After the August 23 surety play. there is merely excessively much negativeness about and against the Filipino. “It is hard to be a Filipino these days” . says a friend who works in Hongkong. “Nakakahiya tayo” . “Only in the Philippines” were some of the remarks attorney Trixie Cruz-Angeles received in her Facebook. There is this email purportedly written by a Dutch married to a Filipina. with 2 childs. doing a litany of the supposed stupidity or amentia of Filipinos in general. There was besides this statement by Fermi Wong. laminitis of Unison HongKong. where she said – “Filipino amahs have a really low position in our city” . Then there is this article from a certain Daniel Wagner of Huffington Post. wherein he said he sees nil good in our country’s hereafter. Clearly. the surety crisis has spawned another crisis – a crisis of religion in the Filipino. 1 that exists in the heads of a important figure of Filipinos and some quarters in the universe.

It is of import for us Filipinos to take stock of ourselves as a people – of who we genuinely are as a people. It is of import that we remind ourselves who the Filipino truly is. before our immature kids believe all this negativeness that they hear and read about the Filipino. We have to protect and support the Filipino in each one of us. The August 23 surety debacle is now portion of us as Filipinos. it being portion now of our country’s and world’s history. But that is non all that there is to the Filipino. Yes. we accept it as a failure on our portion. a letdown to HongKong. China and to the whole universe. But there is so much more about the Filipino. In 1945. at the terminal of World War II. Hitler and his Nazi had killed more than 6 million Jews in Europe. But in 1939. when the Jews and their households were flying Europe at a clip when several states refused to open their doors to them. our Philippines did the extremely hazardous and the improbable -thru President Manuel L Quezon. we opened our country’s doors and our nation’s bosom to the fleeing and persecuted Jews.

Finally. some 1. 200 Jews and their households made it to Manila. Last 21 June 2010. or 70 old ages subsequently. the first of all time monument honouring Quezon and the Filipino state for this “open door policy” was inaugurated on Israeli dirt. at the 65-hectare Holocaust Memorial Park in Rishon LeZion. Israel. The Filipino bosom is one of history’s biggest. one of the world’s rare gems. and one of humanity’s greatest hoarded wealths. In 2007. Baldomero M. Olivera. a Filipino. was chosen and awarded as the Scientist for the Year 2007 by Harvard University Foundation. for his work in neurolysins which is produced by deadly cone snails normally found in the tropical Waterss of Philippines. Olivera is a distinguished professor of biological science at University of Utah. USA. The Scientist for the Year 2007 award was given to him in acknowledgment to his outstanding part to science. peculiarly to molecular biological science and groundbreaking work with conotoxins. The research conducted by Olivera’s group became the footing for the production of commercial drug called Prialt ( generic name – Ziconotide ) . which is considered more effectual than morphia and does non ensue in dependence.

The Filipino head is one of the world’s best. one of humanity’s great assets. The Filipino is capable of illustriousness. of doing great forfeits for the greater good of the least of our people. Josette Biyo is an illustration of this. Biyo has masteral and doctorial degress from one of the top universities in the Philippines – the De La Salle University ( Taft. Manila ) – where she used to learn rich college pupils and was paid good for it. But Dr Biyo left all that and all the glamor of Manila. and chose to learn in a far-away public school in a rural country in the state. having the wage of less than US $ 300 a month. When asked why she did that. she replied “but who will learn our kids? ” In acknowledgment of the rareness of her sort. the world-famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) in the United States honoured Dr Biyo a really rare award – by calling a little and new-discovered planet in our galaxy as “Biyo” . The Filipino is one of humanity’s best illustrations on the illustriousness of human spirit! Efren Penaflorida was born to a male parent who worked as a trike driver and a female parent who worked as washwoman.

Through sheer finding and the aid of other people. Penaflorida finished college. In 1997. Penaflorida and his friends formed a group that made handcarts ( kariton ) and loaded them with books. pens. crayons. chalkboard. apparels. jugs of H2O. and a Filipino flag. Then he and his group would travel to the public graveyard. market and refuse shit sites in Cavite City – to learn street kids with reading. math. basic literacy accomplishments and values. to salvage them from illegal drugs and forestall them from fall ining packs. Penaflorida and his group have been making this for more than a decennary. Last twelvemonth. Penaflorida was chosen and awarded as CNN Hero for 2009. Efren Penaflorida is one of the great human existences alive today. And he is a Filipino! Nestor Suplico is yet another illustration of the Filipino’s aristocracy of spirit. Suplico was a cab driver In New York. On 17 July 2004. Suplico drove 43 stat mis from New York City to Connecticut. USA to return the US $ 80. 000 worth of jewellery ( rare black pearls ) to his rider who forgot it at the back place of his cab.

When his rider offered to give him a wages. Suplico even refused the wages. He merely asked to be reimbursed for his cab fuel for his travel to Connecticut. At the clip. Suplico was merely gaining $ 80 a twenty-four hours as a cab driver. What do you name that? That’s honestness in its purest sense. That is decency most empyreal. And it occurred in New York. the Big Apple City. where all sorts of serpents and evildoers abound. and a topographic point where – harmonizing to American novelist Sydney Sheldon – angels no longer fall. No admiration all New York newspapers called him “New York’s Most Honest Taxi Driver” . The New York City Government besides held a ceremonial to officially admit his baronial title. The Filipino Senate passed a Resolution for giving awards to the Filipino people and our state. In Singapore. Filipina Marites Perez-Galam. 33. a female parent of four. establish a billfold in a public lavatory near the eating house where she works as the caput waitress found a billfold incorporating 16. 000 Singaporean dollars ( US $ 11. 000 ) . Maritess instantly handed the billfold to the eating house director of Imperial Herbal eating house where she worked located in Vivo City Mall.

The director in bend reported the lost money to the mall’s direction. It took the Indonesian adult female less than two hours to claim her lost billfold intended for her son’s ear surgery that she and her hubby saved for the medical intervention. Maritess refused the wages offered by the thankful proprietor and said it was the right thing to make. The Filipina. in characteristics and physical beauty. is one of the world’s most beautiful animals! Expression at this list – Gemma Cruz became the first Filipina to win Miss International in 1964 ; Gloria Diaz won as Miss Universe in 1969 ; Aurora Pijuan won Miss International in 1970 ; Margie Moran won Miss Universe in 1973 ;

Evangeline Pascual was 1st smuggler up in Miss World 1974 ; Melanie Marquez was Miss International in 1979 ; Ruffa Gutierrez was 2nd smuggler up in Miss World 1993 ; Charlene Gonzalez was Miss Universe finalist in 1994 ; Mirriam Quiambao was Miss Universe 1st smuggler up in 1999 ; and last hebdomad. Venus Raj was 4th smuggler up in Miss Universe pageant. I can mention more great Filipinos like Ramon Magsaysay. Ninoy Aquino. Leah Salonga. Manny Pacquaio. Paeng Nepomuceno. Tony Meloto. Joey Velasco. Juan Luna and Jose Rizal. For genuinely. there are many more great Filipinos who define who we are as a people and as a state – each one of them is portion of each one of us. for they are Filipinos like us. for they are portion of our history as a people.