What are examples of Filipino culture?

Answer 1

Filipino culture focuses a lot on respect of your elders. Within a family, younger family members give a lot of respect to those members who are older...even if only by a few weeks or months. Once children are independent, they typically work hard and send money to help out their parents and any siblings who may be still be in the home. Family and religion (usually Catholicism) are very important parts of the culture. Many families will have a lot of children (5 or more...sometimes as many as 13 or 14) and everyone supports one another.

Filipino cuisine includes a lot of rice (plain, fried, rice noodles, etc) and a lot of vegetables. Pork, sea food and chicken are included in a lot of recipes. It's more likely that the meat will be part of another dish rather than eaten on its own -- for example, it would be unlikely to sit down and eat a steak in the Philippines but it is quite common to eat a noodle dish with shrimp, pork and chicken bits in it.

Some more common dishes include Chicken Adobo (made from chicken, vinegar, soy sauce and garlic), pansit (a noodle dish similar to lo mein -- but using rice noodles), and ciopao (bready dumplings filled with sweet shredded pork or chicken).

Some traditional Filipino dances include:

* Tinikling - which requires the dancer to jump between bamboo poles that are being clapped together in rhythm * Binasuan and Pandanggo sa Ilaw - dancers balance glasses of rice wine (binasuan) or oil lamps (pandanggo) on their heads and in their hands * Maglalatik - a mock-war dance depicting a fight for coconut meat

Answer 2

You mean, is Filipino traditions similar to other countries like Spain? Not all. Some of Filipino traditions was adopted from other foreign country like Spain, China, America and many more, but not 100% the same. Filipino's have its own uniqueness and distinct traditions of their own.