Carl Dave C.

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Business Administration

1ST PICTURE

- This last cartoon shows the incident with General Jacob Smith in where he ordered every Filipino over
the age of 10 to be killed. General Jacob Smith was court-martialed and found guilty. However, in the
cartoon the caption reads “Criminals because they were born ten years before we took the Philippines.”
This quote puts the Filipinos at fault for General Smith’s wrong doings. These aren’t even 5% of all the
political cartoons released used to degrade the Philippines. The US was very persistent in making sure
that all Americans took their side and understood their point of view. Giving the Filipinos no chance to
be understood or accepted. Because of all the political cartoon, once the Filipino migration was in full
swing, the immigrants were faced with racism. Everyone assumed everything about them. They were
left with the worst jobs and got paid horribly. They were separated from their white superior in public
places. And they never received the credit that was due. These political cartoons not only affected the
Filipinos of the time and the Filipinos who migrated to America shortly after the Philippine-American
War, they continue to affect Filipinos of today. Although there is no more racial separation or racial
slurs, there is still the underestimation of Filipinos. With Filipinos popping up in the media such as
American Idol, America’s Best Dance Crew, or in popular music groups like The Black Eyed Peas, people
assume that Filipinos are invading Hollywood. However, Filipinos have always been around showcasing
their talents, they have just been underestimated. It is only recently that they have been getting the
recognition they deserve.
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-And of all our race He has marked the American people as his chosen nation to finally lead in the
regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America, and it holds for us all the profit, all the
glory, all the happiness possible to man. Senator Albert J. Beveridge, 1900 I thought it would be a great
thing to give a whole lot of freedom to the Filipinos, but I guess now it’s better to let them give it to
themselves.Mark Twain, 1900 At the turn of the twentieth century, Americans and Filipinos fought
bitterly for control of the Philippine Islands. The United States viewed the Pacific islands as a stepping-
stone to the markets and natural resources of Asia. The Philippines, which had belonged to Spain for
three hundred years, wanted independence, not another imperial ruler. For the Americans, the
acquisition of a colony thousands of miles from its shores required a break with their anti-imperial
traditions. To justify such a break, the administration of William McKinley proclaimed that its policies
benefited both Americans and Filipinos by advancing freedom, Christian benevolence, and prosperity.