Philippine History

Imperialism is a thing of the past where strong empires use acquisition of different territories and exploit the resources of these countries. Some of the famous empires in the past were the Spanish empire, British empire, american empire, Japanese empire and a lot more. These empires colonized different countries around the world and use the riches they get to expand. Although the goal of imperialism is to acquire territories, the acquiring part never really lasted because of so much empires there are.

Like any other countries, Philippines had been colonized by so many different colonizers in the past. Each of these colonizers, before they left, had legacies that until now remains in our culture as part of our history. History of something is really significant for me because then you would know why they came to be. The first ever colonizer of the Philippines are the Spanish. it was them who taught our elders the language of espanyol. We can also see through the faces of our ancestors that somehow they have a touch of spanish in them. After the spaniards, the country was then colonized by the american. During the american occupation there were actually good things that they brought in the country. They gave us good quality education. They taught us the english language. They introduced catholicism to the filipinos that made us the widest catholic region in the world. They left with us the "western" type of living that until now we have it in us. After the Americans, there were the Japanese. They introduced different types of food like the noodles, siopao, hopia and lots of more. Though there are downsides during their occupation, atleast one way or another they taught us important things such as values and others. During our discussion in class of the countries history that i only realized how important and significant our countries history is. Not only our country but also to our ancestors who were present during the occupation of different empires. It was because of these colonizers that the filipino people learned how to fight back for their country and independence.

Also one very interesting part of the discussion was the one during the Marcos regime. Ever since i knew and heard of Marcos, i had always been intrigued by him. i have heard so much about him and how he was as a leader. There has always been questions on how was Marcos as a leader for our country and what really went wrong during his administration.

We filipinos are maybe one of the most western-embracing nation. For so many years that we have been living our lives within the context of the western. Our style of clothes, words, and even mentality slowly has become very american. it is not bad to embrace the western way of living because its inevitable. My point is that it's about time that we filipinos live the filipino way but still open to changes but not entirely. i'm just afraid that someday the filipino way would be replaced by the western way.