Nearly half of the Filipino citizenry, tagged at 48%, is upbeat on the abundance of the 2019 Christmas for them, as found by a survey of the Pulse Asia. 41% believes that this year’s Christmas will be the same as last year’s, and the rest expects that the present Christmas is worse than that of 2018. 57% of the optimistic Filipinos came from Mindanao. The study took place from December 03 to 08, 2019 on 1,200 respondents.