What are Filipinos like as people?… It would be a very typical question.
As always there is everything.
If you have one or more Filipino acquaintances, you will have noticed it perfectly.
First you have to differentiate between Filipino immigrants and those from the Philippines. And among those in the first group, those who have spent practically all their lives in Spain -especially the children of Filipinos who have already grown up here, and the only thing that they have that is Filipino is their flat nose XDDDDD-, of those newcomers and they still preserve those values and customs of our country.
And as for those who live in the Philippines, depending on where they live -if within the metropolitan area, or rural areas- and their social background.
But yes, the common denominator is hospitality (if you have the grace -or misfortune- to be invited to a dinner by a Filipino family, better go fasting for several days ... and another tip is to take tuppers with you -if not, They give it to you- you will surely have food for the next week). Also, like the Spanish, there is that way of being open, although - and here the difference - tinged with a certain "distant" air marked by its conservative past. It is something indescribable.
We are not going to talk about immigrants now (it is a topic that deserves its own section ... perhaps at another time), but we would focus on those who have stayed or have no reason to leave the country.
The Filipino of the city ...