Pinoy pride is an assertion that the people and culture should promote the interests of the Philippines by developing, and maintaining a national identity based on largely shared characteristics such as language, race, religion or political goals.
[citation needed] Different manifestations or observations concerning the Filipino people have been attributed to Pinoy pride.
One of the more common manifestations of Pinoy pride is when Filipinos consider the success or victory of Philippine citizens or foreigners of Philippine descent—such as boxer Manny Pacquiao, chess prodigy Wesley So, singer, actress, and columnist Lea Salonga, singer Jake Zyrus, and American Idol season 11 runner-up Jessica Sanchez—as a national achievement.
[3] The University of the Philippines Third World Studies Center has linked Pinoy pride's manifestation of Filipino resiliency to German sociologist Ulrich Beck's concept of narrated attention, "where the parlance of resiliency ultimately detracts from, rather than allow for, a critical stance towards the zeitgeist of our time".
[clarification needed][3] Dr. Norman G. Owen ([year needed]) criticized the proliferation of hoaxes and exaggeration of historical facts in an effort to build on Pinoy pride, such as the claim that a Filipino man named Agapito Flores was the inventor of the fluorescent lamp.