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What do these changes suggest about the Creole or full-blood Spaniards in the
Philippines?

The Philippine Creole was not creole in the traditional sense. It had more native blood
than Spanish blood since they did not come in large enough numbers to form a
population that could intermarry and preserve the blood pure. Having pure blood was
not a concern for the Creoles until the Peninsulares arrived in the 19th century. Prior to
their influx, the measure of a Filipino was not so much the amount of Spanish blood in
their veins as it was their culture, position, and money. The Creoles' successes lie in
their ability to preserve the Philippines together for 200 years as the islands faced
invasion from foreign colonists. Creole is a language that evolved from pidgin, a
grammatically reduced form of communication that develops between two or more
groups who do not share a common language and was subsequently developed and
spread to a location until it became the first language. The phrase was borrowed from
the Portuguese crioulo in the past. A person of European ancestry who was born and
reared in a tropical or semi-tropical colony. Creoles are typically characterized as
aberrant dialects of a standard language. It is frequently referred to as "mixed language"
since it lacks uniformity.

(Tomagos)
In accordance to some speculative authors, Rizal's work had adverse effects that can
be identified as a phase in the evolution of the creole. He percieved that the later ages it
will be of an importance to its use which is the introduction of patriotism to a nation's
people. This is expounded by the third generation of people just like crisostomo Ibarra,
and also Don Rafael who has lost his trace of being a spanish. Which is why there is
some people that uses different tend to pertain their meanings more in their ideology
and methods to represent their attitude of being patriotic. It enables a diverse of
communications between also a diverse type of people. Just as Rizal can asses and
read through spanish text more fluently and understand what the spanish regime is
pertaining to Filipino people.

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