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The Impact of Panish Rule in The Hilippines: Spanish-Filipino Mestizo Costume, 1800s

Spanish rule in the Philippines created a mestizo culture with entrenched landed interests and unequal land distribution. The Spaniards made local datus heads of barangays, granting them large landholdings. Important families arose through intermarriage, including Spanish-Filipino mestizos of higher status and Chinese-Filipino mestizos of lower status. Both groups acquired tracts of land, with Chinese-Filipino mestizos emerging as an important economic group in the Philippines.

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The Impact of Panish Rule in The Hilippines: Spanish-Filipino Mestizo Costume, 1800s

Spanish rule in the Philippines created a mestizo culture with entrenched landed interests and unequal land distribution. The Spaniards made local datus heads of barangays, granting them large landholdings. Important families arose through intermarriage, including Spanish-Filipino mestizos of higher status and Chinese-Filipino mestizos of lower status. Both groups acquired tracts of land, with Chinese-Filipino mestizos emerging as an important economic group in the Philippines.

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The Impact of

Spanish Rule in the Philippines

An important impact of Spanish


rule in the Philippines is the
creation of a mestizo culture with
entrenched landed interests and a
highly skewed land distribution.

The Spaniards made the


local datus head of the barangays,
who eventually acquired large
landholdings.

Some of the barangay heads were


natives, but many important
families arose at this time through
the intermarriages of two types:

Spanish-Filipino mestizo costume,


1800s

Chinese-Filipino mestizo costume,


1800s

Spanish-Filipino mestizo costume,


1800s

First, the Spanish-Indio


mestizo that had a higher status:
it is a socially exclusive class from
which the scholars and literatis of
Manila emerged and today have
close ties to Spain and the United
States;
Second, the Chinese-Indio
mestizo that had a lower status:
this class blended with Filipino rural
cultures; it also acquired large
tracts of land through money
lending. From this class emerged
an important economic group of
Filipino-Chinese in the Philippines
today. This class competed with
migrant Chinese in trade but were
less successful in business.

After the Spaniards succeeded in 1556 to break the last good organized resistance, a long period of
Spanish influence followed. The Spaniards ruled the country, brought the Christian religion to the country
and were responsible for a lot of colonial and religious buildings throughout the country.
The results can still be seen in places as for instance Cebu City and Manila.

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