The best way to support our work is by becoming a member, here on RUclips or on Patreon: ruclips.net/user/Knowledgiajoin www.patreon.com/Knowledgia By doing so you will be able to watch our videos FIRST and with No Ads. And you will support us a lot, as any dollar helps immensely in our production process. Thank you for your consideration!
13:53 The US, however, refused to recognize the new state. This led to a brief war, in which the US was successful. We'll talk about the Philippine genocide (1 million dead) that occurred during that war another day, right? Del genocidio filipino (1 millón de muertos) ocurrido durante esa guerra, hablamos otro día, ¿no?
6:22 The Philippines were then integrated into the Viceroyalty of New Spain, which oversaw all of the Spanish colonies in the Americas and the Pacific. The Viceroyalty of New Spain oversaw into the Viceroyalty of New Spain, not the others viceroyalties. El Virreinato de Nueva España se encargaba del Virreinato de Nueva España, no de los demás virreinatos.
6:34 The Philippines did not produce a great deal of wealth for the Crown. The Philippines was a place where the Spanish Empire traded with China. European and American products, especially silver, arrived in China, and silk, porcelain, ivory... arrived in Spain and Spanish America. Do you know what the Manila galleon and the eight-real are? You haven't even mentioned them. Why? Filipinas era lugar donde el Imperio Español comerciaba con China. A China llegaban productos europeos y americanos, sobretodo plata, y a España e Hispanoamérica seda, porcelana, marfil... ¿Sabe lo que son el galeón de Manila y el real de a ocho? Ni siquiera los ha nombrado ¿Por qué?
5:43 In 1599, King Philip ordered a referendum in the Philippines that would approve Spanish rule; unsurprisingly, bit passed. In 1599, King Philip ordered a referendum in the Philippines? Who else held such a referendum at that time? And all he can think of is saying that he won it fraudulently. ¿En 1599, el rey Felipe ordenó un referéndum en Filipinas? ¿Quién más hizo un referéndum de ese tipo en aquella época? Y sólo se le ocurre decir que lo ganó fraudulentamente.
A story that deserves to be remembered from the end of the Spanish period in the Philippines 🇵🇭 is that of the so-called "The Last of the Philippines." These were a group of Spanish soldiers who were besieged in the church of the town of Baler, on the Philippine island of Luzon between July 1898 and June 1899, and who did not know that in December 1898, Spain 🇪🇸 and the United States 🇺🇸 had signed the Treaty of Paris, in which sovereignty over the Philippines was ceded to the United States. Therefore, while the Spanish soldiers were being repatriated to Spain, they continued fighting even though the war between the Philippines and Spain had already ended. Finally, while leafing through the besieged newspapers left in the church, they discovered a piece of news that could not have been invented by the Filipinos, which finally convinced them that Spain no longer held sovereignty over the Philippines and that there was no point in continuing to resist in the church. On June 2, 1899, Baler's Spanish detachment surrendered.
" Yes. I regret to a large extent revolting against Spain and, that's why, when the funerals for the king Alfonso [XIII] of Spain were celebrated in Manila, I showed up in the cathedral to the surprise of the spaniards. They asked me why had I come to the funeral of the king against who I rebelled... I told them that he continues to be my king because under the spanish rule we were always spanish subjects or citizens, but now, under the USA, we are just a consumer market for their exports, when not pariah, because they never made us citizens of any state in the USA... And the spanish opened the way for me and treated me like a brother in that significant day [the funeral?]" Emilio Aguinaldo 1958
Former president Emilio aguinaldo was already old at that time @anselmosatanas9950 he was having a symptoms already that's why he was saying that, part of that was mostly his personal agenda remember he trusted The Americans on support on the revolution but he was betrayed instead of ally now an occupiers thay fought against.
please he was old at that time in 1958 his health was not good, and if that bother you remember this is him after the US bet reyal of helping him to fully recognized it's independence from Spain after Filipino has won the revolutionary war, Aguinaldo was prevent to enter Manila to finished the besiege Spain by the Americans.
The first former president was having dementia due to old age, and he may say it but he has a reason because he trusted the Americans because he has no choice and really needs an ally to declining Spain which they were revolting and fighting against. and yes he maybe said that is because he was bitter due to his defeat against US aka Phil-Am war he was recognising that revolution wasn't the right time like what many filipinos were saying mostly the elite filipinos.
@@Knowledgia It's still quite inaccurate, kindly check (Transforming Manila: China, Islam and Spain in a Global Port City, by Ethan Hawkley) and (The Philipine Islands 1493 - 1898, by Blair & Roberton)
333 years of Spanish rule ended and the Philippines will always be welcome as a brother of the Latin American countries. ❤ Tierra adorada, hija del sol del oriente.
14 yrs as a student..i never learned so much about Philippine History as this 2-part video has provided. Thanks for making quality content like this. More power to your channel. Maybe you can also make a video about the Philippines being a land rich in gold a long time ago just in case you happen to have read it somewhere in your research.
Amazing stuff. For those who never visited Philippines I strongly recommend to do so. I have been there over 20 times and it is still N.1 on my list of holidays destination.
Desde 2002, cada 30 de junio se celebra el día de la amistad Hispanofilipina, fecha en que Emilio Aguinaldo, presidente de la Primera República Filipina, emitió una orden por la cual se decretaba que los últimos soldados españoles que se habían atrincherado en la iglesia del pueblo de Baler durante casi un año fueran tratados no como enemigos, sino como amigos, y que recibieran la asistencia necesaria para su retorno a España. El senador filipino Edgardo Angara, principal promotor del Día de la Amistad, aquel 30 de junio fue “un día glorioso para ambos países, porque el sitio de Baler produjo héroes y victoria para ambas partes”. Hoy, este episodio es el símbolo de la gran amistad entre España y Filipinas.
One thing not being mentioned is during the Spanish becoming a Republic overthrowing the control of monarchy in Spain. The Republic of Spain sent a governor who made a lots of reform and allow the indigenous to allow equal status and respect their culture. This was the first and only governor of Spain send that does not used violence rather used a dialogue to cooperate with the Locals. However the republic of Spain short lived and the Governor was replaced by the Spain who is loyal to the Spanish monarchy. The fact that after he takes the place of as the Governor General of the Philippines. All of the reforms being done we're all abolished. Rather than to dialogue the new governor used violence. Which led to the execution of 3 Catholic Filipino Priest who was being blamed for the Cavite Mutiny. The plan of the Filipino soldiers to overthrow the Spanish Government in the Philippines. The execution of the three priest fueled the desire of Filipinos for independence rather than equal rights. Filipinos doesn't see themselves as different from Spain. But it was the fault of the people who wrongly govern the Philippines. Which led them to believe that this Spanish doesn't really considered them as human being itself.
