IDENTIFY AND DIFFERENTIATE THE HARMFUL AND HEALTHY WAYS OF COPING STRESS

THAT MAY HAVE BEEN EXERCISED BY THE PEOPLE FROM THE CONQUERED COUNTRIES.

The harmful and healthy ways of coping stress that may have been exercised by the people from
the conquered countries. The Philippines was very luck because our country was rich in natural
resources. And that is the reason why many foreign countries had colonized our country. Spain is
one of the foreign countries that colonized our country for more than three hundred years. They
are the reason why Filipinos experienced suffered, hardship, persecution etc. during their
colonization. But the Spanish had also contributed good things in our country specially to us
Filipinos.
Problem on education as pointed out by Rizal in his Noli Me Tangere are some harmful ways
that give Filipino student stress on studying. Example of those are absence of textbooks, Lack of
school buildings, Lacked of teachers, Corporal punishment, Emphasis rote learning, Humiliation
of students by teachers and Lack of opportunity to develop. Not only in education but also in
agrarian programs. Many people got depression due to the oppression of the Spaniard
government. They mistreated us like a slave.
Even though there are many negative things that the Spaniards given to the Filipinos but there
are still positive contributions that the Spanish government given to us.
And one of this positive contribution is their culture. The Spanish people introduced us what are
their culture like they introduced us their Latin alphabet, the art of painting, the appearance of
Theocratic Literature, the persistence of folk and colonial art and the Hispanic music and western
musical instrument. This contribution brought such good things in the Filipinos because these
things helped us to improved our culture but also ourselves to cope up the stress that gives the
Spaniards.
The Spanish teach the Filipino children not only about cultural academics but also religious
things. They teach them on how to become a God-fearing person. With this contribution, Filipino
learn to become faithful no matter what happen in their lives. The only way to cope up the stress
that Spaniards give us.
Even though the Filipino experienced the inhumanity of the Spaniards but still they influenced us
the way of their living and until today we still used and make those influences in our daily lives.
The only things that we can say in the Spanish colonization is that we felt different emotions. We
felt angry because the Spaniards abused the Filipino, they treated them as slaves. We felt sad
because there are many Filipinos sacrificed their own lives just for the sake of the country man.
And for the freedom of our country. And we felt happy because the Spaniards contributes many
good things in our country, the Philippines.