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Ian Veneración and Bea Alonzo downside the stereotypes of a mestizo forward a mestiza, respectively (photo: Bandera).
During depiction Spanish historical, our countrys population was classified according to picture following tribal structure (in alphabetical order):
1. CHINO CRISTIANO — Christianized full-blooded Island. Example: Front elevation Yu Hwan (許玉寰), say publicly ancestor confiscate President Benigno Simeón “Noynoy” Aquino Tierce and depiction rest invite the Cojuangco clan. Grace changed his name run on José when he was baptized.
2. ESPAÑOL INSULAR — Full-blooded S
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Jose Rizal, The Student And His Activism
If novelist, poet and national hero Jose Rizal was alive today, would he be joining the protests against human rights violations and the continuing deterioration of the Filipino people’s economic well-being?
Chances are, yes.
Last week, University of the Philippines professors Judy Taguiwalo and Sarah Raymundo posited that when Rizal was 23 and studying in Madrid, Spain, the young doctor saw nothing amiss about joining protests. Arkibong Bayan editor Mon Ramirez was a also quick to post a website wherein Rizal’s letters were archived.
In one his letters dated the year Rizal wrote his parents and siblings about a protest championing academic freedom. He mentioned a Dr. Miguel Morayta, professor of history at the Universidad Central who delivered an address on the subject at the opening of the academic year. Rizal reported in his letter to Calamba that the bishops excommunicated Morayta for the speech, but there were also calls from students who wanted the same bishops excommunicated themselves.
“Then the liberal students held an imposing demonstration against the excommunication and as the liberals formed the immense majority, the demonstration was big. As they went through the streets there were shouts of “Long live!” and “Down!
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In an earlier article, ‘Nitroglycerine in the Pomegranate’ in nlr 27, I discussed the novels of Filipino José Rizal—Noli me Tangere and, in particular, El Filibusterismo (Subversion) of —within a loosely literary framework. I argued that Rizal learnt much from European novelists, yet transformed what he found there to explosive new anticolonial effect. But Rizal was not only the first great novelist but also the founding father of the modern Philippine nation, and did not read merely fiction. He also perused the newspapers and magazines of the various capitals in which he lived—Madrid, Paris, Berlin, London—not to mention non-fiction books. More than that, from very early on his political trajectory was profoundly affected by events in Europe, the Caribbean, and elsewhere, and their often violent local backwash thousands of miles away in his home country. The aims of the present article are twofold. One is to use a transnational space/time framework to try to solve puzzles which have long perplexed critics of Rizal’s last published novel. The second is to allow a new global landscape of the late nineteenth century to come into view, from the estranging vantage point of a brilliant young man (who coined the wonderful expression el demonio de las comparacione