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    The Spanish Empire - an evaluation

    I only recently discovered that the Philippines was one of the very few countries if not the only country to openly accept European Jews before the outbreak of WW2. Our then President Quezon with the help of US' high commissioner Paul McNutt and Jewish-American businessmen based in the...
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    The Spanish Empire - an evaluation

    We are linked through Spain. We have tamal (from tamales) that we got from Mexicans through the Manila-Acapulco Galeon Trade. There are also 2 cities that until now speaks bastardized Spanish. Although I wished that the British paid more attention to conquering the Philippines than their...
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    The Spanish Empire - an evaluation

    You have to understand the mindset of the Spaniards, they thought that it was their duty to God to convert people to Catholicsm and at the same time they were giving a great favor to the natives that they colonized by converting their religion to Catholicsm. But the Spaniards at least gave the...
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    The Spanish Empire - an evaluation

    The Spanish were simply following Worldwide trend of race views. They were no different from almost all countries in the same age. And even during the times that the World were mostly racist (yes, even among Asian regions, countries or kingdoms there were internal racism, mostly directed against...
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