Filipino pride

Archipelago nation's honor

Filipino pride is a strong sense of cultural identity and national self-esteem among Filipinos and the Filipino diaspora.

It often surfaces in response to international recognition—a boxer winning a title, a singer going viral, an actor cast in Hollywood: Filipino pride! She's one of us!

The phrase can express genuine celebration of heritage or, used mockingly, critique excessive nationalism over tenuous connections: He's one-eighth Filipino and suddenly it's Filipino pride.

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Opposites
national self-regard

Filipino prideself-deprecation

Belittling oneself deliberately

cultural assertion

Filipino pridecultural erasure

Destroying group identity markers

cultural amnesia

colonial psychological legacy

Filipino prideself-colonization

Adopting foreign dominance internally

Family

Filipino, Filipina, Filipinos, Filipinas, Philippine, Philippines, pride, proudly, prouder

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G