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1 posted on 09/15/2022 5:36:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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2 posted on 09/15/2022 5:40:18 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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Everyone there is mixed they’ll say. If they’re gonna be dominated it’s best if it’s the US. They’ve had experience with the Spanish and Japanese-not good. The population is 15% ethnic Chinese. They are the merchant class and rub the country.


3 posted on 09/15/2022 5:40:35 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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5 posted on 09/15/2022 5:51:08 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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Counterhistorical speculations are pretty meaningless, sorry.


6 posted on 09/15/2022 6:01:48 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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Guess what? Even if the British had taken over the Philippines for good, it's unlikely that they would have done better job than Spain. Witness the observations made by British travelers to the Philippine in the 19th century:

"[In the Philippines], Spaniards and natives lived together in great harmony, and I do not know where I could find a colony in which the Europeans mixed as much socially with the natives. Not in Java, where a native of position must dismount to salute the humblest Dutchman. Not in British India, where the Englishwoman has now made the gulf between British and native into a bottomless pit."

And again...

"...the Filipinos were as happy a community as could be found in any colony. The population greatly multiplied; they lived in competence, if not in affluence; cultivation was extended, and the exports steadily increased....Let us be just; what British, French, or Dutch colony, populated by natives, can compare with the Philippines as they were till I895?"

Both of these quotes are taken from: The Story of the Philippines by Phillip Campbell
10 posted on 09/15/2022 6:38:56 PM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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