Title How did Americans view Filipinos and what does this mean for colonial policy.pdf ✅

I walked the floor of the White House night after night until midnight...And one night it came to me this way... (1) That we could not give them [the Philippines] back to Spain- that would be cowardly and dishonorable: (2) that we could not turn them over to...our commercial rivals in the Orient-that would be bad business and discreditable...(3) that we could not leave them to themselves-they were unfit for self government... (4) that there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them and by God’s grace do the very best we could do to them as our fellowmen for whom Christ also died. William McKinley 25 President of the United States th
Entire villages were built to replicate those of the Visayans, Bagobos, Samals, “Moros” (as they were called then), Igorots, Tingguianes, Negritos, and 30 other tribes. These villages were “stocked” with over a thousand men, women, and children as living exhibits.