Word: filipinos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill is premised on the fact that the two races in the Philippines, Filipinos (Christian) and Moros (Mohammedans) differ temperamentally and every other way, that the Moros being in the minority are trampled on by the Filipino majority, that the periodic Moro uprisings come from no other cause. It proposes in the name of not only wisdom but justice that the Moro part of the Islands be given a separate government under the U. S.-in brief that U. S. try to solve the Philippine problem as the British solved the problem of Ireland. But General Aguinaldo as a good...
...ungrateful Tarhata desired to marry a provincial officer, one Datu Tahil, who was unable to offer a royal dowry. The Sultan explained to Tarhata that the match was beneath his dignity. She incontinently left his harem. Following this incident the Princess Emme declared her intention of marrying a Filipino. The proud Moro eyes of the Sultan shot lightnings. He did not deign to explain that his daughter could not marry a dog of a Christian. She too left the Sultanic residence...
...Resolved, That we missionaries, pastors and laymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Philippines put ourselves on record and reaffirm our actions of 1922, that we are in entire sympathy with the national aspirations of the Filipino people...
...wholly lacking in the native. You never mistake them. Their light hair, blue eyes, and clean-cut American features are too evident. The girls,, i if educated, are particularly sought as wives by ambitious and self-respecting men. They boys, if properly brought up, should become leaders of the Filipino people...
...unfortunately true that the majority of the Filipino women who have consorted with American men have been of the tao, or peasant class. Unable by the hardest kind of drudgery to earn more than 50 cents a day, or a single Philippine peso, many of these abandoned or widowed women have taken other partners, or, as is often the case, have drifted into immorality. In such conditions the boys soon are kicked out to shift for themselves, while the girls are farmed out, or 'loaned,' to friends or relatives...