1. Explain - Indigenous Peoples in RP – Time = History of RP
The Indigenous Peoples here in the Philippines were still strongly following their ancestors traditions and practices that makes up their tribes. I guess, they could also be called as the living history of our republic. I mean, they make up our history right? Without these Indigenous People living continuously their heritage being passed by their ancestors, would we still know that there are some sort of people living in a lot more different practices that were before us? Would we still actually believe on history books without some living evidence of their existence? Would we still believe in superstitious beliefs without them telling us to do so? To see is to believe right?
I had witnessed some of their cultures (the way they talk, the way they dress, the way they live), and honestly, I find it weird as compared to what’s new these days. Yet, they still chose to live according to what they believe, and they still chose to wear their cultural clothing. I’m referring to the aetas and badjaos. They were greatly showing us what a real Filipino was made of, without following what’s new, without the influenced of colonization, just living their practices. It makes me think that these people make up a great contributionin the Philippines History.
2. Explain-Philippines being disaster prone. What are the geographical causes?
Our country, as a prone area to disasters (natural disasters), mostly, floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis, lying as it does on both sides of the typhoon belt, in the active volcanic state known as the “Pacific Ring of Fire” and in the geographically uneven region between the Pacific and Eurasian tectonic plates. storms or typhoons
The Pacific Ring of Fire, an area known for its volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. Tsunamis are strong gigantic waves triggered by earthquakes mostly occurring below the sea.
3. Explain- Peopling in Mindanao. Trace and determine who and how people from several places reaches & settled in the island
As an archipelago, it is certain that ancient men came to settle in on Philippine Islands, maybe as migrants looking for places to stay. Popular belief holds that the majority of Philippine people are descendants of migrants from Indonesia and Malaysia who came to the islands in successive waves over many centuries and largely displaced the aboriginal inhabitants. Modern archeological, linguistic, and genetic evidence, however, strongly suggests that those migrants originated in Taiwan and went on from the Philippines to settle Indonesia and Malaysia. The largest ethnic minority now is the mainland Asians (called Chinese), who have played an important role in commerce for many centuries since they first came to the islands to trade. Arabs and Indians also traveled and traded in the Philippines in the first and early second millennium.
Muslims were the most dominant set of people living here in Mindanao; they were the primary reason of the peopling. It was serif Kabungsuan, who had meanwhile arrived from Jehore with his men, immediately began laying the foundation of Islam. He converted many tribes to his religion and having married into a influential family made himself to the first sultan of Mindanao. From then on, Islam quickly spread to the areas of Luzon and Visayas. The arrival of the Spaniards during the 16th century and the succeeding conquest of Luzon led the Muslims to retreat to the south where they sustained their independence from foreign powers to the end of the Spanish government.
4. Analyze-The claim of Moros of Mindanao that it is theirs
In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Moro people remained separated from the mainstream Philippine society, due to the fact that they were never brought under the influence of Western culture.
Mindanao serves as a ‘jungle’ of Moro’s people and the record shown during the Spanish period that Mindanao was not conquered by Spanish people. That’s why Moro’s believe that Mindanao is their place. Some Muslim Filipinos want a separate homeland for themselves because they want to break away from the Philippines, they cannot be considered real Filipinos. However, they cannot be blamed because years of neglect by the national government have made them poor and worried.
5. Compare and contrast - Luzon and Visayas in terms of its people, religion & cultural practices
People from the Cordillera Mountains in Luzon are broadly known as Igorot. They include more specific groups such as the Tingguian, Ifugao, Kalinga and Itawit. The Negrito also comes from Luzon. They include the Agta, Aete and Dumagat among many other groups.
The indigenous groups in the Visayas –mostly in Mindoro – are called Mangyan. Again, there are many ethnic groups such as the Tadyawan, Tagbanwa, Palawano, Molbog and Kagayanan.
In Luzon, Tagalog likes the better things in life and known as superior to the rest of the Filipino. They are neither thrifty nor excessive. The ties that bind them from their homes are so strong that they prefer to stay put in their homelands than migrating to greener valleys to carve out their fortunes. They are born poet, lover and musician that’s why greatest writer and musician comes from Luzon. Farther south, in the Bicol region, the Bicolano is known for even temper and religiosity. Kindly like Visayans, they views life with studied calmness and seldom show his rough edges. They know how to enjoy life and to take it’s offering with logicalcalmness. They are fond of spicy foods. The Visayan is a hedonist. Give him/her a jug of tuba and a piece of dried fish and he/she will sing the wilderness into Paradise. Visayan is a lover like the Luzon people, nut they expresses consuming passion in music, not in poetry, even if they are poor, by caressing the strings of musical instrument and singing to its accompaniment. They may not know the difference between a do and mi on a paper, but they can put together the notes of the scale to produce lilting, coquettish music.
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