A Legacy of Propaganda The Tripartite View of Philippine History
A Legacy of Propaganda The Tripartite View of Philippine History
A Legacy of Propaganda The Tripartite View of Philippine History
PAGBUBUO NG PAMBANSANG
KAMALAYAN (1872-1913)
A new direction was thus being imposed upon the lives and
acts of Filipinos and that direction was understood and
explained in the categories of a foreign historical
consciousness.
THE TRIPARTITE VIEW OF PHILIPPINE
HISTORY
Jaena would admit that, “though slow and too late in those
Islands,” the march of civilization had introduced “profound
transcendental changes in social and economic life, converting
what three centuries ago were simply settlements into towns
today with a certain measure of culture and enlightenment “. If
for this reason alone, however, the Filipinos should not be
denied the innate intellectual and cultural capacity for progress.
In a letter to Rizal from Barcelona in the same year, he
confided that “nothing can be expected from Spain nor from
its Government, that if the Philippines wishes to enjoy rights
and liberties, she herself much work for her redemption”
The day is not far when the Filipino will realize her "great destiny in
the Far East" and inevitably find herself "adjacent to the civilization
of the world." That was the future that del Pilar saw for his country,
"according to the law of history." All Spain had to do was "dispense
her justice according to the needs of the country, provide the
demanded reforms, combine Spanish-Filipino interests" and there
would be progress for both colony and metropolis. The third phase
in the history of the Philippines will be a period of progress,
preferably a common future in the Motherland.
If this does not happen, however, the Philippines will free
itself "at the cost of much bloodshed and crime, after mortal
combat, assassinations, fires, military killings, famine, misery,
etc. no noted "any lasting domination exercised by one
people over others, of different races, of different usages and
customs, of opposites.
March 16, 1565
The SANDUGO was a blood compact, performed in the
island of Bohol in the Philippines, between the Spanish
explorer Miguel López de Legazpi and Datu Sikatuna the
chieftain of Bohol on March 16, 1565, to seal their friendship
as part of the tribal tradition.
This gesture supposedly signified peace and friendship
between the foreigners and the natives of Bohol.
DENTRO DE CIEN ANOS
A new nation had to be formed shichy, in the final analysis, would have
to be separate and independent from that of Spain.
For Rizal, the third epoch in the Philippine history would also be one of
incipient nationhood, of nationality evolving out of ethnic diversity.
This decay was the result of the Spanish conquest and subsequent
misgovernment.
Spanish rapacity too discouraged Filipino incentive. After
reducing many Filipinos to slavery and forced labor, the
encomenderos “made the rest sell them their products at
an insignificant price or for nothing or cheated them with
false measures.”