What do Filipinos think of Filipinos?

Question

What do Filipinos think of Filipinos?

Answer 1

I am a Filipino.

I live in Central Visayas and I know how to speak my native language. I can understand Tagalog but I don't have the expertise to use it with my tongue because I am involved a lot to Cebuano culture. Though I can speak English to tagalog people instead so we can communicate at least.

As far of my experience to the Filipino community, Filipinos are just like people that you know them. Their cultural values will depend whether they are born as upper class or middle class.

Based on my experience, upper class Filipinos are nice. Most of them are liberal and easygoing because they don't have a problem with money. Rich Filipinos travel outside the country for business and exploration at the same time. Sometimes you can encounter upper class Filipinos that are a******s and very mean to the lower and middle class Filipinos. Most Rich Filipinos train their sons and daughters to speak English and learn all of the trendiest words so they can be confident when they working in business. But if they live in the province, they care less of the English language. In my opinion Upper class Filipinos will be having a hard time to communicate with the lower class because they have different standard of living and also "fear" of "power". Upper class Filipinos are not religious. They can be atheist and agnostic. It must be their family business keeps them staying away from Religion because they don't have time for it.

For the Upper middle class Filipinos, they are mixture of upper class and middle class tier. They are nice, some of them are religious, and some of them are liberal. They also travel a lot. Actually theres no difference in terms of  standards and and values if comparing it to upper class Filipinos.

Lower-middle-class Filipinos are just a bit different compare to the upper middle class. This is where you can find the real "Filipino Pride". You can find a lot of racist Filipinos in this class but it doesn't mean all of them are racist. You can still find the majority of nice Filipinos here. Lower middle class Filipinos travel outside the country rarely depending their budget. Their English proficiency is average though some of them can speak straight English. Training their sons and daughter to speak English fluently is also a trend in this class along with the upper middle class but sadly not all because of different interest. I myself, as a lower middle class speak average English though willing to learn better. I have a lot of mistakes by arranging the syntax and grammar. I speak English with my native tongue and I'm proud of it but someday I can pronounce it correctly if I'm willing to learn.

Working class Filipinos are the nicest people to communicate in my opinion and at the same time is where you can find dangerous people.


In my Opinion. Middle Class and Working class Filipinos work harder than upper class Filipinos. They strive hard in order to gain success for their goals. I myself I work hard as a college student and even if I fail some subjects, I'm going to re-take it and pass it.


P.S I'm not stereotyping Filipinos by their class. I'm only expressing what I observed each of these class. This is not bias and my answer can be wrong at the same time because all of us have different perspective and point of view. Hope you will understand and correct me :)