Intro to Filipino Cultural Values and Superstitious Beliefs
Philippines UNY
Study guide, definitions and notes
Values
o Values: important and lasting beliefs or ideals shared by the members of a culture
about what is good or bad and desirable or undesirable
Filipino Cultural Values
Positive Values of the Filipinos
o Bayanihan: System or spirit of kinship and camaraderie- A Filipino community spirit
and cooperation wherein a group of individuals extends a helping hand without
expecting any remuneration.
▪ “Help because you are good and wise, not because for the compliments
and prize.”
o Damayan System: Sympathy for people who lost their loved ones.
▪ “Sympathy is different from empathy. Sympathy is tapping his back,
empathy is wearing his shoes whether it is gray or black.”
o Close Family Relation: a Filipino trait of giving highest importance to family above
other thing. Extended families and its bond that is tight and genuine.
▪ “It is not just the home that produces good relations, also the ones
outside that give you genuine motivations.”
o Fun- Loving Trait: a trait found in most Filipinos, a trait that makes them unique that
even in time of calamities and other challenges in life, they always have something
to be happy about, a reason to celebrate.
▪ “Positivity is looking a light bulb afar that blinks, it seems to be dying but it
is causing light, therefore it is still hoping.”
o Hospitability: a Filipino trait of being receptive, welcoming and generous to guests.
