Not EVERY FILIPINO has this trait...though a lot of Filipinos ALWAYS associate this trait to themselves, such as yourself.

How to remove this from YOUR culture? STOP thinking that these exist, and focus on looking at WHAT YOU CAN DO.

If you dwell on what WAS told that you are, YOU WILL BECOME that person. Call you're child STUPID Everyday and i will guarantee you that your child will BECOME stupid eventually. If you negate it's existence, then you won't become of it.

Another example...FILIPINO TIME...NOT ALL Filipinos follow the "FILIPINO TIME", where we tend to be ALWAYS LATE. I always think of Filipino Time is ON TIME, just as the ADS from our local media which promotes POSITIVE thinking with FILIPINOS.

Your forum doesn't apply to Filipinos alone, as this traits are among everyone else. It's not with the culture, but with the person. One Rotten Tomato doesn't make All tomatoes in the bunch rotten.

It's not because things are difficult that we don't dare, it's because we don't dare that makes things difficult!