It may be necessary to kill half of the Filipinos in order that the remaining half of the population may be advanced to a higher plane of life than their present semi-barbarous state affords.
Filipinos and their way of life were perceived as less people. I think this is why today, Asian-American are more likely to experience discrimination than their European counterpart.
What is your opinion about this?
Filipino immigrants began arriving in the United States as students, U.S. military personnel, or farm and cannery workers.
The US imperialism or expansion was justified by its supporters because they felt that the people presumed to be "backward" embraced "civilization."
It may be necessary to kill half of the Filipinos in order that the remaining half of the population may be advanced to a higher plane of life than their present semi-barbarous state affords.
From such policies, the US was not a democratic republic, instead it was an empire as was ready to use power/force to stamp its authority in other regions.
The conflict helped popularize the concept of the "white man's burden," the notion that the United States and Western European societies had a duty to civilize and uplift the "benighted" races of the world. A U.S. senator from Indiana declared:
we cannot reasonably call the US a democratic republic during this period because they were imperial with intention to expand their power beyond its borders.
But where an older generation of moralists thought that ruling a people without their consent violated a core principle of republicanism,
The support for imperialism/expansionism was not unanimous as older generation felt it violated other people rights.
the idea that the United States had a special mission to uplift "backward" people around the world also commanded growing support.
One reason the US begun expanding beyond its mainland continental borders was to "uplift" backward people.