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Army Joel C.

Mariano
BSEE 3-A

RIZAL`S VIEW MORGA`S VIEW


 Rizal argued that it was better that way why Morga was critical of the system of the
should the communities be beholden to one government, which he said barely existed
ruler who didn’t even live among them and because there were no powerful figured that
was not familiar with their needs and ruled over myriad communities, most of them
problems. coastal, each with its own set of leaders.

 Rizal emphasized that native women, unlike Morga was fascinated with the social organization
their European counterparts, never lost their of the natives, he describes origins, differences,
noble titles. It was the groom who gave dowry privilege of social classes, upward and
to the parents because they going to lost their downward mobility, inheritance of possession
precious daughter. and titles.

 Christianity was a weapon for facilitating the  By the Christian religion, Dr. Morga appears to
political and economic subjugation of the mean the Roman Catholic which by fire and
native. sword he would preserve in its purity in the
Philippines. Nevertheless in other lands, notably
 Rizal noticed all Morga’s mistakes. Morga in Flanders, these means were ineffective to
misspelled many native names of places, keep the church unchanged, or to maintain its
flora and fauna, and other social classes supremacy, or even to hold its subjects.
which Rizal corrected.
 In Morga’s time, the Philippines exported silk
 Rizal clarified that Morga must have to japan whence now comes the best quality
meant sinamay. Which was woven of that merchandise.
from abaca thread that comes from the
banana trunks not from the leaves.
 Morga said that cotton was grown
extensively in practically all the islands
 Rizal clarified that the fish Morga mentioned
which the natives sold as thread and woven
cant be good until it begins to rot. Bagoong fabrics to Chinese and other foreign
and those who have eaten it and tasted it merchants.
know that neither is nor should be rotten.

 Morga stated that their daily fare is


composed of lice crush in wooden pillars
and when cooked is called morisqueta ( this
is the staple throughout the land ), cooked
fish which they have in the vase, pork,
venieon, mountain buffaloes which they
called carabaos, beef and fish which they
know is best when it has started to rot and
stink.

Compare and contrast Rizal and Morga's views on Filipino culture.

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