One of the great things in Being Filipino
I work in an IT company dealing with international clients from the US , India , Japan and Malaysia. I've also been and dealt with the French, Taiwanese, Korean and the British. All made me realize how well suited our culture is when dealing with almost any culture. Thats actually what I would like to blog about... How well equipped we are in assimilating any culture ...almost anyway.
I terribly appreciate this part of being filipino. How our culture was formed by so many circumstances , both bad and good that we have right now a culture that is like a universal adaptor equipting every OCW or traveller the skills of easily adapting.
Tingnan natin, yung mga chinese na pumunta rito and nag illegal immigrant na makikita natin sa mga bilihan ng mga cellphone, me pagkamasungit kundi dahil sa cellphone na binebenta nya di mo gustong kausapin . Pero , abroad, mga pinoy maraming mga friend na ibat ibang lahit and even yung mga other nationalities na 3rd world rin. Filipinos are found in almost every part of the world and generally we have a reputation of being easy to work with. I definitely can say with pride that between the more techinically smarter Indians and our group in the office, the US partners find it easier interacting with us. I was talking with a project manager from the US and sinabi daw sa kanya nung project manager nya na she was able to build a very easy working relationship and also a friendship with me during the projects we worked with. Natuwa ako non nung nasabi nya yun. Kasi , when that project manager sent out the reviews of the project team members , she sent out a commendation for the Indian Project Manager , sa akin wala , in general lang.
So naisip ko , winner din ang nangyaring mix mix ng culture natin. Although meron pa rin masasamang ugali syempre pero thats not what this blog is about.
Lets assume that we are looking at an average filipino na indi naman mataray or mayabang or masyadong bilin sa sarili so he is not a difficult person to be with. Just a normal average joe.
So ano ang mix natin?, we have a mix of Malay, Chinese , Japanese (during the war), American , and Spanish Culture. Plus our culture is currently getting a long needed update from the conservative backward spanish thought culture by the OCW's bringing back their experiences and new assimilated culture from all the countries they've been to. Nahahaluan ng first world culture tayo, and its being thought to the families of the OCWs belonging to the CD crowd. And I almost forgot, with the influx of the telenovelas, the latin, korean and chinese culture is introduced to us in a terribly entertaining way. So basically we now have Western/Asian fused culture like one of those restaurants in greenbelt with a very filipino twist. We are conservative for the westerns yet having a culture that they can easily relate too. Yet we are cooler than more asian countries which is why we send so many entertainers to those places. And of course there is the warmth that I think is inert with Islanders, like the polynesian countries na laging nakasmile ang tao and tawa ng tawa..ganon din tayo. Plus add in for spice, of sanay sa hirap and gulo and we are so ready for anything.
My teammates are being sent to Brazil, I believe they would not have any problems dealing with the locals there as our spanish (european) heritage would kickin and they can easily mingle. I was sent to India, thats where our asian heritage becomes useful.
In our food, if we bring a guest from almost any country there is almost something they would like in filipino food. My guests from india , they liked sinigang and mixing kare kare with hotsauce (vegetarian karekare).
In our arts , which is where we definitely excel and make a unique and distinguishable mark, we have all sorts of performers, and music. Di kagaya sa Singapore na mostly Pop , we have all the genre's well represented. Plus napansin ko na we get the best of asian(english) , european and american music almost the same as the other continents have them. Remember Macarena, it was a hit here almost the same time it swet europe, yet the US only catched on a few months after. Same with songs from the US, we get them here almost the same time and it reaches europe later.
Para tayong Chameleon, well suited for almost anything. And I find that admireable about us. Just the right mix of culture to form our own. Wish ko lang talaga as we assimilate new cultures and attitudes we let go of the bad ones we already have. We are so darn ready to rock.
I terribly appreciate this part of being filipino. How our culture was formed by so many circumstances , both bad and good that we have right now a culture that is like a universal adaptor equipting every OCW or traveller the skills of easily adapting.
Tingnan natin, yung mga chinese na pumunta rito and nag illegal immigrant na makikita natin sa mga bilihan ng mga cellphone, me pagkamasungit kundi dahil sa cellphone na binebenta nya di mo gustong kausapin . Pero , abroad, mga pinoy maraming mga friend na ibat ibang lahit and even yung mga other nationalities na 3rd world rin. Filipinos are found in almost every part of the world and generally we have a reputation of being easy to work with. I definitely can say with pride that between the more techinically smarter Indians and our group in the office, the US partners find it easier interacting with us. I was talking with a project manager from the US and sinabi daw sa kanya nung project manager nya na she was able to build a very easy working relationship and also a friendship with me during the projects we worked with. Natuwa ako non nung nasabi nya yun. Kasi , when that project manager sent out the reviews of the project team members , she sent out a commendation for the Indian Project Manager , sa akin wala , in general lang.
So naisip ko , winner din ang nangyaring mix mix ng culture natin. Although meron pa rin masasamang ugali syempre pero thats not what this blog is about.
Lets assume that we are looking at an average filipino na indi naman mataray or mayabang or masyadong bilin sa sarili so he is not a difficult person to be with. Just a normal average joe.
So ano ang mix natin?, we have a mix of Malay, Chinese , Japanese (during the war), American , and Spanish Culture. Plus our culture is currently getting a long needed update from the conservative backward spanish thought culture by the OCW's bringing back their experiences and new assimilated culture from all the countries they've been to. Nahahaluan ng first world culture tayo, and its being thought to the families of the OCWs belonging to the CD crowd. And I almost forgot, with the influx of the telenovelas, the latin, korean and chinese culture is introduced to us in a terribly entertaining way. So basically we now have Western/Asian fused culture like one of those restaurants in greenbelt with a very filipino twist. We are conservative for the westerns yet having a culture that they can easily relate too. Yet we are cooler than more asian countries which is why we send so many entertainers to those places. And of course there is the warmth that I think is inert with Islanders, like the polynesian countries na laging nakasmile ang tao and tawa ng tawa..ganon din tayo. Plus add in for spice, of sanay sa hirap and gulo and we are so ready for anything.
My teammates are being sent to Brazil, I believe they would not have any problems dealing with the locals there as our spanish (european) heritage would kickin and they can easily mingle. I was sent to India, thats where our asian heritage becomes useful.
In our food, if we bring a guest from almost any country there is almost something they would like in filipino food. My guests from india , they liked sinigang and mixing kare kare with hotsauce (vegetarian karekare).
In our arts , which is where we definitely excel and make a unique and distinguishable mark, we have all sorts of performers, and music. Di kagaya sa Singapore na mostly Pop , we have all the genre's well represented. Plus napansin ko na we get the best of asian(english) , european and american music almost the same as the other continents have them. Remember Macarena, it was a hit here almost the same time it swet europe, yet the US only catched on a few months after. Same with songs from the US, we get them here almost the same time and it reaches europe later.
Para tayong Chameleon, well suited for almost anything. And I find that admireable about us. Just the right mix of culture to form our own. Wish ko lang talaga as we assimilate new cultures and attitudes we let go of the bad ones we already have. We are so darn ready to rock.
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