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Reflection Paper Plasencia

1) The document discusses how Spanish colonization changed Filipino traditions and culture by forcing them to adopt Spanish culture. However, some Filipino traditions have survived and been adapted to modern times. 2) The tradition of barangays, which were small local communities ruled by chieftains, still exist today but serve different governmental functions. 3) The tradition of pamamanhikan, a formal process of asking a woman's parents for consent to marry, is similar to the pre-colonial tradition of dowries that were exchanged.

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Reflection Paper Plasencia

1) The document discusses how Spanish colonization changed Filipino traditions and culture by forcing them to adopt Spanish culture. However, some Filipino traditions have survived and been adapted to modern times. 2) The tradition of barangays, which were small local communities ruled by chieftains, still exist today but serve different governmental functions. 3) The tradition of pamamanhikan, a formal process of asking a woman's parents for consent to marry, is similar to the pre-colonial tradition of dowries that were exchanged.

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Reflection Paper

Traditions and culture represent its people. When the Spaniard colonized us, they changed our
traditions and forced us to learn their culture. However, culture and traditions must be in the blood of
Filipinos; there are culture and traditions bought to modernity or present time and there are traditions
that changed for good.

In the account of Plasencia, there are traditions that we are familiarized, its because we bought
it in our present time. Barangay, in example, are the most common tradition or way of life that we have
up until now. In description of Plasencia, barangay was the unit of government ruled by a chieftain, and
consist of 30-100 families together with their relatives and slaves. In our present way of life, Barangay is
the smallest local government unit serves as the primary planning and implementing unit of government
policies, plans, programs, projects, and activities in the community. Instead of adapting the old role of
barangay in which implemented war in other communities or barangay, barangay in present time live in
harmony with other barangay and shares the same rules of one and united government. Furthermore,
we can compare dowry to our known and still alive tradition: pamamanhikan. Pamamanhikan, as we still
perform, is a formal way of asking the parents of the woman for her hand. The wouldbe groom and his
parents go to the would-be bride's home, and ask the parents for their consent. The family of the groom
usually brings Filipino dishes and delicacies to the home of would-be bride. Dowry shared the same
characteristics; when a man wanted to marry a woman, in pre-colonial way of life, man would give and
meet the demanded dowries of the woman’s parents. If the woman had no neither mother nor father
nor relatives, she could enjoy dowry by herself and even after separation in usually case. These
information and analysis came from Plasencia’s account that provided and gave vivid imagery, which
allowed for further analysis of the practices of the ancient Tagalogs and comparisons with other
accounts of succeeding periods and significant events in Philippine History. However, Plasencia’s
account was biased when it comes to main argument.

It was important to the grand Spanish narrative as civilizer and savior of our doomed souls from
eternal hellfire. That’s why the Spaniards will quote it forever as their prime authoritative source to
show just how primitive we were and how great their contribution was to our development.

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