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Despite colonial historiography's hostility to the Filipinos, why are they still considered important to modern historians?

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The question reminds me of William Henry Scott’s argument on the use of colonial sources. Yes, they are biased against Filipinos, but often times when you peer through these documents, various cracks in these parchment curtains would appear providing the scholar with enough window to learn more about Filipino culture, society, and history.

For instance, there are Spanish documents that would say that the Igorots were greedy, but in the same account, the document would say that the Igorots weighed the gold that they sold. By reading the text, we learn that the Igorots are seasoned traders who had the necessary tools and know-how to trade with lowlanders and other people (they know how much gold one item would necessitate, and they even weigh them). That would be your takeaway and not the Spanish description of the Igorots as being greedy, since that description was obviously formed by the Spanish author’s colonial bias against the Filipinos (especially if the author does not have any factual evidence to corroborate such claim: e.g., most of these Spanish authors would describe the Igorots as savages simply on the basis of the Igorots as being non-Christians, among others).