NAME: EDMUND D.
IGNACIO
BS CRIMINOLOGY 3 BLOCK 6
INSTRUCTOR: MS. RICHELLE FERRER PERALTA
LIFE AND WORKS OF DR. JOSE RIZAL
ASSIGNMENT: MODULE 6
QUESTIONS:
Make a table comparing and contrasting Rizal and Morga’s View on Filipino Culture (30
pts.)
RIZAL`S VIEW
❖ 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 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 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.
DATE: 04/06/2022
MORGA`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 un 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.