Sobre la indolencia de los Filipinos

• Sobre la indolencia de los Filipinos


  On the Indolence of the Filipinos
• What is Indolence

  • An inclination to laziness
  • Idleness, Shiftlessness, Sloth
• Foreigners visiting the Philippines from the 17th to the 19th century would describe the Filipinos as?


  Lazy
• Rizal's Sobre la Indolencia de los Filipinos was an attempt to what?

  To rectify the image of Filipinos being Indolent
• What was the central idea of Sobre la indolencia de los Filipinos?

  Filipinos are indolent because they have been discouraged by the colonial system of Spain.
• What was the main arguement in Sobre la indolencia de los Filipinos?

  The effect of Misgovernment and Backwardness and how before Spain’s coming and outside Spanish influence, the Filipinos were not indolent.
• What was Rizal's solution for the indolence of Filipinos?

  Education and Freedom
• When was Sobre la indolencia de los Filipinos written?

  From July 15 to September 15, 1890