Racism In Noli Me Tangere

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Racism becomes a driving force towards slavery. There are a lot of people that suffer because of the differences they have. Discrimination comes after racism but the worst part of this is not having enough courage to defend oneself against it. An independent mindset is needed in order to eliminate it foremost we should understand one culture because culture is what shapes our mind.
In Rizal’s novel entitled Noli Me Tangere, he stressed the issue regarding the discrimination here in the Philippines. Majority of the Spaniard friars discriminated the Filipinos whom they call as Indio’s. They portray Filipino’s as illiterate, stupid and easy to manipulate. Filipino’s being afraid of the friars tend to follow whatever the friars told them to do. They were able to manipulate Filipino’s on their hand and to do things that are sinful. The Filipinos have no any choice but to be enslaved by those friars.
Racial prejudice is still common specially against our Overseas Filipinos Workers who sacrificed to work abroad apart from their families to lessen the suffering that they experienced in our country. Some foreigners discriminate them specially when they have noticed that their race is Filipino. This tragic event also happened when the conflict between China and Philippines arouse. Some Chinese nationals betray our OFW’s by refusing to give their salaries and not allowing them to take enough rest during their work. Still, some Chinese nationals also deny and renounce to accept Filipinos as an overseas worker in their country. For them, Filipinos are weak, faint, unsubstantial and frail. They treat us as poor and slave because for them, our country only depends to China in terms of its trade activities specifically most of our imports cam...

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...reigners discriminate us not because of our inabilities but because of the economic status of our country. But we can be an important part to prove at the whole world that Filipinos are deserved of being one of the reputable and respectable race that God had created.
Although we are still a college student, we strongly believe that we can be an asset to prove in the world that we are not weak and frail. We can prove to them that they are wrong of their negative accusations against us and we are brave enough to raise our own race. Time will came that racial discrimination against us will fade away and the Filipinos will be hailed around the whole universe.
Real changes will start from us. So, what we are waiting for, it’s time to wake up and shout to the world that Filipinos are great and deserve of being a God creations!

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