Philippines Culture

Philippines, an archipelagic country within Southeast Asia, as we

know it, is very rich in historical and cultural heritage. Wherever
you go, you can always find something interesting to learn and
know about. This country, as we can observe, consists of different
and various traditions and cultures that is due to the different
influences of the different colonizers that happened to occur. That
even our language has a mix or is derived from foreign words. All
having unique stories of places, things, personas, and events that
connect us to the past, even before the Spanish, Japanese, and
American colonization, up to President Marcos’ martial law,
significant happenings that somehow taught us and moulded us
into becoming what we are now, citizens of an independent
country or in other words, Filipinos. Most of our stories, have given
us interesting subjects to
.
Start of quote, “The earliest document about Camiguin was written
by a Portuguese, Joao de Barros in his book, Quarta Decada de
Asia. He wrote that in 1538, a Portuguese captain, Francisco de
Castro, sailed the length of Mindanao and converted the rulers of
Sarangani, Surigao and Camiguin to Christianity along with their
respective wives, children and subjects and that the king of
Camiguin was baptized and given the name, Don Francisco. In the
book about the voyages of Fray Urdaneta (J.R. de Miguel 2009),
the friar who was with the Legazpi expedition, it states that on the
Sunday of March 11, 1565, the fleet of the Spanish conquistador,
Don Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, cast anchor on the west coast of
Camiguin at 6:00 P.M. They found all the houses empty as the
inhabitants fled and hid in the forest. Legazpi ordered Martin de
Goiti and Andres de Ibarra to explore the island and look for
cinnamon, a spice that they greatly valued. Having found none,
they left for