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Filipinos are generally clean people. Every Filipino child is trained from his early years to keep his person clean. At home and in school, children are taught the need for maintaining cleanliness all the time. |
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So there are times when your Filipina wife is not in her usual cheery self; she suddenly turns distant and cold. She avoids you whenever you try to talk to her or if she answers your questions, they’re only short, curt and direct “yes” or “no” without qualification. You joke and laugh but she doesn’t laugh back. Shea walks around all day with a blank look on her face. Most western men would interpret this as the wife starting to lack interest on them or the love starting to fizzle down. No, this is just a classic Filipino trait called “tampo” or the “great sulk”. |
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From my research, here are things that Filipinos find most annoying: 1. Someone who disagrees very strongly with his opinion in a discussion. 2. Fellow Pinoys who looks down on another. |
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“Bahala Na” This trait means leaving everything to chance or “letting the circumstances take care of itself”. It implies fatalism under the pretext of trusting in Divine providence. By saying “bahala na”, a person resigns himself to luck as he believes the end-result depends ultimately on fate. It is a Filipino’s way of avoiding rationalization or good reason. It is the same as saying, “Que sera sera (whatever will be, will be)”. |
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Filipino Machismo The tendency of the Filipino to equate masculinity or virility with the ability to procreate is also at the root of some Filipino male’s irresponsibility and infidelity that occurs after marriage. Since a man is more of a man if he is able to have a woman and to beget children, his “extra-curricular activities” are regarded as part of his “pagkalalake” (being a man). One speaks of “machismo”–possibly meaning “manhood” but more accurately indicating the man’s cultural manifestation of his virility. Through sexual relations he can prove his capability, while otherwise he has few possibilities of exercising his “prowess.” The Filipino father exercises this type of authority in his family, resulting in a state of submission by the woman and her daughters, while fostering in the male descendants a feeling of superiority. |
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