Little Brown Americans was named during the american era in the Philippines... what does that mean?
2006-10-23 23:17:13 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I think you mean "Little Brown Brother", a term used by Americans to refer to Filipinos during the period in which the Philippines was an American territory. The term was coined by William Howard Taft, the first American Governor-General of the Philippines (1901-1904) and later the 27th President of the United States.
The term was not intended to be derogatory, nor an ethnic slur; instead, in the words of historian Creighton Miller, it is a reflection of "paternalist racism", shared also by Theodore Roosevelt.
Taft told President McKinley that "our little brown brothers" would need "fifty or one hundred years" of close supervision "to develop anything resembling Anglo-Saxon political principles and skills." "Fillipinos are moved by similar considerations to those which move other men."
The phrase "Little Brown Brother" drew sneers from soldiers and businessmen alike because these "alleged kinfolk" were killing American soldiers, burying American soldiers alive, and mutilating them
2006-10-23 23:22:12 · answer #1 · answered by ptblueghost64 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Little Brown Brothers
2016-11-12 04:15:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Filipinos were called the little brown americans because of americas bigger influence on them during and after the war.
2006-10-23 23:27:50 · answer #3 · answered by Dave S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some Americans were and are small and brown!
2006-10-23 23:29:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's what Filipinos called short Chicanos.
2006-10-23 23:31:24 · answer #5 · answered by frankie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Little Michael Jackson ?! :-)))
2006-10-24 12:58:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anno Domini 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think that's little brown SPANIARDS girl.......
2006-10-23 23:21:10 · answer #7 · answered by ace m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