Originally Answered: How would you describe and define the Filipino culture?
Filipino culture is a rather amusing mixed bag. A contradictory enigma of sorts. On one hand, we have this fascination with foreign culture — including stuff from the US, Japan, and most recently, Korea. On the other hand, we also love to indulge in #pinoypride — which is basically being super-proud of the accomplishments of any Filipino or anyone with even a smidgen of Filipino blood in their ancestry, or some joker just claiming to be “Filipino” in general who achieves worldwide recognition.
This is pretty apparent when you see any foreigner saying something negative about “pinoys” or “pinoy culture” or “Filipinos abroad” in general. You’ll see a flood of social media posts from angry pinoys shortly afterwards.
There is this intriguing hypocrisy etched into our culture stemming from how highly we value public perception in general. I believe that our obsession with public perception comes from our colonial Spanish lineage, but since we were also a colony of the US for a time, we also inherited a little bit of their independent mindset. Thus, what we are left with is a mixed bag of people who are easily fascinated with things from abroad while also being extremely proud of anything “Filipino” that manages to achieve worldwide recognition.
