philippine studies Ateneo de Manila University • Loyola Heights, Quezon City • 1108 Philippines Spanish Hostility to Friendship Jose S. Arcilla, S.J. Philippine Studies vol. 47, no. 4 (1999): 532–549 Copyright © Ateneo de Manila University Philippine Studies is published by the Ateneo de Manila University. Contents may not be copied or sent via email or other means to multiple sites and posted to a listserv without the copyright holder’s written permission. Users may download and print articles for individual, noncom- mercial use only. However, unless prior permission has been obtained, you may not download an entire issue of a journal, or download multiple copies of articles. Please contact the publisher for any further use of this work at
[email protected]. http://www.philippinestudies.net Spanish Hostility to Friendship Jose S. Arcilla, S. J. Hostility and mutual suspicion characterized the relations between the Spaniards and the Filipinos toward the end of the last century? but the statement needs to be qualified. Neither all the Spaniards hated all the Filipinos, nor were all the Spaniards the object of Fili- pino hatred. The revolution 18% neither involved all the Filipinos nor spread to all parts of the Philippine archipelago. A chronicler of the revolution in Bikol recalled that people in Albay were expecting no changes and had no reason to demand them. They accepted so- cial ranking the existence of a privileged class as inherent to society. They blamed the Tagalogs for the devastation and ill effects the fight- ing had occasioned, and readied themselves to resist the Tagalogs (Ataviado 1936).