May 2009
National Sentiment during Rizal's time and the present.
Every country’s amelioration depends on the submission of every individual. The colonization of the Spaniards was effortlessly consummated due to the incongruousness of the pursuit of the Indios. Instead of having a communal objective for the ultimate headway of the country, most of the individuals had their own self-interests; thus consolidating the Filipinos seemed beyond belief. Surely if the Filipinos had not deviated from their quotidian affairs, competing against the Spaniards would be a one-sided affair.
One of the characters’ notions and traits in Rizal’s novel, Dona Victorina, was an example of an infirmity of some Filipinos. It was also partly the fault of the Indios for having a colonial mentality. The Filipino public who were (and still are) credulous were at fault for recklessly embracing the foistering of foreign culture and traditions. Another example of a fault of the Filipinos was the personal target mark of Senor Pasta from Rizal’s “El Filibusterismo” novel. How can the Philippines rise from the quagmire when the society itself was apathetic, the Filipino professionals aimed only for the bottom line, and friars that seeked only to perpetuate themselves and their ill-gained profits?
Rizal’s ideas had pointed out that Filipinos had a dearth of national sentiment. The fundamentals of a revolution based on Rizal’s concept was that it should acquire educational training and national sentiment. Some of the masses repudiated education as one of the indispensable factors to engender a revolution because many of them had not given the opportunity to have one. Seeing that attaining an education was indomitable for the masses, they opted to go on with the revolution due to the fact that they didn’t have much of a choice. They had little to fathom the means of arousing a revolution. It was the subversiveness of the Filipinos that incited it. Did they have national sentiment? Yes, they finally had it. One of the feeblenesses of the Filipinos was that they were very much tolerant (and still are) to the point that they were likely to be abused to the extent. Filipinos always have to wait until the last minute, or in this case, the last straw until they finally get their act together.
The Philippines was once in the throes of the nefarious clutches of the unjust Spanish rulers. The revolution was auspicious at that time and they had halcyon years afterwards; having said that, does history repeat itself? The Philippines is always dependent to other foreign countries that she always juxtaposes herself to them. The downbeat of it is that the gullibility of the Filipinos causes themselves to get duped instead of having a reciprocative relationship. A gander at the Philippines today: Filipinos in toto, are still in a demeaning situation wherein they have to play second fiddle to the foreigners and losing billions to the perennial pandemic of pork barrel politics. But I digress.
Every country’s amelioration depends on the submission of every individual. The colonization of the Spaniards was effortlessly consummated due to the incongruousness of the pursuit of the Indios. Instead of having a communal objective for the ultimate headway of the country, most of the individuals had their own self-interests; thus consolidating the Filipinos seemed beyond belief. Surely if the Filipinos had not deviated from their quotidian affairs, competing against the Spaniards would be a one-sided affair.
One of the characters’ notions and traits in Rizal’s novel, Dona Victorina, was an example of an infirmity of some Filipinos. It was also partly the fault of the Indios for having a colonial mentality. The Filipino public who were (and still are) credulous were at fault for recklessly embracing the foistering of foreign culture and traditions. Another example of a fault of the Filipinos was the personal target mark of Senor Pasta from Rizal’s “El Filibusterismo” novel. How can the Philippines rise from the quagmire when the society itself was apathetic, the Filipino professionals aimed only for the bottom line, and friars that seeked only to perpetuate themselves and their ill-gained profits?
Rizal’s ideas had pointed out that Filipinos had a dearth of national sentiment. The fundamentals of a revolution based on Rizal’s concept was that it should acquire educational training and national sentiment. Some of the masses repudiated education as one of the indispensable factors to engender a revolution because many of them had not given the opportunity to have one. Seeing that attaining an education was indomitable for the masses, they opted to go on with the revolution due to the fact that they didn’t have much of a choice. They had little to fathom the means of arousing a revolution. It was the subversiveness of the Filipinos that incited it. Did they have national sentiment? Yes, they finally had it. One of the feeblenesses of the Filipinos was that they were very much tolerant (and still are) to the point that they were likely to be abused to the extent. Filipinos always have to wait until the last minute, or in this case, the last straw until they finally get their act together.
The Philippines was once in the throes of the nefarious clutches of the unjust Spanish rulers. The revolution was auspicious at that time and they had halcyon years afterwards; having said that, does history repeat itself? The Philippines is always dependent to other foreign countries that she always juxtaposes herself to them. The downbeat of it is that the gullibility of the Filipinos causes themselves to get duped instead of having a reciprocative relationship. A gander at the Philippines today: Filipinos in toto, are still in a demeaning situation wherein they have to play second fiddle to the foreigners and losing billions to the perennial pandemic of pork barrel politics. But I digress.
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