Filipinos should be proud of their national hero Dr. Jose Rizal. Although I am not Filipino I read extensively his novels and I found his works highly interesting and phenomenal.
You should know about Rizals coleague which he mentioned earlier in the video. Members of the illustrados. Most of them became synonymous to the Phillippine Revolution. I.E Antonio Luna.
You should follow Professor Ambeth Ocampo and buy his books. One of the most popular Filipino historians who has written and researched extensively on Rizal.
Netflix should make a movie about Jose Rizal's travel, triumph and persecution and make this guy as the reference for all its series. That would be nice.
My Spanish teacher told our class that for him, Noli Me Tangere is one of the most powerful and beautiful novels. He even told us that no matter how good Gabriel Garcia Marquez is, he believes that Rizal is the best Spanish novelist outside of Spain.
What a fantastic lecture Dr. Luis ! I am Filipino with Catalan ancestors. I grew up in the Philippines but moved all over the world. Your talk has reignited my longing to learn more about Jose Rizal. Thank you sir for sharing your wealth of knowledge on this topic.
Dr Jose Rizal embodies the most noble and heroic ideal for millions of Filipinos around the world through many generations. What an absolute pleasure to virtually attend this in-depth lecture. Thank you Dr Luis Castellvi Laukamp and The Cambridge Spanish Centre. 🙏🇵🇭
Many thanks to Dr Luis Castellvi Laukamp for sharing your knowledge. I just finished reading Noli Me Tangere capturing myself with many different emotions. I left the Philippines at a young age and felt the need to revive my heritage. I find Rizal's work, art and his life quite profound. I am a reader of poems and no poem has ever made me cry when I read 'Mi Ultimo Adios'. Just downloaded El Filibusterismo. Is it a coincidence Rizal died 125 years ago today.
Rizal's novels is one of my favorites. Not only because I'm filipino, but its actually a great read. I do think its one of those novels you have to read to write professionally (along with Cather in the Rye and the Great Gatsby). Rizal has a very distinct style of writing, almost satirical in its approach, always describing things in analogies. It allows the reader to interpret it in their own experiences. These allegories allows to have moments of levity, almost to the point of comedy. But at the same time, it doesn't lose the gravity of any morbid situation. Its a rollercoaster while reading, laughing on how Rizal would describe a character, then dreading as he describe dire situations. A truly great novel.
There was an article printed by Philippine Daily Inquirer about a bust of Jose Rizal in the Czech Republic. I do believe that he visited the USA where he saw the machines used by Americans to till their land then introduced it to the island of Mindanao.
Correction: Filipinos won the war against Spain. Some Filipinos were there in France for the Treaty of Paris, wherein the US asked Spain to sell the Philippines for 20 million dollars (unknowingly to the Filipinos). Spain agreed as they do not want to lose face as having been defeated by brown people. Filipinos were not allowed to be part of the meeting. US posed as their (Filipinos) friend and watched the FIlipinos fought the war against Spain. Then, they conned the Phiippines out of their independence.
In history, they assume that all of Philippines was colonized. This is not true. No country ever succeed on conquering southern mindanao. Even today, that place remains free which also means the place is in a very poor condition in today's standard of living.
@@lucianorosso3375 That's right. Mindanao should not even be part of the Treaty of Paris. That's one of the reasons America had a hard time colonizing the Philippines. In the end, America had to let the Philippines go.
I'm a Filipino. We have almost 200 different languages in the Philippines. In my opinion, Rizal didn't use Tagalog in his writings due to multiple reasons - (1)During his time, the Lingua Franca of the educated is Spanish. Anyone in the Philippines who could read (and write) would read in Spanish (2) Tagalog during his time is a regional language, very far from what the current "Filipino" language (The standardized national language that is heavily based on Tagalog) that is used in the whole Philippines today. So there are socio-geographical limits to the reach of the Tagalog language at that time. (3) In terms of vocabulary, It is what "Old English" or Shakespearean English is to modern English. Franciso Balagtas is loosely the Shakespeare of the Philippines. (4) Being a largely oral language, (written in native script/writing system) there wasn't a standard way of writing in Tagalog using the 'Roman script/alphabet' then. When Tagalog was written during Rizal's time, the spelling of words were "hispanized" - Ex: Sa aking mahal na ina (To my beloved mother) - may have been written as "Sa acing majal na yna" or "Sa aquing majal na ina". Words like Dilaw (yellow) was written as 'Dilao', kapatid (siblings) 'Capatid'... etc. The lack of standardized spelling would have made the effort of writing more tedious.
