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Why are Filipinos and Indonesians so similar in attitude? For example, both countries’ people are funny, outgoing, calm, and gregarious?
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Hi Arman Rahman Because Indonesians and Filipinos are manic DOTA Players 🙂 Outside of SEA Games, you can see that Indonesian and Filipino DOTA player are very aggressive and competitive, making it almost annoying. Off course not like that! We’re Austronesian cousin Indonesia and the Philippines are both archipelagic countries with various ethnic populations and national languages that have common Austronesian ancestry. Indonesians and Filipinos ancestor migrated from Taiwan around 3000 to 1500 BCE. They carried along some cultures like tattooing, stilt houses, jade carving, wetland agriculture, and various rock art motifs. These cultures still can be found in both countries. Bahay Kubo, The traditional stilt house from the Philippines Traditional house from Ethnic Makassar, Indonesia Filipino Traditional Dress (If I’m not mistaken this is from Visayan Ethnic) Baju Bodo, Indonesian traditional dress from Makassar ethnic You can obviously notice the similarities. We share similar language: Indonesians and Filipinos has long relation history Cetbang, traditional cannon from Javanese Majapahit Kingdom from Indonesia that also can be found in the Philippines The historical links between ancient Indonesia and the Philippines have commenced since around the 9th century. Some ancient Inscription dated from 900 CE in the Philippines already mentioned the Javanese Medang Kingdom and the ancient Malay Srivijaya Empire. The writing system used is the Kawi Script, while the language is a variety of Old Malay, and contains numerous loanwords from Sanskrit and a few non-Malay vocabulary elements whose origin is between Old Tagalog and Old Javanese. The 14th century Nagarakretagama manuscript written during the height of Majapahit Kingdom, mentioned several states that located in the Philippines; Kalka, Selurong (Manila), and Solot (Sulu), suggested that Majapahit empire influences had reached the Philippine archipelago. In conclusion, long history of interactions and cultural similarities causing Indonesians and Filipinos similar attitude. References: International Relations in Southeast Asia Former Countries in Philippine History
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They are not the same. Perhaps by the region (SE Asia) yes but anything else no. I live in Australia and because Australia is a very, very multi-racial country like USA, Canada, and NZ, I had and I have to work with people of all ethnicity. Filipino think they are similar to especially Indonesians and Malaysians but especially Indonesians. But no they are not the same. Indonesian people are on average friendlier than Filipinos. Same wise for Chinese-Indonesian and Chinese-Filipino. Also a lot of Filipinos think they are the most western people of SE and NE Asia because they think they have Spanish in them (although most don’t look it) whereas most SE Asians are not like that. Indonesians I think are by genes and way of thinking closer to Thais and Cambodians than to the FIlipinos. You would be ‘amazed’ at how Filipinos think and act at workplaces here in Australia. I cannot say they’re similar to me; I always remind myself of what they have done to me sometimes every time they’re nice to me occasionally. I remind myself they’re different, they only pretend to be nice to me occasionally. But I have to say that Filipinos are nice to other Filipinos (not always but most of the time). They like other Filipinos. Perhaps because of their education system (what they’ve been told when they were school students that they’re all the same: part Chinese, part Austronesian / SE Asians, part Spanish). Just my experience working with many of them for many years here in Australia and I have been to both Indonesia and the Philippines.