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• William James states The self can be examined through its constituents/parts/elements. The feelings and emotions and the actions and behaviors
• Body is the innermost part of material self. You are directly attached to this commodity that you cannot live without. You strive hard to make sure that this body functions well and good.
• Clothes anytime you bring an object into the surface of your body, you invest that object into any consciousness of your personal existence taking in its contours to be your own and making it part of the self.
• Immediate Family your parents and siblings hold another great important part of yourself. What they do or became affects you. When an immediate family member dies, part of you dies, too. When their lives are in success, you feel their victories as if you are the one holding the bacon.
• Home is where your heart is. It is the earliest nest of your selfhood. Your experience inside the home were recorded and marked on particular parts and things in your home. There was an old cliché about rooms: “if only walls can speak”. The home thus is an extension of self, because in it, you can directly connect yourself.
• The self may make decisions under uncertainty with insufficient knowledge, feedback, and processing capability on keeping the possession of things and properties.
• The self sometimes lacks self-control
• His/her preferences change over time
• “We are what we have”

  -Russel Belk
• The possessions that we have tell something about who we are, our self- concept, our past, and even our future.
• Common Filipino Traits

  -Respecting the elders

  -Bayanihan

  -Mañana Habit

  -Close family ties

  -Filipino time
• Our colonizers are the foundation to the contemporary Filipino identity and culture”
• An individual’s race, ethnicity, and physical characteristics are not the only factors that make a person’s national identity. Values and traits also important indicator that set apart one nationality.
• Proverbs or Salawikain- Damiana Eugenio, regarded as the mother of Philippine Folklore,
• Superstitions/Myth and Legends -Filipinos subscribe to their own set of superstitious passed down from generation to generation. Some of the superstitious influenced by beliefs from other cultures, but Filipinos have retold according to their own experiences and they sometimes end up even more interesting.
• Heroes and Icons -serve as a reminder of true patriotism and nationalism as they have sacrificed their lives for the sake of their country’s freedom and progress.