Yes Spain never exactly constructed colonies that started with the engloids I think. Spain establish Viceroyalties which is an extension or duplicate of their authority’s kingdom population were citizens not coloniest examples viceroyalty of New Spain today’s Mexico viceroyalty of Peru today Peru. Copies of their government.
I wish this video explained how Maguindanao and Sulu weren't really part of the Philippines during Spanish empire and were just annexed by USA. The map in the video showed it though but not explained. It is important to explain it because it caused more than 100 years of Moro rebellion and fight for independence that only was settled during the Duterte government with the establishment of Bangsamoro region.
I don't know much about it but my great grandmother told me when she was alive. What the Americans did to the Native Americans they also did to Sulu and Maguindanao. same approach. By the way sultan of buayan is one of my ancestors in my grandfather side😊.
Spain did not send criminals and prisoners to its territories overseas wtf, people even had to pass exams showing they were not criminal to be allowed to go many times
Not even mentioning the "Galeon de Manila" the longest uninterrupted and steady commercial route in history shows the historical quality of this video, it was the most important reason for the Spanish to control the Filipines, the trade with China, not any of the reasons he is giving
I have gained a significant amount of knowledge about Philippine history from this channel in a relatively short period of time, compared to the years I spent studying it in school.
Philippines is one of my favourite respective nations ever and this is a fascinating history of the colonisation of the Spanish army ended in the year 1899 by the American army,good friends!!!LONG LIVE,PHILIPPINES!!!🇵🇭
@@uncleJan1 In the war after the declaration of independence of the Philippines, the USA massacred 10% of the population. Not many Filipinos know that since Hollywood didn't make any movies about it.
Knowledgia's cover of the Spanish Occupation of my country is well done, I hope they'll cover the American war and occupation tho, as the America really doesn't want to make it mainstream
Yeah he should make a video about the American occupation too. The Americans love to believe that they're always the heroes but their early actions in the Philippines are anything but "heroic".
It’s incredible to me how all of these so called European countries who spent centuries ‘ colonising’ these poor sick peoples astonishing wealth only to lose each and every land within 30 years and now have almost as tragic poverty in their Wealthy, Abusive states as they suffered back in the 1800s. Smh
@@theawesomeman9821Yikes. The "Insurgency" was in fact the legitimate and independent Republica Filipinas, which even the US recognized at some point until they went "fuck it, we're taking over now" and decided to shit on the newly freed Philippines. By the time of the Philippine-American War (no dear Yankee, it wasn't the "Philippine Insurrection" as your history books call it), the nation had a very young but nevertheless constitutional democratic (and by some accounts, a federal-form of governance as well) Republic that has secured support from majority of Luzon and Visayas regions, and even minor portions of Mindanao. It had it's own standing Army, written Constitution, Flag and Anthem, etc. By no means was it an Insurrection because the Americans were launching an Invasion, an Annexation, against a legitimate government which they themselves even recognized some year or two ago after the Spanish defeat. The underhanded Treaty of Paris was where things started to turn into shit, when the Americans secretly "bought" the Philippines, at that time a legitimate and independent republic, from Spain.
13:29 Wrong. It should be "The Americans decided to act like they were the ones who defeated Spain even though the Filipino revolutionaries did MOST of the damage"
Spanish should have maintained as one of the official national languages in the Philippines because it would have solved simmering ethnolinguistic rivalries between Tagalogs and the Visayans. The Americans intentionally removed Spanish from the primary and secondary public school curricula because they wanted to transform Filipinos into subservient Brown Americans.
Tagalogs planted their language where it isn't supposed to be, and forced us other countrymen to use it. "Colonialism mentality" my *rse, when they literally are doing worse than the Spanish. At least the Spanish priests made an effort to translate our languages. Not to mention that they are forcing Tagalog into academics as "Filipino" despite being a blatant lie and a propaganda piece. It isn't a coincidence that the largest cities and government funding of the country are all concentrated in the hands of the Tagalog (look at all the new shiny projects only for Metro Manila and Tagalog-dominated regions in Southern and Central Luzon).
Why Spanish wanted to sugarcoat their history so much? They did exploitations just like other colonial powers, and they made excuse with "viceroyalties treated them equally" blablabla
No they didn't. Everything bad that was happening in the Philippines was also happening in Spain. It wasn't like the Filipinos were treated any differently.
@@ardi08then why you don’t do a research for yourself? Spain built churches, hospitals and universities, what does USA did beside the genocide in Philippines?
The first Philippine republic is Asia's first constitutional republic. The Philippine revolutionary already controlled the majority of the archipelago before the deceitful American imperialist arrived, promising us full independence provided we fought the Spanish alongside them. You neglected to disclose that portion. So that's kind of disappointing.
That's true. While it is usually said to have lasted from 1899 to 1902, the conflict continued in Mindanao until 1913. There were incidents of massacres on both the American and Filipino sides. The worst one was the American massacre of 1000 non-combatant Tausug people (men, women and children) in Jolo. They had retreated to the crater of an extinct volcano to escape the conflicts going on, but the American general, against orders from Washington DC, proceeded with the attack. Just a few kilometres up the hill from where I live in Lumbia, Cagayan de Oro City Mindanao, is Makahambus Cave. It's the site of the first victory by Filipino forces over the American Bluecoats in June 1900.
Great! I'm surprised that the video started precolonial to the contemporary era of the Philippines, since other videos about Philippine history weren't complete however, this video is like made by a Filipino historian!
