The Politics of US Occupation

The documentary exposed what truly happened in the Philippines during the the Statesn furrow. It highlighted, just about specially, the political and historic issues during the time.\n black eye to what our textbooks on Philippine ex course of studyation say, the American occupation was remote from smooth. at that place was violence in all forms burning of villages, massacres and roast of women. However, these were non all of the atrocities did by the Americans during that time. There was the method of pissing cure a pacification method of the Americans, non besides to gain information, but it was in any case a form of distress towards the Philippines showing of what could happen if they plan to rebel against the American occupation. \nanother(prenominal) issue was that of the misleading historical background of the strong ties amidst the Philippines and America. The ties between the two countries were actually established during the Philippine-American war of 1899, and not the Second World War. Thus, whenever the American occupation would be menti iodined to the Filipino people that lived during that time of turmoil, it would offset a traumatic emotional response because of the anomalies that took place during that period. \nThis whitethorn be unknown to close Filipinos, but Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. president at that time of the American occupation in the Philippines, congratulated an American customary for the massacres that took place in the Philippines. No, the massacres were not to create a peaceful Philippine America kind; those extreme measures were taken because America wanted the Philippines to be one of its colonies (which, obviously worked until this very day). There was heavy discrimination of the Filipinos: the Americans did not consider the Filipinos as equals and called them niggers ; and because of this, the Americans did not have a thorny time to shoot the Filipinos worry rabbits . \nAnother issue in question wa s the legality  of irrigate boarding or the water...