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Rizal and other educated Filipinos at the time classified Filipinos into two groups - the "civilized Filipinos" who accepted Spanish culture and Catholicism, and the "mountain tribes" who resisted and were therefore considered uncivilized. This classification was a form of racial discrimination and elitism. During his exile in Dapitan, Rizal's views changed as he experienced discrimination himself and wanted to reform society through education rather than violence to prevent such discrimination.

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Rizal and other educated Filipinos at the time classified Filipinos into two groups - the "civilized Filipinos" who accepted Spanish culture and Catholicism, and the "mountain tribes" who resisted and were therefore considered uncivilized. This classification was a form of racial discrimination and elitism. During his exile in Dapitan, Rizal's views changed as he experienced discrimination himself and wanted to reform society through education rather than violence to prevent such discrimination.

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How did Rizal and the other ilustrados view cultural minorities before the exposition?

Reading(s) used Justification


Aguilar, F. (2005). Tracing Origins: “Ilustrado” Rizal and other ilustrado classified Filipinos
Nationalism and Racial Science of Migration into two categories one was the “civilized
Waves. The Journal of Asian Studies. Retrieve Filipinos” who did not resist the Catholicism
from https://baixardoc.com/documents/tracing- and the other one was “the mountain tribes”
origins-ilustrado-nationalism-and-the-racial- who resisted and therefore where not
science-of--5dc9c508bdaa1 civilized. Our ancestors were identified
partially in the basis of accepting Spanish
Culture and be called civilized and I think this is
not acceptable how can a person say that you
are not civilized when did you not accept
something. All of us have a different opinion
and just because we did not accept the
culture, they called uncivilized. That is not how
the world work we just need to respect each
other opinion.
Were their initial reactions a form of racial discrimination and elitism culture?
Reading(s) used Justification
Aguilar, F. (2005). Tracing Origins: “Ilustrado” I think yes because the fact that they
Nationalism and Racial Science of Migration categorized our fellow Filipino is unjustifiable
Waves. The Journal of Asian Studies. 64. 605 -637 and portraying it is discrimination, however
Retrieve from when Rizal was not thinking about how the friar
https://baixardoc.com/documents/tracing- establishment obstructed progress, Rizal
origins-ilustrado-nationalism-and-the-racial- appreciated the access to European civilization and
science-of--5dc9c508bdaa1 modernity that the colonial relationship with Spain
made possible. But when friars occupied his gaze,
Rizal saw the Spanish conquest as nothing but a
scourge that alienated him from his descent and
deprived him of history and identity. Such
overpowering moments drove him to recuperate
the past.
What were the instances during Rizal's exile made him change his mind about the primitive race?
Reading(s) used Justification
I think because of his lonely life in Dapitan.
Rizal maximized his stay by devoting his time in
improving his artistic and literary skills. And
because of his exile he may be felt the pain of
discrimination and inequalities and because of
that he wanted to change our society not by
bloody means, but through education so that
no one can discriminate us.

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