CULTURAL HERITAGE | The Making of Filipino Identity and Heritage — Transcript
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- 0:00as defined by law cultural heritage
- 0:03refers to the totality of cultural
- 0:05property preserved and developed through
- 0:07time and passed on to posterity cultural
- 0:10property refers to all products of human
- 0:12creativity by which a people and a
- 0:14nation reveal their identity
- 0:16these include churches mosques and other
- 0:19places of worship schools and Natural
- 0:22History specimens and sites whether
- 0:24public or privately owned movable or
- 0:26immovable and tangible or intangible in
- 0:29this series of lectures esteemed
- 0:31educators from our national university
- 0:33land pertinent discussions thus open
- 0:35academic discourses on Philippine
- 0:37cultural heritage relating to their
- 0:39respective fields of discipline and
- 0:41expertise this can and may be used as
- 0:43resource materials for further learning
- 0:45and study
- 0:53[Music]
- 1:11[Music]
- 1:46public intellectual arnold Ezrin Orlick
- 1:49idomeni explains to us the making of
- 1:51filipino identity and heritage through
- 1:53conversion inversion and subversion he
- 1:56points out through historical events how
- 1:58Lucas accepted colonial culture and
- 2:00customized it becoming their own to
- 2:02eventually be used in opposing this
- 2:04foreign imposition
- 2:09I was just recalling the times of Jehu
- 2:16and Gabriela Salaam when they tried to
- 2:19take over the capital of locals in vegan
- 2:26but unfortunately even gay go realized
- 2:32that his followers were more Catholic
- 2:37than rebellious so that when his own
- 2:41friend was convinced by the bishop to
- 2:46just kill his friend Jo it was an easy
- 2:50matter to undertake such assassination
- 2:55and even the followers of Salaam were
- 2:58not very keen in coming to his let's say
- 3:05so-called and so when when Gabriela
- 3:12tried to make a comeback in order to
- 3:16cease the government range in vegan she
- 3:23also didn't succeed in her effort and we
- 3:29can say is that at that point in time it
- 3:32began was the bastion of colonization
- 3:36and not only a bastion of political
- 3:42control but also a religious centre
- 3:50because it was the capital of the
- 3:54Diocese of nueva Segovia so
- 3:59we can say here is that the cultural
- 4:05conversion of the ilocanos at that point
- 4:10was more a persuasive part of the
- 4:18lifestyle but it becomes a different
- 4:22matter
- 4:22when in in 20 rudder in 1807 when the
- 4:33Ilocanos started to wage another
- 4:37rebellion which is unfortunately cold
- 4:41baths durable more popular when actually
- 4:46it should be called the AL cement oh oh
- 4:49embarrassed Oh al cement adjust the
- 4:53uprising because that is what the
- 4:56scholars at the time and the Friars
- 4:59folded besides there is no semantics in
- 5:04the english ind spanish language called
- 5:07possible that is an Americanism and it
- 5:14was even noticed by the art historian
- 5:17art critic patrick flores that maybe the
- 5:21past year appalled name is misnomer and
- 5:25she said that because it the way it
- 5:33labeled the struggle the bloody struggle
- 5:37was that it would seem that the the sole
- 5:45purpose of waging is to have more bassy
- 5:50in the glasses and
- 5:54which was not the case in fact it was
- 6:00the possible the label is very
- 6:03unfortunate because it didn't give much
- 6:07value to the struggle for freedom but
- 6:13then it was not only the textbook voters
- 6:18but also the veteran story ins who were
- 6:23disputed by the term Becerra world for
- 6:28instance even Renato Constantino a an
- 6:32pre-eminent historian one time wrote in
- 6:38his column in bulletin today that this
- 6:44this disparagingly he said the local
- 6:49news sometimes waging rebellions only
- 6:53because they want to drink more bassy
- 6:57contrary to the legitimacy of the label
- 7:03possible as causing the anger of the
- 7:10people to become an uproar yes because
- 7:15they are disgusted with the lack of basi
- 7:18to drink for their self-indulgence let
- 7:24me go to the observation of the
- 7:29Augustinian provincial at the time
- 7:34he he said that the course of the
- 7:40insurrection of 1807 which we should now
- 7:44call as it was properly called by
- 7:47historian is about the news arranges
- 7:50that it should be called al cement or
- 7:55the amperage to the uprising of memory
- 7:57stone the leader the causes of which was
