The Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Edition is I believe more Filipino than the first edition. The Big Winner Keanna Reeves is my explanation.

ABS-CBN, one of the biggest heralds of Filipino uniqueness, has to be credited for coming up with the celeb edition of the Big Brother hit.

Keanna’s victory exhibits the great and priceless value that Filipinos attach to their identity–family-oriented. In fact, the big four could not have been more complete in terms of familial nature. There was a mother (Keanna), a big brother (Zanjoe), a big sister (Bianca), and a little brother (John). To look at it another way, there was a mother, a little brother, and a brother or a sister with a lover.

You may ask me why I see it complete when there was no father-figure. Well, this is not to belittle the role of the father in a Filipino family but it’s common knowledge that Filipino fathers do not frequent the house. I place the focus on the Big Brother House.

Among the four, the mother, of course, plays the biggest role and Keanna showed that motherly presence and touch all through the 56-day challenge. She may not be the ideal mother in there but she did the mothering the best way she could and she was rewarded for it.

She had struggles as all of them had. She showed her heart out and didn’t care so much of what others would say. She spoke the words as candidly as she could with little regard to criticisms and when her presence and opinions were needed, she willingly gave them.

The love birds (Zanjoe and Bianca) won in the name of romance, John won in the name of dreamful and idealistic youth, and Keanna won in the name of womanhood and family; and the greatest of these is Keanna’s victory–uniquely Pinoy.