Readings

IN THE

Philippines
HISTORY
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PAST PRESENT IMPORTANCE

PAST SLAVES WERE AS THE PHILIPPINES AS TIME PASSED, SLAVERY

CALLED “ALIPING SA MODERNIZED, THERE WERE BECAME A HISTORICAL
GUIGUILIR”, THEY HAD SHIFTS IN ITS ECONOMIC INFORMATION THAT LED
THEIR MASTERS TO SERVE AND SOCIAL CAPACITY. THE TO THE INTRODUCTION OF
IN THEIR HOUSES AND CONCEPT OF SLAVERY WAS A RIGHTS-BASED SOCIETY.
CULTIVATED LANDS, AND DISCOURAGED AND, LATER
THE CHANGES MADE THE
WERE ALLOWED TO BE ON, ERADICATED. JUST LIKE
COUNTRY HAVE LAWS
SOLD. OTHER FILIPINOS, THEY
WERE INTRODUCED TO
ABOUT EQUALITY, AND
EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT, PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF
AND LEGAL BACKGROUNDS. ALL CITIZENS,
THE CONCEPTS OF HUMAN REGARDLESS OF WHERE
RIGHTS AND THEY WERE BORN AND
DISCRIMINATION ENTERED THEIR BACKGROUND.
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PAST PRESENT IMPORTANCE

IN THE PAST, MANY IN THE PRESENT T H E E L E M E N T O F T H I S B E L IE F

FILIPINOS WORSHIPED GENERATION, THIS REMAINED FICTIONAL AS
GODS AS WELL AS CHRISTIANITY,
BELIEF HAS
FICTITIOUS ONES LIKE CATHOLICISM, AND THE
SIGNIFICANTLY
BELIEF IN ONE GOD BECAME
BADHALA, A STRONG DECLINED, PRIMARILY
THE PRACTICE SINCE
DEITY AND THE DUE TO THE INFLUENCE
FILIPINOS EMBRACED IT IN
CREATOR OF OF CHRISTIANITY THAT
CONTEMPORARY TAGALOG
EVERYTHING. HAS SPREAD ALL
SOCIETY. THIS CHANGE MADE
AROUND THE COUNTRY
IT A TRADITION TO KNOW
THEM NOT IN REAL
SITUATIONS BUT IN BOOKS
WHERE THEY CAN STILL BE
KNOWN
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PAST PRESENT IMPORTANCE

IN PAST HISTORICAL IN THE PRESENT DAY, THE ALIPING MAHAYHAY

ORIGINS, THERE WERE COMMONERS DON'T EXIST LED TO INCREASED
COMMONERS, ALSO ANYMORE. AS THE OPPORTUNITIES TO THE
CALLED “ALIPING COLONIAL PERIOD CAME INDIVUDALS AND HAVE THE
NAMAMAHAY”, A INTO THE COUNTRY, IT RIGHTS TO ADVANCE. IT
CLASS OF DEPENDENTS INFLUENCED THE SYSTEMS MIGHT NOT BE NOTICEABLE
DURING THE OF GOVERNANCE, IN THE MODERN AGE BUT
PRECOLONIAL PERIOD RELIGION, AND THE CHANGES THAT
IN THE PHILIPPINES ECONOMY. WHICH LED TO HAPPENED HAVE LED TO
CHANGES IN INCREASED OPPORTUNITIES
HIERARCHIES. LED TO SOCIAL MOBILITY
FOR ALL INDIVIDUALS
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PAST PRESENT IMPORTANCE

IN THE PAST, PEOPLE ON THE OTHER HAND, AS THE THE ROLE OF THE DATOS IS
MODERN GENERATION IMPORTANT BECAUSE, IN
ALWAYS HAD CHIEFS,
ARRIVED, THE TRADITIONAL CERTAIN SOCIETIES, IT USED
ALSO KNOWN AS “DATOS”. TO BE THE DATOS WHO
PEOPLE WERE GOVERNED DATOS SYSTEM WAS
PROVIDED LEADERSHIP. THIS
REPLACED BY ELECTED
BY THEM AND THE MODIFICATION ILLUSTRATES
OFFICIALS AT VARIOUS
CAPTAINS IF THERE WAS A HOW LEADERSHIP
LEVELS OF THE
WAR. THERE IS A SEVERE RESPONSIBILITIES HAVE
GOVERNMENT, FROM CHANGED AND DEVELOPED
PUNISHMENT IF BARANGAY OFFICIALS TO OVER TIME IN THE PHILIPPINES.
INDIVIDUALS COMMIT ANY HIGHER REPRESENTATIVES. IT CAME ABOUT AS A RESULT
OFFENSE OR GOSSIP DATOS ARE STILL PRESENT IN OF SOCIETAL, ECONOMIC, AND
ABOUT THEIR WIVES AND SOME INDIGENOUS GROUPS, HISTORICAL FACTORS.
CHILDREN. SUCH AS THE LUMAD AND CONSCISE AND CLARITY
MUSLIM COMMUNITIES IN AMONG LEADERS HAVE
MINDANAO. RESULTED FROM THE SHIFT TO
MODERN GOVERNMENT.
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PAST PRESENT IMPORTANCE

