Midterm

a.) Justify why should you be part of your community.

I as a part of my community, I want to participate in the projects that our community organized. I want to share my abilities to help others. It is my obligation because I live there. All of us living in our community should be part of it because everyone have their own ability and we will use it for the improvement of our community.

b.) 10 things I need to do to enhance my community.

1. Coach a youth sports team. 
2. Get involved in town/city government. 
3. Organize a documentary film series. 
4. Organize a food drive.
5. Join or start a Common Security Club. 
6. Volunteer at a local school, senior center, hospital or animal shelter.
7. Start a free cycle group. 
8. Start a learning group. 
9. Spearhead a Transition Town initiative. 
10. Give blood.

My role in our community

Every community have there own rules and my obligation is to follow it. Every people composed of our community are assigned in different kinds of works.We all work hard to improve our community. Sometimes, I am one of the assigned member and I' m doing everything just to finish my obligation for my community. And the most important, I must be a role model to my community and also to the younger ones.

Describe your community.

I'm glad that I'm in a very peaceful community, far from pollution and most of all, all the people here in our community have a good values. We are always willing to help each other in times of needs. We are united as one to remain what our community have and also the relationships between us.

Nationalism

Filipinos are extremely proud of being a Filipino and their cultural arts, and all other Filipino things. Filipinos love everything that is Filipino, they love their own food, culture and music. But they embrace many other cultures as well. Filipinos are willing to exchange their lives for a free nation, a nation that peace-loving people have always dreamed of  Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, Ninoy Aquino, yes, nationalistic Filipinos who exchanged their lives all in the name of the Philippines.

Friendly

Filipinos are friendly. We smile to people we see along the streets, roads and everywhere even if we don’t know them at all. Filipinos are always friendly to newcomers. They want the newcomer to feel at home. They ask questions about a newcomer's background, which may be interpreted as being noisy at times. But it is just their way of having to "feel" the person, of having to "know" him/her in order for them to establish rapport. Asking about the background of a newcomer also helps a Filipino test his/her skills.

Volunteerism

Volunteerism had a long, rich, diverse, cultural tradition. Under its many cultural names, guises, and dimensions, volunteerism remains embedded in the tradition of sharing, of helping. Notions of Filipino volunteerism employ various indigenous meanings such as Bayanihan; Damayan; Kawanggawa; Pahinungod;and Bahaginan which can translate into various types of volunteering such as academe-based volunteering, corporate volunteering, government-supported volunteering, nongovernmental organization volunteering and foreign-supported volunteering. Whether understood  as tulong (help), pakikipagkapwa-tao (a shared sense of one’s humanity), pagbabahagi (sharing) or paghahandog (offering), volunteerism can bring significant benefits to individuals and communities in the Philippines and can help nurture and sustain a rich social texture and a strong sense of mutual trust and cohesion, essential to the stability of Philippine society. Participation in groups and organizations provides opportunities to learn about others, builds trusting relationships and decreases prejudices against others. People get to know more people and the willingness to engage and to support each other broadens the social information network.

Family Oriented

Filipinos are family oriented. The family as the basic unit of Philippine society is very significant to the Filipino. Filipinos are culturally and emotionally attached to their respective families. The Filipino’s interest and loyalty is demanded by his or her family more than any other institution in the larger society. Each family is like a package during holiday season. It is very rare that a Filipino spends his or her Christmas holidays alone or with friends. Most of the times, a Filipino will look for ways to spend it with their families. And again, when I say family, it is a very much an extended family. Filipinos will exert effort to have the family gather up in one place, mixed with simple cooking of Filipino dishes and lots of chatter from the ladies of the house. The gathering is not just limited to certain occasions. Filipino families make it a point to celebrate a Family Day every once in a while by going to churches to plazas or to malls together. It is also very important to them to eat meals with all members of the family present. Although nowadays, this sometimes becomes impossible due to a busy lifestyle, dinner time has become the time when everyone gathers to discuss the day’s events. 

Resilient

We are resilient people, by nature, and triumphs through bad situations like financial setbacks or bad harvest. We hold strongly to the idea that things will improve and that God will always be there for us. Also our recent experience with typhoon Ondoy reaffirms once again our resilience and our amazing ability as a people to recover from a misfortune. Indeed, our resiliency can even be seen in the faces and behaviors of children playing in our flooded streets.

Hard Working

Filipinos are regarded as excellent workers who perform well, be it physical labor or sophisticated and technical types of work. This natural tendency for hard work, is driven by the desire for economic security and improvement for oneself. Filipinos are hardworking as evidenced by the number of OFW's worldwide. The innate ability of Filipinos to please the people whom they serve, even if that would mean personal sacrifice, is the greatest proof of this trait. The great ability of our countrymen to work with their hearts is proof of our being hardworking because we’re motivated to help our families and our nation.

Resourcefulness

Filipinos are resourceful, inventive, creative, and fast learners. They are ingenious and often improvise and make innovative use of whatever is available. These qualities have been repeatedly demonstrated in their capacity to adapt to change, demonstrated in Filipinos thriving and prospering in any part of the world.

Respectful

                   

There is a very serious sense of respect and reverence of Filipinos to the elderly members of their family, starting from the next sister or brother above them. “Po and Opo” is also a very common term you’ll hear in areas that speak the Tagalog dialect since it is the respectful way of saying yes. Yes in Tagalog dialect is “Oo” but when said to the elderly, it becomes “opo” to show respect. “Po” is also inserted in between sentence, again as a sign of respect when talking to the elderly. “Pagmamano” is also another sign of respect. It is a light dabbing of the forehead to the hand of an elderly person. This is done each time you meet an elderly person. 

Religious

Filipinos are religious because they pray a lot and go to church. They are very devoted to religions that might risks their lives just to touch the Black Nazarine (in Quiapo, Manila). In the history, Filipinos (forefathers) are very respectful with their gods (bulul) before and now. 

Hospitality

Filipinos are hospitable people who have experienced being with Filipinos find them very hospitable. A common trait Filipinos are known to most foreigners who have traveled around the country. Although they are not the only people in the world who can be friendly and welcoming, their attitude towards other people is said to be exceptional. Even the humblest home along the road can serve as a shelter for a stranger who has lost his way. For Filipinos, serving other people the best of what they have leave them an honor and a promise of true friendship.