Filipino Nationalism

The opening of the Philippines to world trade rapidly developed the Philippine economy. Many Philippines prospered overnight. Everyday Filipinos also benefited from the new economy with the rapid plus in demand for labor and availability of business opportunities. Some Europeans immigrated to the Philippines to hook up with the wealth wagon, among them Jacobo Zobel, patriarch of todays Zobel de Ayala family and prominent figure in the deepen of Filipino nationalism. Their scions studied in the best universities of Europe where they learned the ideals of liberty from the french and American Revolutions.The new economy gave rise to a new mediate class in the Philippines, usually not ethnic Filipinos. In the archean 19th century, the Suez Canal was opened which made the Philippines easier to reach from Spain. The small join on ofPeninsulares from the Iberian Peninsula threatened the secularization of the Philippine churches. In state affairs, the Criollos, cognise locally as I nsulares (lit. islanders). were displaced from government positions by the Peninsulares, whom the native Insulares regarded as foreigners.The Insulares had fix increasingly Filipino and called themselves Los hijos del pais (lit. sons of the country). Among the early proponents of Filipino nationalism were the Insulares beginner Pedro Pelaez, archbishop of Manila, who fought for the secularization of Philippine churches and expulsion of the friars Padre Jose Burgos whose execution influenced the national scrapper Jose Rizal and Joaquin Pardo de Tavera who fought for retention of government positions by natives, regardless of race.In retaliation to the rise of Filipino nationalism, the friars called the Indios (possibly referring to Insulares and mestizos as well) indolent and unfit for government and church positions. In response, the Insulares came out with Indios agraviados, a manifesto defending the Filipino against discriminatory remarks. The tensity between the Insulares and Peninsulares erupted into the failed revolts of Novales and the Cavite Mutiny of 1872 which resulted to the deportation of prominent Filipino nationalists to the Marianas and Europe who would advance the fight for liberty through the Propaganda Movement.The Cavite Mutiny implicated the priests Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora (see Gomburza) whose executions would influence the instigative activities of the next generation of Filipino nationalists, in particular Paciano Rizal, elder companion of Jose Rizal, who then dedicated his novel, El filibusterismo to the these priests.