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Let us start the decolonization process of Philippines history. Please visit (pinoy-culture.tumblr) maintained by the amazing There are more than 1500 years worth of Philippines history Kingdoms waiting to be discovered. The ASEAN are more than happy to help the Philippines in this struggle. (^o^)/

=> "Civilizing Missions" of the Spain

The historical vision of Spain in the Philippines was thus bipartite, with the barbarian and pagan condition of the Indios in the prehispanic past its first epoch and, as its second and continuing one, the advent of Spain and the spread of its civilizing influences in terms of polity and religion. The image that one often gets from the chronicles to illustrate this historical view is that of transition from darkness to light, from infancy to progressive maturity. Such an historical ideology was naturally satisfying to the Spaniards and to hispanized Indios who had been fully detached from their cultural matrix. But, with rapid acculturation in the nineteenth century, the increase in the number of hispanized Indios and mestizos resulted in a consciousness dilemma among them. There are reasons enough for this. In the first place, the intensified conversion of the Filipino elite to Western cultural norms did not necessarily identify them with the true Westerners, the really "civilized ones," for they still felt themselves to be of the native earth. Their early upbringing gave this sentiment some real basis, which their guilt complex vis-à-vis the culture of their forbears rendered all the more intensive and
fundamental. In the second place, their increasing number excluded their easy acceptance into the "civilizing" Spanish elite, not only because of the socio-economic and political conditions of colonial rule but, perhaps more importantly, because of the weight of the elite mentality that derived from the bipartite historical ideology. Indeed, what would happen if the Filipinos ceased to be the object of
Spanish historical molding? Clearly, they would then acquire an historical will of their own, constituting themselves into a different historical unit which possessed its own model of action in the world (a destiny, in fact), an explanation for such an independent historical activity. Finally, still feeling themselves natives while subconsciously wanting to be (and sometimes being) Spaniards, the
hispanized youth of the second half of the nineteenth century where the ones who could really react to the racial and cultural calumny behind the bipartite view of Philippine history: the Indio's basically barbarian nature (even when dressed as a Spaniard and speaking Spanish), his incapacity for intellectual and artistic pursuits, his ingratitude to the Spanish "motherland" and the Mother Church, etc. The majority of Filipinos in the rural areas knew no Spanish and met no Spaniard save the priest to understand or care about all that insult to their ethnic honor. The vision of Philippine history as Spanish action in the Philippines could therefore be felt only by the educated Indio or mestizo. And he could not accept it, if only because he knew his own worth but, in practice, felt its denial as a racial slur on his own person -- and that in the midst of what he quite clearly saw and experienced as tyranny over his own people. A counter-vision had thus to be conjured, a new and native interpretation of history formulated.

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=> WHAT DECOLONIZATION MEANS.

Because there are people that think it it has to do with discarding every one of our cultural influences when we were colonized completely, in favor of our indigenous and pre-colonial roots. Yaaaa ok, that is not what our decolonization process means at all like what we are doing is erasing that part of our history like it never existed. We were colonized. It happened. We got some cultural influences from said colonizer. Those cultural influences are a part of our cultures now no doubt about it.

What our decolonization means simply is that we are getting rid of colonial mentality, such as the mentality of foreign western and white features = beauty than our indigenous selves. White skin, blue eyes, and pointer noses = beauty and what everyone should strive to be than ones natural features of being a person of color, having dark brown to black eyes, dark hair, and more flatter noses.

It means embracing our indigenous and pre-colonial cultures that were oppressed and reclaiming them while also acknowleding our cultural influences we got from our colonizers and learning how to embrace both, not simply embracing one over the other.

It’s about learning your languages that you didn’t get to learn because you were forced to forgrt or not learn because of parents not teaching it to you so you can fit in with Western soceity. It’s about learning your history to those who don’t know, both pre-colonial and colonial. It’s about the acceptance that yes you were colonized but you are reclaiming your heritage and getting rid of all those negative and harmful colonial mentalities that make the colonizer the hero, the standard of beauty, and that makes it like you should be ashamed of yourself and people, your cultures, your physical features, that you and your people are “ugly”, or “barbaric” compared to ones colonizers.

That is what our decolonization is, as well as a few other points that I most likely missed. Source:akoaykayumanggi.tumblr.com/pos… akoaykayumanggi.tumblr.com/tag…

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