Filipino Cultural Values

• Cultural values encompass the principles and ideals that a community shares.
• They shape the rules for what most people consider right and wrong.

Language (Philippines)

• Filipino is the Philippines' national language, as established in the 1987 Constitution.
• It can evolve with other languages.
• Filipino and English are the official languages for communication and instruction.

Medical Practices

• Hilot is a traditional Philippine healing practice.

Religion

• Religion involves belief in powers beyond humanity.

Child-Rearing

• Child-rearing methods are specific to a society, family, or cultural period.
• Filipino parents often include the extended family in raising children.

Food

• Popular Filipino dishes include:
• Lechon (roasted pig)
• longganisa (sausage)
• tapa (cured beef)
• torta (omelette)
• adobo (soy sauce-based stew)
• kaldereta (meat stew)
• mechado (larded beef)
• pochero (beef and bananas)

Folk Arts

• The Philippines features folk architecture, maritime transport, weaving, carving, performing arts, literature, graphics, textiles, pottery and culture.

Celebrations/Festivals

• Celebrations and Recreation, Jokes, Transportation

Work Schedule

• Common work habits include:
• "Filipino Time" (lateness)
• a more relaxed attitude.

Rituals/Traditions

• Bayanihan is a spirit of communal unity.

Weddings

• A unity candle is used in Philippine wedding rituals.

Cultural Values and Work Productivity

• Cultural values act as principles about ideals for a community.

Disability

• Cultural values serve as the basic principles upon which a community is built.
• Productivity is how workers fulfill company objectives.
• Moral work values reflect productivity's human element.
• Productivity comes from hard work

Filipino Cultural Values

• Strengths:
• Pakikipag-kapwa Tao/Damayan (compassion)
• Family orientation/hospitality
• Sense of humor
• Adaptability/flexibility/creativity
• Hard work and industry
• Spirituality
• Ability to survive
• Weaknesses:
• Extreme personalism
• Extreme family centeredness
• Lack of discipline/Bahala Na
• Colonial mentality
• Kanya-kanya Syndrome/Ningas-Kugon
• Lack of self-analysis/reflection
• Crab mentality

Work Values for Productivity (TESDA Handbook)

• Industriousness involves sincerity and perseverance.
• Order and Efficient Use of Time means being systematic.
• Spirit of Inventiveness and Sense of Responsibility means being resourceful and accountable.
• Teamwork and Spirit of Service means cooperation in the work place.

Attitudes and Motivations to Work

• Productivity is the output of work.
• Productivity growth reflects better use of abilities.

Filipino Character

• "Filipino values are ambivalent."

Strengths of the Filipino Character

• Pakikipagkapwa-Tao refers to helpfulness and generosity.
• Family Orientation places high regard for the elderly.
• Sense of Humor enables Filipinos to laugh.
• Flexibility/Creativity makes Filipinos easily adaptable and hard working.
• Spirituality provides a strong moral compass.
• Filipinos have the Ability to Survive.

Weaknesses of the Filipino Character

• Extreme Personalism uses favors.
• Extreme Family Centeredness is also a weakness.
• Lack of Discipline.
• Colonial Mentality prefers foreign things.
• Kanya-kanya Syndrome is "Crab Mentality".
• Lack of Self-Analysis and Self-Reflection lacks thought.

Man-Spirit-Soul

• Man: distinct from God's creation, made in His image.
• Man has a Body, Soul, Spirit.
• Body: physical, tangible self.
• Soul: distinct entity.
• Spirit: innermost self.

Self-Awareness

• Conscious knowledge of one's character, feelings, strengths, weaknesses, beliefs, desires.

Objective Self Awareness

• Which allow you to evaluate what you see based on how standards and expectation that you have developed through your life.
• Values are essential to existence.
• Values are what we hold dear.
• Man is a replica of God on earth.

Values (Sociologists)

• Values are models of behavior that groups of people believe in.
• Values Education is the process of teaching morals.

Types of Values

• Personal Values can be ambition.
• Religious Values relate to faith in God.
• Social Values are concerned with society.
• Economic Values: instrumental values, like money.
• Political Values is man's desire for power.
• Intellectual Values relate to knowledge of the truth.

Ethical Values

• Focus on moral good
• Immediate gives importance to the present
• Ultimate gives importance to the future

GMEC (Good Manners and Right Conduct) and Values Education Objectives

• Develop values in Filipino children.

The Nature of Man

• Man is a complex organism.
• Man is named homo sapiens.
• Homo (human)
• Sapiens (wise)

Biological

• It is part of his nature to use his various faculties.

Behavioral

• Man uses logic.

Philosophical Views of Man

• Classical View: man's soul of intellect and will.
• Christian View: love one another.
• Existentialist View: body, soul, spirit.
• Oriental Philosophical View: originally good.

Contemporary View

• Explore the world of work.

Man as a Person

• Process of thinking (cognitive), feeling (affective/forming attitudes and values) and acting (psychomotor).

Man as a Rational Being

• Distinguish good from evil.

The Educated Man

• Equipped with knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for effective membership in a society.

Man and his Values

• Values determine the kind of person he is.

Man as a Worker

• Make use of his gifts to live in the world.

What is Culture?

• Culture (designs for living): beliefs, behaviors, objects that make it a people.
• Non-material culture (art-thoughts): the intangible world of ideas.
• Material culture (artifacts-things): the tangible things, mobile phones.
• Cultural Practices: the logic by which we both act .

Factors Affecting Culture

• Ethnicity, Family, Education, Inhabitants, Social Class

Definitions of Family

• Nuclear Family means two parents and children.
• The single-parent family means one parent raising children.
• a blended family means parents with children from previous relationships come together as one unit.

Social Classes in the Philippines Today

• Based on the income level of a family, accounting 1. 58.4% of the population, belong to the low-income class.

Hierarchy in the Philippines based on income:

• Low-income class
• Middle-income class
• High-income class
• Culture is social interaction.

Culture

• composite or learned behaviors, attitude, beliefs, ideals and values and customs
• totality of learned and socially transmitted culture.

Characteristics of Culture

• Culture is learned: through experience.
• People have varied culture.
• Culture is a group product.
• Culture is transmitted from generation to generation.
• Culture is adaptive.

Forms of Culture

• Material Culture: physical object
• Non-material Culture: nonphysical ideas.