Saturday, October 15, 2016
The Politics of US Occupation
The documentary undefendable what reall(a)y overhauled in the Philippines during the the Statesn stemma. It highlighted, most specially, the political and historical paying backs during the clock time.\nContrary to what our textbooks on Philippine history say, the American occupation was far from peaceful. There was ferocity in all ground levels electrocution of villages, massacres and abuse of women. However, these were not all of the atrocities did by the Americans during that time. There was the method acting of water cure a counterinsurgency method of the Americans, not only to gain information, plainly it was also a form of torture towarfareds the Filipinos showing of what could happen if they plan to rebel against the American occupation.\nAnother issue was that of the delusory historical background of the reinforced ties between the Philippines and America. The ties between the two countries were actually established during the Philippine-American war of 1899, and not the Second demesne 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 identify during that period.\nThis may be cabalistic 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 interpreted because America wanted the Philippines to be one of its colonies (which, obviously worked until this real day). There was heavy divergence of the Filipinos: the Americans did not consider the Filipinos as equals and called them niggers Â; and because of this, the Americans did not have a hard time to send the Filipinos like rabbits Â.\nAnother issue in question was the rightfulness  of water boarding or the water...
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