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Pliant Like A Bamboo JAZMIN ANNE TAPIC

The document discusses how the Filipino people are like the bamboo tree in their ability to withstand hardship. It provides several examples and justifications for this view: 1) Bamboo trees can bend with strong winds rather than breaking, and Filipinos yield to superior forces to survive rather than resist. 2) Filipinos accept whatever life brings them with contentment rather than sadness over the plights of others. 3) They understand that fortunes change like seasons or the growth of trees after being cut, so they have hope that difficulties are temporary. 4) The bamboo tree symbolizes how Filipinos can conform to unpredictable changes while maintaining strength and elegance.

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Pliant Like A Bamboo JAZMIN ANNE TAPIC

The document discusses how the Filipino people are like the bamboo tree in their ability to withstand hardship. It provides several examples and justifications for this view: 1) Bamboo trees can bend with strong winds rather than breaking, and Filipinos yield to superior forces to survive rather than resist. 2) Filipinos accept whatever life brings them with contentment rather than sadness over the plights of others. 3) They understand that fortunes change like seasons or the growth of trees after being cut, so they have hope that difficulties are temporary. 4) The bamboo tree symbolizes how Filipinos can conform to unpredictable changes while maintaining strength and elegance.

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Pliant Like the Bamboo

1. What examples does the author cite to prove his contention that “the Filipino is like the
bamboo tree”?
 When the wind blew its hardest the mango tree's roots gave up but the bamboo
tree bent its head gracefully and fought against the wind. The Filipino is like the
bamboo tree. He knows that he is not strong enough to resist the vigorous attack
of superior forces. So, he yields and has survived.
2. According to the essay, what is the Filipino’s philosophical outlook about life which
accounts for his response to foreign domination and crisis?
 For the Filipino would welcome any kind of life that the gods would offer him.
That is why he is contented and happy and at peace. The sad plight of other
people of the world is not his. To him, as to that ancient Oriental poet, the past is
already a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision; but today, well-lived, makes
every yesterday a dream of happiness, and tomorrow is a vision of hope.
3. What justifications does the author give for this view about life? Pick out the quotable
lines which give reasons for such an outlook.
 He has a saying that life is like a wheel. Sometimes it is up, sometimes it is down.
The monsoon season comes, and he has to go undercover. But then the sun comes
out again. The flowers bloom, and the birds sing in the trees. You cut off the
branches of a tree, and, while the marks of the bolo* are still upon it, it begins to
shoot forth-new branches—branches that are the promise of new color, new
fragrance, and new life.
4. How valid are the contentions and justifications mentioned to prove that the Filipino is
indeed “pliant like the bamboo”?
 The Filipino is like a bamboo tree. The bamboo tree, in its elegance and capacity
to conform to the strange and incomprehensible vagaries of fate, is his expressive
and symbolic national tree; it must be the bamboo, not the molave or the narra.
5. Is being pliant like the bamboo tree a totally positive trait of the Filipino? Why or Why
not?
 Yes, a bamboo tree can demonstrate how strong Filipinos are in terms of fidelity,
enthusiasm, and bravery. Even though heavy gusts will sway the bamboo, it will
still rise to confront another breeze. Problems are becoming more difficult, but we
Filipinos will persevere in order to achieve our objectives for ourselves, our
families, and our loved ones.
6. Is being pliant like the bamboo tree still evident among Filipino today? If not, how do
you think the Filipino has changed?
 It depends cause somehow many Filipinos are naive, uninformed, and easily
swayed the never-ending problem with fraudulent networking
programs/companies is one of the finest examples of this. Many Filipinos
continue to assume that they may profit from binary programming. Filipinos can
also be easily manipulated because of their uncontrolled emotions on many things
like politics and religion. However, there still Filipinos, especially those people
who are not involved in politics and religion, cannot be easily swayed.

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