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Rizal Week 10 Activtiy Adrian Paul Astorga BSBA MM Rizal TTH 3 00 4 00

Stereotypes can negatively impact how people feel about themselves and their performance. To clarify stereotypes, we must understand their root causes rather than making judgements based on race or reputation. The document discusses three authors - Rizal, Alatas, and Said - who argue that stereotypes are often used to justify colonial rule by portraying colonized people as lazy or backward. Specifically, Rizal pointed out that limited access to education under Spanish rule contributed to perceptions of laziness among Filipinos. Both Alatas and Said noted that colonized groups are often misrepresented to depict them as needing help from colonizers. Therefore, efforts should be made to understand the contextual factors shaping stereotyped groups in order to

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Rizal Week 10 Activtiy Adrian Paul Astorga BSBA MM Rizal TTH 3 00 4 00

Stereotypes can negatively impact how people feel about themselves and their performance. To clarify stereotypes, we must understand their root causes rather than making judgements based on race or reputation. The document discusses three authors - Rizal, Alatas, and Said - who argue that stereotypes are often used to justify colonial rule by portraying colonized people as lazy or backward. Specifically, Rizal pointed out that limited access to education under Spanish rule contributed to perceptions of laziness among Filipinos. Both Alatas and Said noted that colonized groups are often misrepresented to depict them as needing help from colonizers. Therefore, efforts should be made to understand the contextual factors shaping stereotyped groups in order to

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Adrian Paul G.

Astorga November 12, 2020


BSBA- MM 2 Rizal TTH 3:00 – 4:00 PM

Drawing parallels from the works of Rizal, Alatas, and Said. How should stereotypes and
misconceptions about people be clarified and why should efforts to clarify matter?

Stereotype is formed when we categorize these things into group an example of this is the
Filipino people in the Spanish colonization period when other countries labelled the Filipino
people as lazy people. We can find ourselves in a situation where we make stereotypes for a large
group of people or the race itself. Stereotypes can have a big impact on how a person feel that
makes them unmotivated in what they do and they won’t have a good performance at any level in
their life. That is why we need to stop this stereotype and misconception of other people. We must
clarify first and put efforts in this matter.

From the work of the 3 authors which is Rizal, Alatas, and Said. They had one the same
idea on how to clarify stereotyping about people. They said that we must first look into the factors
why they were labelled like that. An Example of this are the Filipino natives in the Spanish
colonization. Rizal had pointed out several factors why the Filipino people had become Indolence.
One of those factors is the discrimination of the Filipino natives resulting to limited access of
education and because of this the Filipino natives doesn’t know how to work like agricultural
works. Alatas also said that through stereotyping the one who colonize can justify their rule
because they could just say that the country, they colonized need helps. Edward Said also said that
usually colonize people are not properly represented and often dismissed as backwardness. The
evil is that the indolence in the Philippines is a magnified indolence, an indolence of the snowball
type, if we may be permitted the expression, an evil that increases in direct proportion to the square
of the periods of time, an effect of misgovernment and of backwardness. In short to clarify the
misconceptions and stereotyping of the people we must not judge them just because of their race
and their reputation we must first see the factors and understand them as what they are as a people.

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