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Rizal's Family Background and Influences

The document provides details about Jose Rizal's family and upbringing in Calamba, Philippines in the late 19th century. It describes Calamba as an agricultural town owned by Dominican friars that specialized in sugar. It discusses the Chinese influence in the Philippines through immigration and trade. It then focuses on Rizal's immediate family, describing his parents as educated and industrious. It outlines Rizal's early life, education, and his first experience with injustice when his mother was unjustly imprisoned.

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Rizal's Family Background and Influences

The document provides details about Jose Rizal's family and upbringing in Calamba, Philippines in the late 19th century. It describes Calamba as an agricultural town owned by Dominican friars that specialized in sugar. It discusses the Chinese influence in the Philippines through immigration and trade. It then focuses on Rizal's immediate family, describing his parents as educated and industrious. It outlines Rizal's early life, education, and his first experience with injustice when his mother was unjustly imprisoned.

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FAMILY TREE

Calamba at the time of Rizal’s Birth

 An agricultural town
 Owned by the Dominican friars
 Became prosperous due its specialization in sugar
The Role of the Chinese in the Philippines

 Chinese immigration to the Philippines has been


going on since pre colonial period
 They came here for trade and commerce only
 They came to the Philippines during the Ming
dynasty
 The Chinese left various influences among the
precolonial natives such as the yellow color to
denote royalty: the use of loose fitting pants and
vests and the manufacture of tools and weapons.
 The Chinese heavily influenced Filipino cuisine
 Parian- Chinese community
 Skills of Chinese:
1. Skilled bakers
2. Cooks
3. Stonemasons
4. shoemakers
 Becoming Christians not only allowed the Chinese
to stay in the islands but also to conduct business
with the Spaniards
 The Spaniards depended on the Chinese as they
were skilled artisans and workers
 A new social classification was created in 1741 for
taxation purposes:
1. Pure Chinese was taxed 6 pesos
2. A mestizo Chinese was taxed at 3 pesos
3. An idio paid 1.50
4. Spanish and Spanish Mestizo exempted
Birth of the young Jose
 Born on June 19, 1861
 His mother nearly died during his delivery because of his big
head
 Baptized after 3 days by Fr. Rufino Collantes, his godfather
was Fr. Pedro Casanas
 7th child of the family of Don Francisco and Dona Teodora
Immediate Family
 Reared in a typical middle class
 Lived a life of comfort and affluence
 Proof of affluence:
1. Families predeliction for studies
2. Stone house of adobe and hardwood
3. Carrige and horses
4. Home library
5. Servants
6. Private tutor
Don Francisco Mercado

 Educated man
 Took courses in Latin and Philosphy at Colegio de San Jose
 Honesty
 Frugality
 industrious
Teodora Alonso

 Educated woman
 Went to Colegio de santa Rosa
 Disciplinarian
 Woman of more than average education
 Woman of culture and religion
 Sacrificing and industrious wife
 At the age of three he learned how to pray and read the Bible
 Age of four, his sister Concepcion died.
 He mastered the alphabet at three years old
 Great interest in reading, sketching, painting and sculpture
 In 1848 Governor General Narciso Claveria issued
a decree ordering that all natives adapt new
surnames so that they can be taxed properly
 This would solve confusion as there were many
people with identical surnames.
 While it helped facilitate the collection of taxes the
decree had an unintended effect: it helped erase
historical connections between families and made
historical research very complicated and difficult.
Is rizal and Indio or a Mestizo?
Since the Mercado Family already intermarried with
mestizos and lived in the islands for generations, they
were now considered as NATIVES
First taste of injustice

 When his mother was arrested and imprisoned in 1871 due to


alleged attempted murder
 Arrested and made to walk a distance of 50 km
 Imprisoned for 2 and a half years
 Influenced also by the martyrdom of the Gomburza
 movie

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