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Creole?
Filipino today, most of the Creoles(and
the Rizal hero is an example) had more
native that Spanish blood.
A Creole class in the pure sense of the
term never existed in the Philippines. The
Spanish didn’t come here in such numbers
as to establish a large enough community
that could intermarry within itself and
keep blood pure.
•Midway of 19 th , the Philippine Creole
had no such scruples about blood
purity and were distinguished as a
class apart, as “Filipino”,not so much
by the amount of Spanish blood in their
veins as by their culture, position and
wealth
Why did Rizal make this?
“translated Filipino” his hero?
•Rizal trying to identify with the Creole?
Are the illustrators right who give the
tall, hairy , high nosed and red-cheeked
Ibarra the smaller, smoother features of
Rizal?
•A great writer always writing about
his times, even when he seems to
be writing about something else,
and Rizal’s novels are historical
parables.
Rizal prophesying?
•The novels were ,after all, written about a
decade before 1896 ,and we know that the
events that most influenced Rizal, that must
have shaped those novels, were the events
with which he grew up, that impelled a
change in name, the translation from
Mercado to Rizal – and from the
Philippines to Europe.
The clue is in the dedication of to
El Filibusterismo:
-”To the memory of the priest, Don
Mariano Gomez, Don Jose Burgos
and Don Jacinto Zamora, executed
on the gibbet of Bagumbayan on
February 28, 1872”
•Rizal was aware that a revolution
was going to on his country, a
revolution inspired at first by the
person . then the memory of Burgos
as Creole.
Father Pelaez, as a Creole campaign against the
Peninsulars. Rizal also knew that Spain was
overthrown in America by the various
uprisings of the Creoles.
• -that is by the class that had the
Education,money, talent and prestige to
conduct a revolt with success.
Rizal wrote his novels, he was
writing about an actual movement,
and writing an animate