Filipino Culture Research Paper

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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

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