Things To Check Out To Know If You Are A Filipino

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Many Filipinos today is somewhat having a very slight identity crisis. Many of them was being drawn away from their own identity. There are so many factors behind that. Facebook, McDonald's, m&m chocolates, Justin Bieber, IPad and so on and so forth.

But for the new generation of Filipinos, hold back. Don't despair. There are things that will let you check if you are a Filipino or not.

You are a Filipino if you are:

• Eating Pandesal ( Salt Bread) with Coffee in Breakfast.

You are definitely a Filipino if you are eating Pandesal together with coffee during breakfast. This combination is a very Filipino trademark. Filipinos specially those who came from the middle up to the lower class enjoys this mainly because the pandesal bread is way much cheaper and more tasty compared to the usual American loaf bread.

• Having 4 to 5 or even 6 meals per day.

Let's face it, Filipinos love to eat. Correct me if I'm wrong, we Filipinos is the only people in the world that besides the usual regular meals like breakfast, lunch and dinner we still have in between meals (or to us snack). We have mid-day, afternoon and even midnight snack.

• Taking a bath twice or even thrice a day.

Body hygiene. This is one of the most notable trademark of Filipinos. We are very conscious with our physical appearance and hygiene. We are also the only people who takes a bath at least twice a day. Before and after of being outside of the house for the entire day. One of the reason behind that is that we don't want to be embarrassed in front of other people becuase of having putok ( body odor ).

• A die hard fun of souvenirs.

This one, it is quite very funny trademark that we have. we love to travel but not all of the times we have the money spend for those trips. So when we have the opportunity to visit a place specially for the first time we really want to have a souvenir from a simple as a little rock from the beach up to the novelty items that the place is offering. For us, It makes the trip more memorable.

• Having rice in every meal.

We are a rice eating nation and for us if we are only going to take a sandwich for lunch or dinner, we are not satisfied. For us a meal must always have a cooked rich. In fact even if we only have cooked rich and powdered chocolate is enough for us to be satisfied.

• Riding a jeepney.

The king of the road. The sign of the Filipino pride. The one and only, our very own Jeepney. This is the most popular mass transport in the Philippines and the life of the Filipinos revolves around the jeepney. Day in and day out we are riding them in our daily journeys in life.

• Texting while doing other things at the same time.

The Philippines is the texting capital of the world. And because of that we actually learned a new skill and that is texting while doing other things. We can send text messages while walking, eating,driving, cooking and many other things.

• A MagicSing or the videoke (karaoke with lyrics).

From birthdays to even just a little gathering, the videoke will never be left out. We love to sings. Yeas definitely that is correct and because of that we do enjoy videoke. In the Philippines alone, almost every Sundays, you will be seeing groups of people with the videoke machine and singing their hearts out. 

• Almost late in almost all your meetings.

We have sometimes a habit of overlooking our clock. This is mainly because of our Mañana Habit. Many of us have this attitude which always make us late in our appointments.

• Smiling and laughing our hearts out.

Last but not the least. This attitude of Filipinos a very remarkable. It let us handle everything that we will be facing. It also help us to cope with any situations in life. We are a very happy people and we are not hesitating to smile and laugh even on the toughest situations in life which makes us a very strong nation.

So are you able to mark it all out?

Well, if you're answer is yes to almost 90% of them then, congratulations.

You are a Filipino