History of the Philippines Essay

A current issue with the Philippine society is the change of government. President Duterte's plan is to change the democratic government of the Philippine and aligned it to France's federal parliamentary government (Cayabyab, 2016). Likewise, the two philosophers, Aristotle, and St. Thomas Aquinas, is sharing common perception towards democracy…

fact, the Philippines has a “history of strong political families across generations” (Niu 92) which sets it apart from many other countries in the region. Before the Philippine’s version of an elite class of well-connected political families was established in a more modern time,…

Beveridge uses the perspective of sociology to support the annexation of the Philippines during a campaign speech he says, “We govern our children without their consent…. Would not the people of the Philippines prefer the just, human, civilizing government of this republic to the savage, bloody (Spanish) rule”. (Doc B) this just goes to show how the Americans thought of the Filipinas, Beveridge…

of the history of every Filipino. Nationalism is not just a sentiment but also a political concept that can be organized into various categories such as liberal, civic, ethnic or cultural. The emphasis in the words "every Filipino" is a means to widely acknowledge all the Filipinos not just Filipinos from Luzon but also Filipinos from Visayas and Mindanao . ln this paper the focus is on Mindanao's Nationalism particularly the Lumads and the Moros . Oftentimes, the studies about Philippines…

Prior to the Spanish colonization of the Philippines, the collection of islands had no sense of unity or collective identity, as Craig Lockard describes the Philippines as “remote islands inhabited by some 1 to 2 million people speaking more than 100 different… languages and scattered across 7000 islands.” With the Spanish colonization of the Philippines came the first instance of unity between its islands, and a national identity formed around it…

The history of the United States of America has often remembered the country as being the world superpower or the world’s police force. That is to say that there have been only a few times the country has entered a conflict and lost. The large-scale wars such as The War of 1812, the U.S. Mexico War and both World Wars showed the military might of America. However there are a number of small wars that are less known and show the countries vulnerability. In his book The Savage Wars of Peace, Max…

It is no secret that throughout history the lives of peoples have been oppressed and restricted. This can be seen all over the world in different times, with different cultures, and different genders. Empire has played a big role in the restricting of lives, and was usually done through imperialism and colonization. Imperialism in the European empires often led to the restricting of women’s lives via colonization, but not all imperialism forced oppression onto others. It could also lead to…

proclaims the necessity of bringing to a speedy and unconditional end colonialism in all its forms and manifestations (UN Charter).” Despite being almost 20 years prior to World War I, the origins of decolonization in Southeast Asia can be traced to the Philippine-American…

the case for Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. Located at the Pacific Ocean, both Indonesia and Philippines are two of the main archipelagos of the world, while Thailand is engulfed by the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. The main similarity of these three countries is they…

“Hawaii’s “1946 Sakada” is a study by Steffi San Buenaventura that explores the phenomena of Filipino immigrants who migrated to Hawaii to work in the sugar plantation industry. Steffi San Buenaventura begins the study discussing the history of the Filipino immigrants that migrated after World War II in 1946. The word “Sakada” refers to the Filipino men recruited by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association (HSPA), thus referring to the group of Filipino immigrants the “1946 Sakadas”. The central…