viciousconvict;685020; said:
hahah take it easy bro ! no haters here... Taho is cool.. its a chinese viand more than filipino.
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hahah take it easy bro ! no haters here... Taho is cool.. its a chinese viand more than filipino.
may have overreacted. it's cool.redtailfool;685204;685204 said:hahah take it easy bro ! no haters here... Taho is cool.. its a chinese viand more than filipino.
viciousconvict;685020; said:
Welcome Home.
What makes the Filipino Special?
Ed Lapiz
INQ7.net
December 01, 2006
Filipinos are brown. Their color is at the center of human
racial strains. This point is not racism, but for many Filipinos to
realize that our color should not be a source or reason for an
inferiority complex. While we pine for a fair complexion, white people
are religiously tanning themselves whenever they could, under the sun
or some artificial light, just to approximate the Filipino complexion.
Filipinos are a touching people. We have lots of love and are
not afraid to show it. We almost inevitably create human chains with
our perennial akbay (arm around another shoulder), hawak (hold), yakap
(embrace), himas (caress), kalabit (touch with the tip of the finger),
kalong (sitting on someone's lap), etc.
We are always reaching out, always seeking interconnection.
Filipinos are linguists. Put a Filipino in any city, any town
around the world. Give him a few months or even weeks and he will
speak the local language. Filipinos are adept at learning and speaking
languages. In fact, it is not uncommon for Filipinos to speak at least
three: his dialect, Filipino, and English. If they work abroad, many
speak an added language, the host country's language.
In addition, Tagalog is not 'sexist.' While many "conscious"
and "enlightened" people today are just now striving to be
"politically correct" in their language, in the process, bending to
absurd depths to coin "gender sensitive" words, Tagalog has evolved
gender-neutral words since time immemorial - asawa (husband or wife),
anak (son or daughter), magulang (father or mother), kapatid (brother
or sister), biyenan (father-in-law or mother-in-law) , manugang (son-
or daughter-in- law), bayani (hero or heroine), etc. Our languages and
dialects are advanced and, indeed, sophisticated! No wonder Jose
Rizal, the quintessential Filipino, spoke some twenty-two languages!
Filipinos are "groupists." We love human interaction and
company. We always surround ourselves with people and we hover over
them, too. According to Dr. Patricia Licuanan, a psychologist from
Ateneo and Miriam College , an average Filipino would have and know at
least 300 relatives.
At work, we live bayanihan (mutual help); at play, we want a
kalaro (playmate) more than a laruan (toy). At socials, our
invitations are open and it is common even for guests to invite and
bring in other guests. In transit, we do not want to be separated from
our group. So what do we do when there is no more space in a vehicle?
Kalung-kalong! (sit on another's lap). No one would ever suggest
splitting a group and waiting for another vehicle with more space!
Filipinos are weavers. One look at our baskets, mats, clothes,
and other crafts will reveal the skill of the Filipino weaver and his
inclination to weaving. This art is a metaphor of the Filipino trait.
We are social weavers. We weave theirs into ours, so that we all
become parts of one another. We place a lot of premium on pakikisama
(getting along) and pakikipagkapwa (relating). At almost any cost, the
Filipino will avoid the two worst labels, walang pakikisama (no
comradeship) and walang pakikipagkapwa (cannot relate).
We love to blend and harmonize with people, we like to include
them in our "tribe," in our "family"-and we like to be included in
other people's families, too.
Therefore we call our friend's mother nanay or mommy; we call
a friend's sister ate (eldest sister), and so on. We even call
strangers tita (aunt) or tito (uncle), tatang (grandfather) , etc.
So extensive is our social openness and interrelation that we
have specific titles for extended relations like hipag (sister-in-law'
s spouse), balae (child-in-law' s parents), inaanak (godchild),
ninong/ninang (godparents) kinakapatid (godparent's child), etc. In
addition, we have the profound 'ka' institution, loosely translated as
"equal to the same kind" as in kasama (of the same company), kaisa (of
the same cause), kapanalig (of the same belief), etc. In our social
fiber, we treat other people as co-equals.
Filipinos, because of their social "weaving" traditions, make
for excellent team members.
Filipinos are adventurers. We have a tradition of separation.
Our myths and legends speak of heroes and heroines who almost always
get separated from their families and loved ones and are taken by
circumstance to far-away lands where they find wealth or power.
Our Spanish colonial history is filled with separations caused
by the reduccion (hamletting) and the forced migration to build towns,
churches, fortresses or galleons. American occupation enlarged the
space of Filipino wandering, including America , and there are
documented evidences of Filipino presence in America as far back as
1587.
Filipinos now compose the world's largest population of
overseas workers, populating and sometimes "threshing" major capitals,
minor towns, and even remote villages around the world. Filipino
adventurism has made us today's citizens of the world, bringing the
bagoong (salty shrimp paste), pansit (sauteed noodles), siopao
(meat-filled dough), kare-kare (peanut-flavored dish), dinuguan
(innards cooked in pork blood), balut (duck egg embryo), and adobo
(meat vinaigrette) , along with the tabo (ladle) andtsinelas
(slippers) all over the world.
