Excerpt from by E. San Juan, Jr.’s INTER/CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY: Introducing Sikolohiyang Pilipino
Up to the thirties and before World War II, when thousands of non-English-speaking Filipinos died defending U.S. sovereignty over the country, Filipinos were portrayed as “a very peculiar mass, a heterogeneous compound of inefficient humanity, a ‘jumble of save tribes’ that cried for order and pacification. Like the Negro, Chinaman, and Indian, Filipinos were ‘alien races…incapable of civilized self-government’” (Doty 1996, 37, 43)
