their religion, Christianity. In this bipartite view, the colonizers see themselves as the one who brought light from the darkness and has made a progressive maturity from ignorance or infancy of Filipinos. d. The key players or the so-called “triumvirate” in the tripartite view of the Philippine history were Graciano Lopez Jaena, Marcelo Del Pilar and Jose Rizal. For Jaena, he had greatly disagreed to the idea that Filipinos, on the pre-colonial times were indolent and that he believes that they had the innate intellect and capacity for progress even before the colonizers arrive. Furthermore, he said that the arrival and domination of the friars or the colonial epoch only blocked and submerged the minds of the Filipinos to be ignorant and single-minded thus prevented them to become a modernized civilization. And he …show more content…
Two examples of cultural practices of the native Filipinos that ceased to exist in colonial times were the penis pins and the presence of maharlikas. Penis pins custom had startled many observers around the world and thought that it was literally satanic for no man could possibly invent such device and that it is such an unreasonable act of sexual appetite. And the presence of maharlikas too, in the tagalog society for it is stated that this maharlika was fated to vanish under colonial pacification, of course, just as the raids in which it was done wiped out. d. The Spanish claims of barbarism and incivility in the context of Philippine pre-colonial times is not true for according to the book when Spanish colonizers arrived in the Philippines the Filipinos already have the term ‘Barangay’ means that the native inhabitants were dependent on boats and highly localized government. The pre-colonial Filipinos are not barbaric, savage, and uncivilized for even at that time they already had the idea of a society with leaders and followers, and also they already have their own cultural practices that have been there for quite some
History is a powerful weapon usually written from the perspective of the victors and reflected in their image. The losers are rarely given the opportunity to state their side of events, but historians work to change this disparity of information and bring balance. Historians like Inga Clendinnen and Robert Ricard attempt to make sense of Native Americans’ lifestyles base on information provided by European explorers and scholars a well as remnants’ of Indigenous people. While Inga Clendinnen discusses colonial life in the Americas between 1517 to 1570, Robert Ricard focuses on describing Native American life and interactions with Spaniards from 1523 to 1572. Both Clendinnen and Ricard work to describe Native Americans in Latin Americans and
During one of Maria and Feliciano’s conversations it was noted that, “Gualinto would have to be a learned man in order to help his people. How he would help them Feliciano had no idea, but he knew he must give the boy as much education as he could.” (49) Regrettably, Maria and Feliciano’s belief in the descent quality of the education system in Jonesville was not so accurate. Nevertheless, it is my belief that Gualinto’s school days molded him into becoming a stronger person by forcing him to face challenges, such as racism, which originated from his Mexican background. These experiences made him thrive to be successful in his schoolwork most importantly to show everyone that he could be great despite his
The discoveries of land or groups of individuals may involve what modern individuals call colonization. Colonization is the ability to formulate control or power that enables the person to dominate the area or individuals into a colony they wish to construct. This form of formulating new colonies was constantly used by many individuals during the early 1500s. Individuals like Christopher Columbus and Hernan Cortes are seen as heroic individuals of history due to their colonizing experiences and discoveries. Although both of these two individuals are seen as heroes to numerous groups, their values and beliefs allowed their colonization’s to have a few contrasts and similarities.
Las Cases begins his essay “Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indes” by giving a brief history of the discovery and an account of the characteristics of the ingenious peoples that lived there. Las Cases then goes on to describe the evils those people were subjected to, by the Spaniards, in the name of God and greed. “...they behaved with such temerity and shamelessness that the most powerful ruler of the islands had to see his own wide raped by a Christian officer.”, Las Cases writes. Las Cases' sympathizes with the native people, and his position in his writing appears to be to portray the Spanish as wholly evil, with no redeeming qualities.
