ARIAN KEITH P.
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Make a table contrasting Rizal and Morga's views on Filipino culture.
RIZAL`S VIEW
 Bagoong [salted and fermented
fish or shrimp paste used as a
sauce in Filipino cuisine], as Morga
describes, cannot be delicious until
it begins to rot, and those who
have eaten and tasted it know that
it is neither rotten nor should be
(Rizal 1890, 264).
 Christianity served as a tool for
enabling the natives' political and
economic subjugation.
 Rizal was acutely aware of
Morga's errors. Rizal corrected
Morga's misspellings of native
place names, flora and animals,
and other social classes.
 Unlike their European
counterparts, local ladies never
lost their noble titles, according to
Rizal. The groom was the one who
paid the money to the parents
because they were about to lose
their beloved daughter.
 Morga must have meant sinamay,
Rizal reasoned. Which was made
from abaca thread, which
MORGA`S VIEW
 Their daily food consists of lice
smashed in wooden pillars and
cooked as morisqueta (a staple
throughout the country); cooked
fish, which they have in a b u n m
pig, venieon, mountain buffaloes
known as carabaos, beef, and fish,
which they know tastes finest
when it has begun to mt and stink
(Retana 1909,174).
 Dr. Morga appears to be referring
to the Roman Catholic religion,
which he intends to preserve in its
purity in the Philippines through
fire and sword. However, in other
regions, particularly in Flanders,
similar methods were inadequate
in maintaining the church's
authority or even holding its
subjects.
 The Philippines used to send silk
to Japan, which is where the
greatest quality of that product
today originates from.
 Morga's remark that Filipinos
prefer fish when it is starting to
originates from the trunks of spoil is another of the
banana trees rather than the preconceptions that Spaniards, like
leaves. everyone else, have.
 Cotton was grown widely on
virtually all of the islands,
according to Morga, and the
indigenous sold it as thread and
woven cloths to Chinese and other
foreign traders.