Keywords Veneration without Understanding

● Rizal and the revolution

1. Nationalist leader
2. Refused to align with the revolutionary forces and his vehement condemnation of the
mass movement
● An American Sponsored hero
1. Governor William Howard Taft
2. Rizal was chosen over Aguinaldo, Bonifacio and Mabini
3. Rizal never advocated independence, nor did he advocate armed resistance to the
government
4. Americans favored Rizal as the Filipinos national hero because he was safely dead
before the Americans took over the Philippines
● The Role of Heroes
1. Nationalist Movement
2. Fought for national unity but feared the Revolution
● Innovation and Change
1. European and American financing
2. Abaca and Sugar
3. Economic Development
4. Cultural and Social changes
● The Ideological Framework
1. Peninsulares
2. Hispanization
3. Root to Separation
● The Concept of Filipino Nationhood
1. Espana en Filipinas
2. Creoles (Spaniards born in Philippines)
3. Indios (Filipino natives)
● The Limited Filipinos
1. Rizal's manifesto
● The Precursors of Mendicancy
1. Ibarra
2. modern-day mendicants and pseudo-nationalists
3. Elite Leadership
● Illustrados and Indios
1. Contrast of Bonifacio
● Blind Adoration
1. The economic and cultural factors that shaped Rizal
2. Must see in his life and in his works the evolution of the Filipinos
3. Reflection of our lack of creative thinking and our intellectual timidity
● Limitations of Rizal
1. His ideas could still be a force for salutary change
● The Negation of Rizal
1. We cannot rely on Rizal alone
2. People who are beginning to grasp the possibilities of human development
Suliranin ng Pambansang Bayani Summary

● RIZAL vs BONIFACIO
● Bonifacio is also a qualified candidate to be a National Hero because Bonifacio died
fighting, while Rizal died because of his writings
● Rizal is against revolution also to Bonifacio
● Bonifacio does the dirty work for Rizal
● Bonifacio and Rizal has their own ideas and beliefs that separates their fight against the
Spaniards
● Rizal still deserved to be called the National Hero but Bonifacio may also be another
option