what are filipinos like (#drewers_)
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What are What are Filipinos Filipinos
Like?Like?Leon Ma. Guerrero
Leon Ma. Guerrero
He was one of the foremost nationalists of this era. A partner in the law practice of Senator Claro M. Recto, he became Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs during the Magsaysay administration.
On retirement, he was the country's most senior diplomat, having been Ambassador in London, Madrid, New Delhi, Mexico City and Belgrade. On 19 June 1982 he received the Gawad Mabini -the highest award in the Philippine Foreign Service.He held the rank of Knight Grand Cross of the Knights of Rizal. Among his many works are internationally acclaimed translations of Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo.
What are Filipinos Like?What are Filipinos Like?
Leon Ma. Guerrero
What do foreigners say
about Filipinos?
Filipinos are...• Friendly - good-natured
• loyal - idealistic
• Sentimental - socially gracious
• more intelligent than the Malays
• religious but not so mystical as the Indians
• imitative but less so than the Japanese
Filipinos are...
• unwilling to accept responsibility
• lacking in self-reliance• less hardworking than the
Chinese
and, in general,...
•the most adaptable of all races in the Orient.
A Spaniard thought Filipinos were very like the Spanish.
An American thought Filipinos were not American enough. They
also cannot understand why grown-up sons and daughters
keep on living with their parents after they have married.
A Frenchman remarked that Filipinos were the
only people in Asia with a sense of humor.
A Chinese thought Filipinos were improvident.
An Indonesian criticized Filipinos for immediately
accepting Western standards.
A Siamese said Filipinos were pretentious.
Other nations tried to
“save” us…
Spaniards believed that they were rescuing us
from agents of Satan.
Americans proclaimed their purpose to civilize us,
Christianize us, and liberate us from the Spaniards.
Japanese announced that they come to free
us from the Americans.
They were all fighting over us!Yet in the end…
save ourselves.
We have managed to survive in this
solicitude, and to learn that in the end we
must