FILIPINAS DENTRO DE CIEN AÑOS

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An essay to forecast the future of the Philippines.

Published in the La Solidaridad.
Supplements Noli Me Tangere and El filibusterismo.

Analysis of the past

“In order to read the destiny of a people, it is necessary to open a
book of its past.”
Causes of Filipino Miseries PART
1. Implementation of Spain’s military policies
2. Deterioration and disappearance of the Filipino indigenous culture
3. Filipinos becoming passive and submissive to the colonizers I
What the future holds:
1. Will the Philippines remain as a Spanish colony?
2. Will they become a province of Spain?
3. Will they be separated from the mother country and live
independently?

For those who have strong spirit over the liberty of the country, independence was
assured. But for those who are discouraged and dillusioned by sad experiences
shall be a prison of the colony forever.
An enlightened class has emerged
Solutions for the maintenance of the Spanish cortes:
1. To have Filipino representatives in the Spanish cortes
PART 2. To practice human rights
Possible Outcomes:
1.The Philippines will remain under Spanish domination but with more law and greater
II liberty.
2.They will declare themselves independent.
If the Spanish colonizers become victorious of their goal
1.Brutalization of the masses through a caste addicted to the government.
2.Impoverishment of the Philippines as a country
3.Gradual exterminations of inhabitants

Transformation in a political sense would happen

Some governors trying to introduce reforms which includes
freedom of press
Why the colonizers are not risking Filipino representatives in the
cortes:
1. prove to be unruly PART
2. political trimmers
3. can act properly
III

Rizal explains the Spanish colonization specifically, the existence of the foreigners
will result to
1. Assimilation
2. Extermination
3. Encystment
The accumulation of acts or injustice would improve and strengthen their ethical
PART nature making the people ignorant, impoverish .
The Philippines is also being colonized that time by other countries which includes:
England
IV Germany
France
Holland
Japan
United States

Prepared by Sofia A. Nuñez