THE INDOLENCE OF THE FILIPINO

INTRODUCTION
- Sobre la indolencia de los Filipino (original
title)
- longest essay written by Jose Rizal.
- Published in La Solidaridad on July 15, 1890.
- This essay is to defend the Filipinos against the
accusation of Mr. Sanciano that the Filipinos are
indolent.
- Based in the observation of Mr. Sanciano to a
Filipino farmer.
- It represents Rizal’s defense of Filipino to
Spaniards.
- Indolence means laziness (Tamad)
- Tamad ba ang mga Pilipino? (That was the
question that Rizal answered in the essay.
- The essay of Rizal was sort of defense of the
allegation of Spaniards (na tamad ang mga
Pilipino).
- Rizal has a character of ethnocentric which
means he didn’t want other people to looking
down his race. That’s why, all his works are
pertaining to defend and to lift up all the
Filipino people.
- Based on Jose Rizal’s analysis, Filipinos were
not born lazy but had a tendency to become
lazy (In this essay will tackled about the factors
and the tendencies why Filipino became lazy by
their accusation)