Thursday, August 27, 2009

The Indolence of the Filipinos

The word indolence have been understood as the little love for work and lack of energy. However in our country, this is ones and another's faults, the short coming of ones and the misdeeds of anothers. The foremost hero has wriiten his most sociological and compelling essay for the reason behind that he had seen how troubles and turmoils brought such illness towards his countrymen. Admitting the truth that indolence does exist among the people. This courageous writing was originally written in Spanish that was published in La Solidaridad.

The essay written were divided into different perspective. Forming comparisons beyond the contrasts. Rizal had pointed out what were the sources and the causes of such detriment. He had said that illness will worsen if the wrong treatment is given. The same applies to indolence. He encourages the Filipinos to continue in figthing against it, despite the fact that the reasons of economic and cultural decadence were present. The Spaniards thought the Filipinos to be inferior resulted to lackness of national sentiments. For him, Filipinos are not to be blame to their misfortunes as they are not their own masters. The colonizers who spared influences among us had caused the deterioration of our very own values.

Indeed, the problem was brought about by the corrupt masters. Not by us. Not from our heritage, never from our pre-hispanic ancestors. Because the Philippines' indolence is a clear chronic malady not heriditary.

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