5:19 it's normally know as if the Spanish controlled the Dutch but in reality it was a civil war between the Dutch themselves, those who were and wanted to keep Catholic and those who wanted to be Protestant
@@undoglopez6407لو الإسلام هو السبب في تخلف الفلبينيين لم نكن لنرى الفلبينيين المسيحيين يتهافتون للعمل عند المسلمين في السعودية والإمارات والفلبين - انت فقط مخلّفات استعمار لا تمتلك هويّة حقيقية 🥸
Spanish language was not predominantly used by Filipinos only borrowed words as the Spaniards learned their language because it's easier to conceal sensitive information as the natives didn't know it. It is done as the Philippines is very far from other Spanish colonies.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 nah Muslim could barely dominate Mindanao let alone Visayas and Luzon And I'm glad we weren't Muslim it's the downfall of every people and country for example your Capital is sinking, your country have the most active volcanoes in the world, you have shortest height in the world, etc Islam is basically a curse and to think you have the most Muslim population in the world made it even better😂
If the spanish didnt arrived, the philippine would likely be 2 separate countries. The southern part would probably be mostly muslim and part of malaysia or its own country, and the northern part will be a mixed of Buddhism, Islam and Hinduism.
Philippines is the only Spanish colony which do not have Spanish as its first or official language. Though many loan Spanish words are used, as well as English.
Philippines is the Mexico of Asia 😅 I wonder why Philippine didn't become fully Spanish in speaking Spanish and other Spanish traditions 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️. More love and support from Poland to the Philippines we're both Catholics ✝️✝️🇵🇱🇵🇭🙏🏻🙏🏻💚
It because of the Americans and WW2. The US once it got the Philippines as its territory, outlawed the Spanish language, and sent “Thomasites” a group of English teachers. This was also the similar case to US territories like Louisiana (the US outlawed French, Cajun & Acadian languages). Ironically, the Spanish language was at its peak in the Philippines during early 1900s until the Commonwealth Government was established in 1935, which created the “Filipino” language. Then, WW2 came along and was the last blow, as the Japanese decimated the Spanish-speaking people in Manila.
There are factors why Philippines never became fully Spanish speaking. The first would be the native Austronesians were always by far the majority and there was no massive immigration of Spanish to the Philippines unlike what happened to Latin America so the Spanish language was mostly confined to the elite minority. Second would be the arrival of the Americans and their brainwashing and demonizing the Spanish language and replacing it with the English language. Third would be WW2 and the Japanese destroying the Spanish speaking district in Manila called Intramuros and it was like the core Spanish speaking area in the Philippines and the survivors fled the Philippines after WW2. Fourth would be the creation of the national language called Filipino which is based on Tagalog, a major Austronesian language spoken in southern Luzon and this national language is taught throughout the country.
On the night of his execution, on December 30, 1896, Rizal proclaimed the Philippines "the Pearl of the Oriental Seas". His death is annually commemorated on December 30. Rizal's execution gave impetus to the revolution.
Even today there is a recruiting office in Manila and probably others for military service in the United States. Many Pilipinos are members of the service with all the ranks and positions shared. They can be anything they want there without giving up their citizenship to the Phillipines. They are the only country that has those rights. They are a separate country but as close to family members as two countries can ever be. They took care of ours in WW-2 and even though independent now we’ve stayed close. We shall never forget them if they ever need us.
6:00 I think you mistake the "British" politics and mentality from the 19th century over their colonies with the Spanish politics and mentality from 16th century which have nothing to do. I see your videos have a big effort but you really miss on the History part. 1-. Most of the exploited resources were kept in the origin territories for their own development (or do you think all those hospitals, universities and schools were free?). Barely 1/5 of all the extracted gold and silver arrived to Spain. 2-. Overpopulation relief? Spain was really UNDERPOPULATED in comparison to other European countries, why would they send their few population far away? 3-. Colonial prestige? They were already the 1st world power dominating a big part of Europe, nearly all of America and its trade, why would conquering some unknown (in Europe) kingdoms in Filipines give them prestige? You are confusing the 19th colonial mentality with the 16th century mentality.
7:18 Again you are missing the main historical point and confusing 19th century plantation colonies with 16th century. Filipines was used as the main Trade Hub to trade with China using the silver extracted in America, known as the "Galeon the Manila", not for planting coffee, which happened like 200 years later
@@mememanbehindtheshadows546 But the fact is still that the American kicked out the spanish only to take over, then japan kicked out the american to get rid of non-asians in asia and took over, it was first after ww2 the philippines was truly an independent nation.
@@mememanbehindtheshadows546 ishin shishi alone would sadly still not change the course of the war, and is not worth risking the young Japanese empire into an early ruthless Pacific showdown.
Did you know that Philippines were influenced by Spain, like language a lot of Filipino have Spanish, and like culture too some Spanish cultures are also Philippines culture ❤
I wouldn't say a lot of Filipinos have Spanish ancestry; if you look it up, less than 2% actually have Spanish ancestry. They're mostly mixed with Chinese. The only reason they have Spanish last names is because they were ordered to take Spanish last names for government reasons.
As you can see there was no single entity that kept the entire archipelago together before the Spanish colonization. Thanks to Spain this land became the basis for our founding fathers claim of our nationhood. And so I think this is the greatest legacy Spain gave us more than anything else.
The weird thing about the Philippines is that less than 2% of the population has Spanish ancestry since the Spanish never really integrated with the locals, and the Philippines use mestizo differently than over here in Latin America; they use it for someone that also has Chinese ancestry, which is most of the Philippines, but you still see a lot of people on Twitter with the Spanish flag. You never see that over here in Latin America, and like 70% of Latin Americans have some Spanish ancestry.
Philippines 🇵🇭 is probably my favorite country on earth. I hope one day they figure out their political issues. Is being part of the ASEAN a good thing to help work towards this? What are some facts of this being a good or bad thing?
The island of Bohol was mislabelled as Dapitan. Dapitan is located in Zamboanga del Norte, Northern part of the Western Mindanao Region. I should know because I am from Dapitan. My birthplace, my hometown.
This still lacks some details. Manila controlled trade in the archipelago and they've basically woven together a trading colony before Spanish contact. This became the blueprint for the Spanish colony, hence why Manila got chosen as the colonial capital, it wasn't a random choice.
2:48 absolutely false! The criteria to immigrate to the territories of New Spain and the Philippines were very strict, and forbid the the traveling to criminals, low qualified workers, and of course, people from other credos (Jews, Protestants, calvinists, etc.). The Crown didn’t want to fight the problems it already faced in the mainland. Get your facts right. There were exceptions of course but it was not the rule, like in Britain in the XIX Century for certain territories: Australia.
The term Filipino during Spanish rule referred to Spaniards born in the Philippines while the natives were called Indios. However during the Philippine Revolution, the natives began calling themselves Filipinos, the current definition.
