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    Courtship allows couples to decide if they are ready for a committed relationship and helps develop understanding and acceptance between partners. Traditional courtship practices in the Visayas region of the Philippines include serenading (balak) by Cebuanos, and men from Leyte performing household chores (pangagad or paninilbihan) for about a year prior to marriage. In Mindanao, the Tausug practice of threatening self-harm (palabas, sarakahan tupul, or magpasumbahi) in front of a woman's mother to gain her hand in marriage, while the Bagobo send knives or spears as gifts, with acceptance equivalent to accepting the suitor's

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    Courtship allows couples to decide if they are ready for a committed relationship and helps develop understanding and acceptance between partners. Traditional courtship practices in the Visayas region of the Philippines include serenading (balak) by Cebuanos, and men from Leyte performing household chores (pangagad or paninilbihan) for about a year prior to marriage. In Mindanao, the Tausug practice of threatening self-harm (palabas, sarakahan tupul, or magpasumbahi) in front of a woman's mother to gain her hand in marriage, while the Bagobo send knives or spears as gifts, with acceptance equivalent to accepting the suitor's

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    Courtship allows couples to decide if they are ready for a committed relationship and helps develop understanding and acceptance between partners. Traditional courtship practices in the Visayas region of the Philippines include serenading (balak) by Cebuanos, and men from Leyte performing household chores (pangagad or paninilbihan) for about a year prior to marriage. In Mindanao, the Tausug practice of threatening self-harm (palabas, sarakahan tupul, or magpasumbahi) in front of a woman's mother to gain her hand in marriage, while the Bagobo send knives or spears as gifts, with acceptance equivalent to accepting the suitor's

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    Courtship

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    Mark John C. Cabutotan
    Courtship allows couples to decide if they are ready for a committed relationship and helps develop understanding and acceptance between partners. Traditional courtship practices in the Visayas region of the Philippines include serenading (balak) by Cebuanos, and men from Leyte performing household chores (pangagad or paninilbihan) for about a year prior to marriage. In Mindanao, the Tausug practice of threatening self-harm (palabas, sarakahan tupul, or magpasumbahi) in front of a woman's mother to gain her hand in marriage, while the Bagobo send knives or spears as gifts, with acceptance equivalent to accepting the suitor's

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    COURTSHIP

    Activity 2: Sharing views


    HERE ARE THE BOXES WHICH NEEDS YOUR VIEWS TO
    BE SHARED TO THE CLASS.

    Definitions Practices Importance


    /meanings/words associated with of courtship
    that you associate courtship
    with courtship
    Definitions associate with
    SHARING VIEWS
    courtship Practices of courtship
    Courtship is the period in Nowadays, man court a woman
    a couple’s relationship through Importance of courtship
    facebook,twitter,skype,or other
    which precedes their social networking sites.This is It allows couples to decide
    engagement and marriage alarming, because some people whether they ready to be
    or it is an establishment of may hide their true identities commited.
    an agreed relationship of a and intensions using social It develops understanding and
    more enduring kind. media sites.There are reported acceptance.
    cases of romantic relationships
    It reveals one”s interests,likes
    Courtship is a stage of developed through social
    and dislikes,limitations,and
    not simply knowing networks that end up in
    aspirations in life.
    knowing a person but also betrayal,deceit,and in
    somecases crimes in passion. It develops security and
    a test of compatibility establishes respect for each
    between the two persons. other.
    DIFFERENT TRADITIONAL PRACTICES OF
    COURTSHIP IN VISAYAS
    VISAYAS
    When courting,Cebuanos also resort to serenading, called Balak.They
    also write love letters that are sent through a trusted friend or relative of the
    woman.Presents are not only given to the woman,but also to her relative.They
    also use love potions to win the affection of the woman.
    Men from Leyte perform the pangagad or paninilbihan instead of
    paying a form of dowry during courtship.This suitor accomplishes household
    and farm chores for the family of the woman.The service normally lasts for
    approximately a year before the man and woman can get married.It is also
    referred to as tabuk-a trial or test period for the serving suitor.
    MINDANAO
    Palabas,sarakahan tupul, or magpasumbahi,is
    practiced by theTausugof Mindanao.The suitor would threaten to stab his
    heart while in front of the courted woman’s mother.If the father of the
    woman refuses to give her daugthers hand to the suitors is smitten by a
    knife.
    The Bagobo,on the other hand, sens a knife or a spear of a gift to the
    home of the courted woman for inspection.Accepting the weapon is
    equivalent to accepting the man”s romantic intention and advances.

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