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 highly family-oriented and group-oriented due to their social environment and history of dependence. Their moral identity is also influenced by colonial mentality from foreign domination and a mix of cultures in their language. Schools and religion teach obedience but also passivity. Filipino character is contradictory, with both strengths like resilience and weaknesses like extreme personalism.

1. THE FILIPINO WAY
RYAN P. JAVIER
INSTRUCTOR

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 personally important.
MORAL IDENTITY
- level of personal importance that you give in what
you deem acceptable or unacceptable behavior

3. FACTORS THAT HELP FORM
FILIPINO MORAL IDENTITY
STRENGTH AND WEAKNESSES OF
FILIPINO CHARACTERISTICS

4. HOME ENVIRONMENT
 THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
CULTURE AND LANGUAGE
HISTORY
THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

5. HOW DO THESE FACTORS
SHAPE THE FILIPINO’S
CONCEPT OF RIGHT OR
WRONG BEHAVIOR

6. FAMILY
- 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 to value family and
give it primary
importance

10. Filipino children are
taught to value family and
give it primary
importance

11. SOCIAL
ENVIRONMENT

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

13. Dependence on
relationship and struggle
for survival make
Filipinos group oriented

14. Filipinos are cheerful
and fun loving

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

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

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

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

19. 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)

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

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

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

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

24. The family is both source
of strength and
weaknesses for Filipino

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

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

27. Filipinos lack analysis
and self-reflection

28. Filipinos are characterized
as “Madaling Makalimot”
or a nation with a short
memory

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

37. The English Language is
central to Philippine
Educational System

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

39. Filipinos have a foreign
iconic artist that
influences the trends of his
or her generation
Elvis Presley, Beatles, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Beyonce, K-pop

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

41. Filipino elite are
very Westernized
in their way

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

49. 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

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

51. “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.

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

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

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

55. 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 family centeredness

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

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

58. 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

59. Filipinos Lean
on
Leaders and Role Models

60. 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.

61. The Filipino character
is a contradiction

62. Many of the Filipino
strong points are linked
to Filipino weaknesses