2014)

40. Filipino elite are
very Westernized
in theirway

41. Philippine mass media
create trends that further
reinforce the Filipino’s
colonial mentality

42. How do Schools and
Religion influence
Filipino Moral Identity?

43. Early on, Filipino children
learn that good behavior, such
as obedience is rewarded, but
they will be punished once they
misbehave.

44. Schools and religion, being
authoritarian systems, help build
resilience.
On the other hand, it also
teaches passivity, conformity,
and a fatalistic attitude.

45. A “Bahala na Mindset”
is an example of a
fatalistic attitude in
Filipinos.

46. Positive side of “bahala na”
mindset is that it moves a
Filipino into action

47. The Economic Environment
is another Element that the
Filipino Moral Identity is
Rooted

48. The Philippine economic
environment for its part is highly
affected by factors such as over
population, mismatch between skills
and job requirement, and immense
corruption in government

49. Other strong traits of Filipino:
Hard work
Industry
Ability to survive

50. “Matutong mamaluktot
habang maikli ang kumot”
shows Filipino can endure, make do,
and get by on so little while looking
forward to the coming days.

51. Filipinos can carry on
through harsh economic
and social circumstance

52. The country’s political
environment as well as
government structures and
system are fraught with
problems.

53. Political power in
mainly in the hands
of the elite

54. Absence of a strong government
presence particularly in the
most basic government unit like
in the barangay city, or province
enhanced the Filipino’s already
extreme familycenteredness

55. Filipinos’ high respect for
authority continued the
rule of the country’s elite

56. Filipinos
authority
high respect for
also led to a
character of general passivity
and lacking initiative

57. Filipinos strongly rely on
leaders and government to
solve the nation’s problems.
Filipinos do not feel the need to
initiate or contribute to the
solution

58. Filipinos lean on Leaders
and Role Models

59. Thus, when leaders or role models
violate the law and there is lack of
accountability for those who broke the
law, the level of personal importance
that Filipinos give in the goodness or
badness of one’s behavior is hugely
negatively affected.

60. The Filipino character
is acontradiction

61. Many of the Filipino
strong points are linked
to Filipinoweaknesses