2. The Filipino is be the bamboo. He knows that he is not strong enough twithstand the onslaughts of suponor forces.
And so he yields. He bends his headgracefully with many loud protests. And he has survived. The Spaniards
came and dominated in for more than threehundred years. And when the Spaniards left, the Filipinos stim
stood
only muchicher in experience and culture. The Americans took the place of the Spaniards. They
used more subtle means ofwinning over the Filipinos who embraced the American way of life
more readily
than the Spaniards' vague promise of the hereafter. Then the Japanese came like a storm, like
a plaque of locusts, like a pestilencerude, relentless and cruel. The Filipino learned to bow his
head low to
"cooperate with the Japanese in their holy mission of establishing the Co Prosperity Sphere."
The Fipino had only hate and contempt for the Japanese, buthe learned to smile sweetly at them and to
thank them graciously for their "benevolence and magnanimity

Question: As a Filipino, will you consider yourself like the bamboo? Why? Why not?​