why do filipina girls say" ang tangos tangos ng ilong mo?"?

Question

yes, i'm good looking, but i don't need to brag it. It's the character of a person we should be particular of. But what bothers me is why filipinas i get acquainted with usually make those remarks, and they usually say it when no one can overhear us or when we are in a not so private area. What do they really mean? Why not the whole person,the face, the eyes, lips, body, the voice? Why just the nose?

Answer 1

This happens to me too! Yes, I'm filipino, although I have Spanish heritage (I don't want to brag).

Sometimes filipina women are insecure about their "flat" noses.

When they see someone with a high nose, it's like they go crazy over it. It means they like you and like partners with a nice nose so that their children don't end up with the same fate. They are just picky about facial features hehe.

Caucasian features (such as my high nose bridge) in filipino people isn't common. I'm also 6ft and people comment on how tall I am. Drives me nuts!!!

Answer 2

Only the girls and gays say it. This might be the influence of the movie industry and commercial models whose faces lined up in the streets of Manila and torn down by Typhoon Melinyo.
Filipinas look into the eyes and then to the nose. Filipino gays look into the eyes and into the lips and up in the nose.
It is in the nose that facial appearance is greatly enhanced. This is why some movie actresses and singers have their nose lifted. Nora Aunor, Virnie Varga to name a few.
Indio looking politicians too made their move. They married foreigners. Do you know the names of Sen. Rene Cayetano and Teofisto Guingona. Their mestizo looking sons are wrecking havoc in Congress.
This is the reason, Filipinos are chaotic. They do not mind about the character of a person. Filipinos are tribalistic people. Cebuanos find brunt of jokes on the Tagalogs, Ilokanos, Ilonggos, Boholanos. Tagalog have their jokes on Cebuanaos, Ilonggos. Ilokanos also descrimination Cebuanos, Ilonggos. The lists never end.
Inside prison, tribalism is high.
Wherever they come from, Filipinos will always look at the nose for identity. This could have been the influenced from the chinese.
A chinese man points to his nose when he asked, "who, me? "

Answer 3

It's not just the nose. To be perfectly frank with you, some young Filipinas today are deluded in their morals and values. There is no nice way to put it.

In their minds (subconsciously of course) thay really do strongly believe that a person who posseses caucasian or mongoloid (chinese) features are better physically, mentally and emotionally than all other groups, including their own. This is a presumptive attitude on their part. It has been tightly ingrained into their mindsets since childhood by their own parents and peers, and it supersedes all of their subsequently developed belief systems.

To these women, the degree of "tangos" of your nose, the fairness of your skin, the color of your eyes, your height, the lack of a local accent etc. are often the vital components they use to rationalize this belief.

The formula is flawed because it disregards other aspects of comparison between native Filipino men and caucasians/chinese. Negative caucasian traits such as small buttocks, too much body hair, difficulty in emoting and a predeliction to commit serial murders are often dismissed, as are chinese men's questionable hygiene habits and a propensity to be ruthless and money-obsessed.

This faulty mentality orginates from a deeply ingrained sense of inferiority instilled in the Filipino people, first by the Chinese immigrants and then by their Spanish colonizers.

I would even venture to say that this fundamental belief system is at the core of the economic chaos that has afflicted the Philippines since the end of WWII. If you look closely at Philippine society's economic make-up, it is deeply fractured between the 10% mestizos (fair-skinned) and the 90% indios (the darker complexioned). This is not an absolute assertion, but people in power (economically and politically) in the Philippines place a lot of emphasis in the color of your skin, your looks and your family heritage in deciding who gets a "slice of the pie".

Unlike in the USA and some societally well-evolved nations in Europe, your innate intelligence, drive and ability has little bearing in Filipino society if you are not part of the elite mestizo clans of Spanich/Chinese families and groups.

There are always exceptions, of course, but that is the truth,

Answer 4

One of the major Filipino insecurities is the nose. We don't like our own noses. Its enough of a stigma that one of our folk singers had to sing "wag kang mahihiya kung ang ilong mo ay pango" (don't be ashamed if you are stub nosed).

I think they're just being playful. Either that or your real name is Cyrano.

Answer 5

Most Filipina girls do not like thier own nose, they tend to think that it is too flat and like the higher ridge of the western people.

Answer 6

English Ng Pango

Answer 7

its almost the same anywhere in the world.... people will tell you how beautiful your eyes are, how well formed your lips are... so on.

for example in China, people always comment to me how they like my double eye lids (which is very common in the Philippines and something taken for granted).

My caucasian friends also comment about how wonderful my skin shade is (which again in the Philippines is quite common)

Now since high bridged noses are not very common in the Philippines, people tend to notice it more.

Answer 8

It is something unusual in the Filipino physical make-up. Most are dark, so they might comment on how fair/white you are. Most are short, so they might comment on how tall you are. Most have short nose, so they might comment on how high your nose bridge is. It depends on the person what he/she finds really prominent in you and something she doesn't have.

Answer 9

Jprlopez... finally a short and simple but altogether BRILLIANT answer!

Answer 10

Huh! Never tried saying that! ;-)