How to Be a Friend, the Filipino way

Filipinos are known to be very accommodating, friendly and hospitable people. They are willing to sacrifice what they have just to have something to offer to a friend. They used to invite their friends at home for special gatherings and fun time. They are quick to respond to a friend's need of help.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Patience
• Willingness
• Time

1. When someone has a problem, friends are there to offer help of anything they could do like financial and moral support of any kind. They are willing to sacrifice just to help their friend.

2. When they have parties or special gatherings, they will invite all their friends to grace the occasion and that includes their family members. (imagine how many they are going to feed?)

3. When somebody is sick, the friends would spend time to visit and be with them, offer some help they could do even to the extent of sacrificing their time and their job just to be with a friend.

4. When hosting a party, the host would see to it that everybody is well accommodated and feed. They usually pack some goods for their friends to take home. They never want their friends to go home without take home goodies.

5. Treating the children of their friends like their own. How they take good care of their children, they will do it the same way with the kids of their friends.

6. They will share what special food or things they have to their friends. Every time they have special things, they would set aside something for their friends.

7. Typical Filipinos are good and loyal friends who will stick to you till the end.

Tips & Warnings

• Typical Filipinos are really good friends who will stick to you through thick and thin. Just give them respect and appreciation.

[Kallicat]

on 12/25/2008 You list very good qualities that all friends should possess.

[luv2blog]

on 12/1/2008 Wonderful article. Sounds like southern hospitality in the States (smile). I think I can be a Filipino friend easily.