Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
of Sucesos de las
Islas Filipinas
Historical
antecedents
Ingratitude of the
The myth of the
Filipinos to Mother
lazy native
Spain
The central thesis of the Filipino camp
• 300 years of colonization was 300 years of backwardness!
El Filibusterismo
(Rizal charted the
Filipino course for
Annotation of the future)
Sucesos de Las
Islas Filipinas
(Rizal showed
the Filipino the
Noli Me Tángere roots of their
(Rizal presented nation)
the condition
under Spain)
Rizal’s intellectual tradition
• Excerpts from Rizal’s letter to Fr. Vicente Garcia (January 1891):
• Rizal’s footnote:
• “In the Philippines, the Negritos, Igorots and other independent
tribes were still tattooed… tattooing has much resemblance to
what the Japanese practice today. However, the Filipinos
apparently did not use any color but black…”
Immediate impact of
Spanish conquest:
Death and destruction
• Rizal’s footnote:
• Death has always been the first sign of
the introduction of European civilization
in the Pacific… the Pacific islands which
became “civilized” suffered dreadful
depopulation.
a) Economic underdevelopment
• Rizal’s footnote:
• “The raid by Datus Sali and Silonga of Mindanao, in 1599 with 50 sailing
vessels and 3,000 warriors, against the capital of Panay, is the first act of
piracy by the inhabitants of the South which is recorded in Philippine
history. I say "by the inhabitants of the South" because earlier there had
been other acts of piracy, the earliest being that of Magellan's
expedition…”