Indolence of the Filipino People

Rizal agreed to the Spaniards that we are lazy but in a different reason. Rizal stated in his article three main points on why the Filipinos are lazy. First, hot climate because as the Spaniards noticed that our farmers that time are mostly waking up at around 9am and they thought that we enjoyed sleeping. Little did they know that our farmers are really waking up early like 3 or 4 in the morning and go to the fields to work and them go back home like 6 or 7 in the morning to take their sleep for the work they had done. The reason for this is because of the heat, who would ever want to work on the field with so much heat anyway? With this climate, the Filipino farmers who had this idead which is a good one took the chance to work in the morning. Second, blaming Spain for the indolence of the Filipinos. Most Filipinos that time couldn't work for their families because Spain was doing forced labor on the Filipinos which caused some of them to work in different places to build infrastructures like churches. Also, Spain didn't allowed the Filipinos to use weapons which lead to Filipinos getting killed by the pirates from the south. Last is blaming Filipinos for being indolent. In the first place if a person doesn't want to be a lazy then he can but if a person lacks determination then he/she be lazy. Being responsible must first came from us and Filipinos must not let other people control us. Of course Filipinos want their freedom but who must do the work to get that freedom, the Filipinos do.


- Bedonia, Alfonso Eumir III