Filipinos are excellent at adjustments and improvisation,
managing to recreate their home, or to feel at home anywhere.
Filipinos have pakiramdam (deep feeling/ discernment) . We can
feel what others feel, sometimes even anticipate it. Being manhid
(insensitive) is one of the worst labels on anyone, to be avoided at
all costs. We know when a guest is hungry though he insists on the
contrary.
We can tell if people are lovers even if they're miles apart.
We know if a person is offended though he may purposely smile. We know
because we feel. In our pakikipagkapwa (fraternizing in oneness), we
not only get to slip into another man's shoes, but also into his
heart.
We have a superbly developed and honored gift of discernment
that makes us excellent leaders, counselors, and go-betweens.
Filipinos are very spiritual. We are transcendent. We
transcend the physical world, see the unseen and hear the unheard. We
have a deep sense of kaba (premonition) and kutob (hunch). A Filipino
wife will instinctively feel her husband or child is going astray,
whether or not telltale signs present themselves.
Filipino spirituality makes him invoke divine presence or
intervention at nearly every bend of his journey. Rightly or wrongly,
Filipinos are almost always acknowledging, invoking or driving away
spirits into and from their lives. Seemingly trivial or even
incoherent events can take on spiritual significance and will be given
such space or consideration.
The Filipino has a sophisticated, developed pakiramdam. The
Filipino, though becoming more and more modern (hence, materialistic)
is still very spiritual in essence. This inherent and deep
spirituality makes the Filipino, once correctly Christianized, a major
exponent of the faith.
Filipinos are timeless. Despite the nearly half-a-millennium
encroachment of the western clock into our lives, Filipinos-unless on
very formal or official functions-still measure time not in hours and
minutes but with feeling. This style is ingrained deep in our psyche.
Our time is diffused, not framed. Our appointments are defined by
umaga (morning), tanghali (noon), hapon (afternoon), or gabi
(evening).
Our most exact time reference is probably katanghaliang tapat
(high noon), which still allows many minutes of leeway. That is how
Filipino trysts and occasions are timed: there is really no definite
time.
A Filipino event has no clear-cut beginning or ending. We have
a fiesta, but there is bisperas (eve) and the day after the fiesta is
still considered a good time to visit. The Filipino Christmas is not
confined to December 25th; it somehow begins months before December
and extends up to the first days of January.
Filipinos say good-bye to guests first at the head of the
stairs, then down at the descamo (landing), the entresuelo
(mezzanine), the pintuan (doorway), the tarangkahan (gate), and if the
departing persons are to take public transportation, up to the bus
stop or station.
Other people's tardiness and extended stays can really be
annoying, but this peculiarity is also the charm of Filipinos who,
governed by timelessness, show how their brothers elsewhere how to
find more time to be kind and accommodating rather than prompt and
exact.
Filipinos are space-less. As in the concept of time, the
Filipino concept of space is not numerical. We will not usually
express space in miles or kilometers but with feeling in malayo (far)
or malapit (near).
Alongside numberless-ness, Filipino space is also boundless.
Indigenous culture did not divide land into private lots but kept it
open for all to partake of its abundance.
The Filipino has remained avidly "space-less" in many ways.
The interior of the bahay kubo (hut) can easily become receiving room,
sleeping room, kitchen, dining room, chapel, funeral parlor, etc.
depending on the time of the day or the needs of the moment.
The same is true with the bahay na bato (stone house). Space just
flows into the next space, so that the divisions between the sala,
caida, comedor, or vilada may only be faintly suggested by overhead
arches of filigree. In much the same way, Filipino concept of space
can be so diffused that a party may creep into and actually
appropriate the street! A family business like a sari-sari store or
talyer (production or work area) may extend to the sidewalk and
street. Provincial folks dry palay (rice grain) on highways! Religious
groups of various persuasions habitually and matter-of-factly
commandeer the streets for processions and parades.
It is not uncommon to close a street to accommodate private
functions. Filipinos eat, sleep, chat, socialize, quarrel, even
urinate, nearly everywhere or just anywhere!
"Space-lessness, " in the face of modern, especially urban
life, can be unlawful and really counter-productive. On the other
hand, when viewed from the Filipino's context, it is just another
manifestation of his spiritually and communal values. Adapted well to
today's context, which may mean unstoppable urbanization, Filipino
spaceless-ness may even be the answer and counter balance to
humanity's greed, selfishness and isolation.
So what makes the Filipino special? We are brown, spiritual,
timeless, space-less, linguist, groupist, weavers and adventurers.
Seldom do all these profound qualities find personification in a
people. Filipinos should allow - and should be allowed to contribute
their special traits to the world-wide human community - but first, we
should know and like ourselves.
sounds like some generalization. i want to point out that every race and color have the same qualities. so filipinos are not that special, but any individual that focuses their energy on positive aspects instead of the opposite becomes "special" in their own special way...in other words...that pep talk is just what it is...
Vince;690769; said:
I take it that you don't consider yourself special, just by being Pinoy. OK by me! You are not special then. Anybody else?
FYI...i no longer inhabit the kubeta...i am now located in Divisoria...JuanTamad;691533;691533 said:I think you have been in the kubeta too long and your thinking have been corrupted by the stench.