Sa ngaun panahon tutulong din sa atin ang spain sa international threat tahimik lng..isa rin silang nagkalat ng lahi dito sa pilipinas..maymaganda din silang ipinamana sa atin kung alam ng mga kabataan pilipino sa ngaun.. bilang isang koserbatibong pamilya pilipino at magandang kultura at wika...na dala² ntin sa pusot isipan ng bwat pilipino magpahangang sa ngaun.!!
after being captured and imprisoned by the Portuguese, a short time later the 16th century Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos died in his prison cell on Ambon island in case anyone was wondering.?
Spain actually never sent prisoners maybe exile people there but it was never a “ colony “ but a viceroyalty where although casts systems seem to subjugate it actually worked to the point where people from Mexico and the Philippines where traveling between each other creating what queen Isabella the Catholic of Spain called to be “un pueblo “ which translates to one people thus creating the Hispanic ethnicity which still holds strong today to traditions that have lasted hundreds of years later, unfortunate that the US pulled them apart from us 😢
I'm a Filipino and I can't help but wonder what would have happened if the country had a unified central govt before the Spaniards and other imperialist colonizers arrived? Such was the case with the other archipelagic country up north, Japan, who were able to rebuff the Portuguese and other colonizers easily. In the process of colonizing the country, Legaspi used divide and conquer pitting one province against the other. Revolts were suppressed by using native troops from one area against another. The result is that to this day, there is lingering suspicion about ulterior motives. Since Japan (and Germany as well) resolved their wars of unification the old fashioned way - by bloodshed - the Filipinos should have fought and bled until one datu or sultan reigned supreme (a kind of shared national trauma). Unfortunately, this never happened. Could it have happened? I don't know.
Because they don't have and Malaysia registered the name before, also the example of Burma is terrible when that name was imposed by the dictatorship in Burma
The best way to support our work is by becoming a member, here on RUclips or on Patreon:
ruclips.net/user/Knowledgiajoin
www.patreon.com/Knowledgia
By doing so you will be able to watch our videos FIRST and with No Ads. And you will support us a lot, as any dollar helps immensely in our production process. Thank you for your consideration!
Hey, can you do Bruneian Sultanate? it would be cool
13:53 The US, however, refused to recognize the new state. This led to a brief war, in which the US was successful.
We'll talk about the Philippine genocide (1 million dead) that occurred during that war another day, right?
Del genocidio filipino (1 millón de muertos) ocurrido durante esa guerra, hablamos otro día, ¿no?
6:22 The Philippines were then integrated into the Viceroyalty of New Spain, which oversaw all of the Spanish colonies in the Americas and the Pacific.
The Viceroyalty of New Spain oversaw into the Viceroyalty of New Spain, not the others viceroyalties.
El Virreinato de Nueva España se encargaba del Virreinato de Nueva España, no de los demás virreinatos.
6:34 The Philippines did not produce a great deal of wealth for the Crown.
The Philippines was a place where the Spanish Empire traded with China. European and American products, especially silver, arrived in China, and silk, porcelain, ivory... arrived in Spain and Spanish America. Do you know what the Manila galleon and the eight-real are? You haven't even mentioned them. Why?
Filipinas era lugar donde el Imperio Español comerciaba con China. A China llegaban productos europeos y americanos, sobretodo plata, y a España e Hispanoamérica seda, porcelana, marfil... ¿Sabe lo que son el galeón de Manila y el real de a ocho? Ni siquiera los ha nombrado ¿Por qué?
5:43 In 1599, King Philip ordered a referendum in the Philippines that would approve Spanish rule; unsurprisingly, bit passed.
In 1599, King Philip ordered a referendum in the Philippines? Who else held such a referendum at that time? And all he can think of is saying that he won it fraudulently.
¿En 1599, el rey Felipe ordenó un referéndum en Filipinas? ¿Quién más hizo un referéndum de ese tipo en aquella época? Y sólo se le ocurre decir que lo ganó fraudulentamente.
A story that deserves to be remembered from the end of the Spanish period in the Philippines 🇵🇭 is that of the so-called "The Last of the Philippines." These were a group of Spanish soldiers who were besieged in the church of the town of Baler, on the Philippine island of Luzon between July 1898 and June 1899, and who did not know that in December 1898, Spain 🇪🇸 and the United States 🇺🇸 had signed the Treaty of Paris, in which sovereignty over the Philippines was ceded to the United States. Therefore, while the Spanish soldiers were being repatriated to Spain, they continued fighting even though the war between the Philippines and Spain had already ended. Finally, while leafing through the besieged newspapers left in the church, they discovered a piece of news that could not have been invented by the Filipinos, which finally convinced them that Spain no longer held sovereignty over the Philippines and that there was no point in continuing to resist in the church. On June 2, 1899, Baler's Spanish detachment surrendered.
I think there’s a movie like this on Netflix. I forgot the title though.
@@jeromelbbs9592 its Los Ultimos de Filipinas.
@@jeromelbbs9592 i saw that movie... its Spanish and very well made... also very fair to filipinos you should see it
@@jeromelbbs9592 According to what I've read, the script of that movie could have been written by any english or dutch guy from the 16th/17th century.
I feel stressed! 😫
" Yes. I regret to a large extent revolting against Spain and, that's why, when the funerals for the king Alfonso [XIII] of Spain were celebrated in Manila, I showed up in the cathedral to the surprise of the spaniards. They asked me why had I come to the funeral of the king against who I rebelled... I told them that he continues to be my king because under the spanish rule we were always spanish subjects or citizens, but now, under the USA, we are just a consumer market for their exports, when not pariah, because they never made us citizens of any state in the USA... And the spanish opened the way for me and treated me like a brother in that significant day [the funeral?]"
Emilio Aguinaldo 1958
Former president Emilio aguinaldo was already old at that time @anselmosatanas9950 he was having a symptoms already that's why he was saying that, part of that was mostly his personal agenda remember he trusted The Americans on support on the revolution but he was betrayed instead of ally now an occupiers thay fought against.
please he was old at that time in 1958 his health was not good, and if that bother you remember this is him after the US bet reyal of helping him to fully recognized it's independence from Spain after Filipino has won the revolutionary war, Aguinaldo was prevent to enter Manila to finished the besiege Spain by the Americans.
