Rizal first arrived in San Francisco on April 28, 1888 but American health authorities detained the passengers for a week due to a supposed cholera epidemic. Rizal believed this was unjust and was actually due to politics and the ship carrying 643 Chinese laborers. He explored major cities like San Francisco, Reno, Chicago, Niagara Falls, and New York by train over several weeks. Rizal was impressed by America's economic progress but observed racial discrimination against Chinese, Japanese, and black people, showing the country's lack of true liberty and equality.
Rizal first arrived in San Francisco on April 28, 1888 but American health authorities detained the passengers for a week due to a supposed cholera epidemic. Rizal believed this was unjust and was actually due to politics and the ship carrying 643 Chinese laborers. He explored major cities like San Francisco, Reno, Chicago, Niagara Falls, and New York by train over several weeks. Rizal was impressed by America's economic progress but observed racial discrimination against Chinese, Japanese, and black people, showing the country's lack of true liberty and equality.
Rizal first arrived in San Francisco on April 28, 1888 but American health authorities detained the passengers for a week due to a supposed cholera epidemic. Rizal believed this was unjust and was actually due to politics and the ship carrying 643 Chinese laborers. He explored major cities like San Francisco, Reno, Chicago, Niagara Falls, and New York by train over several weeks. Rizal was impressed by America's economic progress but observed racial discrimination against Chinese, Japanese, and black people, showing the country's lack of true liberty and equality.
Rizal first arrived in San Francisco on April 28, 1888 but American health authorities detained the passengers for a week due to a supposed cholera epidemic. Rizal believed this was unjust and was actually due to politics and the ship carrying 643 Chinese laborers. He explored major cities like San Francisco, Reno, Chicago, Niagara Falls, and New York by train over several weeks. Rizal was impressed by America's economic progress but observed racial discrimination against Chinese, Japanese, and black people, showing the country's lack of true liberty and equality.
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• Rizal first saw America
on April 28, 1888.
• His arrival in this great country
was marred by racial prejudice.
• He saw the discriminatory
treatment of the Chinese and the Negros by the white Americans. ARRIVAL IN SAN FRANCISCO • April 28, 1888 The steamer Belgic docked at San Francisco.
• American health authorities did
not let the passengers land for one week because of the rumored cholera epidemic. • Rizal knew there was no cholera epidemic that time and he protest with other passengers the unjustifiable actions of American authorities.
• He soon discovered that it was
motivated by politics and the ship was carrying 643 Chinese coolies. • May 4, 1888 – The day he was permitted to go ashore and registered at the Palace Hotel which was then considered a first- class hotel in the city. Its cost $4 a day with bath and everything. He stayed at Stockton-Str. 312
• May 4 to 6, 1888 – Rizal stayed
in San Francisco. ACROSS THE AMERICAN CONTINENT •May 6, 1888 – it was Sunday, 4:30 P.M., Rizal left San Francisco for Oakland, nine miles across San Francisco Bay, by ferry boat. • May 7, 1888 – it was morning, Rizal awoke and had a good breakfast at Reno, Nevada, now glamorized by American high-pressure propaganda as “The Biggest Little City in the World”. •From May 7 to May 13, Rizal wrote in his diary the beautiful memories from Nevada, Chicago until he reached Albany. Via train Sacramento where he ate his supper 75cents and slept in his couch. •May 7- Rizal saw an Indian attired in semi European suit and semi Indian suit. •May 8- In Utah where he saw three Mormon boy, this region is not thickly populated.
•May 9- In Colorado he saw a lot
of snow and pine trees.
•May 10- Nebraska - Omaha
City, as big as San Francisco – Missouri River twice as big as Pasig River. •May 11- In Chicago, a lot of Indian in cigar store.
•May 12- He saw the Niagara
Falls and he called the falls as “The Majestic Cascade”.
•May 13- Where he saw the
Hudson River in Albany • May 13, 1888 – it was Sunday morning when Rizal reached New York. He stayed three days in this city, which he called the “big town”. •May 16, 1888 – Rizal left New York for Liverpool on board the City of Rome the second largest ship on the world. Rizal saw the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe Island. • The material progress of the country as shown in the great cities, huge farms, flourishing industries, and busy factories • The drive and the energy of the American people; • The natural beauty of the land • The high standard of living • The opportunities for better life offered to poor immigrants Rizal’s bad impression in america
• Non-existence of true civil liberty, as Negro cannot
marry a white woman, nor a white man a Negress.
• The existence of racial prejudice as shown in their
hatred of the Chinese, Japanese and Negroes.
• The valuing of money over human life Lack of
racial equality. • 1890 – two years after Rizal’s visit to the United States, Jose Alejandro, who was then studying engineering in Belgium, roomed with him.
• Rizal’s impression of America “is the land
par excellence of freedom but only for the whites”. “I visited the cities of America, with their grandiose edifices, their electric lights, and their great conceptions. America is, undoubtedly a great country, but has many defects” – Jose Rizal
