![]() Pedro Paterno wished to be named duke or grandee of Spain. del Pilar called his newspaper Diariong Tagalog and concluded his satirical tirades against the Spaniards “Long Live Spain!” Their hearts might have been in the right place, but their visions didn’t transcend the colonial horizon. To the very end all the Spaniards, regardless of origin, called the natives by the derogatory name they had always used-indios. ![]() The Spaniards who were born in the Philippines, who were snubbed by Spaniards from Spain, called themselves “Filipinos,” but only to assert an equal superiority. While the Tagalogs, Visayans, Pampangos and Bicolanos were beginning to call the archipelago “Philippines” and its inhabitants “Filipinos,” both terms were associated merely with geography, never for natural affections for the land or the people. Even the Muslims of Mindanao, the most unbending of the islanders, launched the Moro wars not as a nationalist campaign but as a jihad against infidels.Įven at a later time, when the winds of European Enlightenment wafted over the archipelago and created the ilustrado, the educated class, no one called himself Filipino in the sense that the word is regarded today. ![]()
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