903 Quezon Boulevard Quezon City COPYRIGHT 1990 by The Family of the Late TEODORO A. AGONCilLO Department of History University of the Philippines R. Respect for the elders is one Filipino trait that has remained in the book of I X ■ ■ ' - HISTORY OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE By TEODORO A. For it is the mother that reigns in the home: she is the educator, the financial officer, the laundrywoman, and the cook.

The father is the head of the family, but while he rules, the mother governs. The Filipino family ordinarily consists of the grandparents, the parents, and the children. The family has been the unit of society and everything revolves around it. This hospitality to a fault has been misunder¬ stood by many foreigners, particularly by the Spanish adventurers of the previous century, who thought that such show of profuse hospitality was a form of inferiority and obsequiousness. All peoples the world over are hospitable in their own way, but Filipino hospitality is something that is almost a fault. One patent Filipino trait that imme¬ diately commends itself to the foreigner is his hospitality. AGONCILLC The common traits are probably basical¬ ly Malayan and characterize the Filipinos as a people. Beauty, history, and cultural diversity ensure this archipelago’s tradition as the “Pearl of the Orient Seas”.TEODORO A. Still heavily influenced by the West because of its history, the Filipino people are mostly Roman Catholic, and English is one of their primary languages. The Americans and Filipinos battled together to throw off Japanese occupation during the Second World War, and finally, in 1946, the Philippines became an independent state.

Lush valleys and world-renowned rice terraces nestle between the mountains and volcanoes.įor the first half of the 20th century, the Americans controlled the Philippines, mostly as a strategic military stronghold. Created from volcanic activity, the archipelago offers everything from extensive beaches to tropical forests and Himalayan-type highlands. The archipelago has almost 8,000 islands that form the apex of the Coral Triangle of the Asian Pacific, as well as abundant marine life that constitutes almost half of this magnificent area’s oceanic megadiversity. The Philippines is possibly the most intriguing nation of maritime Southeast Asia.

Discover the fascinating Philippines in this captivating audiobook on its history, from the origins of the archipelago’s first peoples until modern times.

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