The first former president was having dementia due to old age, and he may say it but he has a reason because he trusted the Americans because he has no choice and really needs an ally to declining Spain which they were revolting and fighting against. and yes he maybe said that is because he was bitter due to his defeat against US aka Phil-Am war he was recognising that revolution wasn't the right time like what many filipinos were saying mostly the elite filipinos.
What’s up with all the people saying Aguinaldo was crazy just because he said something filipinos don’t want to hear
@@SantiagoVerbel-j4l Aguinaldo was the great scapegoat for anything wrong happens in our history.
Ooh I’ve been waiting patiently for another video
I've been subscribed to the channel for a few years now and really appreciate you guys making several historical videos of my country. Thank you.
Our pleasure!
@@Knowledgia It's still quite inaccurate, kindly check (Transforming Manila: China, Islam and Spain in a Global Port City, by Ethan Hawkley) and (The Philipine Islands 1493 - 1898, by Blair & Roberton)
333 years of Spanish rule ended and the Philippines will always be welcome as a brother of the Latin American countries. ❤ Tierra adorada, hija del sol del oriente.
@bvillafuerte765 Brazil likes Philippines too, we include them
Hispanic = from Spain
Latín = from Rome
@@benyseus6325For Portuguese one, Indonesia is more related than the Phillipines
@@benyseus6325iberoamericanos también es otro término
América Hispana .
Los Brasileños son Americanos Lusos
O puedes decir Iberoamérica
Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁💯
14 yrs as a student..i never learned so much about Philippine History as this 2-part video has provided. Thanks for making quality content like this. More power to your channel. Maybe you can also make a video about the Philippines being a land rich in gold a long time ago just in case you happen to have read it somewhere in your research.
You need a better college!😂😂
😂😂😂😂
@@DaveSCameron part of the occupation is to sealed the history from the natives.
And yet it's incorrect.
Spain NEVER had the colonies and the Philippines was an equal part of Spain. It suffered more after the Spanish left.
Amazing stuff. For those who never visited Philippines I strongly recommend to do so. I have been there over 20 times and it is still N.1 on my list of holidays destination.
Desde 2002, cada 30 de junio se celebra el día de la amistad Hispanofilipina, fecha en que Emilio Aguinaldo, presidente de la Primera República Filipina, emitió una orden por la cual se decretaba que los últimos soldados españoles que se habían atrincherado en la iglesia del pueblo de Baler durante casi un año fueran tratados no como enemigos, sino como amigos, y que recibieran la asistencia necesaria para su retorno a España.
El senador filipino Edgardo Angara, principal promotor del Día de la Amistad, aquel 30 de junio fue “un día glorioso para ambos países, porque el sitio de Baler produjo héroes y victoria para ambas partes”. Hoy, este episodio es el símbolo de la gran amistad entre España y Filipinas.
Thank You. ❤
Welcome!
One thing not being mentioned is during the Spanish becoming a Republic overthrowing the control of monarchy in Spain. The Republic of Spain sent a governor who made a lots of reform and allow the indigenous to allow equal status and respect their culture. This was the first and only governor of Spain send that does not used violence rather used a dialogue to cooperate with the Locals. However the republic of Spain short lived and the Governor was replaced by the Spain who is loyal to the Spanish monarchy. The fact that after he takes the place of as the Governor General of the Philippines. All of the reforms being done we're all abolished. Rather than to dialogue the new governor used violence. Which led to the execution of 3 Catholic Filipino Priest who was being blamed for the Cavite Mutiny. The plan of the Filipino soldiers to overthrow the Spanish Government in the Philippines. The execution of the three priest fueled the desire of Filipinos for independence rather than equal rights.
Filipinos doesn't see themselves as different from Spain. But it was the fault of the people who wrongly govern the Philippines. Which led them to believe that this Spanish doesn't really considered them as human being itself.
Filipines - Spain independence war ended into a treaty which recognised Filipines same as any other Spanish province
The Philippines was a Spanish colony longer than the USA has been independent! Thats insane! 378 years!
Yes Spain never exactly constructed colonies that started with the engloids I think. Spain establish Viceroyalties which is an extension or duplicate of their authority’s kingdom population were citizens not coloniest examples viceroyalty of New Spain today’s Mexico viceroyalty of Peru today Peru. Copies of their government.
333, not 376
to use the ward colony is wrong, for Spain always was Provincia.-
@@alpaz7634What's the difference anyway? Still the same as exploiting resources from them, lol
500*
Knowledgia good job bro
I wish this video explained how Maguindanao and Sulu weren't really part of the Philippines during Spanish empire and were just annexed by USA. The map in the video showed it though but not explained. It is important to explain it because it caused more than 100 years of Moro rebellion and fight for independence that only was settled during the Duterte government with the establishment of Bangsamoro region.
Because they have connection to manila and palawan. So they better join rather than seperated
Because they have connection to manila and palawan. So they better join rather than seperated
I don't know much about it but my great grandmother told me when she was alive. What the Americans did to the Native Americans they also did to Sulu and Maguindanao. same approach. By the way sultan of buayan is one of my ancestors in my grandfather side😊.
Super informative video about modern history of Phillipines....thanks
Which is incorrect
Spain did not send criminals and prisoners to its territories overseas wtf, people even had to pass exams showing they were not criminal to be allowed to go many times
Seems quite a number of distortions in this video that continue the leyenda negra against Spain!
They also brought indigenous people who were hispanicized
Really interesting video ! We don't know much about this Spanish colonie
Best wishes with free lending libraries.📚👍
Thanks for the suport! but spain dont have colonies
Not even mentioning the "Galeon de Manila" the longest uninterrupted and steady commercial route in history shows the historical quality of this video, it was the most important reason for the Spanish to control the Filipines, the trade with China, not any of the reasons he is giving
I have gained a significant amount of knowledge about Philippine history from this channel in a relatively short period of time, compared to the years I spent studying it in school.
Philippines is one of my favourite respective nations ever and this is a fascinating history of the colonisation of the Spanish army ended in the year 1899 by the American army,good friends!!!LONG LIVE,PHILIPPINES!!!🇵🇭
Some fitties for sure 😂
The Filipino-American war that followed and lasted 3 years cost hundreds of thousand Filipino lives, great friends indeed!
@@uncleJan1 In the war after the declaration of independence of the Philippines, the USA massacred 10% of the population. Not many Filipinos know that since Hollywood didn't make any movies about it.
