‘Pinoy’ Pride
Just a little Q&A for us all…
WHAT MAKES YOU PROUD TO BE A FILIPINO?
I for one am proud of our RESILIENCE. It’s hard to keep a Filipino down for long. We’ve been through a lot as a people but depression doesn’t seem to come easily to us. We’ve seen our share of really bad times but we know how to make the most of our situation and rise from the ashes. And, we can smile through anything that comes our way.
My pastor told me that Filipinos are the best missionaries. We can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone we need to be to survive in a foreign culture. We absorb an adoptive country’s language like we were born into it. Maybe because as a people we’ve been inundated with both eastern and western cultures, or maybe we’re just naturally adaptable as a people. We’re survivors. We’re global.
What makes YOU proud to be a Filipino? Share us your thougths in these areas:
- character
- accomplishments
- talents
- national treasures
- others?
We’d love to hear from you!
Tags: Philipipine culture, Pinoy, Filipino pride
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I for one am proud of our RESILIENCE. It’s hard to keep a Filipino down for long…Amen to this!
Resourceful and we can easily adopt to any kind of environment.
thanks NoyPetes..what else are you proud about being Filipino? you’ve been in the US for a while, right, so you’re perspectives may have changed a bit. i’m interested to know if being away from the Philippines for a time has made us see things clearer. at least that’s what i experienced. i think i love being a Filipino more now, maybe because i’m more mature and maybe too because i miss ‘home’, and i don’t deal with the daily things that an otherwise home-grown kababayan has to face.
i love to be called a Filipino, but i am scared of other Filipinos in the states that became so ……….!i have been in the states for 37 years of my life. i connect to the hardship of the pinoys because my father was part of the u.s. army contingent that fought the war for this country, captured by the japanese during wwII, incarcerated in capaz,tarlac,tortured, ring finger cut off and was released when he was about to die of malaria. he is now 85 yrs old, retired in the phils. he told me that the pinoy culture in me should always be kept, because that is the only identity that we have that will differ us from the Caucasian culture wherein the children has more rights than the parents.sorry i will not answer your prepared questions above, because i have a character that i prefer to keep to myself. i have accomplisments, many of them, but i dont need people to know about it. i have talent(s) that i only show to my family and close friends, because my talent(s) was inspired by them. being called a filipino by heart for me i think is a national treasure already.
I never forget wwhere I came from. I’m brown skinned and proud of it. I’m proud of what a lot of us have achieved with just pure guts and hard work all over the world. I’m proud of the humble Pilipinos here in the US who toil all day and night to send finanacial help back home and not complaining a bit about not having enough time for themdelves. Traditional Pinoy respect for our elders is also something I’m very proud of.
Melsantos, wow, your dad’s part of the “greatest generation that ever lived” as tom brokaw says. my grandpa did the same and was in Bataan until liberation. they never ask for anything in return, and that’s one thing to be proud of- that when called to defend our freedom, filipinos will be there and fighting.
noypetes – yeah i hope to teach my own “expat” daughter the good manners of a filipino – blessing of the hands, “po/opo”, calling older sibs by their designated names “kuya/ate”, not talking back (ha… that is hard here in the US isn’t?)… even caring for us when we get old(unless we’d rather be at a nursing home)