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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

The Politics of US Occupation

The documentary undefendable what re wholey noticeed in the Filipinos during the the Statesn business. It highlighted, most specially, the political and diachronic go aways during the term.\nContrary to what our textbooks on Philippine history say, the American occupation was far from peaceful. There was vehemence in all random variables desirous of villages, massacres and abuse of women. However, these were non all of the atrocities did by the Americans during that time. There was the order of water cure a counterinsurgency method of the Americans, not only to gain information, tho it was also a form of torture to fightds the Filipinos showing of what could happen if they plan to rebel against the American occupation. \nAnother issue was that of the direct historical background of the fast ties between the Philippines and America. The ties between the 2 countries were actually established during the Philippine-American war of 1899, and not the Second domain War. Thus , whenever the American occupation would be mentioned to the Filipino people that lived during that time of turmoil, it would trigger a traumatic emotional response because of the anomalies that took emplacement during that period. \nThis may be unidentified to most Filipinos, but Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. chairperson at that time of the American occupation in the Philippines, congratulated an American general for the massacres that took place in the Philippines. No, the massacres were not to create a peaceful Philippine America relationship; those extreme measures were taken because America wanted the Philippines to be one of its colonies (which, obviously worked until this precise day). There was heavy secretion of the Filipinos: the Americans did not consider the Filipinos as equals and called them niggers ; and because of this, the Americans did not have a hard time to tally the Filipinos like rabbits . \nAnother issue in question was the legality  of water boa rding or the water...

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