Rizal Philippines
October 24, 2015
ANONG PAG IBIG ANG HIHIGIT SA PAGKADALISAY AT PAGKADAKILA TULAD NG PAG IBIG SA LUPANG HINIRANG? WALA NA NGA WALA - Gat. Andres Bonifacio
Happy UN day. I hope UN gains more backbone and strength to enforce world peace and that corruption leaves the organization. I hope it leaves to its mandate to promote world peace. But with Afghan war, Syrian war, conflict in Serbia, in Philippines, Thailand, and elsewhere in the world, it stands true to its vision.
In the opinion of the Patriot
Now is the time to talk who is the real Philippine National Hero. Who really made Philippine Independence a reality? Rizal or Bonifacio?
So you think he is Dr. Jose Rizal - whom the Americans thoughtfully appointed as he advocated non violence. Remember in 1898, US and PHL were at war. From my readings they slaughtered Filipinos a million of them from 1898 to 2001 based on chronicles of an Englishman from Hong Kong. The highlight of this was the Balingaga massacre. If you read this book, and my daughter who studied in UP asked me to summarize this book for her. So no wonder so many UPsilonians are anti - (Oops this may disturb the no visa policy of US for Filipinos)
Going back to the issue, the blogger thinks Bonifacio should be the National Hero. Do you agree? What do you think?
Rizal or Bonifacio. Are you a Rizalista or Bonifacionista?
Little known facts about Andres Bonifacio
But Bonifacio got the short end of the stick not only from the Americans but from the local Filipino leader. He was boloed to death by the assigned executor surnamed Macapagal. His wife was even raped by the executor? (Yvon) As what Heneral Luna bitterly experienced.
NB Leaders must comment
This is a big issue to tackle as who should be our National Hero, and can be an on going debate through generations. Even after more than 100 years, Filipinos are still not unanimous on who should be the National Hero. On my personal take, I will go for Rizal, but as a disclaimer, I am not discounting what Bonifacio have contributed to the nation, I actually look up to him as well. But these are my premises for referring to Rizal as the National Hero:
ReplyDelete1. He portrayed a continuous learning throughout his life, he was hungry for knowledge and even up to his last day ins his cell, he was never tired on reading and learning who he is. After a long narrative of his life with educational and professional accomplishment, he remained to be humble and still pursue studying.
2. He uplifted the people around him and the community where he stayed. An example to be known to all, when we was exiled to Dapitan. He built the community, taught the children and the women, and trained the men to do skilled jobs. Little to be known to others, when he was in other countries, particularly in Japan, he also advocated the same.
3. As much as I have studied him, he is one of the personas I have known that has lived self-awareness. He contemplated on his regional beliefs, his position on Catholicism and his belief with God. This can be seen on his writing when he was in prison before he was shot, where he wrote and dignified himself as a Christian when was renowned to be an anti-Christ or pagan, which is not the case, as his beliefs are strong.
4. Being self authentic, Rizal is not a perfect caricature of a men. He actually grew with a lot of insecurities from physical appearance and not bearing their real last name. It took him a lot of struggles and challenges to overcome these, but he always think of his family, especially to his mother whenever he felt so down. Even when he is already successful, he still had to struggle on a lot of things especially when he lost his child with Josephine Bracken. But in all of this, he always go back to reality.
As what this class have been instilling to me, Leadership is founded through self awareness, capacity and purpose. These 3 have been embodied and lived by Jose Rizal, and to which I conclude he is indeed a National Hero. Thank you!
Great comment
DeleteThe distinction made by Catherine and which brings us to the thesis of the course is about being a hero and being a leader.
ReplyDelete1. As with regards to the issue that who should be the national hero, the hero who dirtied himself and really started the revolution and organized the KKK, who CTA the Filipinos who suffered for 300 years was the great pleabian. Again we debated who should be the hero: the one who is the is the battlefield rather than the armchair leader should be credited for being a hero.
2. That the Americans chose Rizal as the national hero, worries me, and that until now there is no legislation as to who is really is the national hero has not closed the debate as to who is the real national hero
3. That the Mercado family had issues with the friars with regards to the confiscation of their land makes one wonders whether the revolution in Dr. Mercado was caused by this, and then the issue of courage of the hero for using the name of a province rather than their real name, causes one to think his courage.
The debate furthers the point being brings us nearer to the thesis of the course. ie that we do not need the grandiose national heroes. Our life stories, our genogram, enneagram are the real stories of every day heroes namely us
The example of Dr. Rizal and Gat Andres highlights the example of the individual leader working on his own (like the Ricci Goes examples of Lowney) and Gat Andres as the organization, army type leader. The misfortune of Andres Bonifacio emphasizes the point made in one of the readings that there is danger in leadership