Some Filipino lifestyles include extravagant to economical, hyper to layback, coy to candid, and many other more. The lives of the Filipinos in short move like a color gradient, not just black or white, but also a thousand other shades in between.
Besides that point, Filipino trademarks are very prevalent in every lifestyle. These include people bringing rosaries, novena, "baon", family picture, peer group pictures, crush's and loved ones" pictures and all those stuffs particular to sentimental, religious and economical person.
Another thing about the Philippines is its being known as a land of cross breeds (Mendoza, L., 1999). Since the colonial era, mix breeding in the family lineage is not surprising. People can freely choose who they want to get hitched with because in the first place, there is nothing wrong about mix breeding with other nationalities for it brings no genetic mutation. Philippines hold no contentions for these people of other citizenry because for her, she is a home not only for Filipinos but for all the people of God which every Filipino is so proud of.
Although a lot of Filipinos leave her, they most often if not always, go back home and that is a clear cut evidence of how much they have missed the love and comfort they get from her. Why else do you have to leave your own country when the nation's care is all yours? Why else bother leaving when everything can be perfect if you work it out in your very own home?.
A lot of us most likely have a relative or more abroad who keeps going back home after some time and we never get tired preparing for them. It starts from changing the seat covers, table mats, finding the best china and cleaning up the house like literally dusting off the whole place. This is an undeniable fact for everyone in the country, Filipinos are indeed very generous, hospitable, and not mention "pasikat" on some points. It is trivial though the statement that other countries are better than Philippines, for if this is true, then this country will not be overpopulated because most of the overseas people would stay for good in their positions.
Some of them were my family. ... Also many Filipino will work over seas for the family and then send the money back home. The homes in the Philippines are not too big unless you are very rich. ... Most homes have one or two bedrooms, kitchen, and a comfort room (bath room). ... Half of my family belongs in the Philippines and I am very interested in it. ...
While farming was the primary industry, early Filipinos engaged in other industries. ... For instance, he would say, "What would my chief wish?... From that, we may well assume that they kept their homes clean too. ... They had homes made of simple materials such as wood, bamboo, and nipa or cogon. ... The early Filipinos usually married within their rank. ...
I had traveled a long distance from the Philippines with my big brother to unite with my mother, who had been living here for 11 years, hoping America would help my future. ... In Philippines the teacher sits us in order, so I never needed to worry about that. ... Finally the school ended, I was on my way to the bus which we didn't have in the Philippines either. ... The teachers in my home country had more difficult ways of saying things. We also had much longer school days in the Philippines 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ...
FILIPINOS FILIPINOS CAME TO THE UNITES STATES DURING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN THREE GENERAL WAVES. ... THE 1965 IMMIGRATION ACT CHANGED COMPLETELY FILIPINO IMMIGARTION PATTERNS. ... BY 1920, 5,603 FILIPINOS LIVED IN ALASKA OR ON THE MAILAND AS YOUNG FILIPINOS. ... THE FILIPINOS OF THE 1920"S AND THOSE ENIGRANTS OF THE 1960"S AND 1970"S, DRIVEN BY VARYING POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC REASONS INTO LEAVING THEIR HOMES, BROUTH THEIR DIVERSE CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS FROM THE VILLAGES TO THE UNTIED STATES. ... CHICAGO HAD LONG BEEN THE MAJOR ISLAND CENTER FOR FILLIPINOS, MY OF THEM ATTENDED THE AR4EA...
Much of my research will come from Ronald Takaki's book entitled A Different Mirror, from websites, and from various other pieces of literature. ... One Filipino laborer recalled his first workday by saying "I worked about six hours that first day, and when my back was hurting I said to myself: "Why did I come to this country? ... They would climb into wagons to go home at six in the evening covered in dirt and sweat from the hard days work. They would come home to overcrowded bunkhouses and would share one bathtub with one hundred other Filipinos. ... At home it's easy life For t...
In the olden days, when my grandfather would ring the bell, it was usually a signal for his sons and daughters to stop whatever they were doing and head home. ... If they would not come home on time, the doors would be closed and they would miss out on the meal. ... While some of them eat out for lunch, others go home to eat with their families and rest. When they arrive at home, the family members would also stop what they're doing and they start dining the minute everyone has settled in their seats. ... But all the while Filipinos find it a good thing and well suited to the modernizat...
They all can't also be afraid to take risks since they are risking going abroad to be able to make enough money to return home. The movie Anak is a good example to prove my point. ... Many Filipinos opt to work abroad because a variety of jobs are offered to them unlike here in the Philippines. ... One would think that once the goal of working abroad has been fulfilled, the migrant would return home. ... The different situations the United States and the Philippines are, makes it harder for Kiyosaki's work to reach Filipinos. ...
Ok, so i am insulting my own country. ... And you can pretend that it doesn't all you want, but you are never going to be able to lie to a million of people and tell them that 'the Philippines is pretty stable'. ... And hear this: most of the Filipino people are rooting for an unqualified actor who has absolutely no experience but is still running for Presidency anyway. ... As i am writing this i keep hearing this little voice in my head, and its saying 'hypocrite ! ... And though there is no doubt (and i shall never deny it) that i hate my country, i will still do all i ca...
This instance had been the first time since the Monroe Doctrine that Americans were outwardly saying, "Stay away from my country!" ... In the Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League of 1899, Americans tried to apologize for the bloodshed in the Philippines by saying, "Much as we abhor the war of 'criminal aggression' in the Philippines, greatly as we regret that the blood of the Filipinos is on American hands, we more deeply resent the betrayal of American institutions at home." In this, they said that they were sorry that Filipinos died, but that events in their home we...
