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This mind conditioning insulting notion was one of the products of
Chinese and Ethnic Chinese propaganda blown out of proportion.
They have made this issue and others maligning the Filipinos a
continuous subject of their books and write-ups and at present
accepted as a fact rather than fiction as nobody dared to repulse it.
“FILIPINOS ARE LAZY” is a big lie, a product of their propaganda to
further downgrade Filipinos that they claimed inferior to them.
The notion that the Filipinos are lazy came from the Spanish
colonizers in their time. They said that the “Filipinos are fond of
gallivanting around, not fond of farming, trade
tr ade and work.” ³ (The
same observations they made with the people of their other colonies
at Mexico and Acapulco). During that time, mostly the Chinese did all
the works in the colony. They were the shoemaker, the storekeeper,
the water fetcher, the toolmaker, the carpenter, the mason, the
farmer, the herbalist etc., while allegedly the Indios (natives or
Filipinos) were just in their homes or elsewhere spending hours and
hours of their time in socializing.
s ocializing. Carried was the said observation
from generations to generations and written repeatedly in reference,
history and other literary works mostly authored by Chinese in the
Philippines most of it, (if not all) remains unchallenged.
The most damaging person who pursued and made this insulting
notion famous throughout the world was Jose Rizal,Ri zal, the Ethnic
Chinese pride of Chinese in the Philippines. Immortalized was this
notion in his shameful work “La indolencia de los Filipinos” or The
Indolence of Filipino People “published at La Solidaridad from July
15 to September 15, 1890.” Allegedly, he wrote this very damaging
literary piece in response to the tirades
tir ades of the Spaniards to the
supposed Filipino indolence. However, instead of repulsing it
strongly, HE ACCEPTED IT AS A FACT, ADMITTED TO THE WHOLE
WORLD IN WRITING THAT FILIPINOS ARE INDEED LAZY. One should
understand that Jose Rizal was talking about a race, the Filipino race
in general who he was not even a part of in truth, being a Chinese
Mestizo. For more than 17 times in that work, HE
ACCEPTED OVER AND OVER, AGAIN AND AGAIN THE SUPPOSED
INDOLENCE OF THE FILIPINOS, further maligning and insulting a
race by giving impoverished reasons, allegations, suppositions and
justifications as to why it happened. Contained in the Chapter about
Rizal in this work were the details of this great blunder).
Later, comparison was drawn and the “indolence issue” was raised
and used again and again as propaganda, The Filipinos are lazy
that’s why they are poor and not progressing while the Chinese in
the Philippines are very patient, industrious and diligent in their
trades and works that’s why they are very, very rich. It now became
a justification for the Philippine Chinese position of wealth and
comfort in this country. This justification or should I say
BRAINWASHING was accepted and not challenged too for so many
decades. Directly and indirectly, there was a sort of acceptance. Are
the Filipinos lazy? I beg to disagree!
Going back, during the Spanish era, the Filipinos were not working
so much because they do not know the works. They just know
farming, fishing and other trivial jobs, as they were just simple
backward (?) tribesmen compared to the Spaniards and even t he
Chinese whose cultures were higher. The Chinese did carpentry,
masonry and other works because the Chinese who came to the
Philippines were really carpenters and masons in their country.
However, due to the colonization for 327 years of the Spaniards (and
Chinese as well) the Indios were created and crafted to remain
backward, uneducated, belonging to the lowest level of the society.
The Chinese and Pro-Chinese Mestizos on the other hand, THE
CONJUGAL PARTNER – of the Spanish colonizer remained as workers
for all the jobs in the colony: traders, shopkeepers, restaurant
operators, etc., later on graduating from being a mere worker to
company owners, proprietors, landowners, farm owners, business
owners and the like.
One might reason that the Filipinos of today maybe different from
Filipinos of yesterday. Maybe the Filipinos of today are not lazy, but
maybe the Filipinos of yesterday were lazy as admitted by Ethnic
Chinese Jose Rizal.