A Brief History of Colonization and Export Labor in the Philippines

Although the book that this blog was created for, Beyond Oppression: Colonization and the Language of Heroes, focuses almost exclusively on the genocides, exploitation and colonization of Africa and The Americas from the late 1400's to the present, the video in this post, which was produced by The Real News, provides an excellent documentary overview of how colonization begins and evolves, and how again and again heroic language is used to brainwash and subjugate native inhabitants in order to sustain colonization

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