Is bayanihan spirit still strong where you are in the Philippines?

Question

Is bayanihan spirit still strong where you are in the Philippines?

Answer 1

Yes it still happens especially whenever a person has needs and they will help out each other. Take for example the one happened during the Wowowee Stampede, the actors shouldered the transportation costs to the poor masses who went there for the show.

However, that trait among people is getting fewer now coz most people do it w/ pay or strings attached.

Answer 2

Still is.  Despite whatever hardships, Pinoys usually stick together in times of need.

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Answer 3

Yep, very strong. I think the bayanihan spirit is embedded in our (us filipinos) DNA. But somehow, due to some indifferences, it's not that visible anymore. But in the urgency of the need, it flows and activates naturally, binding us into one. And not only in the Philippines. Pinoys anywhere in the world still has it.

Answer 4

even i'm in the city, i could still feel the bayanihan spirit going on...

In another kind of way.

i live in malabon city, where floods are really not so abnormal, i could see that filipinos still help each other when there's a stuck jeepney in the flood, they volunteer to clean canals (for free, which is shocking), when pedicabs are hard to drive because it's heavy, and other stuff.

so the bayanihan still lives, just in another way.

Answer 5

Yes, even in the city.  One of my neighbors transferred to another house in another part of the city.  While moving out things and furniture from the house, some of my other neighbors came to help them carry these.  No one asked any of these men to help but they did, in the spirit of  "bayanihan" which I thought is lost among city folks.

Answer 6

Bayanihan spirit (Bumoddang in local dialect) is still observed by the ethnic people in the town of my grand parents in Ifugao. It's what kept families close to each other to the extent that anything that happens to anyone is felt at a visceral level by the community.

The spirit of Bayanihan is observed the whole year round. During a wedding and other occasions, neighbors will go to the host's house to help prepare and cook dishes. Neighbors help out each other in the farm specially during harvest seasons when there's much work to be done. Community people also volunteer for the improvement of their community school, church, and other public gathering sites.

Even kids are taught of the value of helping out others. On my way to my grandparents house from buying them groceries in the town, I have to pass high and narrow rice paddies, I am really walking slow and very carefully that local kids probably notice that I'm really scared. I can't imagine they ran towards me and offered help to carry some of the groceries and they did not ask for any rewards after that.

Answer 7

not anymore, you need to pay them and feed them.

Answer 8

no most filipinos think its not cause  they always think its old fashioned traditions..truth is they always instinctively apply the bayanihan ways which is help out each other..which is a good quality of filipinos towards ppl around them..bayanihan is just an old term for partying and or hanging out ...thats my opinion

Answer 9

Never had the chance to find out.

That current place where my house is, in Marikina City, is so peaceful nothing ever happens.  Not one fire.  Not a single occurrence of flooding.  No violence that I heard of.  There could have been instances of thieves but our Homeowners Security often took care of that.

Here in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, I have experienced the unity of action by Pinoys during a fire in the camp.

Or, when I was still schooling in Pandacan, where we used to live before in the City of Manila.  It's the same violent place where this Palos was beheaded on the street in daylight, and every day there was gang war.   But it is also the same place where you will see neighbors helping each other, to rescue people when the Pasig River overflows, to take the wounded to hospital, to take in hungry kids off the street and adopt them, to feed the abandoned elderly, etc.

Answer 10

not in my place...

Answer 11

yes indeed. not that we carry wooden houses on our shoulders. it's more on helping neighbors or fellow man in need by group. a small contribution of every individual makes the big difference. you seldom see it now but if the need arise, it's like an invisible force driving us to think and act as one.