AlakdangBato

Why Rizal and his Friends Wanted to be Spanish I believe the reasons why the Reformista movement and Rizal preferred the Philippines to be a province of Spain rather than an independent sovereign state is because they were afraid that the Filipinos could not effectively handle an independence that will be so abruptly obtained. They feared that if the Philippines were to become independent of Spain through some bloody revolution, other international imperialist powers would simply step in and lay claim to our lands (A fear that we know now as reasonable because the events that took place were unfortunately very close to this prediction.) Also

        Enrique was born to a Babaylan class family in the Island of Malacca, a sizable kingdom in the Eastern Ocean. Little is known of his early life, for he avoids speaking about it. Whether he had bitter memories of childhood or talking about the past that he so fondly remembers for days spent on the forests, the beach, and the sea, which were the best of his life, saddens him and makes him long it even more, we may never know. However, what we do know is what his former masters tell us.          Enrique was purchased in a slave market by Fernando Magellan, a great sea captain, on one of his trips to Sumatra. A scrawny little fellow who