Lizzie Elzingre

The Malay Temper is the main component of the Filipino Culture. The premier Malay characteristic described as pleasant and obliging is a compound of the old-fashioned virtues: faith hope and charity.

Filipinos are naturally tolerant, forbearing and optimistic. Filipinos laugh a lot, love life a great deal, and trust that tomorrow, if God wills it, everything will be better. The Filipinos frequent insolvency is due to openhandedness and if he is unwilling to press a point, it is out of bigheartedness. I am a Filipino.