I learned from my class way back in college that another reason why he largely wrote in Spanish was simply because his intended reader were Spaniards, as we know that his books Noli and El Fili were attacks on the corrupt and plea for change.
I too believe that Rizal chose Spanish as the language for the novels because at the time, the standardized Filipino language had not yet been made the national language of which would be spoken by all Filipinos in the large archipelago. Spanish would have been an easy choice as it was the language of instruction in all schools in the country at the time and would have a wider reach to both Spanish people and educated Filipinos. It was probably a sacrifice for the novel to not be read by the common folk but then again, Rizal could barely afford to get the first batch printed in the first place. He probably had to decide to focus on the educated who could understand the book first and had some power to make changes in the country.
Tagolog was only used in manila and later only that a law was passed that the national language was Tagalog=Filipino. So the base language around the philippines was largely spanish if you are like him an elite. Imo
He wrote them in Spanish so Europeans (particularly Spaniards) could read it. He initially planned to write the novels in French, for similar purposes. It's well-documented.
He knows very well about Rizal's life and woks. The lecture is very informative. A good review about Rizal's writings is that you will know what is inside the mind of the writer,what he is to convey to the readers. Rizal did not support the revolution because he do not want many Filipinos to die in the struggle. He is a doctor. He want to save lives. Although his works open the minds of Filipinos about the cruelties of the Spaniards all he want is how Filipinos improve their lives.
yes, Rizal Knew that Filipinos were not ready for revolt, it is like St. Paul in his time He did not question slavery in the Asia Minor because they were not ready against the Roman Empire, they will be easily be trampled down same to the Phil.
not me watching this one hour lecture of a spanish guy discussing about Rizal when I can't stand a few minutes listening to my own professor talk about the same subject. The difference between them is that this foreigner hold so much passion about Rizal's life than my professor. So glad to have found this video, this will really help me appreciate Rizal more.
Two novels of Rizal is based in his story and his Inang Bayan.He made the novels to let the world know what is really happening of his fellow filipinos under the Spaniards Governance. The filipinos sacrifices alot, there are many abusive spaniards, spaniards took the filipinos identity, spaniards changed the history of all filipinos and spaniards took the wealth of all filipinos and Filipinos has no right to fight for their rights and territory. That is why Rizal is a brave one who fought for our rights. This is Philippines, our country is not an America, or even Spain. Filipinos suffered a lot, many lives got buried, filipinos helpless died for their country. And we are all thankful to our Filipino Heroes, without them, we have no Freedom and still suffering under The Brutal Governance.
The life and works of Dr. JOSE RIZAL is summarized and captured in this 1 hour lecture in a very clear, meaningful and interesting way...thank u for sharing this.
I live in a magical time. As a former academic scholar in the Philippines (back in the 90s I could only dream of attending a lecture in Cambridge like this. On Rizal, it's so easy for me to take him for granted after mandatory readings of his novels, the stage adaptation, the biopic, the University undergrad units on him... There's perhaps fatigue. But we shouldn't feel this way at all. Joey R. is an amazing badass of a man.
He saw and wrote about that rising power across the Pacific, that is America, and he saw it as a power that could come to the Philippine shores. A prophecy that came true.
Thank you for giving a talk on our National hero Dr. Jose Rizal! One of the most fascinating & great heroes of our country the Philippines !This talk gave me a new perspective of Rizal.
Rizal never fought for independence at that time because he believed that the filipinos is not yet ready to build their own country. He believed that the Filipinos needs to be educated first that's why he wants reform on education and land.
He did not "fight" forit but he did want the Philippines to be liberated from the Spaniards especially the Friars. He became interested in the emancipation of the Philippines through other former colonies like the United States.
Bravo , well done 👍 Some additions: Rizal was a Mason, at one time he won a lottery in Europe which helps to publish his novels and he received financial help from his friends and families. His only brother not an uncle had supported him all through out his career, he was Paciano Rizal. It’s very interesting about the sold library of Tabacalera in Barcelona.
@@coconice1674 he is not only a mason but a master mason and after his death , freemasons established "knights of Rizal" a organization to promote the ideals of Dr. Jose Rizal
His uncle, Antonio Rivera, the father of Leonor Rivera, also helped to send Jose Rizal to Spain. But yeah, it was mostly his brother, Paciano, who continue to send allowance to him because that was their promise to each other, Jose Rizal will study and he will look for the money. His sister, Saturnina also helped as she was the one who sent him that diamond ring.
Time evolves. Languages evolves as well. Even earth evolves. Humans evolve. Family evolves. That is life. What we think is modern today is not going to be the modern of the future.
