Jan 31, 2008

How Filipino are You?

A tag from Miss Anah
Thanks Anah. I think I'd scored perfect "20" coz I answered "yes" to all the questions. I added 7 more , hahahhaa just like you.I have more to add but I'll give others a chance.


Filipino are you? Are the Filipino traits strong in you? Are you the typical Filipino? Take this simple quiz I have fabricated to determine your being Filipino. Read the items below and tell whether or not you do or exhibit them and count the items that are true to you. After evaluating all the items refer to the gauge below with your points. Remember to take seriously the frequencies (at least once, twice…) in the items; if you lack even one frequency, then don’t count the item.



  1. 1. You can speak Filipino (erstwhile Tagalog)
    2. Whenever necessary, you take the hand of an elder relative and pat the back of the palm of that hand to your forehead and say “mano po”
    3. You know “bayanihan” and had witnessed it personally at least once
    4. You’ve seen a bahay kubo at least once
    5. You’ve ridden on a jeepney at least five times
    6. You have separate clothes for in-house and outside use (pambahay at panglakad)
    7. You’ve eaten adobo, dinuguan, kakanin, tuyo, dilis
    8. Your meal is incomplete if without rice
    9. You hear Sunday masses and attend Misa de Gallo with your family
    10. You can sing “Lupang Hinirang” very well, with no lines missed
    11. You don’t care donning ragged and torn clothes exclusively for use inside home
    12. You have bought items in a “sari-sari store” at least ten times
    13. You have played patintero, tumbang preso and piko during your childhood
    14. You can sing at least five OPM songs, and know what OPM means
    15. You know the Philippine presidents from the year of your birth onwards
    16. You have witnessed “balagtasan” at least thrice
    17. You’ve been recounted with stories involving aswang, tikbalang, manananggal, nuno sa punso
    18. You’ve been read, have read or have heard Filipino legends (Ang Alamat ng…)
    19. You’ve lived, stayed or visited Philippine places other than your city or town at least seven times
    20. You’ve visited local (or public) wet market at least five times
    21. You have heard guys trying to sing Englebert Humperdink songs on a karaoke machine.
    22. Your main means of expressing anger is tampo.
    23. You eat with your hands or use your fork and spoon together.
    24. You visit home taking with you a few balikbayan boxes
    25. Your favorite almusal is Blend45 coffee and hot pandesal w/ some star margarine
    26. The smell of fried tuyo ( dried fish) feels like home.
    27. When you were a kid, you wear your best dress on Xmas day and visits your ninong & ninang for some agibaldo
    28. You'd rather sleep on a banig or papag than on a mattress
    29. You wear duster at home and tsinelas
    30. You use your lips to point at something.
    31 Always uses tabo no matter where you are.


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Here’s the gauge to tell how Filipino you are:
19 - 20 = The Filipino blood, spirit and flame burns intensely in you. You are the typical Filipino, who takes pride of your nationality.
15 - 18 = You are proud of your being Filipino and that the traits unique to most Filipinos live in you.
11 - 14 = You are the Filipino who, even adopting strongly the cultures of other nations, still don’t forget some old ways of the Filipino life.
7 - 10 = The Filipino culture has little by little been forgotten by you. You need to at least try some of the items mentioned.
4 - 6 = The Filipino culture has substantially faded in you, or that you have not been exposed to the true, authentic traits of being a Filipino.
1 - 3 = You’re a Filipino, only that you may have not been born and raised in the Philippines and had not lived up or been accustomed to the ways of Filipino living.
0 = You’re not a Filipino.

Anah & I haev mutual online freinds so I bet they are already tagged but I'd like to include Malditangpinay,Lutchi,Mamagirl,Ritchelle,Juliana,Sarah,geri,lani Rhebs,Tess,Bless,Vanessa&Wena

2 Shared Their Thoughts:

Rhebs said...

I missed 4 questions:

10. You can sing Lupang Hinirang very well, with no lines missed.

Ans: I used to but not anymore.

11. You don’t care donning ragged and torn clothes exclusively for use inside home.

Ans: Nope, even then I don't like wearing torn clothes. I guess to make up for my kapangitan noon.
Hey, nag feeling beautiful nalang ako since I met Tony and mas matindi pa when I arrived here in the States kasi ganda babae daw
ako sabi ng mga kano/kana hahaha

22. Your main means of expressing anger is tampo.

Ans: Nope, tampo is never an expression of my anger.

29. You wear duster at home and tsinelas.

Ans: I wear tsinelas but not duster.

Francesca said...

i have to do mine now, eskayting kasi to, lol!
parang back to asawa days, hahah

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