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The document contains a student's answers to two questions regarding why the Spaniards branded Filipinos as indolent and how Jose Rizal and other Filipino scholars defended against this labeling. 1) The Spaniards branded Filipinos as indolent because before the Spaniards arrived, Filipinos were active traders but became dependent and powerless under Spanish rule. 2) Rizal admitted some Filipinos were indolent but argued it was due to abuse, discrimination and the hot climate rather than the Filipino nature. He said education and liberty could cure indolence.

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The document contains a student's answers to two questions regarding why the Spaniards branded Filipinos as indolent and how Jose Rizal and other Filipino scholars defended against this labeling. 1) The Spaniards branded Filipinos as indolent because before the Spaniards arrived, Filipinos were active traders but became dependent and powerless under Spanish rule. 2) Rizal admitted some Filipinos were indolent but argued it was due to abuse, discrimination and the hot climate rather than the Filipino nature. He said education and liberty could cure indolence.

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AZUL, REINZ NAJI P.

DEC
10, 2020
BSIT-BI301 SCORE:

Instructions:

 Read the assigned readings for this homework.


 Compose a five-sentence essay answering the following questions
1. Why did the Spaniards brand us as indolent?
2. How did Rizal and the other Filipino scholars defend the Filipinos against this
labeling from Spain? Why?

ANSWERS:
1. Why did the Spaniards brand us as indolent?

 Before the Spaniards came we were active and honest in trading, use our liabilities and resources for
our country’s benefits, never corrupt, industrious and passionate, independent, value nature, and
protective and defensive of our territory. When the Spaniards came, we became gamblers,
dependent, powerless, corrupt, amnesiacs, disloyal to our identity and indolent.
Being discontent, having a continual wars and tolerance due to slavery, getting deceits from the
Spaniards, allowing pirates from the south (Muslim pirates) and lacking unity the Filipinos became
indolent. Indolence therefore has more deeply rooted causes such as abuse and discrimination,
inaction of the government, rampant corruption and red tape, wrong doctrines of the church and
wrong examples from the Spaniards who lead lives of indolence which ultimately led to the
deterioration of Filipino values.

2. How did Rizal and the other Filipino scholars defend the Filipinos against this labeling from
Spain? Why?

 It was written by José Rizal as a response to the accusation of Indio or Malay indolence. He admits the
existence of indolence among the Filipinos, but it could be attributed to a number of reasons. He
traces its causes to factors such as the climate and social disorders. He defends the Filipinos by
saying that they are by nature not indolent, because in fact, even before the arrival of Spaniards,
Filipinos have been engaged in economic activities such as agriculture and trade. Indolence therefore
has more deeply rooted causes such as abuse and discrimination. Rizal says, before curing it. He
therefore enumerates the causes of indolence and elaborates on the circumstances that have led to it.
The hot climate, he points out, is a reasonable predisposition for indolence. Filipinos cannot be
compared to Europeans, who live in cold countries and who must exert much more effort at work. An
hour's work under the Philippine sun, he says, is equivalent to a day's work in temperate regions,
According to Rizal, would be education and liberty would be the cure to Filipino indolence.

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