- 8:04traced by the equestrian provincial
- 8:07disguise the Ilocano injures at the time
- 8:11have become a Steven as those of other
- 8:15provinces they still cows horses and
- 8:22carabaos from their fellow induce and
- 8:25those engaged in these businesses are
- 8:29ready to do bad things
- 8:31it must not surprise it national it is
- 8:35not surprising that many of these are
- 8:38deserters who started the rebellion in
- 8:42the mountains of fatigue others join
- 8:46them after the fire broke out some
- 8:50Spaniards were deserting their ranks
- 8:54their role as protectors of bigan and so
- 9:00this lack of basi cannot be considered
- 9:04as the reason for the rebellion and it
- 9:11should also be considered that other
- 9:17but servers like this with father
- 9:20Vicente Aleman wrote in 1768 that is
- 9:26long before the break out of the
- 9:31alimentar he said the Jesuit elements
- 9:36yes with other elements said a third of
- 9:41the infantry in vegan and Ilocos was
- 9:45made up of poor exiled from Mexico
- 9:48the master de Campo was some official
- 9:52who could not go beyond Alvarez lowly
- 9:55official in the army
- 9:57generally those who went to the
- 10:00Philippines at the time were the ones
- 10:02who were too lazy in America called pure
- 10:06asanas and had originally fled from
- 10:11Spain they were criminals they were
- 10:14exiled Creoles called
- 10:17what cinemas in the Philippines that is
- 10:21from father Jesuit Father
- 10:24alamin so what we are saying here is
- 10:26that unlike the
- 10:28ilocanos and their leaders or the under
- 10:32Kylie Ana's in the time of Jerusalem's
- 10:36rebellion this does in Kansas then
- 10:40should we should we should tend to be
- 10:44more religious and more believing in the
- 10:48power of the bishop and the priests but
- 10:52this time the the people in northern
- 10:56zone even the Spaniards included were
- 11:02described this way I can assure you
- 11:06wrote father le monde that of all the
- 11:09Spaniards I met in Manila there were
- 11:13only two or three who had gone
- 11:15legitimately that is almost all were
- 11:18fugitives for having been appointed by
- 11:22the court all the rest were police
- 11:25honest
- 11:26deserters and Creoles from there that
- 11:30are called
- 11:31Watty Ramos it would be the greatest
- 11:34human comedy in the world if every
- 11:37resident of Manila were to play his own
- 11:40role because then we would see backs
- 11:43scarred with witnesses and other marks
- 11:47hardened soldiers and non priests
- 11:50celebrating Mass and hearing confessions
- 11:53over punished in Mexico by the tribunal
- 11:58of the Inquisition some found themselves
- 12:01coming weeks
- 12:03others scratching beards and still
- 12:06others clutching felons or whipping them
- 12:09all of these and more you will see in
- 12:13the Philippines so the point is that at
- 12:17the time that the alsa be entered
- 12:19embarrassed or broke out the most of the
- 12:28people that were involved in anarchic
- 12:34and artistic activities and according to
- 12:40some historians the there were more
- 12:44people in valleys in the hinterlands
- 12:48that were seeking shelter from from
- 12:54create such extensive criminality so the
- 12:58we could now see that the people at the
- 13:03time were less religious and their
- 13:07desire to fight
- 13:11monopolies in tobacco in wine in all the
- 13:18rest of the products that were consumed
- 13:21by the people in order to raise taxes
- 13:24for the government the people were just
- 13:29not in they were not anymore the
- 13:40religious plaque that they were in the
- 13:45time of Jerusalem in fact isabel de los
- 13:52reyes began you even wrote here in his
- 13:58book in 1807 then people were not
- 14:04predisposed to anything good and in the
- 14:07month of July some recruits fled began
- 14:11and talked refuge in the mountains of PD
- 14:14what they were joined by many
- 14:17discontented people they tried to get
- 14:21the people of sera to rebel when they
- 14:24failed however they returned to the
- 14:27mountains taking with them the drums
- 14:30that were in the van tiles
- 14:33what's towers of
- 14:37so I would having him emphasize that the
- 14:44name
- 14:47basura ball is very much a misnomer as
- 14:52also asserted by the art story and
- 14:57Patrick Flores then we might as well
- 15:03make use of the real name used by the
- 15:08story ins at that time which was used
- 15:13the AL semion today embarrassed Oh even
- 15:17up to the American period up to 1931
