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filipinos
1. And he had informed on some other Filipinos he knew
2. The biggest losses were due to deaths from disease, mostly dysentery, directly caused by American troops herding Filipinos into concentration camps ironically named “zones of protection
3. US troops, writing in their diaries, letters home, and interviews with journalists in fact often referred to Filipinos as “Indians” when describing the enemy's guerilla war tactics
4. But when justifying atrocities, many US troops described Filipinos as “niggers” and described going “nigger hunting
5. Schurman's group came to the same paternalistic racist conclusions as McKinley, insisting Filipinos were incapable of ruling themselves
6. Obviously, if democracy were the true reason for US conquest, the country would have become independent shortly after 1916, when Filipinos first elected their own congress
7. The change happens when US General Otis betrays Filipinos and pursues war without Washington's approval or knowledge
8. It has long been dominated by a mestizo elite of Spanish-Filipino and Spanish-Chinese ancestry that keeps other Filipinos poor, and Aguinaldo and most other Filipino presidents were part of that elite
9. ) He remained convinced to the end of his life that Filipinos were too inferior to govern themselves
10. During WWII, one million Filipinos died at the hands of the Japanese imperial forces
11. This is indeed a depressing and shameful view for many Filipinos, proud of their beautiful country
12. Our plan is to kill all the Japanese in the Philippines, evacuate all the American and Allied prisoners and leave the islands in the hands of the Filipinos
13. We lost an average of at least 500 men a day, the majority of them Filipinos, from diseases and starvation
14. Like most Filipinos, Julia believed in traditional values and roles
15. Ingrid then presented the major to the Filipinos assembled in the lounge
16. The huge crowds of Filipinos lining up the streets between the docks and the downtown boulevards cheered her wildly as her plane started being towed towards Bonifacio Boulevard
17. Once her engine was shut down and her propeller had stopped turning, a dozen Filipinos quickly pushed the P-40F in its hideout, then draped back the camouflage net covering the front of the jungle cut
18. Filipinos are wise in saving their money
19. They’d been sitting around hand-holding the Filipinos and hating life, while I’d been having all the fun
20. They’d been sitting around hand-holding the Filipinos and hating life, while I’d been having all the fun
21. There were Filipinos, Chinese, Welshmen, South Sea Islanders, African Americans, Mexicans, and Native Americans, most of the last from the adjoining Colville Reservation
22. Dragging himself ashore on the Japanese-occupied Bataan Peninsula, he had begun a run for China, hiking through jungles and over mountains, navigating the coast in boats donated by sympathetic Filipinos, hitching rides on burros, and surviving in part by eating ants
23. America finally granted the Philippines their independence in 1946, but the Philippines had to sign a free trade deal with Washington, let the US keep its naval bases on the islands, and give American citizens the same economic rights as Filipinos
24. Filipinos were outraged, and Benigno’s widow, Corazon, became the leader of all the groups opposed to Marcos’s tyranny
