U.S in the time of Rizal was not a lopsided one but, however, his thoughts had a doubtful call. This was due to his observations and impressions to the super-power U.S. policy in the name of imperialism and lots of defects in civil liberty of its people. Moreover, when he was still a UST student, Rizal read the book "Travels in the Philippines" by Dr. Feodor Jagor. He much admired the work of Dr. Jagor because the book has a vital prophecy about the Spain and U.S. to the Philippines. He even met in person Dr. Jagor at Berlin and numerous German intellectuals like Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt, his confidant and bestfriend.The reasons directed, first, and predicted the collapse of the Spanish Regime in the Philippines, and following the the coming of the Americans to the Philippines. The concerned to the downfall of the Spain was the main reason why the Americans have had enough for the power of imperialism over the world - an even superpower in the future.
Rizal wanted to study and observe the United States of America that's why he left from Japan. He arrived later on April 28, 1888 but they not allowed to disembark until May 4, 1888 because of the quarantine process in the first class.
After the quarantine, Rizal made a trip to the San Francisco. From Oakland, Sacramento, Reno, Ogden, Omaha, Chicago, Albany, to New York.
U.S. is a good country with much high standard of living like Japan but the true liberty and inequality among the whites and negroes were some of the negative impression. The fact, that is, they have had all the means to the human living against the odds but the mentioned defects in the country were already inhuman in civil. It was a brutal issue, then, for such a powerful country. That's why Rizal called for a change to the Philippines when he wrote one of the relevant studies on the Philippines, "Filipinas Dentro De Cien Años" (The Philippines A Century Hence).
Rizal felt that it was an aspiring and relevant to remind the Spain that the forces and circumtances that ushered in the America, French, and Spanish revolutions could have a telling effect for him in the Philippines. It's called an important forecast of the country within a hundred years. And the question raised here if the Spain or U.S. would deny independence of the Filipinos. Who knows... The parts of it were some keypoints that came from the work of Dr. Jagor, a parallel likeness. That the Americans would come to the Philippines and work for the independence.
Was the proposition correct?
Fifty years after Rizal's death, the independence of the Philippines was recognized on July 4, 1946.
"Study your past and you will know the future," Rizal said.
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