Philippine Culture Essay

Philippines, an archipelagic country within Southeast Asia, as we know it, is very rich in historical and cultural heritage. Wherever you go, you can always find something interesting to learn and know about. This country, as we can observe, consists of different and various traditions and cultures that is due to the different influences of the different colonizers that happened to occur. That even our language has a mix or is derived from foreign words. All having unique stories of places, things, personas, and events that connect us to the past, even before the Spanish, Japanese, and American colonization, up to President Marcos’ martial law, significant happenings that somehow taught us and moulded us into becoming what we are now, citizens of an independent country or in other words, Filipinos. Most of our stories, have given us interesting subjects to look

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Start of quote, “The earliest document about Camiguin was written by a Portuguese, Joao de Barros in his book, Quarta Decada de Asia. He wrote that in 1538, a Portuguese captain, Francisco de Castro, sailed the length of Mindanao and converted the rulers of Sarangani, Surigao and Camiguin to Christianity along with their respective wives, children and subjects and that the king of Camiguin was baptized and given the name, Don Francisco. In the book about the voyages of Fray Urdaneta (J.R. de Miguel 2009), the friar who was with the Legazpi expedition, it states that on the Sunday of March 11, 1565, the fleet of the Spanish conquistador, Don Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, cast anchor on the west coast of Camiguin at 6:00 P.M. They found all the houses empty as the inhabitants fled and hid in the forest. Legazpi ordered Martin de Goiti and Andres de Ibarra to explore the island and look for cinnamon, a spice that they greatly valued. Having found none, they left for