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Question

Hello friends!
Can you help me give the difference of:

1. Pre-Colonial Era
2. Colonial Era
3. Present

situations and informations about government and church!

Answer 1

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Answer 2

In the pre-colonial era of the Philippines, Early people are not yet baptized as catholics... Some believe in many gods at that time and some, worships nature... Also, before the Spaniards came, Our country is not yet called as Philippines... This era also covers the neolitic and paleolitic age. Also, before the conquerors came, some people already have their religion known as the Islam....Also, before the colonization, the sultanate already existed... In the Colonial era, many have changed, including our culture and tradition, and most of all, the beliefs and our religion. The spaniards brought Christianism in the Philippines and in the time when japanese colonized us, a government called as the puppet republic was established and the president of this republic is Jose Laurel, also tha americans influenced us in our religion. They are the ones who brought Protestantism here and they helped us establish the republic of the Philippines. In the present, we can see that we have a variety of religions. This is the effect of the colonialization. and our government was influenced by many nations.

Answer 3

Philippine history is divided into three major eras:

Pre-colonial Era is the period when the Philippines was just an archipelago of 7,107+ islands populated by different tribes each governed by a tribal chieftain called a "datu" who relies on a tribal council of elders on matters relating to his tribal and territorial rule. Religion and government are united in a theocracy where the "datu" was both the head of government and the head of religion. He was virtually the king, the law maker, the judge, and also the religious head of his tribe. "Datus" were as many as the tribes each of them govern. Supernatural beings were called "anitos" who were believed to be the life giver and the life controller. Tribes would go as far as sacrificing virgins to appease their "anitos."

Colonial Era began with the arrival of the Spaniards in 1521. They made the Philippines a Spanish colony until 1898. For more than 300 years, the Spanish Governor General was the political head of state while the Spanish Archbishop of Manila was the religious head of state. Roman Catholicism was institutionalized as a state religion. Friars dominated ownership of vast estates. Spanish bishops and priests prevailed over their Filipino counterparts. In 1898, the United States bought the Philippines from Spain and made the archipelago an American colony. Public education system was designed to focus on American English and history. Roman Catholicism was stripped of its "official state religion" status. Protestantism began as a minor religious group. A democratic republic patterned after the US Constitution emerged. The Church and the State was made separate and distinct. The Archbishop of Manila continued to be the religious head of state while the American Governor General ruled politics. The Japanese occupied the country in 1943 and ruled briefly until 1945. In 1946, Philippines proclaimed its national independence and became an original signatory to the United Nations Charter.

Present Era has the Philippines with a unitary democratic republic government headed by the Philippine President. The government is divided into three branches--Executive, Legislative and Judicial. The President holds executive power. In practice, the President exercises this power through Cabinet Secretaries who manage different Departments each with a particular administrative focus, e.g., health, finance, education, foreign affairs, defense, etc. The Senate and the House of Representatives comprise the bicameral Philippine Congress who holds legislative power. Judicial power is held by the Supreme Court and the lower courts. The incumbent President is Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo, an economist once trained in Georgetown University with former US President Bill Clinton.

Religion of Filipinos is as follows: Roman Catholicism (80 percent), Protestantism (10 percent), Islam (4 percent). Major religious orders include the Dominican Order who run the University of Santo Tomas, the oldest university in Asia and the largest Catholic university in the world in terms of student population located in just one campus; the Jesuit Order who run the Ateneo de Manila University, a reputable university populated mostly by the elite and the upper middle class; and the Franciscan Order known for their missionary work in the grassroots. The present Archbishop of Manila, Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales, is the national figurehead of the Roman Catholic Church and is a member of the College of Cardinals who get to vote on the next Pope in the Vatican.

Contemporary Philippines has a political dynamics largely based on personality (rather than legitimate political issues); an economy belonging to the third world (a developing country under the World Bank Development Programme and the USAID); a religion dominated by Roman Catholics; a social structure with an elite minority, a growing middle class, and a lower class majority; and a pop culture that associates with and emulates film and music of the United States, Britain, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea.

Answer 4

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