Brace BeldenHost
Yung ChomskyHost
Liz FranczakHost
So this allows for the development of kind of a middle class in the Philippines.

So by the late 1800s, an influential group of Filipinos who had studied in Europe and learned about all these amazing liberal ideals come back to the Philippines and they tell everybody about this crazy concept they've heard of called nationalism and they try to start a revolution.

The most famous of these men organized into what was called the propaganda movement was Jose Rizal, a novelist, thinker, and reputed great romantic whose family actually leased farmland from a Dominican hacienda.
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So this allows for the development of kind of a middle class in the Philippines.

So by the late 1800s, an influential group of Filipinos who had studied in Europe and learned about all these amazing liberal ideals come back to the Philippines and they tell everybody about this crazy concept they've heard of called nationalism and they try to start a revolution.

The most famous of these men organized into what was called the propaganda movement was Jose Rizal, a novelist, thinker, and reputed great romantic whose family actually leased farmland from a Dominican hacienda.