La Indolencia de Los Filipinos Essay

La indolencia de los filipinos (y de los estudiantes tambien) 1. What was the effect of conviction of inferiority? -The child or y turn uph who tries to be anything else is blamed with vanity and presumption the curate ridicules him with ferocious sarcasm, his relatives look upon him with fear, strangers regard him with wide compassion. No forward front line deplete got back in the ranks and keep in line With his spirit gum olibanum molded the native f either(prenominal)s into the most pernicious of whole told terrestrials routine non planned just imposed and forced.Note that the native himself is non natur all in ally inclined to routine nevertheless his heed is disposed to look at all truth, just as his house is open to all strangers. The well-behaved and the beautiful attract him, seduce and captivate him although the likes of the the Japanese he often exchanges the unspoiled for the evil, if it appears to him garnished and gilded. What he lacks is in the first place improperness to allow expansion to his adventuresome spirit, and good showcases, beautiful prospects for the future.It is necessary that his spirit, although it whitethorn be dis whitethorned and cowed by the elements and the fearful manifestation of their mighty forces, shop class up energy, seek high purposes, in order to struggle against impedimentas in the midst of unfavorable natural conditions. In order that he may progress it is necessary that a revolutionary spirit, so to converse, should boil in his veins, since progress necessarily requires the cede the victory of new ideas over the antiquated and accepted bingle.It provide not be sufficient to speak to his fancy, to blather nicely to him, nor that the light illuminate him like the ignis fatuus that leads travelers astray at iniquity all the flattering promises of the fairest hopes will not suffice, so wide as his spirit is not free, his intelligence is not respected. 2. What is the implicateing of the statement, tila ka kastila? The pernicious example of the dominators in surrounding themselves with servants and despising manual or corporal advertise as a thing unbecoming the nobility and chivalrous soak of the heroes of so many centuries those lordly airs, which the natives have translated into tila ka castila, and the desire of the dominated to be the equal of the dominators, if not essentially, at least(prenominal) in their manners all this had naturally to produce aversion to activity and fear or abomination of scat. 3. What does Rizal mean by saying that indolence in the Philippines is a degenerative but not an inherited disease? When in consequence of a long chronic illness the condition of the patient is examined, the question may arise whether the weakening of the fibers and the debility of the organs be the cause of the disorders continuing or the effect of the bad discourse that prolongs its action. The cargon physician attributes the entire failure of his skil l to the poor constitution of the patient, to the mentality, to the surroundings, and so on. On the other hand, the patient attributes the aggravation of the evil to the system of treatment followed.Only the common crowd, the inquisitive populace, shakes its head and cannot reach a decision. Something like this happens in the case of the Philippines. instead of a physician, read presidency, that is friars, employees, etc. Instead of patient, Philippines instead of malady, indolence. 4. What proofs did Rizal extend to show that pre-Spanish Malayans were not vacant? -Before the arrival of the Europeans, the Malayan Filipinos carried on an active trade, no simply among themselves but also with all the neighboring countries.All the histories of those first years, in short, abound in long accounts about the industry and agriculture of the natives mines, gold-washings, looms, farms, barter, naval construction, raising of poultry and stock, weave of silk and cotton wool, distilleri es, manufactures of arms, pearl fisheries, the civet industry, the horn and hide industry, etc. , are things encountered at every step, and considering the time and the conditions in the islands, prove that on that point was life, thither was activity, there was movement. 5.How did it happen that the industrious pagan culture was transformed into that of an indolent Christian culture? -We have already spoken of the to a greater extent or less(prenominal) latent predisposition which exists in the Philippines toward indolence, and which must exist everywhere, in the safe and sound world, in all men, because we all hate work more or less, as it may be more or less hard, more ore less unproductive. The dolce far niente of the Italian, the rascarse la barriga of the Spaniard, the supreme aspiration of the burgess to live on his income in peace and tranquility, attest this.It seems that there are causes more than sufficient to breed indolence in the midst of a beehive. Thus is explaine d why, after thirty-two years of the system, the circumspect and prudent Morga state that the natives have forgotten much about farming, raising poultry, stock and cotton and weaving cloth, as they used to do in their paganism and for a long time after the country had been conquered 6. Why does the city of Hong Kong have more commercial and trade activities than the whole of the Philippines? It has more commercial movement than all the islands together, because it is free and is well governed. The great difficulty that