The inferiority complex of the Pinoys lingers until now. Recently, a friar Zabala who tortured a Ilocano priest Padre Dacanay was beatified by the Vatican. The Augustinian friar San Agustin justified the use of the whip to civilized the “subhuman indios”. This was in 1891, three years after Noli me Tangere was published in Berlin. The evil Spain centers on the abusive friar like Padre Jesus Roman of Tiaong, Quezon who killed a cantante inside the sacristy for singing desafinado during a Hueves Santo mass. They fought the medieval inquisitory doctrines of the sacerdotes The good Spain created our liberal intellectuals- Jose Rizal, Marcelo del Pilar, Cecilio Apostol, Burgos,etc. ![]() There are two Spains according to the writer Javier Gomez de la Serna- la Espana NEGRA y la Espana BUENA. I have mixed feelings about our Hispanic ties. ![]() ![]() My grandfather was a mestizo cuarteron from Camarines Sur and a scholar of the Castillian language in Naga City.
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