Answer to Question #229166 in History for Ating

Question

Interpret the caricature :
1. Still going strong
2. From bad to worst
3. The loyalty of the Filipino
4. De Mal en peor
5. Mamumuong amerikanhon, Mamumuong pilipinhon
6. The new democracy La nueva democracia
7. Mientras El Chino progress, el Filipino se estanca
8. New wrinkle in the art of thieving
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Answer 1

The extraordinary greater part of the Philippine populace is bound together by normal qualities and a typical religion. Philippine society is portrayed by numerous positive characteristics. Among these are solid strict confidence, regard for power, and high respect for love proprio (confidence) and smooth relational connections. Philippine regard for power depends on the extraordinary honor paid to senior individuals from the family and, likewise, to anybody in a place of force. This trademark is for the most part helpful for the smooth running of society, in spite of the fact that, when taken to outrageous, it can form into a dictatorship that debilitate autonomous judgment and individual obligation and drive. Filipinos are touchy to assaults on their own confidence and develop an affectability to the confidence of others also. Whatever could hurt another's confidence is to be stayed away from or, in all likelihood one dangers ending the relationship. One who is heartless toward others is said to come up short on a feeling of disgrace and shame, the chief approval against inappropriate conduct. This incredible worry for confidence assists with keeping up with amicability in the public arena and inside one's specific circle, yet it additionally can lead to closeness and a readiness to forfeit individual respectability to stay in the great graces of the gathering. Solid individual confidence empowers Filipinos to confront extraordinary troubles and flighty dangers in the confirmation that "God will deal with things." But, whenever permitted to crumble into passivity, even this praiseworthy trademark can frustrate drive and disrupt the general flow of progress. 

Social association by and large follows a solitary example, in spite of the fact that varieties do happen, mirroring the impact of neighborhood customs. Among swamp Christian Filipinos, social association keeps on being stamped principally by close to home coalition frameworks, that is, groupings made out of kinfolk (genuine and custom), grantors and beneficiaries of favors, companions, and accomplices in business trades. 

Philippine individual union frameworks are secured by connection, starting with the family unit. A Filipino's steadfastness goes first to the close family; personality is profoundly implanted in the trap of connection. It is regularizing that one owes backing, steadfastness, and trust to one's nearby family and, in light of the fact that connection is organized respectively with affinal just as consanguineal family members, one's kinfolk can incorporate a serious enormous number of individuals. In any case, past the family unit, Filipinos don't expect a similar level of help, dedication, and trust that they accept for close relatives for whom dependability isn't anything not exactly a social goal. As for kinfolk past this family unit, closeness in relationship relies particularly upon actual nearness.