DUE TO THE INFLUENCE OF

IN EARLIER TIMES, ONLY A FEW GROUPS IN CHRISTIANITY AND
CATOLONAN WAS A CURRENT TIMES STILL URBANIZATION, THE
TRADITIONAL SPIRITUAL PRACTICE CATOLONAN, SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
FIGURE, OR A FEMALE WHICH HAS A RICH CATOLONAN IN TAGALOG
SPIRITUAL, WHO RULED CULTURAL LEGACY. SINCE RITUALS IS CURRENTLY LESS
OVER AND HAD A GENERATIONS TODAY HAVE WELL RECOGNIZED. HOWEVER,
A VARIETY OF INTERESTS, IN SOME NATIVE GROUPS, THIS
SIGNIFICANT PART IN A
PASSING DOWN PRACTICE IS STILL KNOWN
NUMBER OF INDIGENOUS AND CONDEMNED AS A PART
TAGALOG PRACTICES AND KNOWLEDGE AND CUSTOMS
OF THE TRADITIONAL HISTORY
CEREMONIES, RELATING TO CATOLONAN OF THE PHILIPPINES. IT
PARTICULARLY THOSE BECAME LESS COMMON AS BECAME DIFFICULT TO ADAPT
THAT WERE DEDICATED TO TIME WENT ON. TO THIS SHIFT, BUT CERTAIN
HEALING AND ANCESTOR INDIVIDUALS ARE MAKING AN
EFFORT TO RECALL HOW
SPIRITS AND DEITIES.
IMPORTANT IT IS.
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PAST PRESENT IMPORTANCE

THE TRADITIONAL RITUALS THESE CUSTOMS EVEN THOUGH CHRISTIANITY IS

AND FESTIVALS WERE NOW THE MAJORITY DEVOTION
UNDERWENT SIGNIFICANT
IN THE PHILIPPINES, SOME
ALIVE BEFORE, THEY ALTERATION THROUGHOUT PEOPLE STILL ADHERE TO THESE
BECAME A PART OF THE THE AGES. NUMEROUS PRACTICES. FILIPINOS WERE
INTEGRAL PART OF THE SPIRITUAL PRACTICES AND ABLE TO HAVE CONSIDERABLY
CULTURE. MANY RITUALS TRADITIONS HAVE MORE ORGANIZED BELIEFS
AND FESTIVALS HAVE MORE EVOLVED AS A RESULT OF BECAUSE OF THIS
SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE ADAPTABILITY. NEVERTHELESS,
THE WIDESPREAD EMBRACE
THESE CUSTOMS ARE STILL
DEDICATED TO SPIRITS, OF CHRISTIANITY. THIS UPHELD AND CONSTITUTE AN
DEITIES, AND ANCESTORS GENERATION IS MORE IMPORTANT PART OF THE
SOCIALLY ACCEPTED BY PHILIPPINES' CULTURAL
FILIPINOS AND MORE HISTORY.
DEEPLY ROOTED IN
CHRISTIANITY.
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PAST PRESENT IMPORTANCE

IN THE PAST, THERE MAHARLICA DOES NOT IN THE PHILIPPINES, THE

WERE OTHER NOBILITY EXIST IN THE PRESENT MAHARLICA'S ROLE
KNOWN AS MAHARLIKA DAY. THE MAHARLIKA MAINTAINED ITS
WHO WERE BORN FREE CONCEPT IS NOW MORE HISTORICAL VALUE. IT HAS
IN ADDITION TO CHIEFS. HISTORICAL AND BECOME AN
IN THE PHILIPPINES, SYMBOLIC THAN A ARGUMENTATIVE SUBJECT
THEY WERE ALSO FUNCTIONING ASPECT OF SINCE GENERATIONS HAVE
REFERRED TO AS FEUDAL PHILIPPINE SOCIETY. THE GIVEN IT VARIOUS
WARRIORS. THEY WERE COUNTRY'S POLITICAL INTERPRETATIONS. DESPITE
THE FACT THAT IT NO
JUST REQUIRED TO SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES
LONGER EXISTS, FOR
BATTLE WITH A DATU HAVE PREVIOUSLY
CERTAIN FILIPINOS, IT STILL
AND NOT TO PAY HIM CHANGED DUE TO ITS
HAS CULTURAL AND
ANY TAXES OR TRIBUTE. SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS HISTORICAL VALUE.
AND MOVEMENTS.
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PAST
The Twelve Traditional
Distinctions that were
developed among priests
have proven useful in
classifying people by their
level of spiritual knowledge.
In the past, the Filipinos'
belief system placed
significant importance on
these distinctions.
PRESENT IMPORTANCE
Similar to other customs, These distinctions were very
it was replaced in the important to Filipinos, especially
modern era by the impact to those who were influenced by
various spiritual knowledge's
of Christianity and
belief systems. This tradition's
cultural changes, which
alterations gained significance
led to the diminishing of since they allowed for the
these distinctions. promotion of religion without
regard for one's understanding
or religious beliefs, which will
continue to be fundamental to
the Philippines' cultural history.
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PAST
The idea of a "dowry" was
originally a tradition that
involved the groom's family
providing the bride's family
with gifts, money, or other
valuables in appreciation for
the arranged marriage.
PRESENT IMPORTANCE
As modern times evolved, The concept of "dowry" was
the tradition became less once a tradition that became
common due to legal and discouraged as a result of
societal changes. The forced marriage between
concept was that this was couples. This change made
eventually diminished individuals aware of what
because consent and they wanted and the
equality between spouses importance of consent when
are more important than it comes to marriage
the gifts.
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PAST
Way back before
technology, oral traditions
played a significant part in
transmitting knowledge
from one person to another
and telling myths, stories,
and folklore through
speaking.
PRESENT
As the modern era arrived,
Filipinos had several means
of communicating, including
technology and written
communication, where the
availability of writing
enabled them to
communicate a larger range
of cultural knowledge and
software that Filipinos often
utilize today.
IMPORTANCE
The Philippines is influenced
by these advancements as a
result of foreign influences.
The change ensures that the
transmissions continue to be
documented and contributes
to the preservation of the
nation's heritage of culture.