Can you imagine the hardships, not to mention the horrors of genocidal-level deaths, inflicted by the Bald Eagle invasion on the Filipino people during the Philippine-American War (1899-1914)?
Filipinas begging food from the enemy soldiers of the imperialist United States.
Philippine-American War (1899-1914)
Can you imagine the hardships, not to mention the horrors of genocidal-level deaths, inflicted by th...e Bald Eagle invasion on the Filipino people during the Philippine-American War
Filipinas begging food from the enemy soldiers of the imperialist United States.
Photo credit:
http://alexfelipe.com/2008/08/30/the-philippine-american-war-america%E2%80%99s-debut-as-an-imperial-power/
Filipinas begging food from the enemy soldiers of the imperialist United States.
Photo credit:
http://alexfelipe.com/2008/08/30/the-philippine-american-war-america%E2%80%99s-debut-as-an-imperial-power/
Images from the Filipino-American War
By:TAGA-ILOG News
TAGA-ILOG News many historians and even journalists do refer to the fil.am war as the 1st vietnam....
the north americans, the leaders at least, were simply too wickedly imperialistic such that they'll do anything to achieve their aims.
the filipinos put up such fierce resistance and they responded with torture and genocide (in the beginning they were taking prisoners and at one point, simply stopped, did away with prisoners, which meant they simply killed all of our forefathers/foremothers who fought for our sovereignty.
healing takes remembering. to have closure, our people need to know the past first. know what really happened (which means addressed the enforced amnesia/glossing over of the fil.am war), and then heal ourselves, beginning with the rectification of its effects (colonial miseducation, continued stranglehold). that's the way to move on. not omit a part of our history.
ReplyDeleteas to why the north americans hardly know us, don't be surprised. americans in general don't know much about the outside world (based on surveys/studies). surprising for a superpower, it seems. i guess it's part of their education/mass media strategy so the people don't get to interfere/have a say on what their neo.imperialist government does.
Jesusa Bernardo
ReplyDeletesuperficial is a very kind word to put it . it was deliberate glossing over, part of continuing colonial/imperialist education effected by the co.opted yellows.
not sure what you mean--heal ourselves or else bloody revolution? the latter co...uld be one way to heal ourselves. of course there are other ways.
my point is that the two concepts or entities ain't necessarily anathema or opposing choices.
the role i'm playing is to educate as to the glossed over part of our colonial history, among others.
TAGA-ILOG News
ReplyDeletemany historians and even journalists do refer to the fil.am war as the 1st vietnam, remigio.
the north americans, the leaders at least, were simply too wickedly imperialistic such that they'll do anything to achieve their aims.
the filipinos... put up such fierce resistance and they responded with torture and genocide (in the beginning they were taking prisoners and at one point, simply stopped, did away with prisoners, which meant they simply killed all of our forefathers/foremothers who fought for our sovereignty.