12 Annoying Attitudes of Filipinos We

Need To Get Rid OfLILY U. ORIARTE

M.A.ED. EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT

this refers to the behavior of preventing someone from achieving something due to jealousy or envy.

1.CRAB MENTALITY

Translated to Burning cogon grass in English, this idiom is meant to illustrate how Filipinos initially exhibit great enthusiasm at the beginning of a project.

2. NINGAS-COGON

It’s not how you start but how you finish!

This is something that we have learned from the Spaniards. The word "Mañana" means ‘tomorrow’ or ‘specified future time’ also known as “procrastination” in plain English, “mamaya na” in Filipino.

3. MAÑANA HABIT

Related to the mañana habit, Filipino time refers to the Filipinos’ own unique brand of time, which is known to be minutes or hours behind the standard time.  In other words, we tend not to observe punctuality at all.

4. FILIPINO TIME

We Filipinos are famous for being onion-skinned or easily slighted at perceived insults. While it’s perfectly normal for us to taunt and criticize others, we can’t handle the same when it’s being hurled back at us.

5. BEING ONION-SKINNED

look at everyday life in the country shows Filipinos from the entire social strata nonchalantly breaking the rules, whether it is something as benign as jaywalking or as dangerous as beating the red light.

6. GENERAL DISREGARD FOR RULES

defined as a preference for all things foreign over our own, a negative trait we acquired from our days under the Spanish and the Americans. As a result, we Filipinos have been indoctrinated with the misconception that our culture is inferior to that of our past colonizers.

7. COLONIAL MENTALITY

While there is nothing wrong with giving gifts to one’s family and friends (we Filipinos do highly value them after all), it becomes a different matter when said family and friends either misconstrue or abuse the OFW’s generosity.

8. BALIKBAYAN BOXMENTALITY

Roughly translated as “come what may”, this is the Filipinos’ own version of fatalism, the belief of leaving everything to the hands of fate.

9. BAHALA NA ATTITUDE

Let’s face it, our “culture of corruption” is embedded deep within our system and reinforced by a complex web of economic and social factors which include personal ambitions and a twisted sense of loyalty to friends and kin.

10. CORRUPTION

This behavior can be observed in just about every sector of Philippine society, with the most common example being the condemnation of an adulterous woman while applauding a polygamous man.

11. MAINTAINING DOUBLE STANDARD

Now there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a fiesta and party every now and then,.  Birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, and even somber funerals are celebrated by Filipinos like there is no tomorrow. Sometimes we even make up the slightest of reasons just so we could have an excuse to party.

12. EXCESSIVE PARTYING

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