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The late Dr. Florentino H. Hornedo a renowned Cultural Historian said in our first day of our class in Social History of the Philippines, “anything that is social is also cultural”. He explained further that in order to study the social history of the people you have to find out its re-groupments and thus falling under the study of culture. I agree on what he said because culture explains the patterns of the organization of a particular society by determining the behaviour, movements and…

Force The Philippines is the one who supplies more than one-fourth of competitive and globalized labor for seafarers. The employment contract combines the rules and regulation of the Philippine Overseas Employment Authority (POEA). According to Amante (2005), their social estimations of pecking order, admiration, hardworking attitudes, assumptions about exertion and remuneration, and food are defined by upbringing in their local communities, as well…

A bold statement, to say the least. Since Duterte’s rise to power in May, 2016 as the 16th President of the Philippines, as what is described as a “landslide” victory with over 16 million votes (around 39% of total votes cast, more than 6 million votes ahead of his closest rival), both his actions and words has brought the Republic of the Philippines to the spotlight numerous times (Cruz, 2016). From comparing himself to Hitler, to cursing Obama “putangina” (literally means whore-mother,…

During the times of WWII, a series of brutal men were attempting to control the world: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Benito Mussolini. That’s just some of the examples from other occurring genocide in the World. In this case the Japanese, there are men involved that go by the name of Hedeki Tojo, Edward King Jr., and Homma Masaharu. At the end of it all Homma Masaharu was help responsible for the death march, “war crime” and was finally executed by a firing squad on the day of April 3rd, 1946…

Chapter 11 1. Japan is a group of islands about 100 miles off the coast of Asia. Japan is the furthest east country. Because of this Japan experiences the first sun set. That is why it is called "Land of The Rising Sun". The Japanese state was built from many periods which the country had gone through, the paleolithic period which were the first habitants. The Jomon period, the yayoi period, the asuka period which introduced Buddhism and the nana period who formed Japan as a society like it is…

Filipino parents. When I was almost a year old, for whatever reasons my mom and me had to return to the Philippines. Philippines is a small country that has a lot of mountainous islands covered in tropical rain forest and volcanic in origin. It is there where I grew up and raised for 20 years. Growing up in the Philippines made me accustomed to Filipino language, tradition and values. Life in the Philippines, being a third world country was rough and it wasn’t easy. We lived in one of the…

century, the United States gained a foothold in Asia by annexing the Philippines, which it had gained in the Treaty of Paris (1898) from Spain as a result of the Spanish defeat in the Spanish-American War. The people of the Philippines were excited, at first, about annexation because they wanted U.S liberation, protection, and freedom. The United States Government received push back from its own citizens for going to the Philippines. Created in the wake…

eleven thousand soldiers marched into the capital of the Philippines, Manila. The United States had three choices in regards to the Philippines, and we decided to annex them. A treaty to annex was ratified with a two-thirds majority in the Senate. Even though it seemed that our only choice was to annex, should we have annexed the Philippines? In this case, annexing means to incorporate new territory to something larger.…

Cultural identity? I’ve always believed that cultural identity is what your ethnicity or race is. But no, apparently, it’s much more complex. Cultural identity is something that defines who you are, what you believe, how you behave, what you eat, what you wear, etc. Seems distinctively complicated. Almost everyone seems to define themselves easily. Me, I seem to only scratch the surface of who I am. First of all, I can say that my race is somewhat stereotypical. I am Filipino and some of the…

fate of the Philippines. The Americans were given three choices: to hand the islands back to Spain, to give the Philippines its independence, or to annex the territory. While many anti-imperialist Americans were against annexation, President William McKinley believed that it was God’s will for the Americans to uplift and civilize and Christianize them. McKinley believed that Filipinos were unfit for self-government; he also believed if the United States failed to annex the Philippines, it would…