tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18670508.post5025645858751975763..comments2023-04-01T13:46:34.229-07:00Comments on laparanoia: The Battle of MactanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18670508.post-69015733608920693932010-02-20T00:15:34.117-08:002010-02-20T00:15:34.117-08:00The psychological and emotional dissociation of po...The psychological and emotional dissociation of postmodern Filipinos from the Hispanic-Filipino world, the result in turn of the North Americans’ triumph over the First Republic and restructuring of Filipino societal life, culture and identity between 1901 and 1946 according to the paradigm of the United States. In the course of those 45 years, the Filipino people became dissociated (or “separated from association or union with the Hispanic past) through linguistic change, education, technological transformation and the spread of U.S. customs, mores and cultural forms through telecommunications. However, the radical shift from a religious, tradition-bound, classical European cultural landscape to an Anglo-Saxon model of secular, technical modernity was not the major factor of the dissociation – it was the disappearance of the Hispanic-Filipino generation that led the movement, first for assimilation and equality of rights under Spain, and second, the Revolution and the founding of the Republic. The flower of this generation of paradigmatic Filipinos was eliminated from the life and leadership of the new nation through death, exile, and – after the establishment of North American rule – through its survivors’ margination and replacement by non-nationalist ilustrados who became the Americans’ collaborators, in the purported continuation of the failed national project, this time under more benevolent, democratic guardians – the very same destroyers of that national project. <br />The historical and psychosomatic dissociation from the Hispanic-Filipino past that was brought about by American colonization is the most important issue that Filipino historiography must examine today.Rafael Minuesahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09217900663175164602noreply@blogger.com