How were the Filipinos treated under the Spanish Bureaucracy
The Spaniards have abused the Filipinos, but they treated them more lenient compared to
the Latin America. What went on was the rewriting of our traditions branding them as “Evil
works”. As such, they have imposed to us what they think is “right” and “true”.
These include the abuse of bureaucrats from labor to taxation, education, and even sexual
abuse to the Filipino women. Referred to as Polo y Servicio, the Labor code was nonexistent since
the Spaniards forced Filipinos to work regardless of age. Bureaucrats have also imposed
impossible taxes to the Filipinos as tribute and “Bandala”. Most crucial to this day was the sexual
abuse of Spaniards and Spanish Bureaucrats to the Filipino women which resulted to numerous
Mestizos. The Spanish colonialism under the influence of he bureaucrats have also limited the
degree of education system in our country by limiting only to a number of “qualified” individuals
to not start a revolt from educated Filipinos
What is the Secularization movement? What changes did it bring to society?
The secularization movement was an act to refine the rights of the native clergymen, the
Filipino clergy. Seculars are the clergy who do not affiliate themselves to any order which mostly
consists of the natives. This secularization will “upgrade” the statuses of the Filipino clergy to
head their own parishes themselves.
Under this movement, the Filipinos met opposition from the friars since the change will
bring a dwindle to the friar’s authority and influence over the congregation. This has erupted racist
remarks belittling the Filipino clergymen of their capabilities and eligibility to priesthood. With
this, the society has met with a disturbance since there are factions who wanted to have their
independence but couldn’t resist the friars. This has resulted to the execution of the well known
GOMBURZA, from this point on, the revolution escalated and led to what we have today as well
as the establishment of the parish of the poor, the Iglesia Filipina Independiente.
Synthesis
Cite real life conditions and social issues present and observable in the Philippines society
that reflects the current condition that we are and discuss how these conditions can influence the
condition of the next generation and what do you think will happen to the Filipino culture five to
ten or a hundred years from now?
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The weakening of peso encompasses a weak economy for our country, this
entails a poor management of our resources and internal prowess which leads
us to be dependent on external power and factors to run our economy. This will
become a great hurdle for the future generation such that the national debt has
risen to at least a hundred thousand pesos per Filipino with our population at
around 110 million. This debt balloons up and will become difficult for the
future leaders to take under control in the next 10 years. Only after good
management of at least 30 years or 5 terms shall make a great impact to our
nation.
What can we do as Filipinos to improve our conditions and ensure a better future for the
next generation or to preserve the freedom, Independence, and rights that we enjoy as free citizens.
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As Filipinos, we should learn how to exploit technology to its fullest. Creating
passive income for most of our countrymen will create a bigger income to
everybody. This will create a domino effect of increasing GDP and GNP
escalating our means of coping up with the national debt in a translative manner.
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The impact of such measures will open windows of opportunities to most
people and help alleviate poverty in our country. With this in mind, the societal
issues that purged the many in our country will ease up.