Essay About Philippine Nationalism

For 333 years of being under the Spanish colonial power, on June 12, 1898 the Philippine Independence was finally proclaimed. Every year we commemorate this historical event for it signifies the nationhood of our country. But what matters most is that we should appreciate the most important aspect in our history that gave birth to our independence, the growth and development of Filipino Nationalism.
In order to furthermore explain on how Filipino nationalism gave birth to Philippine independence let us first take a look on nationalism itself. It was said that nationalism came as a response to colonialism. When we talk about nationalism it is not just a fact it is also power . You cannot overthrow a colonial master if you don’t have power. But when we talk about power it is

We cannot also deny the fact that the GOMBURZA was a victim of injustice because during the Spanish colonialism in the Philippines the church and state are one so literally if there is a movement opposing the will of the church definitely it would be easy for the church to eliminate its opponent. In addition the Spanish colonialism was responsible for bringing to the Philippines the new ideas and innovations of technology. After 1872 the period of reform movement followed. When we talk about the reform movement it is headed by the ilustrados or the middle class who were the educated people such as M.H Del Pilar, Graciano Lopez Jaena, Mariano Ponce and Jose Rizal. When we look at the goal of the reform movement its aim is equality for it wanted to become a province of Spain while the masses headed by Andres Bonifacio and others wanted independence. When we look at the goal of the masses it is very simple it is to overthrow Spain. Now, if we are going to analyze the goal of the ilustrados it would only benefit the ilustrado simply because they are educated but to compare it to the goal