Comparison Between Morga and Rizal’s View
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- "Comparison Between Morga and Rizal’s View"-Jhea C. Villanueva-
- Their daily fare consists of: lice crushed in wooden pillars and cooked as morisqueta (this is the staple throughout the land); cooked fish in a bunm of pork, venieon, mountain buffaloes, which they call carabaos; beef, and fish, which they know is best when it has begun to mt and stink.
- This fish that Morga mentions, that cannot be good until it begins to rot, is bagoong [salted and fermented fish or shrimp paste used as a sauce in Filipino cuisine], and those who have eaten it and tasted it know that it neither is nor should be rotten.
- By the Christian religion, Dr. Morga appears to mean the Roman Catholic, which by fire and sword he would preserve in its purity in the Philippines. Nevertheless, in other lands, notably in Flanders, these means were ineffective in keeping the church unchanged, or in maintaining its supremacy, or even in holding its subjects.
- Christianity was used to facilitate the natives' political and economic subjugation.
- Morga’s remark that the Filipinos like fish better when it is beginning to turn bad is another of those prejudices that Spaniards, like all other nations, have.
- Rizal noticed all of Morga’s mistakes. Morga misspelled many native names of places, flora and fauna, and other social classes, which Rizal corrected.
- Morga said that cotton was grown extensively in practically all the islands, which the natives sold as thread and woven fabrics to Chinese and other foreign merchants.
- Rizal clarified that Morga must have meant sinamay. which was woven from abaca thread that comes from the banana trunks, not from the leaves.
- The Philippines is less of what it was before colonization.
- The natives have their own perfect geography, organized society, strong faith, and stable economy. The Philippines, therefore, could be successful even without the intervention of the Spaniards.
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