Bayanihan
Encyclopedia
Bayanihan is a Filipino
term taken from the word bayan, referring to a nation, country, town or community. The whole term bayanihan refers to a spirit of communal unity or effort to achieve a particular objective.
towns where community members volunteer to help a family move to a new place by volunteering to transport the house to a specific location. The process involves literally carrying the house to its new location. This is done by putting bamboo poles forming a strong frame to lift the stilts from the ground and carrying the whole house with the men positioned at the ends of each pole. A mural by Filipino National Artist Carlos "Botong" Francisco illustrates the process. The tradition also features a small fiesta
hosted by the family to express gratitude to the volunteers.
In teamwork, one of the first groups to use the term is a world acclaimed dance group (Bayanihan Dance Company
) which travels different countries to perform the various traditional folk dances of the country with the objective of promoting Philippine culture.
In computing, the term bayanihan has evolved into many different meanings and incorporated as codenames to projects which depict the spirit of cooperative effort involving a community of members. An example of these projects is the Bayanihan Linux project which is a Philippines-based desktop-focused Linux distribution.
In ethnic newspapers, Bayanihan News is the name of community newspaper for the Philippine community in Australia. It is a bilingual newspaper in English and in Filipino with regular news and articles on Philippine current events and history. It was established in October 1998 in Sydney, Australia.
Filipino language
This move has drawn much criticism from other regional groups.In 1987, a new constitution introduced many provisions for the language.Article XIV, Section 6, omits any mention of Tagalog as the basis for Filipino, and states that:...
term taken from the word bayan, referring to a nation, country, town or community. The whole term bayanihan refers to a spirit of communal unity or effort to achieve a particular objective.
Etymology
The origin of the term bayanihan can be traced from a common tradition in PhilippinePhilippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
towns where community members volunteer to help a family move to a new place by volunteering to transport the house to a specific location. The process involves literally carrying the house to its new location. This is done by putting bamboo poles forming a strong frame to lift the stilts from the ground and carrying the whole house with the men positioned at the ends of each pole. A mural by Filipino National Artist Carlos "Botong" Francisco illustrates the process. The tradition also features a small fiesta
Festival
A festival or gala is an event, usually and ordinarily staged by a local community, which centers on and celebrates some unique aspect of that community and the Festival....
hosted by the family to express gratitude to the volunteers.
Usage
In society, bayanihan has also been adopted as a term to refer to a local civil effort to resolve national issues.In teamwork, one of the first groups to use the term is a world acclaimed dance group (Bayanihan Dance Company
Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company
The Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company is the oldest dance company in the Philippines. A multi-awarded company, both nationally and internationally, Guillermo Gomez Rivera has called it the "depository of almost all Filipino dances, dress and songs."The company was founded in 1957 by...
) which travels different countries to perform the various traditional folk dances of the country with the objective of promoting Philippine culture.
In computing, the term bayanihan has evolved into many different meanings and incorporated as codenames to projects which depict the spirit of cooperative effort involving a community of members. An example of these projects is the Bayanihan Linux project which is a Philippines-based desktop-focused Linux distribution.
In ethnic newspapers, Bayanihan News is the name of community newspaper for the Philippine community in Australia. It is a bilingual newspaper in English and in Filipino with regular news and articles on Philippine current events and history. It was established in October 1998 in Sydney, Australia.
See also
- Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance CompanyBayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance CompanyThe Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company is the oldest dance company in the Philippines. A multi-awarded company, both nationally and internationally, Guillermo Gomez Rivera has called it the "depository of almost all Filipino dances, dress and songs."The company was founded in 1957 by...
- Mutual aid
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(Sudanese Arabic) - TalkootTalkootTalkoot is a Finnish expression for a gathering of friends and neighbors to accomplish a task, similar to a bee or a barn raising in English....
(Finnish) - GadugiGadugiGadugi is a term used in the Cherokee language which means "working together" or "cooperative labor" within a community.Historically, the word referred to a labor gang, of men and/or women, working together for projects such as harvesting crops or tending to gardens of elderly or infirm tribal...
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(Indonesia and Malaysia)
External links
- Bayanihan Dance Company -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
- Project Bayanihan is a project started at MIT Laboratory for Computer Science in 1996 to "explore and develop the idea of volunteer computing, which enables people to join a large parallel computation by simply visiting a Web site with an appropriate browser".