Philippine-American War | The Path to Independence | 5
American History Tellers
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Converting Filipinos From Catholicism to English
In your book, motherless tongues, one of the things you write about is the perhaps weaponization of language. What did that look like in the philippine american war, eno and years afterye? It's really interesting to think about religion and language together. In the case of the united states, is so different as in the cases of the spaniards where religion and language are also deeply connected. Andso english quickly became a sort of default, a lingua franca.
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