Spanish Colonial Rule

(1600s-1800s)

Crown colony

• Union of church and state

• Propagation of the catholic faith• -Augustinian order, came with Legazpi (1565)• -Franciscan missionaries (1577)• -Jesuits (1581)• -Dominicans (1587)• -Recollect missionaries (1606)

Introduction of printing

Effects on the Philippines:

1. slow economic development for the lower class

-unequal economic growth in the whole archipelago

Effects on the Philippines:

• 2. Racial discrimination (White male supremacy)

• Spanish officials became rich despite their laziness; Spaniards from Spain went to Philippines to work as clerks and earned a lot of money despite loafing around

• Concept of beauty changed

Effects on the Philippines:

3. white-collar jobs started to be glorified; blue-collar jobs became distasteful and low income-earning• - Spanish officials charged those Indios who

refused to work as indolent

Effects on the Philippines:

• 4. Laid the ground for graft and corruption• - Falla• -encomienda• -indulto de comercio

Effects on the Philippines:

• 5. Quarrels between Church representatives (Friars, etc.) and State representatives (Governor General, etc.) led to infighting and demoralization• -divide and rule strategy of management

was applied; regionalism began

Effects on the Philippines:

6. Indios stopped working as a silent protest against exploitation; left farming, fishing and other work to go to Manila and other places to try their luck-agricultural industry lagged behind

Effects on the Philippines:

7. Disparity in the economic and social life between rich and poor started

-the culture where the alipin can intermarry with the nobles and freemen without question and can go up the class ladder easily started to change

Effects on the Philippines:

• 8. Cultural changes resulted to changes in the value system of the Indios• -sense of honesty was marred• -religion imposed subservience• -sense of shame bordered between

survival and hunger