What makes the Filipino Special?

Filipinos are brown. Their color is at the center of human racial strains. This point is not racism, but for many Filipinos to realize that our color should not be a source or reason for an inferiority complex.
While we pine for a fair complexion, white people are religiously tanning themselves whenever they could, under the sun or some artificial light,just to approximate the Filipino complexion.
 
Filipinos are a touching people. We have lots of love and are not afraid to show it. We almost inevitably create human chains with our perennial akbay(arm around another shoulder), hawak(hold), yakap(embrace), himas(caress) , kalabit(touch with the tip of the finger), kalong(sitting on someone's lap), etc. We are always reaching out, always seeking interconnection.  
 
Filipinos are linguists. Put a Filipino in any city, any town around the world.. Give him a few months or even weeks and he will speak the local language.  Filipinos are adept at learning and speaking languages. In fact, it is not uncommon for Filipinos to speak at least three: his dialect, Filipino, and English. If they work abroad, many speak an added language, the host country's language.
 
In addition, Tagalog is not 'sexist.' While many "conscious" and "enlightened" people today are just now striving to be "politically correct" in their language, in the process, bending to absurd depths to coin "gender sensitive" words, Tagalog has evolved gender-neutral words since time immemorial i.e.- asawa(husband or wife), anak (son or daughter), magulang (father or mother), kapatid (brother or sister), biyenan (father-in-law or mother-in-law),  manugang (son- or daughter-in- law), bayani (hero or heroine), etc. Our languages and dialects are advanced and, indeed, sophisticated! No wonder Jose Rizal, the quintessential Filipino, spoke some twenty-two  languages!
 
 
Filipinos are "groupists." We love human interaction and company. We always surround ourselves with people 
and we hover over them, too. According to Dr. Patricia Licuanan, a psychologist from Ateneo and Miriam College, an average Filipino would have and know at least 300 relatives.
 
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