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VALUES TO VIRUS - Existing and Persisting Through Time

By: Rachel Samson

Filipino Values System

We are living in a mixed culture setting where a wide variety of values exists together.

We accept the fact that Philippines is a geographically and culturally divided into

regions however it didn!t o"struct the certainty that we do have a recogni#a"le anddistinctive values.

But the $uestion is what happened to Filipinos% &he pro"lem with us is that we over

value and we used to "e with it. '"serve the following good values and how would it

turn into a virus that lead us to a disease.

(ospitality a trait displayed "y every Filipino which ma)es us legendary in Southeast

*sia. We welcome visitors even if we don!t have to offer. We do everything to ma)e

them comforta"le in our house+ country. But we do really do it with all our heart%

Sometimes some people some Filipinos did it ,ust to ma)e an impression-pa)itang

tao to others. We concealed "ad interest in good values ,ust to say we!re really good.

/amayan -helping hand.it is proven and tested0 Remem"er how we saved each other

during calamities whether "y typhoon landslide soil erosion or earth$ua)e. For our

)apwa Pilipino we will find ways. But how would it turn into most horri"le scenario%

When we let them "ecome a dependentto us for everything they needs and when the

idea of utang na loo"-owed. get involved. 12 save your life when there was a calamity

you owed something to me so you will do what 2 want you to do.1

3atiisin-patient. in a sense that we can wait for something that we can!t get in hurry.

We eat rice with salt even as long as we are in our family. We wear slippers into schools

,ust to fill our mind with )nowledge and what is amusing to us we wal) "arefoot in

times. *gain are we gonna stic) to it% /eal with it% 4ive with it% 5ot gonna aim to

change it% /o something for it% *re we really matiisin -patient. or martyr%

Family 'riented we can!t ta)e away this values to every Filipino. 2n our daily lives

every hard wor) we do we do it for our family. Very closed family ties. &ry to loo) in

our government a good example of Family orientation 6 what a great political dynasty.

*re we really Family oriented or "etter yet called it as 5epotism and 7ronyism%%%

We Filipinos have the potential to "e great. 2 strongly "elieve on that. &he pro"lem is

that we lie to our own motives and o"scure it to our own golden values. We "ecome

confuse which is authentic in our values. We used each other and treat each other as

an o",ect. When something is a"ove us we pull them down. We tend to lose our focus

and genuine purpose "ecause of our own interest. We tend to forget that we are aiming

for one 6 ma)e Philippines a "etter society "y our distinctive authentic values. /espite

of everything 6 we Filipinos 6 the fruit of foreign occupation will still continue to add

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good values to our incredi"le history remain its indisputa"le "y its own purpose.

8radually we can do it0