BSTM412 MERCED - CM 05activity2
BSTM412 MERCED - CM 05activity2
BSTM412 MERCED - CM 05activity2
DIRECTIONS: Complete the table below. Use the back of this page or a separate sheet of paper (as needed). (100 points)
QUESTION: How did Rizal view, understand, and explain the pre-colonial past of the Philippines?
According to Jose Rizal What were the strong points of Rizal in defending his position?
• Rizal's investigation of the Philippine past showed that every one of
the chronicles on his region and individuals were written by Spaniards,
and hence reflected their biases.
• The significant is that Rizal's Morga reproduced the Philippine past,
which he needed to present to his sleeping compatriots to stir in them
a feeling of pride in their race.
• He needed to demonstrate, through a respectable work, that Initially, that the Filipinos had a free culture before the appearance of
individuals of the Philippines had an undeniable degree of culture and
the Spaniards. Besides, that the Filipinos were devastated,
ethical quality before the appearance of the Spaniards, had a
dominance of an unmistakable handiwork craftsmanship, fostered and disheartened, took advantage of and demolished by the Spanish human
develop a prospering exchange and did maintain a good contact with advancement and thirdly, the condition accomplished, the importation of
the outside world. Spanish progress didn't really, and unquestionably not in all circles of
• He likewise clarified that Philippine had their very own culture, interest, bring to the Philippines an improvement or a higher niveau.
preceding colonization, that the Filipinos were not inferior compared There are additionally aspects of Rizal's compositions on the
to the white man and to break the fantasy of the alleged Indolence of Philippines: First, there is the scrutinize of the colonizers' information on
the Filipinos.
the Philippines. Second, there are his thoughts on the nature and states
• The information on their own past ought to fortify the self-assurance
of his comrades and advance their political and logical development. of pioneer society. At last, there are Rizal's conversations on the
According to Antonio de Morga importance of and necessities for liberation.
• Pre-colonial past of the Philippines as per Antonio de Morga depends Utilize the past as an apparatus to comprehend the present and
on his own encounters, expirience and different documentations from ultimately defy what's to come.
eye-witnesses of the events. Rizal's evenhanded in clarifying and republishing this work was to
• It clarified essentially on Spain in the Philippines, described and address what he comprehended to be incorrect reports and libelous
portrays, principally, how the state was utilized as a traction in Asia, explanations that could be found in most Spanish chips away at the
from which other Spanish expeditions were launched.
Philippines.
• He expressed additionally the states of the nation relating to the
Spanish system.
• He also proclaimed that Philippines was less before the colonization.
• Morga, also mentioned and described the food of the indios as follows:
Their daily fare is composed of: lice crushed in wooden pillars and
when cooked is called morisqueta (this is the staple throughout the
land); cooked fish which they have in abundance.