MODULE LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL

CHAPTER 5

Analyze the following:

1. Principle of Assimilation Advocated by Rizal.

• It was an assimilationist movement because the propagandists, who were

half-Spanish and saw themselves as successors of Spanish civilization,
believed that the Philippines should be fully integrated into Spain as a
province rather than a colony, with Filipinos granted the same citizenship
rights as Spanish citizens. It also expelled Spanish friars and formed a
Filipino clergy. As a cultural movement, it promoted the literary and artistic
efforts of the young Filipino elite to demonstrate their cognitive capacity on
par with their Spanish counterparts.
The Propaganda Movement was aimed at the Spanish government and the
public. As an elite movement, it failed to interest the available Filipino people.
The Spanish government was uninterested in the realities in the Philippines,
especially given the enormous political ferment in the Spanish political
context. The campaign eventually got little backing and made little progress in
Spain. At home in the Philippines, the propagandists have deemed rebels,
and many were banished. Despite its ultimate failure, the movement created
a political awareness that fueled the nationalist revolt of 1896 and the
subsequent battle for independence.
 2. Rizal’s relationship with the other Propagandists.

• According to Raymond Basilio, who taught history at a school in Bukidnon for

three years, Jose P. Rizal is one of the pioneers of the propaganda
movement that awoke the Filipino people from the abuses of the Spanish
colonizers. Basilio made this claim after working as a history teacher there for
three years. The injustices and significant violations of human rights that the
Filipino people faced during Spanish rule were given a voice by Jose Rizal.
He acted as the spokesman for these issues. "He made it possible for the
public to voice their disapproval of the Spanish government's policies by
providing a forum for them to do so."

References:

• Propaganda Movement, The | Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School. (2022).
Propaganda Movement, the | Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School. Retrieved October
28, 2022, from https://rpl.hds.harvard.edu/faq/propaganda-movement

NOTE: Conduct a formal research. Don’t just depend from what is written in the book.

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