- 15:22when when a Ventura Bell you another
- 15:26became new historian that tried to make
- 15:31a recollection of the whole event this
- 15:38al cemento was very important the way I
- 15:44look at it in in the sense that it was
- 15:47the first time that finally the rebels
- 15:51in northern Luzon made use of the term
- 15:58Filipino not as referring to the
- 16:05traditional meaning of Phillip of
- 16:10Spaniards born in the his last Filipinas
- 16:14that used to be the regular meaning but
- 16:18remember that I was showing that the
- 16:21Spaniards themselves were so much
- 16:23engaged in mudslinging by name-calling
- 16:27because at that time
- 16:31Spain and Mexico were also collapsing as
- 16:36centers of the Empire overlooking or
- 16:40controlling the Islas Filipinas so what
- 16:45what happened was that the term Filipino
- 16:49became marginalized in the means of the
- 16:53name-calling question am most police
- 16:56honest and whatever bad name they can
- 17:02the Spaniard can call each other so that
- 17:06the rebels in the Al cemento finally
- 17:16grabbed the term Filipino and use it on
- 17:21themselves as they're known the girl as
- 17:24the Bandung name to them put themselves
- 17:31and so this was shown by the by this
- 17:34story ins at the time when they said
- 17:37that the constant battle cry of the
- 17:44rebels at the time while they were
- 17:46approaching the bastion of bigan the
- 17:53colonial bastion their battle cry was a
- 17:57pansy filipino where españoles so it was
- 18:04a surprising turn of events and some
- 18:08[Music]
- 18:10turn around in semantics because that
- 18:13term Filipinos were reserved at before
- 18:19that the rebellion to the Spaniards born
- 18:22in the Philippines but now this time the
- 18:26rebellion grab the product of conversion
- 18:30of the term Filipino and then made it
- 18:34into
- 18:35they're inverted meaning by calling
- 18:38themselves the real Filipinos now how
- 18:44how how sure are we that the inversion
- 18:52of the meaning of Filipino referring to
- 18:55the Spaniards born in the Philippines to
- 18:58refer instead to the rebels it's very
- 19:04clear in two books written by historians
- 19:08we let me the the two books reevaluating
- 19:15the events and documents of that
- 19:18volatile epoch suffice to supplant the
- 19:22devious propaganda of the colonial
- 19:24rulers and priors that it was merely a
- 19:29change of semantics but not change of
- 19:36real a deeper meaning the the books that
- 19:44are relevant for this deeper change of
- 19:50meaning of Filipino from the Spaniard to
- 19:54the rebels are the books the events of
- 20:001872 national glories by manuel artiguez
- 20:05Yerba and another book father to save
- 20:09Burgos a documentary history by John
- 20:14schumacher together they depend the
- 20:21traditional claim hope I will see you
- 20:28that according to him there was no
- 20:32national history prior to 1872 because
- 20:38there are no Filipinos then all the
- 20:42Filipinos were not actually the
- 20:45inhabitants fighting for the freedom
- 20:49that is the claim of the idea that
- 20:52before 1872 said conciliar there were
- 21:00there was no national history prior to
- 21:05872 because the histories then were
- 21:10written by the Friars about their own
- 21:13activities but what I am now trying to
- 21:17assert here is that the national
- 21:21identity and history was already born in
- 21:26the 1807 revolt and that was the
- 21:34birthing of the new meaning of Filipino
- 21:39to refer only to the Filipinos born to
- 21:47anybody born in the Islas Filipinas
- 21:51so what I am saying to be to be clear
- 21:54what I am saying is that while Filipinos
- 21:58used to the Filipinos as a term used to
- 22:02refer to the name of the king of Spain
- 22:06this time
- 22:08fighters in the cement oh of an Aristo
- 22:13they are now referring the term
- 22:16filipinos only to anyone born in its
- 22:20last Filipinas there is no more
- 22:23referencing to let's say the king the
- 22:26name of the king of Spain okay and how
- 22:32did it how did it follow through that
- 22:39the term Filipino finally became our own
- 22:43identity today now what happened was
- 22:47that when the term Filipino was first
- 22:53uses the battlecry to identify the
- 22:56rebels themselves as the real Filipinos
- 22:59while the spanoulis have been identified
- 23:03by them to be the enemy to be removed
- 23:10from office at that time although there
- 23:16was a lot of bloodshed that led to the
- 23:19defeat of the servant of the rebels
