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    This document summarizes Jose Rizal's defense of Filipinos against accusations of laziness from Spanish colonizers. It discusses two major factors cited by the Spaniards for labeling Filipinos as indolent: the climate and social disorders caused by forced labor programs. The document then explains that Rizal defended Filipinos by arguing they engaged in economic activities before Spanish arrival and that alleged indolence was actually due to lack of education and national unity under colonial rule. Rizal wrote "The Indolence of the Filipino" to refute claims of innate laziness and propose education and independence as solutions.

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    This document summarizes Jose Rizal's defense of Filipinos against accusations of laziness from Spanish colonizers. It discusses two major factors cited by the Spaniards for labeling Filipinos as indolent: the climate and social disorders caused by forced labor programs. The document then explains that Rizal defended Filipinos by arguing they engaged in economic activities before Spanish arrival and that alleged indolence was actually due to lack of education and national unity under colonial rule. Rizal wrote "The Indolence of the Filipino" to refute claims of innate laziness and propose education and independence as solutions.

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    Alger EssayRizal

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    This document summarizes Jose Rizal's defense of Filipinos against accusations of laziness from Spanish colonizers. It discusses two major factors cited by the Spaniards for labeling Filipinos as indolent: the climate and social disorders caused by forced labor programs. The document then explains that Rizal defended Filipinos by arguing they engaged in economic activities before Spanish arrival and that alleged indolence was actually due to lack of education and national unity under colonial rule. Rizal wrote "The Indolence of the Filipino" to refute claims of innate laziness and propose education and independence as solutions.

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    Name: Alger, Rosemarie M.

    Subject: Rizal’s Life and works

    Program/Section: BS in Engineering 2 – 1A Instruction: Ms. Mari Gizelle Idmilao

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    Based on the readings and my understanding about why the Spaniards branded us as
    indolent is because according to Dr. Jose Rizal the major factors is such as the climate
    and social disorders. But Rizal defense all of the accusation of Spaniard about the Filipino
    being indolence. According Spaniard say Filipino have a little love for work, factor for
    being indolent is climate. A hot, climate requires of the individual quiet and rest just as
    cold incites to labor and action. Another reason is due to forced labor, many men have
    been sent to shipyard to construct vessel and other are being send in abroad to fight
    wars for Spain or for expedition so the population decrease and some of the farmers
    remained here is hiding in mountain so now the farm are being abandon and that
    Spaniard reason why they called as indolent.

    How did Rizal and the other Filipino scholars defend the Filipinos against this labeling from
    Spain? Why? To defend the Filipino for labeling from Spain Rizal wrote the Indolence of
    the Filipino a socio-political essay published in La solidaridad in Madrid in 1890. It was
    written by José Rizal as a response to the accusation of Indio or Malay indolence. He
    defends the Filipinos by saying that they are by nature not indolent, because in fact, even
    before the arrival of Spaniards, Filipinos have been engaged in economic activities. And
    according to Rizal, all the causes of indolence can be reduced to two factors. The first
    factor is the limited training and education Filipino natives receive. Segregated from
    Spaniards, Filipinos do not receive the same opportunities that are available to the
    foreigners. They are taught to be inferior. The second factor is the lack of a national
    sentiment of unity among them. Because Filipinos think they are inferior, they submit to
    the foreign culture and do everything to imitate it. The solution, according to Rizal, would
    be education and liberty.

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