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This is very misleading one that was probably taught by the Americans to brainwash those Filipinos. Queen Isabella II of Spain issued a decree in 1863 requiring education be made available to the indigenous locals. Also misleading is the thought that the Americans replaced Spanish with English making Filipinos "forget" the Spanish language. The main reasons why Filipinos don't speak Spanish is due to some factors:

1. Spanish was never spoken at home by the majority of population. It was only the Mestizos, Filipinos (a term then exclusive only for Philippine born Spaniards) & Peninsulares (Spaniards from Spain) who could able to speak it.

2. The 1863 decree made education readily available for the natives. However unlike the US, Spain didn't imposed free public education system & so it was only the Illustrados (wealthy natives) such as Dr. Jose Rizal who could afford to send their children to school. The majority of the locals were poor & couldn't afford to study.

3. Philippines was the least hispanized nation among all the countries that Spain invaded. Equatorial Guinea is even more hispanized than the Philippines. The reason is that there were only very few Spaniards who stayed in the Philippines & so there were not much racial intermixing unlike in Latin America. Therefore there wasn't a necessity for the majority of the people to learn Spanish unless they have a Spaniard father.

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