every opening move encountered with the administration contributed not a little to kill off all commercial and industrial movement. All the Filipinos, as well as all those who have tried to engage in business in the Philippines, cognize how many documents, what comings, how many stamped papers, how much patience is needed to secure from the government a permit for an enterprise.One must count upon the good will of this one, on the influence of that one, on a good b ribe to another(prenominal) in order that the application be not pigeon-holed, a present to the one further on so that it may pass it on to his chief one must pray to God to give him good humor and time to see and examine it to another, talent to recognize its self-interest to one further on sufficient stupidity not to hoist behind the enterprise an insurrectionary purpose land that they may not all spend the time taking baths, hunting or performing cards with the reverend friars in their convents or country houses.And above all, great patience, great knowledge of how to get along, plenty of money, a great draw of politics, many salutations, great influence, plenty of presents and complete resignation 7. Was there frolic in the country before the coming of the Spaniards? -Yes, we do not mean to say that before the coming of the Spaniards the natives did not gamble the passion for turn is innate in adventuresome and excitable races, and such is the Malay, Pigafetta tells us of c ockfights and of bets in the Island of Paragua.Cock-fighting must also have existed in Luzon and in all the islands, for in the terminology of the game are two Tagalog words sabong and tari (cockpit and gaff). But there is not the least doubt that the fostering of this game is due to the government, as well as the perfecting of it. 8. What are the effects of too many spiritual festivals on the country? Remember, that lack of capital and absence of means paralyse all movement, and you will see how the native was perforce to be indolent for if any money might remain to him from the trials, imposts and exactions, he would have to give it to the curate for bulls, scapularies, candles, novenaries, etc.And if this does not suffice to form an indolent character, if the climate and nature are not enough in themselves to daze him and divest him of all energy, recall then that the doctrine of his religion teach him to water his fields in the dry season, not by means of canals but with amas ses and prayers to preserve his stock during an epidemic with holy water, exorcisms and benedictions that cost five dollars an animal, to lawsuit away the locusts by a procession with the image of St. Augustine, etc.It is well, undoubtedly, to assumption greatly in God but it is better to do what one can not trouble the Creator every moment, even when these appeals return to the benefit of His ministers. We have noticed that the countries which believe most in miracles are the laziest, just as spoiled children are the most ill-mannered. Whether they believe in miracles to palliate their laziness or they are inactive because they believe in miracles, we cannot say but he fact is the Filipinos were much less lazy before the word miracle was introduced into their language. 9.What other evidence may be pointed out to show the lack of national sentiment? -The very limited learning in the home, the tyrannical and sterilised education of the obsolescent centers of learning that scr eenland subordination of the youth to one of greater age, influence the mind so that a man may not aspire to excel those who preceded him but must single if be content to go along with a march behind them. Stagnation forcibly results from this, and as he who devotes himself merely to copying divests himself of other qualities suited to his own nature, he naturally becomes sterile hence decadence.Indolence is a corollary derived from the lack of stimulus and of vitality. That modesty infused into the convictions of everyone, or, to speak more clearly, that insinuated inferiority, a sort of daily and constant depreciation of the mind so that it may not be raised to the regions of life, deadens the energies, paralyzes all tendencies toward advancement, and of the least struggle a man gives up without fighting. If by one of those rare incidents, some wild spirit, that is some active one, excels, instead of his example stimulating, it only causes others to persist in their inaction. Th eres one who will work for us lets sleep on say his relatives and friends. confessedly it is that the spirit of rivalry is sometimes awakened, only that then it awakens with bad humor in the guise of envy, and instead of being a lever for helping, it is an obstacle that produces discouragement. 10. How do we know there was no national sentiment? -Absence of all opposition to measures prejudicial to the people and the absence of any initiative in whatever may redound to its good. A man in the Philippines is only an individual, he is not a member of a nation.He is command and denied the right of association, and is, therefore, weak and sluggish. The Philippines is an organism whose cells seem to have no arterial system to irrigate it or nervous system to communicate its impressions these cells must, nevertheless, fall in their product, get it where they can if they perish, let them perish. In the view of some this is carpetbag so that a habituation may be a dependency perhaps t hey are right, but not the effect that a colony may flourish.