Character Formation, Nationalism and Patriotism

• Charassein - Greek word, distinctive mark of the personality
• Character - ingredient that sets you apart from the rest
• Character Formation - building a process which an individual develop stable pattern through interaction
• Contributing Factors for Character Formation:

  1. Parental Influence
  2. Home Environment
  3. School Environment
  4. Culture or Tradition
• Authoritarian - high control, low warmth
• Authoritative - high control, high warmth
• Permissive - low control, high warmth
• Uninvolved - low control, low warmth
• Openness - appreciation of variety of experience
• Conscientiousness - the tendency to be careful, thorough and responsible, planning ahead
• Agreeableness - tendency to be cooperative, being sympathetic and ready to help
• Extraversion - sociable, energetic and friendly
• Neuroticism - tendency to experience negative emotions such as anxiety, depression, vulnerable to temperamental
• Positive Traits/Positive Characters - these are attributes that promote good behavior and habits
• Negative Traits/Negative Character - a person's predisposition to commit evil acts
• Neutral Character/Neutral Trait - commonly used to describe a person who doesn't pick sides
• Self-Realized Character - a person knows his potentialities and limitations
• Covetous Character - greed, refer to a jealous or acquisitive character
• Superstitious Character - having or showing belief in superstitions
• Egoistic Character - a person who is self-centered and selfish, the person thinks that world runs due to him and everybody should respect him
• Anti-Social Character - a person who neither cares for the norms set by the society nor cares for the moral or ethical values
• Insincere Character - a person without warmth feelings for others, not being genuine
• Complacent Character - confident and self-assured, feeling satisfied with your own abilities or situation that you feel you do not need to try harder
• Reliability - ability to be trusted, someone that you can tryst and they stick to their word
• Different Pillars of Good Character

  1. Trustworthiness
  2. Respect
  3. Responsibility
  4. Fairness
  5. Caring
  6. Citizenship
• Hospitality - characterized by heartwarming generosity of friendliness
• Respect - po and opo, pagmamano, bow
• KNOWN TRAITS OF FILIPINO

  1. Hospitality
  2. Respect
  3. Strong Family Ties or Religions
  4. Generosity or Helpfulness
  5. Strong Work Ethics
  6. Loving or Caring
• Fatalism - bahala na or come what may
• Mañana Habit - procrastination
• Crab Mentality - hilaan pababa
• Hypocrisy - mapagkunwari
• Ninga Cogon - magaling lang sa simula
• Tardiness - filipino time, late
• Gossiping - tsismisan
• Blaming - paninisi
• Selfishness - makasarili
• Disobedience to simple ruled instruction
• Attention Taker - bida-bida
• Being onion-skinned or too sensitive