The indolence of the Filipino
(2021)
Nonfiction
eBook
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Interactive Media, 2021
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1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781787362895 (electronic bk.) MWT14109765, 1787362892 (electronic bk.) 14109765
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Unwillingness to work when there is nothing in it for them is common to Filipinos and Americans, for Thomas Jefferson admitted that extravagance and indolence were the chief faults of his countrymen. Labor-saving machinery has made the fruits of Americans' labors in their land of abundance afford a luxury in living not elsewhere existing. But the Filipino, in his rich and not over-populated home, shutting out, as we do, oriental cheap labor, may employ American machinery and attain the same standard. The possibilities for the prosperity of the population put the Philippines in the New World, just as their discovery and their history group them with the Western Hemisphere
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