i think i will say love/hate, because i do not accept some of the things they impose but they also recorded our history... but they also tried to erase and repress our history that they deemed too pagan or they felt would threaten their controll over us such as banning our native martial art for 300 years, what if it was not banned and we were able to cultivate and refine it in those 300 years? Or what if we were able to preserve and continue using our native writing script and also adopt the romanized alphabet, what if we used the baybayin strictly for artistic expression and poems as they were used before and it was common to see baybayin everywhere in the philippines etc? what if the spaniards did not put villages under house arrest and allow the people to seafare freely and cultivate our boat tradition and we had preserved our sea-faring origins and mastered it too an artform? etc etc...

It was a love and hate for them .