Heroism and Nationalism

1. Chapter 10
JOSE RIZAL AND THE PHILIPPINE
NATIONALISM:
BAYANI AND KABAYANIHAN

2. BAYANI
The word “Bayani” or hero in Filipino is
someone who saves people’s lives or
have a great act of bravery.

4. Basehan Sa Pagpili
• Filipino
• May pagmamahal na walang kapantay para sa bayan
• Kalmado sa Pag-uugali
• Patay na

5. What does it take to be a hero?
•The heroism in real life does not require someone
to sacrifice his or her life to be called a bayani.

6. What does it take to be a hero?
•The people that we set up as heroes are people that
generally go above and beyond in terms of the call of
duty, they do things that are extraordinary.

8. What does it take to be a hero?
•The act of heroism is debatable to some people
however, for any hero, it's enough just knowing
they helped someone else. That's what makes
them a true hero.

12. HOW DID JOSE RIZAL BECOME A NATIONAL HERO?

14. The Americans decided for him being a national hero at their
time in the country.

15. It is said that the Americans, Civil Governor William
Howard Taft, chose Jose Rizal to be the national hero as a
strategy.

16. Rizal didn't want bloody revolution in his time. So they
wanted him to be a "good example" to the Filipinos so that the
people will not revolt against the Americans.

17. Rizal became a National Hero because he passed the criteria
by being a National Hero during the American period.

18. Esteban A. de Ocampo

20. (a) a prominent or central personage taking
admirable part in any remarkable action or
event

23. (b) a person of distinguished valor
or enterprise in danger

24. " De Occampo claims that no Filipino has yet
been born who can equal or surpass Rizal as a
"person of distinguished valor/ enterprise in
danger, fortitude in suffering"

25. (c) a man honored after death by public
worship, because of exceptional service to
mankind

26. “… even before his execution. Rizal was already
acclaimed by both Filipinos and foreigners as the
foremost leader of his people"

27. Ferdinand Blumentritt

28. Rizal was unanimously elected by the Filipinos
in Barcelona and Madrid as honorary president
of La Solidaridad.

29. Founder and moving spirit in the
founding of La Liga Filipina in
Manila on July 3, 1892.

30. December 20, 1898, Pres. Aguinaldo
issued the first official proclamation
making December 30 of that year
"Rizal Day”

31. Act No. 137, which organized the politico-
military district of Morong into the Province
of Rizal , was the first official step taken by
the Taft Commission to honor our greatest
hero and martyr

33. Who made Rizal the foremost hero
of the Philippines?

34. The answer is: no single person or groups of persons
were responsible for making the Greatest Malayan the
No. 1 Hero of his people.

35. Rizal himself, his own people and the foreigners all
together contributed to make him the greatest hero and
martyr of his people.

36. Singapore

37. Madrid, Spain

38. Japan

39. USA

40. Alaska

41. No amount of adulation and canonization by both
Filipinos and foreigners could convert Rizal into a great
hero if he did not possess in himself what Palma calls
'excellent qualities and merits. (De Ocampo, nd)

42. Is RIZAL is American-made
hero?

43. "But many Filipinos had already made Rizal a national hero; even
before the Americans arrived. The Katipunan itself venerated
Rizal and Reynaldo Ileto's research reveals how deeply this
veneration verging on worship had penetrated the peasantry,
especially in the Tagalog region.

44. Is there a law proclaiming
Rizal as the National Hero?

45. “No law, executive order or proclamation
has been enacted or issued officially
proclaiming any Filipino historical figure as
a national hero.”

46. “When William Howard Taft arrived in the Philippines
in June 1900 and became the chairman of the 2nd
Philippine Commission, the American governor
general suggested to name Rizal a national hero.”

47. On March 28, 1993 , President Fidel V.
Ramos issued Executive Order No.75
entitled “Creating the National Heroes
Committee Under the Office of the
President”.

48. MGA NOMINA

49. Jose Rizal
Andres Bonifacio
Emilio Aguinaldo
Apolinario Mabini
Marcelo H. del Pilar
Sultan Dipatuan Kudarat
Juan Luna
Melchora Aquino
Gabriela Silang

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