University of San Jose - Recoletos

Department of Social Sciences & Philosophy

GE-Rizal Course: Life and Works of Jose Rizal

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS WORKSHOP

Jose Rizal’s ‘The Indolence of Filipinos’
Name: Adrian Paul G. Astorga Course & Year: BSBA-MM2 ID No :2019013311

Instructions: Complete this workshop individually using the template provided. Submit your output within the week. Submit via the Online Learning Platform

I. CONCEPT MAP
- Instructions:
o Fill in the table provided with relevant information gathered from the essay “Indolence of Filipinos”
o Only five (5) factors needed to outline, choose accordingly.
o Total Score = 50pts

Factor 1 Factor 2 Factor 3 Factor 4 Factor 5

NAME/CONCEPT (3pts)
(one word or a phrase will
suffice)
QUICK SUMMARY (2pts)
(Provide 2-3 sentence
summary of the factors
identified)
 Limited training and education
Filipino natives receive
There is only limited training
and education Filipino natives
receives. Mostly Filipinos did
not receive the same
opportunities that are available
to foreigners because the
Filipino natives are taught as
inferiors. Resulting there are no
students that have the ability to
lead the work that’s why they
don’t have the motivation.
Spain did not protect the people
against foreign invaders and
pirates.
The Spain did not protect the
Filipino people against foreign
invaders and pirates with no
arms to defend themselves,
most of the natives were killed
and their houses were burned.
As a result of this the Filipino
people had lost interest in
cultivating their land and were
labeled as lazy.
There was a crooked system of
religion.
The friars in the Philippines
taught the Filipino people that it
was easier for poor man to
enter the heaven. Since the
Filipino people believe the friars
and most of them were religious
people. Some of the Filipino
people preferred not to work
and remain poor so that they
could easily go to heaven.
Lack of a national sentiment
unity among them 
Since the Filipino believe that
they are inferior they tend to
copy the foreign culture and do
everything to imitate them.
Because of this they are easily
get discriminated and because
of discrimination their motivation
got low.
Implementation of forced labor. 
The Spanish leaders would let
all the Filipino native do the
difficult task and forced them in
working labors with low return
income. This problem leads to
procrastination of some Filipinos
because they had felt that they
were abuse and was taken for
granted.

Aside from indolence the

 EFFECTS (3pts)
(Asides from Indolence, what
else did change with
Filipinos?)
Filipino people was easily
abused by the Spanish people
since they don’t have the
knowledge of their rights as a
citizen in the country.
Aside from the indolence, The
Filipino people had also
become more submissive to the
mercy of God and got angrier to
the Spanish authorities.
Aside from indolence, The
Filipino had also change they
tend to believe the things what
the higher ups tells them.
Sometimes they even believe
fake news and that leads to
them get easily abused.
Aside from indolence, The
Filipino people would follow
what the Foreign people or the
Spaniards told them what to do
and they feel that they are
inferior to the Spanish people.
Aside from the indolence, The
Filipino learned how to fight
back for their equal rights and
some of them were awakened
because of this abuses the
Spaniards have done to them.

PERSONAL INSIGHT ( 2pts)
(provide 1-2 sentence to
articulate your thoughts on
the factor identified)
For me I think it is only normal
why the Filipino people that time
were not motivated to work
since they don’t have the
knowledge of how to implement
it just like agricultural works.
For me If I was in that situation
it is normal that we tend to save
our lives first than to work. It’s
also just normal that they had to
abandon their works if their lives
is at stake if they choose to
stay.
Well most of Filipinos do believe
their superiors. They tend to
believe in superstitious stuffs so
that’s why they believed the
friars about the easiest way to
go to heaven is being poor.
Yes, I do believe that this is one
of the key factors why the
Filipino are Indolence. It’s
because they are not proud of
being Filipino by that time and it
had damaged their self-stem
and feels unmotivated.
This is the most of the main
factors why the Filipino are
Indolence its because the
Spanish people treat them as
laborers and they forced them
to do some of the difficult tasks.
Also there is a high tax and low
income at that time the Filipino
natives felt that they were
abused resulting to unmotivated
works.

II. SHORT ESSAY

- Write a brief essay of no less than 5 sentences, attach it here to the Rubric
o Total Score = 66 points
o Format
 justified
 short size
 Times New Roman 12
 1.5 spacing
- Key Question:
o Why did Rizal recommend the fostering of National Consciousness as a remedy to the Filipinos’ Indolence? (66pts)

As a remedy to the Indolence of the Filipinos, Rizal proposes the promotion of National Consciousness to raise awareness not only to the Filipino people but also to the people in the
neighboring countries that Filipino is not an unmotivated individual. It is such that there are some reasons why Filipinos lack the motivation to work, such as limited educational preparation,
resulting in a lack of expertise in the performance of their jobs. Second, at the time of the Spanish colonization, the friars made the Filipino people believe that it was better for a poor man than a
rich man to reach heaven. The Filipino citizens also lacked incentive to work because they thought that they were only taken for granted due to the enforcement of force labor law for Filipino
natives with low return income but a high tax. The main reason is to raise awareness of these factors among Filipino individuals.
III. GRADING RUBRICS
- For Essay