RIZAL
Ma. Margarita C. Mauel
BSBAE – 4A
Rizal Without the Overcoat by Ambeth R. Ocampo
“Jose Rizal’s greatest misfortune was being acknowledged as National Hero of the Philippines”
Was Jose Rizal an American sponsored hero?
- The Americans over emphasized Rizal and has pushed other heroes inobscurity as second class heroes.
- The KKK password was Rizal
- Andres Bonifacio offered KKK honorary presidency to Rizal and attempted to rescue him in Dapitan
- Rizal was already considered a hero even before the Americans.
- The Americans built on the prevailing sentiment of the people
Jose Rizal’s Trip to America/ Rizal’s Anti Americanism
- He described Niagara Falls as “not as pretty or mysteriously beautiful” as the waterfalls in Los Banos
- Impressed with New York where “everything was new”
- “Undoubtedly, America is a great country, but it still has many defects. No civil liberty”
- Rizal was no ordinary Asian traveller, “the only Asian traveller who travelled first class”
- “had he been subject to more discrimination, his impressions of America would have been worse”
- Rizal loves America but not its people
- Americans were robots hurled to discredit Europe
- Though Rizal hated Spaniards he was compelled to defend Europe and Spain against Americans Recto’s Rizal Bill
- Recto fought “tooth and nail” to have the Rizal bill passed into law in 1956
- The Catholic hierarchy found 170 passages in El Fili and 50 in Noli offensive to the catholic faith
- Catholic schools threatened to close if the Recto bill was passed
- Church officials threatened to “punish” legislators
- There was apropos to use “expurgated” novels as textbooks, with the “un-expurgated” copies to be kept under lock and key. Recto threw this out
- “This is not a fight against Recto but a fight against Rizal...now that Rizal is dead and they can no longer attempt at his life, they are attempting to blot out his memory”.
Why Rizal is the National Hero
- Thru Rizal’s Letters, diaries
BSBAE – 4A
Rizal Without the Overcoat by Ambeth R. Ocampo
“Jose Rizal’s greatest misfortune was being acknowledged as National Hero of the Philippines”
Was Jose Rizal an American sponsored hero?
- The Americans over emphasized Rizal and has pushed other heroes inobscurity as second class heroes.
- The KKK password was Rizal
- Andres Bonifacio offered KKK honorary presidency to Rizal and attempted to rescue him in Dapitan
- Rizal was already considered a hero even before the Americans.
- The Americans built on the prevailing sentiment of the people
Jose Rizal’s Trip to America/ Rizal’s Anti Americanism
- He described Niagara Falls as “not as pretty or mysteriously beautiful” as the waterfalls in Los Banos
- Impressed with New York where “everything was new”
- “Undoubtedly, America is a great country, but it still has many defects. No civil liberty”
- Rizal was no ordinary Asian traveller, “the only Asian traveller who travelled first class”
- “had he been subject to more discrimination, his impressions of America would have been worse”
- Rizal loves America but not its people
- Americans were robots hurled to discredit Europe
- Though Rizal hated Spaniards he was compelled to defend Europe and Spain against Americans Recto’s Rizal Bill
- Recto fought “tooth and nail” to have the Rizal bill passed into law in 1956
- The Catholic hierarchy found 170 passages in El Fili and 50 in Noli offensive to the catholic faith
- Catholic schools threatened to close if the Recto bill was passed
- Church officials threatened to “punish” legislators
- There was apropos to use “expurgated” novels as textbooks, with the “un-expurgated” copies to be kept under lock and key. Recto threw this out
- “This is not a fight against Recto but a fight against Rizal...now that Rizal is dead and they can no longer attempt at his life, they are attempting to blot out his memory”.
Why Rizal is the National Hero
- Thru Rizal’s Letters, diaries