Bernales, Jan Lianne E.
GEC 09 The Life, Works and Writing of Jose Rizal
BSN IV-B2
Rizal’s View
• Rizal noticed all Morga’s mistakes.
Morga misspelled many native names
of places, flora and fauna, and other
social classes which Rizal corrected.
• Rizal emphasized that native women,
unlike their European counterparts,
never lost their noble titles. It was the
groom who gave dowry to the parents
because they going to lose their
precious daughter.
• This fish that Morga mentions, that
cannot be good until it begins to rot, is
bagoong [salted and fermented fish or
shrimp paste used as a sauce in
Filipino cuisine] and those who have
eaten it and tasted it know that it
neither is nor should be rotten (Rizal
1890, 264).
• Christianity was a weapon for
facilitating the political and economic
subjugation of the native.
• Rizal emphasized that native women,
unlike their European counterparts,
never lost their noble titles. It was the
groom who gave dowry to the parents
because they going to lost their
precious daughter.
• Rizal clarified that Morga must have
meant sinamay. Which was woven
from abaca thread that comes from the
banana trunks not from the leaves.
Module #6 Rizal and Morga
Morgas’s View
• Their daily fare is composed of: lice
crushed in wooden pillars and when
cooked is called morisqueta (this is the
staple throughout the land); cooked
fish which they have in a b u n m
pork, venison, mountain buffaloes
which they call carabaos, beef and fish
which they know is best when it has
started to mt and stink (Retana
1909,174).
• By the Christian religion, Dr. Morga
appears to mean the Roman Catholic
which by fire and sword he would
preserve in its purity in the
Philippines. Nevertheless, in other
lands, notably in Flanders, these
means were ineffective to keep the
church unchanged, or to maintain its
supremacy, or even to hold its
subjects.
• In Morga’s time, the Philippines
exported silk to japan whence now
comes the best quality of that
merchandise.
• Morga’s remark that the Filipinos like
fish better when it is commencing to
turn bad is another of those prejudices
which Spaniards like all other nations
have.
• Morga said that cotton was grown
extensively in practically all the
islands which the natives sold as
thread and woven fabrics to Chinese
and other foreign merchants.