Philippines A Century Hence (Filipinas Denteo De Cien Años)

1. A Century Hence
The Philippines
Prepared by: Aira B. Galura

2. • “The Philippines within One Hundred
Years”
or
“The Philippines A Century Hence”
￭ La Solidaridad of Madrid.
FILIPINAS DENTRO DE CIEN AÑOS

3. THE PHILIPPINES A CENTURY HENCE
Noli Me Tangere
El Filibusterismo

4. What would be the situation
of the Philippines within 100
years?

5. Would the Philippines remain a
colony of Spain?

6. Would it become independent?

7. Would it be a colony of another
country?

8. THE PHILIPPINES A CENTURY HENCE
This essay starts with an analysis of the
causes of the miseries of the people.
1) Spain’s implementation of military
policies
2) deterioration and disappearance of
Filipino indigenous culture
3) passivity and submissiveness

9. What then had made the people
realize their sad situation
under Spanish rule?

10. THE PHILIPPINES A CENTURY HENCE
Could Spain prevent the progress
of the Philippines? If Spain decide to
do so, what could they possibly do? :
1. Keep the people ignorant?
2. Keep the people in poverty?
3. Exterminate the Filipino race?

11. THE PHILIPPINES A CENTURY HENCE
Keeping the people ignorant failed.
Why?
Awakening of national consciousness
among the people united them. With
the spread of enlightenment, the
illustrado class arose.

12. THE PHILIPPINES A CENTURY HENCE
Recourse to impoverishment also failed.
Why?
Keeping the people in poverty created
in the Filipinos the desire to change
things.

13. THE PHILIPPINES A CENTURY HENCE
Extermination of the people as an
alternative to hindering progress was an
impossibility according to Rizal. Why?
The people had survived in spite of the
wars they had engaged in and the
epidemics that had plagued society.

14. THE PHILIPPINES A CENTURY HENCE
Can the divide et empera or divide and
rule policy still work to foster enmity
between and among the natives?
 To Rizal, this would no longer be effective
owing to the ease of movement in the
archipelago brought about by improved
means of transportation.

15. THE PHILIPPINES A CENTURY HENCE
Therefore, Spain has no way of
blocking reforms and progress of the
Philippines.

16. THE PHILIPPINES A CENTURY HENCE
 Centered on the reforms and political changes needed for the Philippines
to remain under Spanish rule.
These reforms were the following:
1) freedom of the press in the country;
2) representation of the Filipinos in the Spanish Cortes;
3) granting of Spanish citizenship to the people;
4) filling of governments positions through competitive examinations;
5) reforms in commerce, agriculture and education;
6) and greater security for the individual and other reforms.

17. THE PHILIPPINES A CENTURY HENCE
 Which colonizing power will replace Spain? Will it be a
European power or an Asian power?
 To Rizal, this country is none other than the United
States of America. What Rizal envisioned in the essay
came true. The Americans entered the Philippines and
wrestled from Spain the control of the Philippines.

18. Thank you
for listening. 