As a Filipino with the main tongue is Tagalog as I was from Batangas, I agree because even the Filipino stories written in Tagalog, they were like a bible to me which is very hard to understand. Hahhahahaha
Even american and british people today who speak english, if they go back in time at the 1870-1880 they'll never understand people in england back in those days.
He uses poetic Tagalog in his letters and writings, taking Balagtas' style as example. But people then spoke colloquially in a similar manner as our extreme elderly today. I mean, Aguinaldo lived during the times of both Rizal and Marcos; the language wouldn't have been too different.
@@joselitopalacio2770 There are things that change, some construct of language may change through time but actually the meaning does not change nor it diminish through time. We may not understand it in its purest context, but the fact that the Philippines still has the same social and political issues only shows that nothing has changed. Civilization changes, but information and meaning will never change no matter how much the language can change. 💗✨
OMG thank you sir. I am embarrassed as a Filipino because I am not aware of what Rizal's life is. I even barely remember what I studied in college as we have a minor unit about him. We just knew him when we were little, when we started schooling as he was introduced as our national heroes alongside the many heroes of his contemporaries during Spanish colonization and revolution. Thank you for explaining so well, detail by detail of one of his famous novel which is the Noli Me Tangere and his travels. I am really impressed with Rizal now, even more proud as he is a real, golden treasure of the Philippine History, a people and as a nation. His reference will always be relevant not just in our history but also in our culture. Muchas Gracias señor!!,
It is quite sad that a number of filipinos think: "Rizal just writes a novel and he becomes the hero?" The low level of intellectual appreciation - sometimes even among college graduates - is apalling and alarming. Many Filipinos believe Andres Bonifacio should be the national hero because "he really fought the Spanish colonizers". This sentiment could be borne by the cultural knack of Filipinos to side with the poor and the underdog. In contrast, Rizal was from a very rich family. Rizal fought using his pen, but a number of Filipinos cannot see that. Philippine education really needs a lot of improvement
That's exactly why Rizal SHOULDN'T be the national hero. "He fought with his pen" WTF? How did that change anything? Spoiler alert it DIDN'T. Which is why Gov. Gen. William Howard Taft used Rizal and made him the National Hero because he was a non violent activist. Which works great if you are psychologically conditioning a population to not rise against its invaders (The Philippines was under American rule at the time after the US beat Spain in the Spanish-American War and the Philippines was given to the US as part of the Treaty of Paris). YES! William Howard Taft. An American. Rizal wasn't even elected by a Filipino to be a Philippine Hero. And the worse part is Gov. Gen. Taft's nation wide psychological conditioning of FIlipinos worked. And you're one of those sheeps that played along. So how's that for a low level intellectual appreciator? Maybe look into your history a little bit next time?
You've a very simplistic view of a complicated historical event. The idea of having a national hero in Rizal was pushed by the US. Years after Rizal died, the US bought the Philippines from Spain, unknown to Filipinos. Initially, Filipinos were encouraged by US to fight Spain because the US and Spain were at war. But the US changed tack when they bought the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam from Spain, and replaced Spain as the colonizers. Of course the US didnt want war then. By selling Rizal as the candidate for National Hero, the US were conditioning the Filipinos they were able to influence to not go to war against the US.
The 2 commenters ahead of me were right. Rizal was not for independence. He wanted us to be a province of Spain but Bonifacio headed the KKK which acted like an independent government even before we achieved our independence. Bonifacio, despite being poor, learned and studied by HIMSELF, so he could read and understand Rizal's novels. Bonfacio was inspired by Rizal but his endeavors was bigger than Rizal's. Independence was at the heart of Bonifacio's revolution. Hence, it is befitting Bonifacio to have the National Hero honor. Rizal was a genius and he inspired a lot of our heroes. He was a great pride for Filipinos since the Europeans also gave Rizal high praises and regard (as I remember from university, he became an honorary member of the German Anthropologic Society and a statue in Heidelberg). Even now, we look up to Filipinos who give us international fame...but Bonifacio embodies the struggle of the Filipino to rise above despite the lack of means and education and achieve success!
@@artchelpagente8349 Nah. It was more the fact that he was non violent. No one really cares if Rizal was a freemason or not. If the Americans let the Filipinos have an National hero who was prone to violence and mobilizing the public that would be disastrous for their occupation. The US just defeated Spain and got The Philippines, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Guam. A rebellion from any of these countries will be another giant headache for the Americans.
