PRINCE MANZANO

THE LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL

MODULE 4 ASSIGNMENT 1

Kaizer Dane B. Dimaculangan Using both printed and electronics media, research on the current
relationship between China and the Philippines. Consider the economic, political, and social factors.
Discuss the impact of Chinese culture on contemporary Philippine society and compare it with
the impact of Chinese culture on 19th century Philippines. Chinese mestizos rose to prominence
between 1741 and 1898, mostly as landlords and middle men wholesalers of local produce and foreign
imports, but there were mestizos in other occupations as well. The bulk of today's upper class is made
up of descendants of mestizos who rose to prominence through commercial agriculture in the
late Spanish century. That the mestizo, as a marginal variable not closely associated with a village or
town, acted as a catalytic agent in the late-Spanish-century phase of social reform. This will require the
extension of the money market into parts of the Philippines. Regional governors and mestizos were the
only citizens with capital in certain areas. The emergence of the middle class as an economic force has
yet another significant impact. Any mestizo families found it easier to provide schooling for their
children after accumulating a certain amount of money. 1The Philippine Revolution of 1896 was the
final act of determination on the part of the true Filipinos - Indios and Chinese mestizos alike -to claim
for themselves and for future generations the incomparable birthright of nationhood. And the
accomplishment of his historic mission was due, to a significant extent, to the patriotic awakening of
the Chinese mestizos and their complete absorption into the social, cultural and economic fabric of the
merging Filipino nation-state. But now, almost businesses here in the Philippines was run by Chinese.
The possibility of a war between China and the Philippines over the South China Sea has enraged
Filipinos, who do not want to have an alliance with the Chinese because they believe that having a
relationship with them entails granting them sovereignty over the West Philippine Sea, particularly now
that President Duterte is so close to them. 2"Whateverdifferences we have with China ... it will not be an
obstacle to the overall positive trajectory of our bilateral friendly relations and our deepening
cooperation [in the] pandemic response, including vaccine cooperation, and in [the] post pandemic
economic recovery,"