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• Pakikiramdam


  The concept of shared inner perception, a heightened awareness and sensitivity
• Pakikiramdam


  • An active process involving great care and deliberation manifested in hesitation to react, attention to subtle cues, and nonverbal behavior in mental role playing
  • A legitimate move leading to pagkakaisa (being one with others)
• Without pakikiramdam


  There is no sense of time and kalooban
• Without pakikiramdam


  • One cannot acquire a sense of utang na loob
  • One cannot know when and how to express this sense of gratitude
• Pakikiramdam is the pivotal value of shared inner perception
• A person who knows how to get along well with others is one who is 'magaling makiramdam' (good in sensing cues)
• Voluntary initiation of the action is extremely important, for the spirit in which a service is rendered, the giving of self that is involved, lends an emotional content to the relationship
• The use of indigenous language led to the identification of an underlying precondition for the existence of the surface values, that is to say, The Concept of Pakikiramdam
• The function of pakikiramdam is to act as the processor, or pivot which spins off the surface values from the core value of kapwa
• A person without pakikiramdam cannot possibly have pakikisama and utang na loob. Similarly, one cannot expect hiya from someone who has no pakikiramdam
• The denial of absence of each accommodative values is labeled as: the walang pakisama, the walang hiya, the walang utang na loob
• The person characterized as walang pakiramdam is of course, worse off than any of the three "evil" characters mentioned. This particularly sad state is captured in one Filipino word: Manhid
• Such character is also being compared to the one who is walang kapwa
• If one is walang pakisama, others might still say, "He would eventually learn" or "Let him be: that's his prerogative." If one is walang hiya others say, "His parents should teach him a thing or two." If one is walang utang na loob others might advise, "Avoid him." BUT if one is walang kapwa-tao, people say, "He must have reached rock bottom. Napakasama na niya. He is the worst."