Rizal and Morga had differing views about Filipinos and Philippine culture. Rizal disagreed with Morga's claims that Filipinos enjoyed eating rotten fish, and that Christianity was used to subjugate Filipinos. Rizal also noted that Morga made mistakes in spelling native names and misunderstood some cultural practices like dowries. In contrast, Morga viewed Filipinos as enjoying food that was starting to spoil, and saw Christianity as a way to maintain purity in the Philippines.
Rizal and Morga had differing views about Filipinos and Philippine culture. Rizal disagreed with Morga's claims that Filipinos enjoyed eating rotten fish, and that Christianity was used to subjugate Filipinos. Rizal also noted that Morga made mistakes in spelling native names and misunderstood some cultural practices like dowries. In contrast, Morga viewed Filipinos as enjoying food that was starting to spoil, and saw Christianity as a way to maintain purity in the Philippines.
Rizal and Morga had differing views about Filipinos and Philippine culture. Rizal disagreed with Morga's claims that Filipinos enjoyed eating rotten fish, and that Christianity was used to subjugate Filipinos. Rizal also noted that Morga made mistakes in spelling native names and misunderstood some cultural practices like dowries. In contrast, Morga viewed Filipinos as enjoying food that was starting to spoil, and saw Christianity as a way to maintain purity in the Philippines.
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Compare and contrast Rizal and Morga's different views about Filipinos and Philippine culture in tabular format.
RIZAL`S VIEW MORGA`S VIEW
This fish that Morga mentions, that cannot Their daily fare is composed of: lice crushed be good until it begins to rot, is bagoong in wooden pillars and when cooked is called [salted and fermented fish or shrimp paste morisqueta (this is the staple throughout the used as a sauce in Filipino cuisine] and land); cooked fish which they have in a b u those who have eaten it and tasted it n m pork, venieon, mountain buffaloes know that it neither is nor should be rotten which they call carabaos, beef and fish (Rizal 1890, 264). which they know is best when it has started to mt and stink (Retana 1909,174). Christianity was a weapon for facilitating the political and economic subjugation of By the Christian religion, Dr. Morga appears the native. to mean the Roman Catholic which by fire and sword he would preserve in its purity in Rizal noticed all Morga’s mistakes . the Philippines. Nevertheless in other lands, Morga misspelled many native names of notably in Flanders, these means were places, flora and fauna, and other social ineffective to keep the church unchanged, classes which Rizal corrected. or to maintain its supremacy, or even to hold its subjects. Rizal emphasized that native women, unlike their European counterparts, never In Morga’s time, the Philippines exported lost their noble titles. It was the groom silk to japan whence now comes the who gave dowry to the parents because best quality of that merchandise. they going to lost their precious daughter.
Morga’s remark that the Filipinos like fish
Rizal clarified that Morga must have better when it is commencing to turn bad meant sinamay. Which was woven is another of those prejudices which from abaca thread that comes from the Spaniards like all other nations have. banana trunks not from the leaves.
Morga said that cotton was grown
extensively in practically all the islands which the natives sold as thread and woven fabrics to Chinese and other foreign merchants.