HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Education In Spain, American Imperialism, Philippine Scouts
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Image- the filipinos first bath: president mckinley giving a baby a bath, who does not want a bath. The filipino people are symbolized as a baby, and the us believes they are going to colonize or civilize them. In the cover of the forbidden book, the water is replaced by a blood bath which contains dead bodies. Social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination - such as colonialism and slavery, or their aftermaths -mary louise pratt. The relationship between occident and orient is a relationship of power, of domination, of varying degrees of a complex hegemony - edward said. Into the west coast and across the pacific, into hawaii stretching all the way to the philippines. Empire is about acquiring wealth and natural resources and converting people to your religion and political ideology. Legacy of spanish colonization of philippines (1565 to 1898)
