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Rizal's essay countered Spanish accusations that Filipinos were lazy by arguing that factors introduced by Spanish colonization, including the galleon trade system and forced labor, disrupted indigenous economies and self-sufficiency. Rizal attributed Filipino 'indolence' to Spain's practices like high taxes, an impractical education system, and promoting gambling instead of work.

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The Indolence of the Filipinos

(1st slide)
The Indolence of the Filipinos is the longest essay of Rizal published in La Solidaridad in five
consecutive issues on July 15 and 31, August 1 and 3, and September 1 1890. This essay rationally
countered the accusations of the Spaniards that the natives of the Philippines are indolent or lazy.
(2nd slide)
Rizal pointed in his arguments that the causes of the decrease of productive activities of the natives were
brought by the Spaniards since Filipinos before the coming of the Europeans are hardworking and
engaging into economic activities. Rizal then explained the Filipino Indolence in the following factors:
(3rd slide)
1. The Galleon Trade destroyed the previous links of the Philippines with the other countries in Asia and
the Middle East, thereby eradicating small local businesses and handicraft industries;
(4th slide)
2. The Spanish forced labor compelled the Filipinos to work in shipyards, roads, and some other public
works, thus abandoning their agricultural farms and industries;
(5th slide)
3. Many Filipinos became landless and wanderers because Spain did not defend them against pirates and
foreign invaders;
(6th slide)
4. The system of education offered by the colonizers was impractical as it was mainly about repetitive
prayers and had nothing to do with agricultural and industrial technology;
(7th slide)
5. The Spaniards were a bad example as negligent officials would come in late and leave their offices
early and Spanish women were always followed by servants;
(8th slide)
6. Gambling. like cockfights, was established, promoted, and explicitly practiced by Spanish government
officials and friars themselves, especially during feast days;
(9th slide)
7. The crooked system of religion discouraged the natives from working hard by teaching them that it was
easier for a poor man to enter heaven;
(10th slide)
8. The very high taxes were discouraging as a big part of natives' earnings would only go to the officials
and friars.
(11th slide)
Moreover, Rizal explained that the tropical climate is a major factor: “Nature knows this and like a just
mother has therefore made the earth more fertile, more productive, as a compensation. An hour’s work
under that burning sun, in the midst of pernicious influences springing from nature in activity, is equal to
a day’s work in a temperate climate.”
(12th slide)
It is the Spaniard who is lazy, argued Rizal, as they detest manual labor and live surrounded by Filipino
servants who “not only exist to take off their shoes for them but even to fan them!” His analysis as a
physician and historian led to primary sources that proved Filipinos in pre-Spanish times were not so:
“Indolence in the Philippines is a chronic malady, but not a hereditary one. The Filipinos have not always
been what they are” (Ocampo, 2019).

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