Topic > Harrison Ines Spoken Word Examples - 703

“Blood and oil supply, but tell me, does the Filipino man stuck in the barrios seem like a natural resource to you.” (1:45) This sentence also used allusions. Referring to “outsourcing of blood and oil,” a “Filipino man,” and “natural resources.” The Philippines was known to be the most colonized country through the Spanish, British, American, and Japanese empires. (Loh) As part of the history of colonization, these empires commonly exploited countries' natural resources and used natives as "slave" workers through low-quality work and poor conditions. Empires usually recognize natives as another resource that a country has to offer, thus recognizing Filipinos as natural resources. I felt a sense of anger because Harrison Ines expressed this sentence with anger and both he and I are Filipino-American and therefore affected