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Inang Bayan. Imagining FIlipinas. Mis -education of the FIlipino. US ideology and occupation has erased history of Philippine nationalism Story of “benevolent assimilation” no Philippine nation with US intervention Constantino’s solution = nationalist education
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InangBayan Imagining FIlipinas
Mis-education of the FIlipino • US ideology and occupation has erased history of Philippine nationalism • Story of “benevolent assimilation” no Philippine nation with US intervention • Constantino’s solution = nationalist education • Nationalism – strong feeling of belonging to the nation • Nation – “an imagined political community” • National culture shapes the nation it supposedly describes (tropic power) • Pro of nationalism decolonizing resistance • Pitfall of nationalism re-instituting hierarchy
Ilustrado nationalism • 1887 – Jose Rizal publishes Noli me Tangere • 1891 – Rizal publishes El Filibusterismo • 1892 – Rizal helps establish La Liga Filipina • 1896 – Rizal executed for sedition and treason • 1896 – Andres Bonifacio establishes Katipunan • 1897 – Bonifacio executed by Emilio Aguinaldo • June 1898 – Aguinaldo declares independence • Dec 1898 – Treaty of Paris signed “ilustrado” – Spanish for “enlightened one”