Corruption In The Philippines Essay

According to Matthew 28:19-20 Christians have the call to go to the ends of the earth to share the good news of Jesus, and American missionaries have attempted to do just that. However, the first missionaries had to pioneer the boundaries in which missionaries operated. Many missionaries brought the Gospel, though it came hidden underneath many cultural and societal norms that they superimposed on the people that they reached. The missionaries to the Philippines are no exception to this, they went to the third world country and imposed their language, culture, and provided financial welfare. America’s influence structurally, culturally, and religiously in the Philippines is vast though it has not always come with good intentions; American missionaries are now working to repair the damage done in the name of the Lord in the Philippines. Along with the American’s coming to the Philippines, there were also Filipinos that arrived in America as laborers and ended up taking the Gospel back to their country serving as Filipino-American missionaries or “balikbayans.” These Filipino Americans brought …show more content…
Between the years 1919-1922 the Philippines had a financial crisis which had not only Filipino officials to blame, but American government officials to blame as well. At the time the American government directed the administration in the Philippines and are to some extent to blame for corruption due to lack of control. The American government used corrupted tactics to raise their stance with the Filipino government by creating a dependency upon the American governmental assistance. Although this corruption took place, America began to move out of the corruption, passing several Acts allowing more freedom from American government and finances, by 1925 the only American left in the governor-general’s cabinet was the secretary of public