Talk:Sangley

Intramuros, Ateneo Municipal and Universidad de Santo Tomás

I have removed, among many other false and unsourced statements, the following: "Ateneo de Municipal and Universidad de Santo Tomás were exclusively for the children of Spanish colonists and their descendants" The Spanish public system of education was open to all the natives, regardless of race, gender or financial resources, and both Ateneo Municipal and Universidad de Santo Tomás had primary schools besides high education facilities, and those were free and open to everybody.

Also, Intramuros was open to everybody and there are numerous references that prove it was,

For example John Bowring, who was Governor General of British Hong Kong and a well-seasoned traveler who had written several books about the different cultures in Asia, was favorably impressed by the lack of racial discrimination and described the situation as "admirable" on a visit to Intramuros, part of his trip to the Philippines during the 1870s. "The lines separating entire classes and races, appeared to me less marked than in the Oriental colonies. I have seen on the same table, Spaniards, Mestizos (Chinos cristianos) and Indios, priests and military. There is no doubt that having one Religion forms great bonding. And more so to the eyes of one that has been observing the repulsion and differences due to race in many parts of Asia. And from one (like myself) who knows that race is the great divider of society, the admirable contrast and exception to racial discrimination so markedly presented by the people of the Philippines is indeed admirable." L. Hunt, Chester, "Sociology in the Philippine setting: A modular approach", p. 118, Phoenix Pub. House, 1954

--RafaelMinuesa (talk) 09:27, 3 June 2011 (UTC)