According to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2006), colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another; as for Wikipedia (n.d.), colonialism is the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically. The European colonial expansion has impacted the world and the dilemma of the native people through the several changes the colonizers bring to the country like the religion and culture, and the goods they bring for the country’s economy, in the context of the Philippines experience under the European colonizer.
One country that the European conquers and that has greatly changed would be the Philippines. Comaroff (1989) states that there are three models of colonialism, and one of them is civilizing mission, where they converted the native or indigenous religion to their European religion, which is the Catholic faith. The evangelist was set out at once to create a theater of the everyday, demonstrating by their own exemplary actions the benefits of methodical routine, of good personal habits of enlighten European ways and banish “superstition” in favor of rational technique and Christian belief (p. 673). As we all know before the Spaniards came to the Philippines, the Filipinos has no particular religion but they already have beliefs, they believe in the power of the nature, the anitos and their other more beliefs, but when the Spaniards came they have introduce Catholic beliefs to the native Filipinos and baptize them to become a Catholic. At first they didn’t accept the religion until their datus get baptizes and the rest of the tribe follows. But even though our native Filipinos were ba...
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...s, but some stood up for the country’s freedom and fight for what is right. Our native Filipinos has under gone several struggles, rebellions and war just to attain the freedom and equality that they wanted, and now we are living with that freedom all thanks to them.
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Colonialism. (n.d.). In Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved April 6, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism
Comaroff, JL. (1989).”Images of Empire, Contests of Consciences: Models of Colonial Domination in South Africa”, American Ethnologist, vol. 16, no. 4 p.673
Rebecca (2011). Spanish Influence in the Philippines. Retrieved from http://preparetoserve.com/philippines/spanish-influence-on-the-philippines/
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