Now, in case of economic context, the U.S. had already had Asian immigrants, which part of them are also Filipinos. The reason why the those Immigrant Filipinos settled there, unfortunately, is for low wages. They wanted to earn as much as they can too in a short period of time. And since the Americans were financially devasted during that era, they blamed Filipinos for being part of their Financial Crisis because they were working to become rich once they get back to their homeland, and for the fact, since the ratio of women to men were small, that Filipino men also marry white women because of monetary context. After then, the Tydings Mcduffie Law was established the U.S. to limit the immigrants of the country. When the Law was also implemented on 1934 in the Philippines, the country had a bound in the U.S. where they were not allowed to go to the U.S. In the Law, the Philippines were to be under self-governance after 10 years from the Establishment and at the same time the Americans would maintain Military Forces during the period given. During the period, foreign affairs in the Philippines were dealt by the Americans while Internal Affairs were to be only dealt by Filipinos.
2. The Philippines was under various colonizers, but was mostly dominated by the U.S., mentally. Neocolonialism, by Merriam Webster’s definition,