History of the Filipino People Quotes

“In exchange, the return voyage brought innuhierable and valuable flora and fauna into the Philippines: avocado, guava, papaya, pineapple, horses and cattle. The moro-moro, moriones, and the image of the Black Nazarene of Quiapo, were also of Mexican origins. A considerable number of Nahuatl (Aztec) elements crept into the Philippine languages, such as tiyangge (tianquiztli), kakaw (cacahuatl), tsokolate (xoco-atl), tamales (tamalli), kamatsili (quauhmochitl), sayote (chayotli), singkamas (xicama) and tocayo (tocaitl). The Mexicans, on the other hand, borrowed the Filipino words tuba (coconut toddy), hilanhilan (ilang-ilang), and Parian
—p. 87”
― Teodoro A. Agoncillo, History of the Filipino People

“[I]n Filipino society today, the most popular and highly respected people are not the honest intellectuals and artists, but the “respectable” robbers in high public positions; the experts in issuing press releases praising themselves for fictitious achievements; the crooked public relations men who are adept at twisting facts in order to make an idiot appear a genius in public; and the unprincipled politicians who have never heard of decency and honor.
—Part I Pre-Colonial Philippines, The Setting, page 15”
― Teodoro A. Agoncillo, History of the Filipino People

“This hospitality to a fault has been misunderstood by many foreigners, particularly by the Spanish adventurers of the past century, who thought that such show of profuse hospitality was a form of inferiority and obsequiousness.
—Part I Pre-Colonial Philippines, The Setting, page 6”
― Teodoro A. Agoncillo, History of the Filipino People

“Are you speaking to an older man or woman? Then use the second person plural — kayó, inyó, or ninyó. You are branded disrespectful and impolite if you use the second person singular: ka, mo, or ikaw.
—Part I Pre-Colonial Philippines, The Setting, page 7”
― Teodoro A. Agoncillo, History of the Filipino People