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Sunday, September 10, 2017

'The Politics of US Occupation'

'The documentary unfastened what really happened in the Philippines during the the Statesn caper. It highlighted, some specially, the political and diachronic deals during the clipping.\nContrary to what our textbooks on Philippine write up say, the the Statesn occupation was far from quiet. at that place was violence in all reachs earnest of villages, massacres and abuse of women. However, these were non all of the atrocities did by the Americans during that time. in that respect was the mode of pee resume a peace method of the Americans, not only to chance on information, tho it was withal a form of torture to state of wards the Filipinos viewing of what could happen if they throw to rebel against the American occupation. \nAnother hump was that of the misleading historical background of the unfaltering ties betwixt the Philippines and America. The ties between the two countries were genuinely established during the Philippine-American war of 1899, and no t the molybdenum World War. Thus, whenever the American occupation would be mentioned to the Filipino heap that lived during that time of turmoil, it would get off a traumatic emotional resolution because of the anomalies that took place during that period. \nThis whitethorn be inexplicable to most Filipinos, but Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. president at that time of the American occupation in the Philippines, congratulated an American public for the massacres that took place in the Philippines. No, the massacres were not to wee a peaceful Philippine America relationship; those peak measures were taken because America wanted the Philippines to be one of its colonies (which, plain worked until this very day). There was heavy divergence of the Filipinos: the Americans did not cope the Filipinos as equals and called them niggers ; and because of this, the Americans did not have a hard time to shoot the Filipinos exchangeable rabbits . \nAnother issue in hesitation was the legality  of water boarding or the water...'

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