- 23:25there that was already the infancy Oh
- 23:32would be rebel priests Padre who say
- 23:36bogus'
- 23:37who was also from the door exactly from
- 23:40vegan and at that time he must have been
- 23:45absorbing his consciousness many of the
- 23:49legends and as well as the Pope memories
- 23:54of that also
- 23:56today embarrassed oh so that when he was
- 23:59starting to debate argue with with the
- 24:05Friars about the necessity of advancing
- 24:10the rights of the secular priests into
- 24:16having more cathedrals more churches for
- 24:23the secular priests the rebellious
- 24:30father but revolvers started calling
- 24:34himself Filipino Indiana so now we have
- 24:42a new semantics for the self
- 24:47identification self identification of
- 24:51the revolvers and company by calling
- 24:57himself in Filipino Indiana meaning
- 25:02native-born Filipino so that was very
- 25:06empathic and the next shift to deepening
- 25:14the meaning of Filipino to go deep into
- 25:22the consciousness of people at the time
- 25:25was when Jose Rizal they were very much
- 25:31influenced by but revolvers wrote a poem
- 25:36la Juventud Filipino Filipina meaning to
- 25:42the young Filipino to the youth of the
- 25:46Philippines
- 25:47he said you have no other motherland but
- 25:55Pilipinas so we have bad river goes
- 25:59influencing result in redefining
- 26:04filipino and in fact this cannot be
- 26:09doubted the influence of but the more
- 26:12goes to result because it was result in
- 26:14Cebu said that if not for 1872 meaning
- 26:19the martyrdom of Burgos Romans and
- 26:22Zamora if not for 1872 I might have not
- 26:27written my novels whistle said I might
- 26:31have become instead this way so that
- 26:36that is an assertion of that I borrow so
- 26:41much from Padre bull goes who was the
- 26:46first to make documentary fact that the
- 26:51Filipino is Indiana and that refers to
- 26:55the freedom fighting but lots of
- 27:01inhabitants and then what is the next
- 27:08shift of the term Filipino was when the
- 27:18the rebels themselves in at the end of
- 27:23the eighteen hundred's
- 27:24meaning the Katipunan led rebellion he
- 27:28started calling themselves in there are
- 27:32us let's say la Filipina la revolution
- 27:37Filipina that was the open area mabini
- 27:40so when they when these freedom fighters
- 27:48went to Malolos in order to make the
- 27:56constitution they also called the the
- 28:00end-product the Malolos Constitution but
- 28:07Republica Filipina so Filipina has
- 28:12definitely been grabbed and it's the
- 28:17process of inversion that I was
- 28:18referring to the term Filipina has now
- 28:22been grabbed by the freedom fighters
- 28:25that that it has no longer any value to
- 28:30the to the ruling class especially to
- 28:35the Spaniards so but it's not only even
- 28:41in this field of less political identity
- 28:45following the Republic la república de
- 28:50filipinas
- 28:51they also called the the branch of the
- 28:54church equip e'en into iglesia Filipina
- 29:00Independiente okay so everything has
- 29:04been Filipina filipino since the time
- 29:09that it was first expressed as a battle
- 29:13cry in the also bientôt
- 29:17the amber is too way back in 1807 so we
- 29:22now we know that there has already been
- 29:25a separation hope the semantics of
- 29:31Filipino Filipina from the name of the
- 29:36king of Spain so when in some of my
- 29:40lectures outside around Asia I usually
- 29:45was asked by by some corners the
- 29:50question how come you are the only
- 29:53country that allows itself to be called
- 29:57by the name of the king and so I take
- 30:01the chance to explain
- 30:02what I'm saying now that though the term
- 30:06Filipino has been uprooted from its
- 30:11former meaning as referring to the king
- 30:15of Spain it is it has been implanted
- 30:21rooted there and then implanted to beam
- 30:25the Islas Filipinas
- 30:29that the motherland is called Filipinas
- 30:34and then it it is already liberated by
- 30:39the revolutionary process that our
- 30:44freedom fighters went through starting
- 30:48from the is a group starting from the a
- 30:54zambian to the embarrassed oh this is
- 30:58Arnold Molina Nasreen sung s : na na - -
- 31:05and taua in nomine Kazama professor
- 31:10named bian at her dominate Papa - Lisa -
- 31:16Louie Louie Baba who active mama inside
- 31:20starting Casa Sian are heretics
- 31:24maraming salamat
- 31:33you
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