FILIPINO CULTURE

PRACTICE
1. The Spirit of
Bayanihan

APPROPRIATE

2. Utang na loob

3. Pakikisama
(Comradeship)

When
planting
and
harvest
seasons,
all
members of the family
and neighbors help out
without
expecting
payment in return
When a member of the
family dies, friends and
relatives
help
the
bereaved family in one
way or another. From
preparing the food to the
giving of financial aid or
contribution called ambag
to help defray burial
expenses.
When family members
help one another and this
attachment
is
usually
seen in several occasionsthe birth of a family
member,
marriage
or
death.
When
a
person
can
considerable extend just
to prove that he has
pakikisama and is a
worthy part of group.

INAPPROPRIATE

RATIONAL

This is done to show the spirit

Ignore on helping other
of
helping
one another.
people that in needs.
Ignoring
the
spirit
of
helping one another that
said to be inherited by the
Filipinos.

This is done to show that

When not giving any return
to the people who help you. Filipinos greatly value family ties.
Ignoring the value of family
ties.

It implies consideration,
When not doing what is
fairness, and camaraderie.
required

4. Harana

When the boy serenades

the girl he is courting with
love songs.

5. Senakulo

6. Visita Iglesia

When the people are

walking
with
the
procession. People near
the church wait eagerly to
witness the reenactment.
Locals act as Roman
soldiers
with
their
menacingly
painted
masks
and
armors,
pounding on doors to
search for Jesus.
When there were 7 great
basilicas in Rome that
Christians would visit for
adoration of the Blessed
Sacrament after the Mass
of the Lord's Supper on
Holy
Thursday.
The
practice continues not
only in the Philippines but
in other Roman Catholic
countries, especially in
cities
with
numerous
churches. Adoration may

This is done to show affection to

the girls relatives is respected until
today because as the saying goes,
when you marry a Filipino or
Filipina you also marry into his or
her family. Family ties are a strong
force in the country.
This is done during Lenten that
When not doing what is
play
depicts events from the Old
required
and New Testaments related to the
life, sufferings, and death of Christ.
When
not
giving
any
respect to the relatives of
the girl you want to marry.
When not doing what is
required

This is done to show the

When not doing what is
practice of visiting 7 churches to
required
Ignoring the practice that pray and meditate.
continues not only in the
Philippines but in other
Roman Catholic countries,
especially in cities with
numerous churches.

7. Kissing of hand
of the elders

8. Children
are
taught to attach
"po" or "Opo"

continue up to midnight.
When
visiting
aunts,
grandparents,
god
parents.
When arriving home from
a school or from work.
When speaking with older
people.

9. Pukpok

When
groups
of
uncircumcised
boys
traditionally go to the
manunuli to take the rites
of passage.

This is done to show respect to

When not doing what is
the elders and to show a good
required
Ignoring the presence of impression on how it is to be
respectful to a family or relatives.
the elders.
This is done to show respect to
Ignoring the presence of
the older people.
the elders.
When not doing what is
required
When not saying "po" or
"Opo" to whatever they say
especially when speaking
with older people.
When not following the
traditional rite of passage
especially in barrios.
Ignoring the practice that
adheres to either or both
the religious and cultural
principles
of
the
Philippines.
Ignoring that these beliefs
can improved fertility and
virility
(having
the
characteristics of an adult
male).

This is performed mostly in

barrios by a local surgeon called
manunuli.
While the boy is seated, one
end of the lukaw is staked on the
ground while his penis is set on the
other end. Lukaw is a wooden tool
with pointed ends carved from a
branch of guava tree. A manunuli
then uses a labaha (barber's blade)
to cut the foreskin off of the penis.
The manunuli then instructs the
boy to spit the chewed guava
leaves directly on the wound to aid
healing and to prevent any
infection. After the operation, a

piece of cloth is wrapped around

the wound to be changed daily.
The boys are then asked to jump
into the water by the manunuli to
speed up the healing process.

10. The godfather

or godmother to give
Pakimkim to baptism

When common practice

during baptism is followed
by
the
godfather
or
godmother
to
give
Pakimkim.

REY T. SALLEY JR.

This is done to show that during

When not doing what is
baptism, it is a common practice
required
for the godfather or godmother to
give Pakimkim which may be in the
form of cash or gift to the baby.
There is a belief that without a
pakimkim the baby will not be
successful when he grows. up.