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Apr 20, 2019 · Older generations probably use the term without the derogatory aspect, since in the past they learnt to address Arab people as moros. But nowadays it is a derogatory term and should be avoided as much as you can.
Though the term may carry some derogatory connotations for some, the term "Moro" has evolved to become seen as a unitary force especially by the Philippine government, despite opposition from some of the modern Muslim communities in the Philippines who object to the term's origins in the Spanish colonial era.
In this context, Moro became a derogatory term filling, together with heathen, the locally available “savage slot” (Trouillot 1991). This symbolic structure survived the end of the Spanish colony and, notwithstanding modifications, continued to pervade Filipino imagery in the post-Spanish period.
Oct 20, 2012 · To gain the sympathy and support of Christianized native Filipinos, the Spaniards infused the term “Moro” with derogatory connotations, such as “pirates,” “traitors,” “juramentado,” “enslavers,” “cruel” and “uncivilized.”
7. "Moro" was a derogatory term used by Spanish colonizers to refer to the Islamized groups who resisted colonization and Christianization. “Moro” later evolved to signify the Moro people's continued defiance to colonization, institutionalized discrimination and state oppression. 8.
As a diverse community of various ethnolinguistic groups, Moros are marginalized by the state and have longstanding grievances dating back to the Spanish colonial period. Culturally speaking, the term “Moro” as it is used among Muslims tends to denote resistance rather than religious affiliation.
Dec 5, 2009 · Spanish colonizers used the term “Moro” as a derogatory term for Muslims and portrayed them in negative terms mainly because of their resistance to Spanish colonial rule and Christianity.
