Corruption: A Social Cancer
...Tangere, to express what he felt. Catholic churches often were corrupted, informing that people should pay in order to forgive them from their sins, freeing them from their wrongdoings. Filipinos from 16 years old to 45 years old were forced to work without any wage. Corruption, a disease in the society during those times was indeed akin to cancer. Cancer grows and spreads rapidly like the uncontrollable corruption, more often involving the Spanish friars at that period. During that time when medical apparatuses were outmoded, cancer was impossible to cure, no treatment or any remedy. This is corruption at that time, impossible to control, intolerable, without a solution. Corruption was not the only societal problem at that time, malicious acts of some Spanish were widespread just then, taking the women’s rights and honor away. Women were maltreated, leaving them physically, emotionally and psychologically disturbed. Discrimination was a problem then. Spaniards calling Filipinos “indios” and preferring a Spanish gentleman to marry a Filipina maiden were occurring at that point in time similar to what Rizal considered to be a social cancer ¾ Corruption. Rizal was undeniably true to his words. Corruption was a raging cancer. It became uncontrollable and even worse as time went by. It was slowly killing and poisoning the land of our birth. Knowing what our Filipino ancestors had gone through, it really felt bad...