During the American period however the protagonists are the politicians and their supporting casts. It is almost as if no new cultural activities developed, nor cultural and social trends. The focus is exclusively trained on economics and politics. Was there no substantial difference then, in the way people lived between the Spanish period and the years we were a colony of the United States? Was the North Americanization of the Filipino people mostly a transition to the new socioeconomic model and political system and the acquiring of a new language but underneath the furious political activity and the dramatic material transformation of our country, the Filipino Hispanic soul did not change, or simply accepted the superpositioning of a new cultural layer? I believe so. Nevertheless surely there were cultural and societal developments that took place (ours is a huge country after all) which our social scientists, writers and folklorists can further investigate and made known. - Elizabeth Medina compares Spanish and American periods.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 10:29:28 +0000
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