I’m a Filipino living in Utah and this is the first time I heard Dr Jose Rizal had been in here. I’d like to know where can I read that instance. Hope to hear from you, thank you very much.
i am a pure filipino blood born in makati ph date 04/1986 35y/o today i just watch this youtube vid today as of 11/5/2021 all of my life most of my life during my study or school time i never hear or heard this history or story of our national hero? all i know is he write noli metangere and el filibusteresmo thats they teach in secondary school in my time 90s, and i watch this video i learn more, more to my teacher in that time???? why it is so differrent teaching history in some state why???
Which school did you attended, man? I graduated college in 1978 aside from Rizal's work life and writings, you will not pass Spanish 4, without reciting the "MI ultimo adios" and El hymno Nacional in Spanish.
Maybe what he meant by pure filipino blood being a son of a filipino parents and living in the Ph. Not in the context of historical genetics, as you are right that most of us in the Ph have a mix of genes with other ethnicity. I am also pure Filipino, born and raised. Tho I must say it the teachings of Rizal's life is different in Gradeschool-HS vs in College. GS and HS, is more of a "Hero" Rizal unlike in College Rizal is viewed more as person with positive and negative traits. I remember that most notably the book authored by Ambeth Ocampo which views Rizal as Man rather than super national hero
Even until todays the Noli thats theyd introduced to schools are missing some parts. Which i think the catholic church has something to do with. Some people grew up in the 90's said that the books are banned in some catholic schools.
Yes. In our subject, Life and Works of Jose Rizal, we talked about how the Catholic groups opposed the Rizal Law saying that it's anti-Catholic. They are also claiming that Rizal did sign a retraction claiming that all of his works against the friars weren't true, and this is still a debate. The only missing chapter that I have known from Noli Me Tangere was the chapter dedicated for Elias, and I believe there were still more.
rizal might had been thinking that revolution and the desire for independence was futile and had no purpose since he might had the gut that philippines will always be under the rule of a foreign power. his intuition proved him right when after the spaniards left, philippines became a colony of united states, japan, the british, and the chinese are poised to take control at any moment today.
"He might have had the gut" that would not have been his intuition. Also, Japan or even the Chinese sending some deployments would have been somewhat easier to defeat. The republic had some British supporters, although Britain itself didn't seem too interested in colonising the islands.
Then your school needs to catch up. This video is indeed informative but there are more to the Life and Works of Jose Rizal and we cover most of those in our subject about Jose Rizal in my university. I recommend you to watch documentaries, the series "Ilustrados" from GMA, and watched and read Ambeth Ocampo, these are the primary resources to learn more about him.
He is Spanish Dr. Castellvi.. easy for him to choose Jose Rizal novels because Jose Rizal is known in Spain even up to now. I’m living in spain and in school part of their history, they discussed how they invade the Philippines and they knew that once they owned Philippines. Ofc the novel of Jose Rizal is also part coz his novels exposes the ills of the Philippines society during the Spanish colonial era.
Regarding Rizal's faith. After his visit to Germany there was an influence of Protestantism in Rizal although he denied this in his correspondence with his Ateneo professor who is a Jesuit. But this can be seen in his exchange of letters with his Ateneo professors who was trying to get him back into the Catholic faith. Check the book The Rizal-Pastell Correspondence. In those letters he clearly told his professors "I am no longer a Marian" after he was given a small figurine of Mary which Rizal made while a student of Ateneo and he gave it as a gift to his favorite professor. The Jesuit priests claim that Rizal converted back to Catholicism and that he signed a retraction letter. The Jesuits would not show it to the Filipinos. If it was true that he converted, the only thing they need to do is show it to the Filipinos to keep them in the faith. This they did not do instead they had him executed and buried in a shallow unmarked grave which is a practice by the Church for those it considers as damned or unsaved (people who left the faith or committed suicide). Knowing Rizal's personality who fought with conviction, he would not give up his new found faith. In fact you can read the doctrinal debate in the book The Rizal-Pastell Correspondence. Check also the books and lectures by Rizal expert Ambeth Ocampo. This video is very interesting and I enjoyed watching it. Thank you for sharing :)
The fact that the reason why he didn't marry his French Girlfriend Nellie Boustead was because Nellie was a protestant and Jose Rizal was Catholic he told that to his friend .. Nellie was from a wealthy French family and at 28yo Rizal could have live in Paris comfortably if he had married her but he didn't, because on what he perceived as a potential conflict if he marries her.. it only showed that Rizal still was Catholic then at the time. and opted to marry his Irish Catholic GF Josephine Bracken instead.
Learned new things today here. So, if JR was Gemini, then his dual nature would understandably make room for both patria adorada and madre Espana - He was pulled in opposite directions. if his sun is in the 4th house, which symbolizes home and family, his attachment to his mother/motherland is a given. He simply wasn't cut out to be a revolutionary.
