According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2006), colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another; As per Wikipedia (n.d.), Colonialism is the policy or practice of gaining full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically. European colonial expansion impacted the world and the dilemma of indigenous peoples through the many changes the colonizers brought to the country, such as religion and culture, and the goods they brought to the economy of the country, in the context of the Philippines' experience under European colonial rule. European colonizer. A country that was conquered by Europeans and changed a lot would be the Philippines. Comaroff (1989) states that there are three models of colonialism, one of which is the civilizing mission, where they converted the native or native religion to their European religion, which is the Catholic faith. The evangelist immediately aimed to create a theater of everyday life, demonstrating through his own exemplary actions the benefits of methodical routine, good personal habits of enlightened European methods and banishing "superstition" in favor of rational technique and Christian belief (p. 673). As we all know, before the Spanish came to the Philippines, Filipinos do not have any particular religion but they already have beliefs, they believe in the power of nature, anitos and other beliefs, but when the Spanish arrived, they introduced Catholicism. their beliefs to the native Filipinos and baptize them to become Catholics. At first they did not accept the religion until their data was baptized and the rest of the tribe followed them. But even though our native Filipinos were in the middle of the paper, there were some who stood up for the country's freedom and fought for what is right. Our original Filipinos went through several struggles, rebellions, and wars just to get the freedom and equality they wanted, and now we live with that freedom because of them. References: Colonialism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). (2006). In the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved from http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/colonialism/Colonialism. (nd). On Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved April 6, 2014 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism Comaroff, JL. (1989). “Images of Empire, Contests of Consciences: Models of Colonial Domination in South Africa”, American Ethnologist, vol. 16, no. 4 p.673Rebecca (2011). Spanish influence in the Philippines. Retrieved from http://preparetoserve.com/philippines/spanish-influence-on-the-philippines/