Slate - a Philippine symbol of power (7 photos)

In the Philippines, there is a concept called "tsinelas education" or simply tsinelas. It means slippers in Filipino. While many Asian parents are quite strict with their children, in the Philippines it is practically the most recognizable symbol of power in the country.





You can almost feel the mark of such a tread on your butt

First of all, everyone in the country has such slippers-flip-flops due to the constant warm and sometimes humid weather. But everyone wears them on their feet, and if a person takes them in his hand, it means that he is the most important "alpha" in the area.



These are the kind of flip-flops that EVERYONE wears in the Philippines

The thing is that every Filipino starts getting hit on the head with a slipper by his mother from the first grade of school, and hooligan children even earlier. That is, they absorb the knowledge with their mother's milk that if the slipper is taken off, someone will get it now. Some Filipinos say that they still shudder when they see a woman with a slap-slipper in her hand.

Rules of beating with a slipper





Who gave her a gun!?

Yes, it's strange, but they exist! Since there are two slippers, many mothers first throw a "blank" at the guilty family member. It must hit the wall next to the person's head with a loud ringing sound. If the child has realized it, he will have time to run away and hide and there will be no need to beat him with a slipper. This is a game in which the child must show awe and fear of the power of the mother. Who still has the second slipper in her hands.



The Filipinos themselves make a bunch of funny videos about how moms hand out slippers to everyone in kung fu style!

If the child continues to argue, the second slipper is used as a well-aimed weapon. Mothers understand that they can't hit the head hard. That's why they usually hit the thighs with a slipper or lightly, but demonstratively, on the head in front of others.



Filipino Humor: Parents - A Reasonable Argument... A SLIPPERS!

Beating with a tsinelas is not considered a reprehensible phenomenon. If a Filipino sees an act of "punishment" with a slipper, he will most likely decide that the attacker is right. Since they themselves received it in childhood precisely for misdeeds.



And this is the gesture of Mano Po, I wrote about it, incredibly touching and sincere

In families, the right to take off a slipper and take it in hand, like a weapon, is determined by authority. Whoever rules the whole family, punishes. Therefore, automatically, all permissions and family councils are conducted by the "person with the slipper". Usually this is the mother or grandmother. In general, the Filipinos have many good and funny traditions, sometimes very lazy, but even the traditions of punishing and beating children are positive. No matter how strange it may sound.



Filipinos themselves consider tsinelas part of their cultural code

And in your family, who holds the slipper of power?