Knowledgia's cover of the Spanish Occupation of my country is well done, I hope they'll cover the American war and occupation tho, as the America really doesn't want to make it mainstream
Yeah he should make a video about the American occupation too. The Americans love to believe that they're always the heroes but their early actions in the Philippines are anything but "heroic".
Occupational is a stretch 🎉😂😂😂
It’s incredible to me how all of these so called European countries who spent centuries ‘ colonising’ these poor sick peoples astonishing wealth only to lose each and every land within 30 years and now have almost as tragic poverty in their Wealthy, Abusive states as they suffered back in the 1800s. Smh
Americans never fought a war against the Philippines. They fought Filipino insurgents. There is a difference.
@@theawesomeman9821Yikes. The "Insurgency" was in fact the legitimate and independent Republica Filipinas, which even the US recognized at some point until they went "fuck it, we're taking over now" and decided to shit on the newly freed Philippines. By the time of the Philippine-American War (no dear Yankee, it wasn't the "Philippine Insurrection" as your history books call it), the nation had a very young but nevertheless constitutional democratic (and by some accounts, a federal-form of governance as well) Republic that has secured support from majority of Luzon and Visayas regions, and even minor portions of Mindanao. It had it's own standing Army, written Constitution, Flag and Anthem, etc. By no means was it an Insurrection because the Americans were launching an Invasion, an Annexation, against a legitimate government which they themselves even recognized some year or two ago after the Spanish defeat. The underhanded Treaty of Paris was where things started to turn into shit, when the Americans secretly "bought" the Philippines, at that time a legitimate and independent republic, from Spain.
13:29 Wrong. It should be "The Americans decided to act like they were the ones who defeated Spain even though the Filipino revolutionaries did MOST of the damage"
El primer barco español que llegó a las islas que después se llamaría Filipinas, fue la expedición de Magallanes, un saludo desde Perú 🇵🇪
Good video.
I love the Philippines ❤✝
If anything José Rizal wasn't a leader, but a idealistic template for the revolution.
He didn't want independence from Spain though.
@@gofish7388 poor guy he didn't want to have problems, he just wanted the filipinos to take equal rights to have power in the goverment
Rizal wants our country to become a spanish province and also have a representative to the spanish parliament nor its court.
Spanish should have maintained as one of the official national languages in the Philippines because it would have solved simmering ethnolinguistic rivalries between Tagalogs and the Visayans. The Americans intentionally removed Spanish from the primary and secondary public school curricula because they wanted to transform Filipinos into subservient Brown Americans.
The reason why I hate the Tagalogs for planting their language where it is not supposed to be and forcing us others to deal with it.
Tagalogs planted their language where it isn't supposed to be, and forced us other countrymen to use it. "Colonialism mentality" my *rse, when they literally are doing worse than the Spanish. At least the Spanish priests made an effort to translate our languages. Not to mention that they are forcing Tagalog into academics as "Filipino" despite being a blatant lie and a propaganda piece. It isn't a coincidence that the largest cities and government funding of the country are all concentrated in the hands of the Tagalog (look at all the new shiny projects only for Metro Manila and Tagalog-dominated regions in Southern and Central Luzon).
Spanish was never an official national language. Only the elites could understand Spanish.
@@Ariverfish
R u filipino?
Are you proud of being colonized by the Westerner? Where is your dignity as a Filipino??
Today spain & Philippines 🇪🇦❤️🇵🇭✝️⛪💪 viva España
Why Spanish wanted to sugarcoat their history so much? They did exploitations just like other colonial powers, and they made excuse with "viceroyalties treated them equally" blablabla
No they didn't. Everything bad that was happening in the Philippines was also happening in Spain. It wasn't like the Filipinos were treated any differently.
@@ardi08are you an Anglo Saxon?
@@Renzee-ct4wz No,
@@ardi08then why you don’t do a research for yourself? Spain built churches, hospitals and universities, what does USA did beside the genocide in Philippines?
The first Philippine republic is Asia's first constitutional republic. The Philippine revolutionary already controlled the majority of the archipelago before the deceitful American imperialist arrived, promising us full independence provided we fought the Spanish alongside them. You neglected to disclose that portion. So that's kind of disappointing.
Hello dear how are you doing and how is the weather condition over there
the Lanfang republic is earlier.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 yeah but Philippine was the first constitutional.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 lanfang is not a constitutional republic. The First Philippine Republic is the first constitutional republic in Asia.
No the Republic of Ezo
My great grandfather is a pure Spanish from Spain, a member of a Knight who landed in the Philippines and married a Filipina… and the rest is history.
same here, my great grandfather was from spain. my grandfather was half
very interesting video, I have never seen this topic covered much other than the start of colonisation and the American conquest
The Philippine American war was not brief according to what I have read. It is rarely mentioned as a war at all in the U S .
That's true. While it is usually said to have lasted from 1899 to 1902, the conflict continued in Mindanao until 1913. There were incidents of massacres on both the American and Filipino sides. The worst one was the American massacre of 1000 non-combatant Tausug people (men, women and children) in Jolo. They had retreated to the crater of an extinct volcano to escape the conflicts going on, but the American general, against orders from Washington DC, proceeded with the attack. Just a few kilometres up the hill from where I live in Lumbia, Cagayan de Oro City Mindanao, is Makahambus Cave. It's the site of the first victory by Filipino forces over the American Bluecoats in June 1900.
@bvillafuerte765 Tinuod na!
well presented, thank you
Great! I'm surprised that the video started precolonial to the contemporary era of the Philippines, since other videos about Philippine history weren't complete however, this video is like made by a Filipino historian!
5:19 it's normally know as if the Spanish controlled the Dutch but in reality it was a civil war between the Dutch themselves, those who were and wanted to keep Catholic and those who wanted to be Protestant
I hope the spanish language will be brought back to our school
Great documentary
Watching from Brampton, Ontario, Canada ❤❤❤❤❤
Love Philippines 🇵🇭 from Mexico 🇲🇽
Spain saved Philippines from Islam
Instead they brought christianity with
@@Kain-h8e I don't think that any religion can resist Islam except Christianity
@@liberalegypt i mean they forced the people to convert to christianity
but Europeans also colonized and took the produce of the land in Southeast Asia
@@Qs23752
European colonization act of past
Islam colonization act of past present future
What they didn't tell anyone is that the land was rich in gold, people were using and adorned with gold stuffs.
proud bangsamoro muslim in philippines, the unconquered nation in south.
