1. What areWhat are
FilipinosFilipinos
Like?Like?
Leon Ma. Guerrero

3. Leon Ma. Guerrero

4. He was one of the
foremost
nationalists of this
era. A partner in the
law practice of
Senator Claro M.
Recto, he became
Undersecretary of
Foreign Affairs
during the
Magsaysay
administration.

5. On retirement, he was the
country's most senior diplomat,
having been Ambassador in
London, Madrid, New Delhi, Mexico
City and Belgrade. On 19 June
1982 he received the Gawad
Mabini -the highest award in the
Philippine Foreign Service.
He held the rank of Knight Grand
Cross of the Knights of Rizal.
Among his many works are
internationally acclaimed
translations of Rizal's Noli Me
Tangere and El Filibusterismo.

6. What are Filipinos Like?What are Filipinos Like?
Leon Ma. Guerrero

7. What do
foreigners say
about
Filipinos?

8. Filipinos are...
• Friendly - good-natured
• loyal - idealistic
• Sentimental - socially gracious
• more intelligent than the Malays
• religious but not so mystical as
the Indians
• imitative but less so than the
Japanese

9. Filipinos are...
• unwilling to accept
responsibility
• lacking in self-reliance
• less hardworking than the
Chinese
and, in general,...
•the most adaptable of all
races in the Orient.

10. A Spaniard thought Filipinos
were very like the Spanish.

11. An American thought Filipinos were
not American enough. They also
cannot understand why grown-up
sons and daughters keep on living
with their parents after they have
married.

12. A Frenchman remarked
that Filipinos were the
only people in Asia with a
sense of humor.

13. A Chinese thought Filipinos
were improvident.

14. An Indonesian criticized
Filipinos for immediately
accepting Western
standards.

15. A Siamese said Filipinos
were pretentious.

16. Other nations tried
to
“save” us…

17. Spaniards believed that
they were rescuing us
from agents of Satan.

18. Americans proclaimed their
purpose to civilize us,
Christianize us, and liberate us
from the Spaniards.

19. Japanese announced
that they come to free us
from the Americans.

20. They were all
fighting over us!
Yet in the end…

22. save
ourselves
We have managed to
survive in this
solicitude, and to learn
that in the end we
must