Three reasons why Filipinos did not become merchants of the United States are:
The United States believed that "the Filipinos were incapable of self-government" and needed "to be Christianized."
With a very promising economy in the 1950s and 1960s, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Philippines hosted an uprising of student activism and a great civil unrest against the corruption of the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, who declared martial law in 1972.
Culturally and linguistically most of the population is of Austronesian origin, although from the seventh century received merchants and population from the Indian world that was predominant in Southeast Asia, and from the fourteenth century Islam was present in the archipelago.
