The Philippines a Century Hence [excerpts] Then began a new era for the Filipinos; little by little they lost their old traditions, their mementos of their past; they gave up their writing, their songs, their poems, their past; their laws in order to learn by rote other doctrines which they did not understand another morality, another aesthetics different from those inspired by their climate and their manner of thinking. Then they declined, degrading themselves in their own eyes; they became ashamed of what was their own; they began to admire and praise whatever was foreign and incomprehensible... ~ Jose Rizal
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 08:08:08 +0000