Because muslims always hide in mountains.😂😂
Bro your leader help American to send your people to Allah, don't forget that.
Its useless because until now there's so many muslim areas that underdevelop.
@@undoglopez6407لو الإسلام هو السبب في تخلف الفلبينيين لم نكن لنرى الفلبينيين المسيحيين يتهافتون للعمل عند المسلمين في السعودية والإمارات والفلبين - انت فقط مخلّفات استعمار لا تمتلك هويّة حقيقية 🥸
@undoglopevery cities in province is underdeveloped ez6407
Interesting!
im happy to have watched many history videos especially Shogun in Disney to see well human nature and capabilities.
It would be cool if Spanish was more dominant than english
English vowels have more pronunciation than Spanish
En el continente Américano todos hablan español pero muy raros hablan inglés
Spanish language was not predominantly used by Filipinos only borrowed words as the Spaniards learned their language because it's easier to conceal sensitive information as the natives didn't know it. It is done as the Philippines is very far from other Spanish colonies.
It's interesting to think how things would have been different if Spain had never arrived
philipine would be majority muslim, basicaly a smaller version of indonesia.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 nah Muslim could barely dominate Mindanao let alone Visayas and Luzon
And I'm glad we weren't Muslim it's the downfall of every people and country for example your Capital is sinking, your country have the most active volcanoes in the world, you have shortest height in the world, etc
Islam is basically a curse and to think you have the most Muslim population in the world made it even better😂
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 yes
If the spanish didnt arrived, the philippine would likely be 2 separate countries. The southern part would probably be mostly muslim and part of malaysia or its own country, and the northern part will be a mixed of Buddhism, Islam and Hinduism.
@@Xynic48 yeah interesting
Philippines is the only Spanish colony which do not have Spanish as its first or official language.
Though many loan Spanish words are used, as well as English.
Yes, the Americans did their job overwriting Spanish influence mainly business and language
Its nice to maintain the spanish language in the philippines to remember that we were colonized
Sana ng porque porque ka na ngyn.
Philippines is the Mexico of Asia 😅
I wonder why Philippine didn't become fully Spanish in speaking Spanish and other Spanish traditions 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️.
More love and support from Poland to the Philippines we're both Catholics ✝️✝️🇵🇱🇵🇭🙏🏻🙏🏻💚
Blame the americans, I love Poland as well! Catholic brothers
Due to the repression of the Americans and then the Japanese, the Spanish also did not usually impose their language
It because of the Americans and WW2. The US once it got the Philippines as its territory, outlawed the Spanish language, and sent “Thomasites” a group of English teachers. This was also the similar case to US territories like Louisiana (the US outlawed French, Cajun & Acadian languages). Ironically, the Spanish language was at its peak in the Philippines during early 1900s until the Commonwealth Government was established in 1935, which created the “Filipino” language. Then, WW2 came along and was the last blow, as the Japanese decimated the Spanish-speaking people in Manila.
There are factors why Philippines never became fully Spanish speaking. The first would be the native Austronesians were always by far the majority and there was no massive immigration of Spanish to the Philippines unlike what happened to Latin America so the Spanish language was mostly confined to the elite minority. Second would be the arrival of the Americans and their brainwashing and demonizing the Spanish language and replacing it with the English language. Third would be WW2 and the Japanese destroying the Spanish speaking district in Manila called Intramuros and it was like the core Spanish speaking area in the Philippines and the survivors fled the Philippines after WW2. Fourth would be the creation of the national language called Filipino which is based on Tagalog, a major Austronesian language spoken in southern Luzon and this national language is taught throughout the country.
@@jpespinosa4539 more love mate. 😊🙏🏻💚
The Americans always bring trouble
Thats why my great-grandfather is Spanish peninsulares pure Spanish but moved to the Philippines since it was a Spanish colony
I like the way you labeled ilocos region as samtoy also meaning sao mi ditoy or "our language here"
Y’all should check out that one movie the last men in the Philippines it’s pretty good
On the night of his execution, on December 30, 1896, Rizal proclaimed the Philippines "the Pearl of the Oriental Seas". His death is annually commemorated on December 30. Rizal's execution gave impetus to the revolution.
Even today there is a recruiting office in Manila and probably others for military service in the United States. Many Pilipinos are members of the service with all the ranks and positions shared. They can be anything they want there without giving up their citizenship to the Phillipines. They are the only country that has those rights. They are a separate country but as close to family members as two countries can ever be. They took care of ours in WW-2 and even though independent now we’ve stayed close. We shall never forget them if they ever need us.
Will there be a part 3-4? Up to modern day?
6:00 I think you mistake the "British" politics and mentality from the 19th century over their colonies with the Spanish politics and mentality from 16th century which have nothing to do. I see your videos have a big effort but you really miss on the History part.
1-. Most of the exploited resources were kept in the origin territories for their own development (or do you think all those hospitals, universities and schools were free?). Barely 1/5 of all the extracted gold and silver arrived to Spain.
2-. Overpopulation relief? Spain was really UNDERPOPULATED in comparison to other European countries, why would they send their few population far away?
3-. Colonial prestige? They were already the 1st world power dominating a big part of Europe, nearly all of America and its trade, why would conquering some unknown (in Europe) kingdoms in Filipines give them prestige?
You are confusing the 19th colonial mentality with the 16th century mentality.
I love my native land,the Philippines. God bless the Philippines, the land of my birth.
7:18 Again you are missing the main historical point and confusing 19th century plantation colonies with 16th century. Filipines was used as the main Trade Hub to trade with China using the silver extracted in America, known as the "Galeon the Manila", not for planting coffee, which happened like 200 years later
At some point, Richard Ayoade and Noel Fielding were joint Sultans of Bhunei 🥸
Excellent science
*Philippines exists*
Spain, USA, Japan: "It's free real estate!"
Japan was our ally during Phil am war.
@@mememanbehindtheshadows546 albeit very reluctantly, and very unreliable
@@mememanbehindtheshadows546 But the fact is still that the American kicked out the spanish only to take over, then japan kicked out the american to get rid of non-asians in asia and took over, it was first after ww2 the philippines was truly an independent nation.
@@shinsenshogun900 yeah some of them their official.
@@mememanbehindtheshadows546 ishin shishi alone would sadly still not change the course of the war, and is not worth risking the young Japanese empire into an early ruthless Pacific showdown.
mas interesting pa 'to kesa sa mga turo nung Highschool at Elementary.
