The Colonization of the Philippines

Generally speaking, textbooks, articles and essays all talk about US 'occupation', 'supervision', or 'intervention' in the Philippines. They seem to be afraid to use the word "colonization". According to the Webster dictionary, colonization is "expansion of the colonial regime or the territory of the political government, a country puts other countries, territories or people under political control, keeps the colony dependent, Residents do not own it ". The same rights as the colonial country.

Prior to Spanish colonization (1565-1898), Sulu Island (southern Philippines) was a colony of Majapahit Empire (1293-1527) in Indonesia. Americans were the last to colonize the Philippines (1898-1946), and the nationalists claimed that despite its formal independence in 1946, it continued to be a new colony of the United States. The most obvious colonialism in the Philippines is the mixture of Philippines in the entertainment industry and the mass media (mainly a mixture of Philippine and Caucasian, but mixed with Filipino, Chinese, and other ethnic groups). Although it is a small part, it is widely published

Spain has dominated the Philippine archipelago for over three and a half centuries. During the Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines, Filipinos lived in suffering, exploitation, slavery, and suffering. Because of the fraud and misuse of Friars and Civil, the patience of the locals was exhausted, they tried to remove the desperately unbearable system, and then began to revolutionize the Spanish colonies. The Philippine Revolution (Philippine: Himagishika · Pilipino) began when Katipunan, a secret organization of anticlimitism led by Andres Bonifacio in August 1896, was established with the aim of becoming independent from Spain. In some cases it won the initial victory, but due to the death of Bonifacio, Emilio Aginaldo led his own revolutionary government.