Reading Noli Metangere and El Filibusterismo just makes me greatly despise Spanish colonizers. Mistreatment to our ancestors, forced labor, inforcing new religion. We became slaves in their own country. We lost our identity. Everything was heavily influenced by spanish culture including our language, our food, religion and our way of life in general. We moved on but we never forget. My love and respect to the one and only Crisostomo Ibarra. You are an inspiration of every filipino youth. and by the way only a part of the Philippines was colonized by Spain not the whole Philippines.
Hope Colombia pictures or Spielberg, be interested in doing a movie or documentary of Rizal, for the whole world to see. Black and white like Schindler's list, traveling through time.... Also bringing to life Noli Mi Tangere.
Rizal thought that Filipinos need education first before independence. If you read the last chapter of El Filibusterimo, it said “Education Mister Simon”
during this lecture when the sirens started to scream over the Dr, I'm thinking... here comes el guardia civil, Rizal still got it. dang, they really hated him.
37:35 Andres Bonifacio sent Dr. Pio Valenzuela to ask Rizal to join the revolution. But Rizal was against it but eventually gave advice. 1. Gather funds from the rich. 2. Convince Antonio Luna, who studied military science, to join the revolution.
Everything was pretty much comprehensive, well critiqued analysis of the life and works of Rizal. As a Filipino, it gives a different impression, another point of view on how other people especially the Spanish interpret Rizal. One point was missed however is that Rizal's El filibusterismo was dedicated to the three Martyr Priests, commonly known to us Filipinos as "Gomborza".
How he was also acquainted with other prominent people across his travels was like a new fresh air for me, And I mean I really learned a lot. Just as knowing how"Filipinos" were meant and how it came to be now.
I have based this from our discussions in School though so it What I know might be not what it actually was, since it was an analysis from multiple hand view of Rizal's works..
Tell me about it, the guys love stories alone would probably span into 4 different movies. And thats the known love stories of his if we go deeper we might discover more. The guy is really a content everest in terms of story material.
Philippines has more than 100 dialects. But since the center of trade was in Manila where Intramuros is located, the “tagalog” language was predominantly used on that part is the island. Tagalog was actually referred to as the language used by the people who lived in the area where Pasig river crosses the greater Manila. It was then called the language of the “taga-ilog” which translates to “ by the river”. The people who resides by the river. That’s the language of the taga-ilog. Hence they pronounced it Tagalog in short. The language spoken by the “taga-ilog”.
Rizal was NEVER an atheist. He was a "Deist", one who held to the God of Reason, not Revelation, a true son of the Enlightenment (although influenced a lot by Romanticism as well).
He returned to Catholicism shortly before his death when he retracted under the Ateneo Jesuits however, praying profusely and atoning every waking hour before he was executed.
I'm sure you haven't read the epistolarieS of Rizal, hO Correspondence with an Ateneo Professor Pablo Paste so you'll have a clearer picture of Rizals dream for our country
@@joselitopalacio2770 ikaw again? So pano mo maeexplain ang lahi ng mga taga Malaysia and Indonesia sa Asya kung hindi sila Malays? Binendu ka rin e. lol hanahaha
@@lharbyarden5071 we filipinos are not related to malaysian or indonisian and they are not our origins. We are Filipinos from the beginning of time. If we have other mixture it is the spaniards and americans who colonized us and some chinese and indians who migrated in our country during those times.
I thought Philippines is also malay because the datus of different barangays in the country are related or the datus were descendants of the malay also. Correct me if I’m wrong I just heard this somewhere, but I forgot who. But still, iheard this somewhere
The context at the time when rizal opposed the revolution was because he was having serious conscience dilemma due to the suffering his family is having AND he was thinking of settling down and be out of the political and or revolutionary discourse. So to me, when it was time to make the proper decision, he was not in his right mind to take actions for what he did. That action of his was very sad because had he chosen to side with bonifacio, the revolution might have succeeded.
hi there, im from philippines, i just found this video about rizal, and the speaker just said that he was able to study the notebooks of rizal in chicago library,, may i ask? is there a chance that the philippines be able to get or claim or recover those notebooks of rizal, ? thank you for this video :)
Rizal wants Filipinos to be educated, prosperous and gain respect and Philippines be part of Spain and later Spain will give Philippines to be independent which never occurred but US granted independence, and build public education and government hospital, like PGH.
Yes, the doctor wanted the Ph to be part of spain, but to be part of spain, Ph should have had a representation BUT... They never intended to have one... just like the other latin countries. Then here i thought the US would not do what spain did to us cause they had the same history as us (Uk representation in parliament), but we always get the bad end of the stick. History repeated it self.
