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    Rizal emphasized three main points in his edition of Morga's Sucesos: 1) The Philippines had its own culture before the Spanish arrived. 2) Filipinos were devastated by Spanish colonization through depopulation, impoverishment, exploitation, and ruin. 3) The present state of the Philippines under Spanish rule was not necessarily superior to its past. Rizal observed that as a colony, the Philippines was depopulated, impoverished, and without hope or faith in its future. The Filipinos lost their traditions and culture over time in order to adopt foreign doctrines and morals, contributing to their decline.

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    Rizal emphasized three main points in his edition of Morga's Sucesos: 1) The Philippines had its own culture before the Spanish arrived. 2) Filipinos were devastated by Spanish colonization through depopulation, impoverishment, exploitation, and ruin. 3) The present state of the Philippines under Spanish rule was not necessarily superior to its past. Rizal observed that as a colony, the Philippines was depopulated, impoverished, and without hope or faith in its future. The Filipinos lost their traditions and culture over time in order to adopt foreign doctrines and morals, contributing to their decline.

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    Rizal emphasized three main points in his edition of Morga's Sucesos: 1) The Philippines had its own culture before the Spanish arrived. 2) Filipinos were devastated by Spanish colonization through depopulation, impoverishment, exploitation, and ruin. 3) The present state of the Philippines under Spanish rule was not necessarily superior to its past. Rizal observed that as a colony, the Philippines was depopulated, impoverished, and without hope or faith in its future. The Filipinos lost their traditions and culture over time in order to adopt foreign doctrines and morals, contributing to their decline.

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    Rizal's Arguments of Morga's Sucesos

    Three main propositions were emphasized in Rizal's New Edition of Morga's Sucesos:

    1) The people of the Philippines had a culture on their own, even before the coming of the Spaniards;

    2) Filipinos were decimated, demoralized, exploited, and ruined by the Spanish colonization; and

    3) The present state of the Philippines was not necessarily superior to its past.

    In Rizal's historical essay, he correctly observed that as a colony of Spain, "The Philippines was
    depopulated, impoverished and retarded, astounded by metaphor sis, with no confidence in her past, still
    without faith in her present and without faltering hope in the future. He went to say:
    "...little by little, they (Filipinos) lost their old traditions, the mementoes of their past; they gave up
    their writing, their songs, their poems, their laws, in order to learn other doctrines which they did
    not understand, another morality, another aesthetics, different from those inspired by their
    climate and their manner of thinking. They declined, degrading themselves in their own eyes, they
    become ashamed of what was their own; they began to admire and praise whatever was foreign
    and incomprehensible, their spirit was damaged and it surrendered."

    Indeed, for Rizal, the conquest of the Spaniards contributed in part to the decline of Philippines’
    rich tradition and culture.

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