Americans React to How The US Stole The Philippines

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[EliF-gebu]

Fun fact: the US spent ungodly amount of money rebuilding Japan and Europe after World War II, but spent so little in reparations to the Philippines, it’s former colony. In fact, most of the “money” spent were old military equipments used in the war that is costly to bring back to the US. The US promised pension and citizenship to Filipinos who would fight for America during the war, but broke that promise soon after the war.

[freshtart]

Philippines was not formerly called Mai. Mai is just one kingdom that existed within precolonial Philippines. The Mai kingdom existed along with other kingdoms such as Tondo and Sulu Sultanates.

[SelwynClydeAlojipan]

There are some factual errors made by Mr Harris the vlog creator. History professor Kirby Araullo posted his own reaction video that corrects those errors.

[rodelcordero]

My apologies, but the US has been doing this for a long time. Afghanistan is a perfect example of when they recently pulled out. Cambodia, was another country in the middle of a conflict when the US also pulled out. They can't even win battles in our country fairly. Sorry, US pick fights where they can see they can gain something. You said your country has a dark past. Hmmm... Nope, they continue doing it. Again Afghanistan is one of the countries they invaded... Legally by saying they are helping the country, then pull out when there is no gain on the horizon.
And this is true. Check out the Treaty of Paris, where Spain sold the Philippines to the US.

[draxxes]

GUAM was part of the Philippine island chain under Spain (Spaniard map and documents shows Guam as a PH island), but the US kept Guam when it gave PH it's independence. Historically, Guam is part of Philippines.

[daxaq]

The reason the Philippines was bombed and invaded by Japan is because it is under the US rule so don't justify why Americans ignored the Philippines when it was being invaded by Japan because US responded immediately to the calls of European countries that time. They sent thousands of soldiers to Europe but ignored the cries of Filipinos.

[marcobautista]

Its good thing that he tackled the history and culture that we had in pre colonial past. Most of the people, including some filipinos only knew about the history after spanish arrived. Kudos to him!

[kirojiro]

Fact: The US cut the oil supply of Japan. Because they are alarmed by the aggressive advancing of Japanese through South East Asia. Japanese want their hands on the rich oil reserves in the South East Asia to advance their troops. They're planning on liberating the Philippines but it was under American territory. Their plan was to bomb Pearl Harbor, making the US unable to counterattack as they liberate the Philippines, then secure the oil supply in the region.

Btw, Philippines was under US (Commonwealth Government), not Philippines having own government and US checking like what Phezz said. Philippines was never independent.

[Slayton]

Here's something I found: The Philippines is made up of the Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao group of islands. Spain has yet to conquer Mindanao due to the fierce resistance of the Moro. But when Spain "lost" the war, they included Mindanao as part of the deal despite the fact they never got Mindanao in the first place.

It was weird when Spain exiled Jose Rizal to Dapitan. Like, how do you exile a person to a place that's still within the country? Dapitan is in the Philippines. Unless...Dapitan, which is in Mindanao, was not part of the country in the first place.

[SashaPomeranian]

We were "sold" for 20M dollars. Filipinos were denied participation in the negotiation. The Americans demanded the whole archipelago, as it would be troublesome for them if Spain would sell the rest of the islands to other countries. This was never taught in schools. Textbooks only mentioned Treaty of Paris but not its full details. So sad

[redcoockie]

A Filipino historian reacted to the video. The guy in this video got several minor mistakes but it is understandable. You guys can check his reaction. He corrected some information and talked more about history.

[emmanuelgalanza]

MA'I was not a country it's just one of the kingdoms that exist during that time.

[ronaldabsalon]

Please react to "Henerel Luna" trailer it's all about the story of Heneral luna and about the philippine-American war

[mendicius_jade]

There was a Hollywood movie titled "Amigo" which boldly depicts the real story of Philippine-American War. A "Hollywood movie" where Americans are not heroes. It personally opened my eyes to see the American occupation in the Philippines on a different light.

When I was a child, Filipino here by the way, I used love reading elementary history textbooks stored into our shelves as my mother taught history too to 4th to 6th graders. There I had the impressions that Spanish occupation was a total nightmare for our ancestors, while American occupation was mostly liberal and benevolent bringing democracy, modern technology, and more efficient education to the country, and that the occupation ended through a peaceful taking over of powers when they saw Filipinos are already prepared and equipped to govern on their own. The story, of course, as I later found out is way more and complex than that.

Incredibly enough, it would take "one hollywood movie" to make me doubt what I used to read from the books and further research for more truths. The movie even came first before Filipino movies like Heneral Luna and Goyo were produced which also meticulously depicted the situation at that time.

[jackjohn]

Iam glad that the truth in the Philippine history is getting revealed.

[gaijinph]

Its funny that the Philippine Revolutionary Army already occupied more than 80% of the country, and the only reason the US Navy entered Intramuros because a captain asked permission from the occupying forces officer to at least land a few soldiers...and we complied. Then they declared they occupied the Philippines, while they didnt even occupied 10% of Intramuros And from what I learned from other sources, the US justified they establishment of a government in the Phils. because "there was no existing government structure to destroy", even thought there was a working government in place...which the US destroyed. That's why its being taught in the US, until now, as "The Philippine Insurrection".
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Edit: the Philippines was granted independence, not because the people were too proud for hand out or be included in a foreign empire, but because the US senate wanted to stop the influx of Filipinos to the US. I grew up learning that they Tydings McDuffie Act was a benevolent cause to give the Phils. freedom, but it was actually fueled by hate.

[manrisamanrisame]

The american-filipino war was more bloody than vietnam war that the americans covered up. It was a war riddled with warcrimes.

[m.adrians.a.]

Palau was supposed to be returned to the Filipinos but hell America wanted to take territories so what else is America stating about liberation?

[ruzzerhjakebacay]

No MA'I is the name of the kingdom from our province MINDORO but not the name of the entire island.

[khakikyan]

According to someone "the pen is mightier tha the sword" and i would say " by a pen you can break or make someone's reputation". That is how media works.