Did you know that Philippines were influenced by Spain, like language a lot of Filipino have Spanish, and like culture too some Spanish cultures are also Philippines culture ❤
6,000 Spanish words in Philippine language
I wouldn't say a lot of Filipinos have Spanish ancestry; if you look it up, less than 2% actually have Spanish ancestry. They're mostly mixed with Chinese. The only reason they have Spanish last names is because they were ordered to take Spanish last names for government reasons.
I want to learn more about the early stages of this. Also, how did ming gain control of the area near manila near the beginning?
As you can see there was no single entity that kept the entire archipelago together before the Spanish colonization. Thanks to Spain this land became the basis for our founding fathers claim of our nationhood.
And so I think this is the greatest legacy Spain gave us more than anything else.
Make a part 2.. Philippines under American occupation
The weird thing about the Philippines is that less than 2% of the population has Spanish ancestry since the Spanish never really integrated with the locals, and the Philippines use mestizo differently than over here in Latin America; they use it for someone that also has Chinese ancestry, which is most of the Philippines, but you still see a lot of people on Twitter with the Spanish flag. You never see that over here in Latin America, and like 70% of Latin Americans have some Spanish ancestry.
nice jud ang storya sa pilipinas, unta makabalo ang tanan nga mao ni atong lugar nga daghan involve dapat lang atong balikan
Philippines 🇵🇭 is probably my favorite country on earth. I hope one day they figure out their political issues. Is being part of the ASEAN a good thing to help work towards this? What are some facts of this being a good or bad thing?
VERY STRANGE PERIOD IN PAST HISTORY, I AM HAPPY PHILIPPINES STAND ON IT OWN NOW.
Stand on it's own by going to other countries to work
Es el burdel de USA , lamentable 😢
@@Merry19ss:(
Thanks to Americans who spread protestantism that changed a supertitious approach to innovative thinking . . .
The island of Bohol was mislabelled as Dapitan. Dapitan is located in Zamboanga del Norte, Northern part of the Western Mindanao Region. I should know because I am from Dapitan. My birthplace, my hometown.
Interesting
Taiwan is also a part of the Philippines under the Portuguese era.... That's Formosa.....
Waiting for Part 3
What a way to imagine One Piece or Pirates of the Carribean in real life setting
This still lacks some details. Manila controlled trade in the archipelago and they've basically woven together a trading colony before Spanish contact. This became the blueprint for the Spanish colony, hence why Manila got chosen as the colonial capital, it wasn't a random choice.
2:48 absolutely false! The criteria to immigrate to the territories of New Spain and the Philippines were very strict, and forbid the the traveling to criminals, low qualified workers, and of course, people from other credos (Jews, Protestants, calvinists, etc.). The Crown didn’t want to fight the problems it already faced in the mainland. Get your facts right. There were exceptions of course but it was not the rule, like in Britain in the XIX Century for certain territories: Australia.
The term Filipino during Spanish rule referred to Spaniards born in the Philippines while the natives were called Indios. However during the Philippine Revolution, the natives began calling themselves Filipinos, the current definition.
Jose Rizal was never a member of ‘Katipunan’(please correct that); it was Andres Bonifacio, the leader of the ‘Katipunan’.
So the literal next year after magellan's expedition?
what about egypt?
Sa ngaun panahon tutulong din sa atin ang spain sa international threat tahimik lng..isa rin silang nagkalat ng lahi dito sa pilipinas..maymaganda din silang ipinamana sa atin kung alam ng mga kabataan pilipino sa ngaun.. bilang isang koserbatibong pamilya pilipino at magandang kultura at wika...na dala² ntin sa pusot isipan ng bwat pilipino magpahangang sa ngaun.!!
The problem was, when the colonisers left, the local landed gentry stepped right into the colonizers' shoes.
after being captured and imprisoned by the Portuguese, a short time later the 16th century Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos died in his prison cell on Ambon island
in case anyone was wondering.?
Did you know that Philippines were colonized by Spain over 300 years!❤
at 14:00, US be like "we didn't defeat Spain for ur sake. now, serve ur new master!"
Cory Administration actually REMOVED the Spanish lesson in Filipino schools.
Spain actually never sent prisoners maybe exile people there but it was never a “ colony “ but a viceroyalty where although casts systems seem to subjugate it actually worked to the point where people from Mexico and the Philippines where traveling between each other creating what queen Isabella the Catholic of Spain called to be “un pueblo “ which translates to one people thus creating the Hispanic ethnicity which still holds strong today to traditions that have lasted hundreds of years later, unfortunate that the US pulled them apart from us 😢
🆕 🌎 Spain as history revealed 1:19
I thought the Spaniards weren't able to conquer most parts of the Cordillera region?
My husband's ancestor was mentioned❤ #WilliamDraper😮
misleading to have MacArthur in the Philippines in 1899. he was there until the 30s and was mostly active there in the 40s.
Wrong MacArthur.
that was his father Arthur MacArthur not Douglas MacArthur lmao.
and where is magellan?16,1521
Charles (Carlos) V from Germany, but I from Spain. In this case as you are talking about Spain i think you should call him Charles (Carlos) the first.
I'm a Filipino and I can't help but wonder what would have happened if the country had a unified central govt before the Spaniards and other imperialist colonizers arrived? Such was the case with the other archipelagic country up north, Japan, who were able to rebuff the Portuguese and other colonizers easily. In the process of colonizing the country, Legaspi used divide and conquer pitting one province against the other. Revolts were suppressed by using native troops from one area against another. The result is that to this day, there is lingering suspicion about ulterior motives. Since Japan (and Germany as well) resolved their wars of unification the old fashioned way - by bloodshed - the Filipinos should have fought and bled until one datu or sultan reigned supreme (a kind of shared national trauma). Unfortunately, this never happened. Could it have happened? I don't know.
I never heard of an “overpopulation” problem in Spain during the Empire. I heard the opposite
The Philippines will always be Spanish, despite all the destruction the Tagalogs have caused.
Lol, native language better than fully bound to their colonial power's language, have no own language identity.
Nah
I still don't get why The Philippines hasn't change it's country name based on their native language for example Burma is now called Myanmar
Agree
Because they don't have and Malaysia registered the name before, also the example of Burma is terrible when that name was imposed by the dictatorship in Burma