Be not deceived…. [We] dare not educate them lest they learn to read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States and mock us for our inconsistency.” He rebukes the argument (that the US should annex the Philippines in order to better educate them) by pointing out how we will look foolish once the Filipinos learn how to read our Declaration of Independence when we did not allow
During the time of imperialism, Racism was a massive problem that was plaguing the US and this was without the Filipinos so that there was no way that the American people could get along with the Filipinos if they couldn’t with the Blacks and treat them as social and political equals. Some people thought of imperialism as a way for the US to spread its wings of liberty and free the people of other nations, while others knew this was not the case (Doc 7.). One example of
On the other hand, Hoganson had a different outlook on the annexation of The Philippines. She saw the takeover as way of dictatorship. Hoganson said,” The savage, childlike, and feminine stereotypes appealed to imperialists because they not only suggested the Filipinos' incapacity for selfgovernment, but also enabled imperialists to cast themselves as civilizers and authoritative heads of household—that is, as men who wielded power” (Hoganson). American viewed the people of the Philippines as simple minded and easy to control. She interpreted the annexation as a way for white business men to feed their hunger of power.
As Albert J. Beveridge pointed out in Document B, “would not the people of the Philippines prefer the just, human, civilizing government of this republic to the savage, bloody rule… from which we have saved them?” Just, human, civilizing? Strict, biased, Christianizing was more like it. In these islands, the United States of America once again made the same mistake it had made with the Native Americans. Determined that there way was the best way, ‘the slaughter of the Filipinos’ (Doc.
This decision, which had played out with both the Native and African Americans before and resulted badly, did not work out as well this time due to the Philippines being used to tyranny from the Spanish, resulting in them being able to recognize conformity very easily. Christianizing was accepted by a concerning amount of people, including President William McKinley. In November of 1899, he gave a speech to a group of clergymen about the possession of the Philippines, claiming that he prayed to God for many nights for guidance. McKinley gave four “facts” that God had let him see, which were “...we could not give [the Philippines] back to Spain--that would be cowardly and dishonorable…we could not turn them over to France and Germany - our commercial rivals in the Orient - that would be bad business and discreditable…we could not leave them to themselves - they were unfit for self-government and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was… there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them and by God's grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellowmen for whom Christ also died” (Document C).
Through the texts of Sabine Hyland and Jane Mangan one is able to see and understand the culture of Colonial Latin America. Hyland gives the account of Incan Religion before Christianity became part of the Andean culture. Mangan, on the other hand, gives an insight as far as how the economics were run in the town of Potosi and how women and indigenous populations impacted the economy. Both are completely different aspects of Colonial Latin American life, but are both extremely important in the understanding of how the communities worked.
Q1: A. According to Las Casas, the Spaniards had one influence that encouraged such acts of cruelty and that was greed. The Spaniards wanted gold. As much gold as they could get their hands on. Las Casas stated that by becoming rich so fast, the Spaniards hoped that this would lead to a “rise to a high estate disproportionate to their merits” (3).
Since ancient times Hmong people as been around. So what is Hmong? Are they Chinese or Mongolian? Most people think Hmong are either Chinese or Mongolia For example the word Hmong is very similar to the word Mong in Mongolian.
The Philippines had been fighting for their freedom against the Spanish for many years. Naturally, when America defeated the Spaniards in the war, the Filipinos rejoiced at the thought that they may be able to finally return safely and peacefully back to their home, Manila. Where this information comes from in the text, would be: “These Filipinos believed that
One of the key factors Tizon left out of his story was and understanding of Filipino culture and history. In the article “Lola 's Resistant Dignity” done in the Atlantic by Vicente Rafael, he explains more in detail in what lens we should have looked at the article. Rafael is someone who has spent more than thirty years studying the colonial and post-colonial history of the Philippines and was also born and raised in the Philippines. Rafael argues that the reason why all of the
The Philippines has always had a rich musical history. It takes its roots from the indigenous tribes of the Philippines, who used it as a way to pass on epics and stories about gods and heroes, a way to celebrate good harvests, festivals, weddings and births, a way to mourn the dead, to court women, and a way to praise the gods. This music was then enriched by the Philippines’ western colonizers. The Spaniards imparted the zarzuela (called sarswela in the Philippines) and the rondalla, adding more Spanish touches to Filipino folk songs. The Americans, on the other hand, influenced the Philippine music scene by introducing pop and rock, eventually leading to the creation of “Pinoy pop”, which included a wide variety of forms like dance tunes, ballads, rock n’ roll, disco, jazz, and rap.